Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-07-11
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF iNTEMPERANcE.
The Worst Drink of All is Absfnthe--It
Will Produce the Same Evils as AL
cohol and in Addition Will XIII
Mans COuScfeDca

VIII Produce the Same Evils as AL
cohol and in Addition Will Kill
Mans Conscience.
1t is great folly which induces man to-
day to be indifferent to the healthy drinks
which nature supplies. He turns his at
tehtion to manufacturing alcoholic drinks
He has thought to find alcohol source of
JOY: source of vigor. He has only found
IN it unhappiness, ruin, decreptitude anc
illness 1t is not enough for man to los,
his reason through alcohol. He wanted
still further to do something to satisfy hi.
worst instincts. He must have a sovereign
liquor that would not only produce all tn,
above results. but would also deprive hin
of his conscience. Sc he invented absiAthe
Working people in the great towns. wome'
of the people, the idle peasantry. are
duped by this dreadful liquor. They are
imposing ON their delicate brains The,
moment they create such an appetite is a
dark hour.
Who could possibly remember the acts
OF barbarism, the acts of fury created by
thecmagic green liquor, which is filling the
asylums! See, there, a man whose body
lsAn perpetual trembling condition. He
has good foot. good eye, and he is en-
ragged that he can no longer work. He is a.
drinker of absinthe
See, again, another! Suddenly his face
paies, he is covered with perspiraton, he
wears a frightened look. He has had mo-
mentary Inconsistencies and q sudden diz-
illness. In a moment he has lost conscious
ness of his surroundings. That man is an
absinthe drinker. See a poor brick layer
lying on stretcher. They are taking him
to the hospital, where he quickly will d.
leaving forever his wife and children.
has fallen from a scaffolding A sud
Inconsistencies caused him to lose
equilibrium. He is killed, caused thro
absinthe drinking.
Another instance! The people are
rifed to see an unhappy man beating
earth. victim of a violent attack. !
tongue is bitten. by his teeth A blood
foam runs out of his mouth. His features
are all distorted. He is an epileptic, and
it is the work of absinthe
See below in the court where there are a
number of insensible persons. A man IS
seized with an indescribable despair. One
Saturday in his holiday hour he had drunk
ing to his lodgings he was suddenly seized
with a violent rage. He killed his wife
and two children without having the least
consciousness of what he was doing. He
energetically denies that he did the deed
to persons who know him. He knows
nothing about it.. The absnthe drinking
made of this man dangerous automaton.
See, again, this woman She rocks the
child in the cradle. Suddenly she is seized
by the most terrible convulsions and III
treats the child. Ask the cause of this
cruel treatment and we shall point to the
fatal absinthe! 1t is murderer: Dant
in supposing the terrors he described die
not know anything more terrible than tins
Banner of Gold
King Bacchus and His Prime Minister.
Sir Wilfrd Lawson at Band of Hope
meeting said "Bacchus was the king of this
country Great Britain) and the brewer
was his Prime Minister, and they had. a
lot of fellows going up and down the
streets roaring 'Brtons never shall be
slaves though they are xhe slaveslof the
| liquor power and send to Parliament any
body whom the liquor power tells them to
send there. Well, after all these #
temperance work it was rather dep.
no doubt, but they all knew it was
to twist and turn people who had groM1
up on one line. There was saving thai
there was no fool like an old fool he felt
the truth of that as he got on. (Laughter.)
But what did the Band of Hope do Y
realized the difficulty. and it left the Older
people to be looked after by other organi.
| to train up the children so that when they
grew up they would set themselves and
| their country free from this curse. He re
membered reading that in the days or the
French Revolution in one of the French
towns lot of children used to go about
waving reVoluNlonarv Dahner anu say
ing Tremble, tyrnnts; we are growing
up!' That was what they wanted the
children to say. 'Tremble, brewers. W.
are growing upn All, ah! they were trem
bling already. What did one of their crea''
men say at meeting not long since:
| Speaking of the bill to prevent children
being served with liquor in the public
houses he said: This will never do. They
are destroying our future customers. All!
he often thought how. much better the
liquor men understood the temperance
| question than we do. The liquor men
| were right, for the Band of Hope wanted
to teach the children to boycott the .publi-
cans. They must do something OF that
sort, for the publicaus would not go on
strike on their own accord. They asi,u'
of ell kinds of strikes, but staey never
heard of strike of the liquor men. II
they would only go on strike for month
there would be a sort of temporary MIL
lennium."