The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-30
FOR A TWO-MOHTH SE|GE
The Salvation Army Is Marshal
ing It's Forces.
WAR is DECLARED ON SIN
The Fight Will End Only With the I'm
conditional Surrender of Prince
Alcohol, Who Leads Beelzs-
bulbs Cohorts.

bright and early yesterday morning,
began two-months' siege. 1t is the
purpose of the local phalanx to attack
the enemy. to demolish every form of
evil, sin and wrong oine such as
drink, blasphemy. hatred, half-hearted-
ness, sham, hypocrisy, cant, lukewarm-
ness, jealousy, cowardice, pride. conceit,
lie and other enemies of humanity.
Information has been rendered to the
army to the effect that Prince Alcohol
is holding commission over the sig
nature of King Beelzebub of the Meth
ermost regions of hell empowering
him by any and every means of cow
ardice or desperate outrage with i'm
punity to create drunkards, who offer
upon the cruel altar of demoniac appe-
tite, inhuman sacrifices of innocence,
purity and trust, by laying thereon
wives, children, homes, prospects, char
acter, body and soul to the satisfaction
of hell-born ~leeish delight; and that a
flood of liquid damnation is sweeping
through the brightest and best of our
worlds fair homes. whose hearths, once
hallowed by the incense of ->rayer, love
and blessing, are daily being devastated
and cursed by drink, which, as pesti-
lence, has paralyzed the wills, poisoned
the blood, demoralized the characters
and inflamed the passions of tens of
thousands of the men and women who
should be our natiou's pride, as a fur
mace flame, scorching and whitening all
it touches. young and old. as dragon
with a rabid thirst for human blood.
sucking lifes very source from the
veins of helpless women and defenseless
children"
COMMANDMENT Chief Eva Booth most
emphatically declines to entertain any
overtures regarding any proposed ar
mistice capitulation or arbitration,
but. says she, "in the name of God.
the king of the whole universe and in
the name of Jesus Christ, His son,
whose soldier and servant I am, and in
consideration that the conditions of
peace aforetime submitted to King
Beelzebub, which conditions demanded
an absolute and uncompromising sur
render forthwith to the claims of Jeho-
yah of all soldiers, camp followers,
fortresses and munitions of war being
employed bv King Beelzebub, was in
sultingly ignored, have declared war;
and there is going to be war right here
in Butte, for the local army has made
ample preparation to prosecute war to
the bitter end.
Miss Booth. in her manifesto, says
that it has come to her observation
that babes Graded in purity and chill
dren with beaming eyes and prattling
tongue, young and fair, in the early
dawn of awakening intelligence are
blighted ere they bloom. and feloniously
despoiled of childhood's graces and
youthful susceptibility, and instead ed
ucated in worldliness. pride, unbelief
and vile-doing by goddess parents in
trusted by heaven with those most sa-
f1-n <,l, 1T ii
selves fascinated and defrauded by the
enchanting designs of King Beezebub.
are utterly regardless of the consum-
nation of sins coming doom, and mad
ly chasing pleasures gilded phantoms-
parents leading, children following. fall
into the vortex IF iniquity's seething
perdition.
The vital point Of attack by the army
forces all over the country as well as
in Butte is old Beelzebub; that's the
Weyler of their contention. Exasper-
ated by his losses to the conquests of
the army, the old king is resorting to
still more brutal. desperate and abom-
Unable measures. 1t is related in army
circles that men. women and children.
In ignorance and innocence. have be-
come Beelzebub's slavish agents and
by him are compelled to annihilate all
righteous instincts, obliterate elevatins
of tender childhood, ride over
prayers of weeping mothers and DELHI
aratelE break promises made in solem-
nifty of death chambers. exchange the
rnbies CT character, virtue,
hope, happiness and heaven in the mart
for harlotry, blasphemy. drunkenness
and crime, causing anguish tears, re-
morse, despair, bleeding hearts, broken
homes, murder and suicide.
1t will be the aim of the local army
during the pending siege to cause his
blacklist maiesty's most stalwart war
riors. skillful in conducting lengthy
campaigns of fiendish warfare, to sur
render scurrilous literature, gambling
fluid damnation, free
thought sacrilege. lustful denominations,
truth mutilatiOns and swear allegiance
to the blnodred banner of calyary's
universal kingdom
The salvationists declare that before
the siege is ended they will force the
armies of the aliens to evacuate their
position and retreat in ignominious
disorder and confusion. leaving on the
field prisoners wounded. mangled and
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