Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-13
Devices of the Devil.

Devices OF the Devil.
The devil is always abreast OF the times
and adopts cunning devices to trap the
unwary. In front Of saloons in nearly
every city in the country during the wal
he had this placard exposed: "war news
inside!"
Yes, war news The same returns the
drunkards wife has been receiving yeaI
after year since the husband enlisted in
the army OF inebriates. What are the re-
despair, physical decay and spiritual
blight Deserters from the ranks of man
hood and social purity find In the saloon
an abundance OF war news In times OF
peace. The saloon itself is the DEVILS
arsenal 1t is also the rendezvous where
he mobilizes his forces for the final assault
upon society and the home.
War news In the saloon represents the
new recruits under King Alcohol. So long
as the saloon exists there will be plenty OF
war newsl'
What does the devil care about our en-
tanglements with foreign powers? He has
no interest In our present struggle fol
humanity's right beyond the canvas walls
of the damnable cantesn! From it he gets
his war news from the front. Glorious
accounts of the surrender of manhood and
everything that makes life dear! Verify,
these authorized depots Of hellish supplies
are disgrace and crime against civiliza
ton. Officers feast upon Injuries pur.
chased with money received in exchange
for whisky and beer sold their commands
while the dupes who spend their money
for drinks must content themselves With
coarse rations provided by the com.
missary! Here Is q picture to hold up be.
fore civilized critics. Our nation parading
before the world. arrayed in the para.
phernalia of war, as the champion OF
liberty and oppressed humanity, while
establishing and maintaining In our mill.
tary centres traffic that is welding the
chains OF eternal bondage around the
hopes of the flower Of our countrys man.
hood! Truly, the devil has war news to
bulletin In the saloon.
But the most appropriate bulletin of war
news the saloonkeeper could expose would
be the picture OF a drunkard's home. This
would represent the storming, the assaults,
the counter charges, the all-day and all.
night battles with hunger and disease,
forced marches to evade creditors, beg.
ging, pleading for mercy and the final
surrender OF hope and virtue to the over.
whelming forces OF despair and demoraliza.
ton. The drunkard's wife has no time Of
peace in which to prepare for war. 1t II
for her one continued struggle against
poverty and the demon sent against the
home day after day from tine DEVILS head.
quarters in the saloon.
An hour in the police court In large
city will convince anyone that there Is
of which resound through the darb
corridors Of the prison and the grave
and whose duplicate bulletins hang upon
the pictureless walls Of the cherries
quarters the saloonkeeper has robbed OF
the name OF home.-Zion's Outlook.
Tho Temperance Movement Preventive
The temperance movement at the present
time Is both reformatory and preventive
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claim from the control of drunkenness
those who have fallen into that abhorrent
vice; and preventive In that 1t endeavors
to preserve as total abstainers those who
have not, as yet yielded to the seductions
Of liquor.
Much attention was at one time given to
the reformatory phase OF the question; but
prevention being, according to the adage,
better than cure, the work OF temperance
organizations now seems to be mainly
directed towards enlisting in the cause
boys and girls and men and women who
have never tested liquor. This does not
imply, however, lack or loss of interest
in the work OF inducing drunkards to give
up their evil habit, but 1t shows that the
temperance workers have learned from OK.
perience that the main hope of the move.
ment Is in the young, and in those who
have never forged even the first link Of
chain that binds so many.
1t is the aim Of the temperance movement
to draw within the sphere Of its influence
all such abstainers, and to SO instruct and
guide them that they will remain free from
the taint Of the liquor habit through their
lives, being thereby examples OF sobrietY
and clean living to ALL And while eagerly
welcoming into the various temperance
organizations those who desire to amend
their lives, as regards drinking to excess,
1t is as preventive that the temperance
movement will achieve its greatest success,
Sacred Heart Review.