Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15
Arohdeacon Farrar On Drinking.

Archdeacon Farrar On Drinking.
Archdeacon Farrar, in late article on
ssThe Drink Curse" writes:
at involves the innocent as well as the
guilty in the sulphurious blast of destruc-
ton. 1t spreads in concentric circles OF
ever widening misery, devastating the life
OF families, lighting the peace of homes,
making horrible the childhood of count
less little ones annihilating the happiness
of that holy matrimony which still sur
wives to US from the wreck of paradise,
and which Christ beautif1ed and adorned
with his presence and first miracle which
he wrought In Cana Of Galilee. Multiply
each of these instances by hundreds OF
thousands, and once more you may ar
rive at some faint estimate of some frac-
tom of the extent of human life which is
rayaged by the diffusivemess and perpe-
tuity of this master curse of drink.
And it spares none! Men of adj ranks
and professions have at some time or
other come to me in the last stages of
restitution and wretchedness whom drink
had dragged down as with hand OF
fire from the positions of high and even
of sacred usefulness. Through drink,
said Father Mathew, L have seen the
stars of heaven fall and the cedars of
Lebanon brought low. 1t is not only the
vile and the animal which the craving
for drink attracts and the power of drink
subdues Men of fine imagination, men
of splendid genius, men of unrivaled at
tainments, men of noble birth and deli
cate sensibi1ities. have again and again
fallen victims it. Think of Alexander
the Great dying, as a fool dieth in the
midst of his ;areer. Think of Prince
Charles Edward, and how he, who had
kindled the chivalrous affection of so
many hearts, became despised, broken
idol. Think of the passionate remorse,
the aEonizins selfreproach of men like
. Rnihaft nd
'''Ah. deeper dole!
That SO august spirit, shrined so fair.
Should from the starry session of its peers.
Decline to quench SO pure a brilliancy
: I'm helps quick spume. All me, the deeper
dole.
Among others whom I have seen thus
called down by the devil have been not a
few clergymen. Once they were full of
hope in the thought of honorable, useful
and consecrate lives; now they herd n
the vilest dens of the wretched and the
criminal. and have gone Gown step by
step into the lowest abyss. One such
figure stands mentally before me now.
He has disguised his friends he has
alienated his family, he has lost his liy-
ing, he has destroyed his usefulness. He
was once a scholar and gentleman. If
you would seek him now 1t must be in
the slums and lodginghouses where the
glittering waves of modern civilization
leaves It's useless and congregated scum.
And such cases, too, must be multiplied
by tens of thousands. Drink Is the worst
Obstacle to the spread in Christ's king
dom. 1t defaces the page of history and
retards the progress Of the world.
"a StupendOus BIunder."
A recent correspondent of the Boston
Journal quotes from a letter written by
Judge Henry Carter, Of one of the cir
cults of the Massachusetts, courts, one
of the stalwart fighters in the early bat
tie for prohibition in Maine, as follows:
"Those temperance people who have
gone into the third party business have
made a stupendous blunder. They reason
by analogy, that because the abolitionists
from a small beginning grew until they
won the reins of government they, too
will in a like manner roll this SNOWFALL o.
so-called temperance prohibition until Il
shall be of such magnitude as to crush
out the rum traffic. But cannot they see
by looking at the facts and philosophy
that there is no analogy whatever be
tween the two movements? We speak O.
the abolitionists or the free sellers grow
ing until they got the mastery, but 1t is {
igure Of speech. Why cannot they SCI
that neither the abolitionists nor the FREE
sellers as distinct party could alone eve
have accomplished any practical result
1t was only by a happy combination o
fortuitous circumstances at the crucla
moment-a condition, the like of which 1
not likely to occur again in THOUSAND
years-the disintegration and death o
the WING party and the union OF al
shades OF antl-slavery men, save fey
ultras, upon the common ground of or
position to slavery extension, tina
the battle was won. 1t wa
Just such an outside movement
honest no doubt but uncalled for an
impracticable-which defeated Henry C9
in the presidential race and threw the<ad
ministration into pro-slavery hands. If
man wants to vote the Democratic ticke
that's his right and privilege; but for
temperance Republican to leave the onl
party which has accomplished all tbs
has ever been done for legal prohibitio
of the liquor traffic and join this thir
party seems to me more than mistake.