The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-09-19


lors, up through chandeliers with lights
all ablAss and through the pictured cor
ridors of clubrooms, out through busy en-
changes, where oath meets oath, and down
through all tho haunts Of sin, mingling
with the rafting dice and cracking bill
lizard balls, and the laughter Of her who
hath forgotten the covenant Of her God,
and round the city and round the CONT
nent and round the earth seetbing. boil
ing surge filings its hot spray Into the face
Of long suffering God, and the ship
captain curses his crew, and the master
builder his men, and the hack driver his
horse, and the traveller the stone that
bruises his foot or the mud that soils his
shoes, or the defective timepiece that gets
him too late to the rail train. arraign
profane swearing and blasphemy, two
names for the Same thing, as being one Of
the gigantic crimes Of this land, and for
Its extirpation 1t does seem as If 1t were
about time for God to arise.
The Day Of Drink.
| Then look for moment at tho evil Of
| drunkenness. Whether you live In Wash
ington or New York or Chicago or Gin
oinnati or Savannah or Boston or In any
Of the cities Of this land, count up the ga
looms on that street as compared with the
saloons five years ago, and see they are
growing far out Of proportion to the In.
crease Of the population. You people who
are SO precise and particular lest there
should be some iinprudenoe and rashness
in attacking the rum traffic will have your
son some night pitched into your front
door dead drunk, or your daughter will
come home with her children because her
husband has by strong drink been turned
Into demoniac. The drink hend has do
spoiled whole streets Of good homes in all
our cities. Fathers, brothers, sons on the
funeral pyre Of strong drink Fasten
tighter the victimsl Stir up the flamesl
Pile on the corpsesl More men, women
and children for the sacrifice Let us have
whole generations on fire Of evil habit,
and at the sound Of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery and dulcimer let all the
people fall down and worship King Alco-
hol, or you shall be cast into the fiery fur
mace under some political PLATFORM
I indiot this evil as the regicide, the
fratrioide, the patricide, the matricide, the
uxoricide, Of the century. Yet under what
innocent and delusive and mirthful names
alcoholism deceives the peoplel 1t Is q
Cordial" 1t IL "bitters" 1t Is an "eye
opener" 1t is an appetizer" 1t is q
"digester." 1t is an "invigorator. 1t IL
"settler." 1t Is q "nightcap." Why
don't they put on the right labels-"Es-
senoe Of Perdition, conscience Stupe- |
fer" Five DRAINS Of Hoartache,"
Tears of Orphanage ""Blood of Souls"
"scabs Of an Eternal Leprosy," "Venom
Of the Worm That Never Dies9" Only
once In awhile Is there anything in the
title Of liquors to even hint their atrocity.
as in the case Of sour mash" That SEQ
advertised all over. 1t Is an honest name
and any one can understand it. Sour
NASH" That Is, 1t makes man g DISPOSE
ton sour, and his associations sour, and
his prospects sour and then 1t Is good to
mash his body and mash his soul, and
mash his business, and mash his family.
"Sour mash" One honest name at last
for an intoxicantl But through lying la
bells Of many Of the apothecaries' shops,
good people, who are only little under
tone in health and wanting some invigo-
ration, have unwittingly got OH their
tongue the fangs Of this cobra that stings
to death so large ratio Of the human race.
The Deadly Cup.
Others are ruined by the common and
all destructive habit Of treating custom
ers. And it is treat on their coming to
town, and treat while the bargaining
progresses, and a treat when the purchase
is made, and a treat as he leaves town.
Others, to drown their troubles, submergs
themselves with this worse trouble. Oh,
the world Is battered and bruised and blast
ed with this growing evil 1t is more and
more intrenched and fortified. They have
millions of dollars subscribed to marshal
and advance the alcoholic forces. They
nominate and elect and govern the vast {
majority of the ofllceholders of this coun- ,
try. On their side they have enlisted the
mightiest political power Of the centuries,
and behind them stand all the myrmidons
Of the neither world, satanic, Apollyonic
and diabolio. It is beyond all human ef-
fort to overthrow this Bsstille Of deoanters
or capture this Gibraltar Of rum jugs And |
while I approve Of all human agencies of !,
reform would utterly despair II we had
nothing else But what cheers me is that
our best troops are yet to come. Our chief
artillery Is In reserve. Our greatest COM C
mander has not yet fully taken the field. a
If all hell is on their side, all heaven is on
our side. Now "Let God arise, and let his h
enemies be scattered.
Then look at the impurities of these =,
great cities. Ever and anon there are In u
the newspapers explosions Of social life
that make the story of Sodom quite respect b
able, "for such things" Christ says, "were
more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah" ~
,han for the Chorazins and Bethsaidas Of
greater light 1t is no unusual thing In
our cities to sec men In high positions 81
With two or three families, or refined ladies n
willing solemnly to marry the very swine
If society If they be wealthy. The Bible 81
Ill aflane with denunciation against an Ia
IMPURE life, but many of the American
ministry uttering not one point blank :.
word against this iniquity lest some old
ibertine throw up his church pew. Ma
hinery organized In all the cities Of the Ia
United States and Canada by which to put II
early in the grinding mill Of this iniquitY
thousands Of the unsuspecting Of the coun-
~ farmhouses, one procuress contrasting IL
n the courts that she had supplied tho in
Brnal market with 100 victims In six
months. Oh, for 500 newspapers in Amer u
"a to swing open the door Of this lazar u
ouse Of social corruption Exposure
aust come before extirpation. th
The City Of Sin. 1t
While the city van carries the scum Of er
1ls SIN from tne prison 70 the police oOurb II
Forming by morning 1t is full time, If we va
o not want high American life to become
Ike that Of the court Of Louis XIV, to put =
Millionaire Lotharios and the Pompadours l"
your brownstone palaces into van Of
opular indignation and drive them out
respectable associations. What pros
cot Of social publication can there BIO as co
ing us at summer watering places it is
sual to see young woman of excellent NJ
,aring stand and shipper and giggle and
III up her eyes sideways before ono Of -,
1850 first class satyrs Of fashionable life at
nd on the ballroom floor join him In the
ancc, the maternal chaperon meanwhile We
,aming from the window on tho scenei
atches are made In heaven, they say.
OF such matches, for the birthstone indi- III
ties the opposite region.
The evil is overshadowing all our cities. 90
y some these immoralities are called pee
dillos, gallantries, ecoentrioities, and l..
Q relegated to the realms of POPULARITY, 'u
I'd few efforts are being made against ga
ON. God bless the "White Cross move
ent, as 1t Is called-an organization ,ir
Rkinq mighty assault on this evil God A..