Willmar tribune., 1899-02-22
Temperance Comment.

Temperance Comment.
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When you talk about the RESPONSE
bilty of Uncle Sam in the liquor traf-
tic. remember U. S. spells US.
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Mothers have a weakness for their
sons and are quite willing to be sheer
ed 1T if only they may save their boys.
Christian Advocate.
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How many hearts have been saddeu-
ed by the existence of that one saloon
which was the direct cause of the in
stant death of one of Minnesota's SOL
dier boys! All this sorrow and trou-
bic might have been avoided had there
been no saloon.
Look at the many romping, happy
boys and girls marching out from
yonder school house. How light the
step, how bright the eye, how red the
cheek with the bloom of youth and
health; how CHEEKY the voice, and glad
the shout of laughter! No rank or
grade: no poisoned mind or evil in
tentlons, no worry or anxiety, no
dread for the future. Home and
school, father, mother, sister and
brother, is their world and it's inhabi-
tants, to them. Happy, joyous, inno-
cent childhood! But we pause. Where
are those bright boys and those hap
py girls, twenty or thirty years hence
those that once were under the intiu-
ence of church and home, and under
the watchful and protecting care of an
unsel6sh and Christian father, and a
loving, patient mother? Some have
chosen their life-work, and are unfal-
tering in their determination to win,
and carry out their plans, to become
great and useful men and women.
They will become able aud distin-
gu:shed factors in bringing brighter
epoch in the coming age. They will
be known through our literature, upon
our platforms, in our pulpits. Some
will handle the reins of government,
while others will be great leaders of
men. Some will seek the humber
walks OF life, and be found in our fac
tories, in our fields, by the anvil and
bench, pursuing in all instances a
useful and honorable life. But they
will not all thus pursue the same path
or be all useful and honorable citi-
zens. Some will be found-ah, par
don the thought!-in our prisons, IN
our asylums, in our poor-houses.
That bright and hopeful curly headed
b " OF yours may some day be found
behind the saloon bar, or the gam
bling table, or a maniac in some in
ebriate asylum. The hope and the
life of your freside may some day be
dangling between heaven and earth, at
the end of a rope who knows?-for a
cr; me committed in a frenzied wrath,
while in drunken row. There are
thousands of bright boys that have
met the same fate through the influence
OF this curse. This highly civilized
aud Christianized nation of ours still
throws it's protecting arms around this
evil, and looks on without hindrance
Or pity for your boys destruction.
Where are those girls, the pride of
that fond father and the hope Of that
kind, sympathetic mother? Awful
thought! Has the world no pity for
even them? Have they also gone
astray? Shall they be linked to a
drunken sot for a whole weary life.
time? Are they going to tread the
mill in poverty and live in novels, too
miserable for common brute? Are
they going to be found on the streets
of our large cities, leading a life of
shame and evil? God forbid. But
such is life in the nineteenth century,
and you sanction it. You sanction it
because the liquor system is going to
save you a few paltry dollars in tax.
You sanction it because you are So
Der and temperate parsonage and
strong enough to overcome the tempta-
tion. But look about you. There are
others that are weaker than you are,
that are tempted, and they fall. They
are debased, disgraced and ruined, all
because YOU sanction the license sys-
tenn. Yet one single life ruined and
lost through the medium of all these
evils is, worth more than your gold or
anybody else's gold yes, more than
the gold that could be piled up on
every saloon counter in the world, or
all the taxes that could be collected in
thousand years; yes, and the whole
W. rid can never heal the wounds of
al g,lish or soothe the spicit of re-
morse in fond mothers heart. The
world has never yet been able to re-
deem one drunkard from his forlorn
grave. Come, you man with that