The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-24

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/ and the neIgh bornood had been imp0v-
! erished oy the !act that they put mort
! CAGES on their farms il order 70 - nd
/ tlei- families 20 the Philadelphia centcu-
I NAL Il was not respectable not 70 90
{ 10 inc centennial Between such evils an
[ pagperism there Is very short step. The
/ vast majority ~ children in your aims
! houses are there because their parents are
/ drunken, lazy, or recklessly imprOvidsnr.
/ I have no sympathy for skndint saw
/ ing. but I plead for Christian prudence.
/ on say d b. impossible now 70 lay up
/ anything for a rainy day. / know it. bu,
Ne are al the daybreak Of national pros
perity. some people think it Is mean 10
turn the gas low when they 20 out Of
the parlOr. They feel embarrassed 81 the
| door-beH rings before they have the hall
| lighted They apologize for the plain
/ meal. II you surprise them AZ the table.
Ven, It Is mean II it is only TO pile Up d
misery hoard. But II il ~ 70 educate
your children, II II be 10 give more nelp
70 your wife when she does not feel
strong. II II be 10 keep your funeral day
from being horrible beyond all endurance,
because il is to be the disruption and an.
Inhalation Of the domestic clrcie-if il be
for that. then il Is magnificent
There are those who are kept in poverty
because Of their own fault They might
have been we'll off, but they smoked or
cnewed 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 man VINO IS
al the time complaining Of his poverty
and crying out against rich men, while ne
himself keeps two dogs. and chews and
smokes. and is fun TO the chin with Whis-
Ky and beer. wilkins Micswber said 10
David Copperfield, "Copperieid. my boy
one pound income. expenses twenty shll-
ings and sixpence; result. misery. But,
COpperfeld. my boy, one pound income.
expenses nineteen shiiHnEs and siXpence;
result. happiness" But. . working man,
take your morning dram. and your noon
dram, and your evening dram. and spend
everything you have over for tobacco and
excursions. and you insure poverty for
yourself and your children forever!
II By some generous fiat Of the capital
lists Of this country or by a new law Of the
government of the United States. twenty
five per cent, or fifty per cent, or one
hundred per cent. were added 10 the wages
Of the working classes Of America, 1t
would be no advantage 10 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
Ny plea IL TO those working people who
are in disciplesnip TO the whisky-bottle
the beer-tug, and the winehask. And
what 4 say TO them will not be more APP
propriate 70 the working classes than to
the business classes. and the literary
classes, and the professional classes, and
an classes, and not with the people Of one
age more than Of all ages. Take one good
square look at the suffering Of the man
whom strong drink has enthralled, and re-
member that toward that goal multitudes
are running. The disciple of alcoholism
suffers the loss Of self-respect Just as
soon as a man wakes up and finds that he
is the captive OF strong drink, he feels de-
meaned. I do not care how recklessly he
acts. He may say, Il don't care" he
does care. He cannot look a pure man In
the eye unless it is with positive force Of
resolution. Three-fOurths Of his nature
is destroyed; his self-respect Is gone; he
says things he would not otherwise say;
he does things he would not otherwise do
When a man Is nine-tenths 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 cannot. The
Philistines have bound him hand and
foot and shOrn his locks, and put out
his eyes, and are making him grind in
the min OF a great horror. He cannot
stop. I will prove T.. He knows that his
course is bringing ruin upon himself. He
loves himself. II he could stop he would
He knows his course is bringing ruin up
on his family. He loves them. He would
stop III he could. He cannot Perhaps
now Just ask him to stop for a month.
lie cannot: he knows he cannot, 50 he
does not try
] had a friend who was for fifteen years
going down under this evil habit. He had
large means. He had given thousands OF
dollars to Bible societies and reformatory
institutions of all sorts He was very
genial, very generous, and very lovable
and whenever he talked about this evil
habit he would say. II can stop any time"
But he kept going on, going on, down,
down. down His family would say. 81
wish you would stop" why" he would
reply, Il can stop any time II / want to-"
After a while he had delirium tremens; he
had II twice: and yet after he had said
II can stop al any time II / wanted to-
lie g. dead now What killed him?
Drink! Drink And yet among his last
utterances was. u can stop al any time ."
lie did not stop IL because he could not
stop IT, Oh. there is a point in inebriaton
beyond which II a man goes he cannot
stop!
one OF these victims said to a Christian
man, "Sir. N ! were told that ! couldn't
get a drink until tomorrow night unless
had all my fingers cut Off, / would say
Bring the Ratchet and cut them off now. -
] have a dear friend in Philadelphia whose
nephew came TO him one day. and when
he was exhorted about his evil habit said
Uncle, / can't give IT up. IT there stood
a cannon and II was loaded, and a glass Of
wine were set on the mouth Of that can
non, aud / knew that YOU would fire II or
just as ] came up ana took the g.ass.
would start, FOR l must have g." Oh. IL
Is a sad thing for a man 20 wake up in
this life and feel that he Is a captivel He
says. 81 could have got ria or this once
but / can't now. / might have lived an
honorable life and died Christian death:
but there is no hope for me now. there Is
no escape for me. Dead. but not buried
] am a walking corpse. 1 am an appari-
ton OF what ! once was. ! am a Gagged
immortal beating against the wires OF my
cage w this direction; beating against the
cage until there H. blood on the wires and
blood upon my soul and not able to get
out. Destroyed without remodyv
80 on and say that the disciple or rum
suffers from the loss Of health The older
men may remember that some years ago
Or. Sewell went through this country ana
electrified the people by his lectures. On
which he showed the effects of alcohol
ism on the human stomach. lie had
seven or eight diagrams by which no
showed the devastation of strong drina
upon the physical system There we're