Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-06-02

that street. The street was full
OF those who are on small incomes,
but L suppose the coutagion spread.
and that everybody had sealsllin
coat, and that the people came out and
cried, practically. not literally:
Though the Heavens fall, We must
have n sealsKin coat
was out west, and n minister OF the
gospel told me, in Iowa, that hi<
church and the neighborhood rad been
impoverished by the fact that they put
/ mortgages on their farms in order to
send their families TO the Philadel phia
centennial 1t was not rcspecta BILE
not 20 go To the centennial Between
such evils and pauperi>m there is "A
very short step The vast majority of
children IN your aims houses are there
| because their parents are drunken,
lazy or recillessly improvidcnt.
l have nc sympathy for skinhint saw
ing, but plead for Christian prudence
You say IT is impossible now TO lay up
anything FOR "A rainy day. | know it,
! but we are at the day break OF national
prosperity. Some people think it is
mean to turn the gas low when they
are out Of the parlor. They feel
EN- barrasSed If the door bell
rings before they have the hall light
ed. They apologize for the plain meal,
Il you surprise them at the table
Well, it is mean if it is only to
pile up a miserly hoard But if it be
to educate your children, If it be to
give more help to your wife when She
does not feel strong, IL it bc to keep
your funeral days from being horrible
beyond all endurance, because il i to
toe the disruption and the humiliation
ct the domestic circlc-if it be for that,
| then ~ II magnificent
There are those who are kept i'm pow
erty because OF their own fault They
might have been well off, but they
smoked or chcwcd up their earnings,
or they lived beyond their means.
while others on the same wages and
on the same salaries went on to
competency. know a man who is
all the time complaining OF his povcr-
~ and crying out against rich men,
while he himself keeps two dogs.
and chews and smokes and is full! to
the chin with whisky and beer VIII
kins Micaw Der said 20 David Copper
field, "Coppcrfcld, my boy, one pound
income, expenses 20 shillings and SIX
pences; result, misery. But Copper
field, my boy, one pound income. ex-
penses 10 shillings and sixpences: re-
suit happiness But. Oh, WORKING man.
take your morning dram, and your
noon dram, and your evening dram.
and spend rything you have over
for tobacco and excursions, and YOU
insure poverty for yourself and your
children forever
If by some generous fiat of the capt.
tallsts of the country or by new law
of the government of the United
States, % per cent, or 30 per cent, or
100 per cent were added to the wages
OF the working classes of America il
would be no advantage TO hundreds of
thousands of them unless they stopped
strong drink. Aye, until they quit
that evil habit, the more money. the
more ruin, the more wages, the more
holes in the bag.
My plea is to those working people
who are in the discipleship TO
the whisky bottle, the beer
jug and the wine flask. And
what | say to them will not be more
appropriate to the working classes
than to the business classes, and the
y
classes, and all classes, and not to the
people OF one age more than OF all
ages. lake one good square look at
the suffering OF the man whom strong
drink has enthralled, and re-
member that toward that goal
mulutudes are running. The dis
ciple of alcoholism suffers a loss
OF self-respect. Just as soon as man
wakes up and finds that ne is the can
tive of strong drink. he feels demeaned.
/ do not care how reckless he acts. He
may say, Il don't care" ne does care
lie can not look a pure man iu the eve
unless IT is with positive force OF reso-
Luton. Ihree-fourths Of his nature is
destroyed; his self-respcct is gone: ne
says things he would not otherwise
say; he does things he would not 9th
erwise do. When a man is nine-tcnths
gone with strong drink the first thing
he wants to do Is TO persuade YOU that
he can stop any time he wants 10. He
can not The Phihstincs have bopnd
him hand and foot and shorn his
locks, and put out his eyes. and are
making him grind in the mill Of
great horror He can not stop ] Will
prove IT. lie know, that his course
Is bringing ruin upon himself. He
loves himself II ne could stop he
would. lie can not. Perhaps hc could
three months or year ago. not now.
just ask him go stop for a month. He
can not he knows he can not, so he
does not try
had a friend who was for Is years
going down under this evil habit lie
had large means He had given thou
sands Of dollars 90 Bible societies and
reformato~y Institutions OF all sorts.
lie was very genial, very generous
and very lovab.e. and whenever he
talked about this evil habit he would
say. j can stop any time" But he
kept going ON, going on. down. down.
down. His family would say. Il wish
you would stop" "Nhy" he would
reply J can stop any time IL wan.
%. Tie is dead now. What killed
him' Drink Drius And vet among
h's last utteranccs was. II can stop at
any time lie did not stop 70 because
1e could not stop b. on there i, a
point 90 lneor.auou beyond which II a
man goes Doe can not stop,
One Of these victims said 90 "a Chris
'ian man. Sir 10 : wer. told that 7
couldn't get drink until tomorrow
night un.ess J had al. my finger, taken
on would say, Bring the natchct
and cut them off now. Iuav. A dear
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