The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-05
TALMAGE's SERMON.
Discourse Addressed to the Broad
winners Of the Land.
Ghe Evils of Experimentation the
Great Enemy of the Working Poo-
ple-Biilions Wasted In sense
less Indulgence.

in all classes, and puts alcohol dowI
as the greatest enemy of the working
people. 1t is based on the text:
He that carneth wages earneth wages to pu
a. in bag with holes--Haggai l., O.
In Persia, under the reign of Darius
Hystaspes, the people did not prosper
They made money, but did not keep it
They were like people who have sacl
in which they put money, not knowing
that the sack is torn or eaten of moths
or in some way ~ nde incapable OF hold
ing valuables. AS fast as the coin was
put in one end of the sack it dropped
out of the other. 1t made no difference
how much wages they got, for they
lost them. ale that earneth wages
earneth wages to put it into bag with
holes"
What has become of the billions and
billions of dollars in this country paid
TO the working classes? Some of these
moneys have gone for house rent, or
the purchase of homesteads, or ward
robe, or family expenses, or the neces-
stiles of life, or to provide comforts in
old age. What has become of other
billions? Wasted in foolish outlay.
Wasted at the gaming table. Wasted
in intoHicants. Put in a bag with q
hundred holes.
Gather up the money that the work.
Ing classes have spent for drink dur
ing the last so years, and will build
FOR every working man house, and
lay out for him garden, and, clothe
his sons in broadcloth and his daughters
in silks, and place at his front door n
prancing span of sorrels or bays, and
secure him policy of life insurance,
80 that the present home may be we'll
maintained after he is dead. The most
persistent, most ovcrpowcring enemy
of the working classes is Intoxicating
liquor. 1t is the anarchist of the CEN
turtles and has boycotted, and is now
bOycotting, the body and mind and
soul of American labor. 1t is to it
worse foe than monopoly and worse
than associated capital.
1t annually swindles industry out of
a large percentage of its earnings. 1t
holds out its blasting solicitations to
the mechanic or operative on his way
TO work, and ut the noon spell, and on
his way home at cvcntide; on Saturday,
when the wages are paid, it snatches a
large part of the money that might
come into the family, and sacrifices it
among the saloonkeepers. Stand the
saloons of this country side by side,
and 1t is carefully estimated that they
would reach from New York to Chi
cago. Forward, march," says the
faly n
the American nation"
The drink business is pouring its
vitriolic and damnablc liquids down
the Threats of hundreds of thousands of
laborerS, and while the ordinary strikes
are runous both to employers and en-
ploycs, | proclaim a strike universal
against strong drink, which, If kept
up, will be the relief of the working
classes and the salvation of the nation.
will undertake to say that there is
not healthy laborer in the United
States who, within the next ten years,
If he will refuse all Intoxicating bev-
erage and be saving, may not become
capitalist on small scale. Our coun-
try in year spends 81, 500, $50, 600 for
drink. OF course, the working classes
do great deal of this expenditure.
Careful statistics show that the wage
earning classes of Great Britain ex-
pend i'll liquors 100000, 900, or $780,
100000 a year. Sit down and cal
culate, worlSingman. how much
you have expended in these
directions. Add it all up. Add up
what your ncighbors have expended,
and realize that instead of answerinpQ
the beck OF other people, you might
have been your own capitalist. When
you dcplcte workingman's physical
energy you deplete his capital. The
stimulated wol kman gives out before
the unstimulatcd workman. Nv
father said: Il became a temperance
man in early life, because l noticed in
the harvest field that, though | was
physically weaker than other work.
men, could hold out longer than they.
They took stimulants; | took none"
a brickmakcr in England gives his ex-
pericnce in regard to this matter
among men in his employ. lie says,
after investigation: The beer drink
or who made the fewest bricks made
~''N'NN
the fcwcst bricks $4,000 The differ
encc in behalf of the abstainer over
the indulgcr, $1,000"
When an army goes out to the battle
the soldier who has water or coffee in
his canteen marches easier and fights
better than the soldier who has whisky
in his canteen. Drink helps a man to
fight when he has only one contestant,
and that at the street corner. But
when he goes forth to maintain some
great battle for God and his country
he wants no drink about him. When
the Russians go to war q corporal
passes along the line and smells
the breath of every soldier. If
there be in his breath a faint of in
liquor the man is sent back
10 the barracks. Why? He can not
endure fatigue. All our young men
know this. When they arc preparing
for a regatta, or for n ball club, or for
an athl"Gic wrestling, they abstain.
Our working people will be wiser after
awhile, and the money they ding away
on hurtful indulgences they will put
into cooperative associations, and SO
become capitalists. II the working