Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-03-07
Temperance Extracts.

Temperance Extracts.
No pen picture, be it drawn ever
so carefully, with view to the strong
est dramatic effect, can come any
where near impressing upon its read
ers the horrors of the drunkard's life.
That drunkenness is the curse Of the
age there is no room for argument or
doubt. Victims of strong drink are
to be found in every nook and corner
Of the world 1t is an appalling fact
that every year thousands Of victims
of the fell destroyer-King Alcohol
find premature and unhonored graves,
leaving behind them but the heritage
Of want and misery to wives and chill
dren, with whom they might have
been still living in peace, happiness,
contentment and plenty, had they not
fallen into the clutches OF the demon
drink. In thousands of the families
the agonized parents see loved sons
going rapidly to the drunkard's fate,
with no power to save them from
their downward course. Wives grow
despondent and broken hearted over
the terrible infatuation which wins
her husband from his family to spend
his time and money with the saloon
keeper, depriving them Of the rights
that should be theirs.
The wealth of this nation is in its
manhood and womanhood. Upon man
hood with strong convictions and the
courage to stand by those convictions
If we were asked what America needs
to maintain her honor and integrity,
we would say men. Not pigmies en-
slaved by appetites and swayed by
brute passions; not men with con-
sciences so elastic that their posses
sors bend to popular sin and political
necessity but men who honor their
own manhood so that they spell that
beautiful word of three letters not
only with capital letter at the be-
ginning but tall letters all the way
through.
Gentlemen, you have the remedy in
your own hands. If you want right
eous laws get righteous lawmakers,
1t has become a truism that no town
or nation can maintain au existence
that derives revenue from the deg
radiation of its citizenship, and yet
there is the wide-open door Of the sa-
loon and citizens are turned to de-
struction. can see the great army
of our men marching through the
open door Of these legalized saloons.
and leaving within hOuOr,Purity, man
hood, virtue, strength of body and
clearness Of moral stamina and as they
march they are walking over the liv-
ing, quivering hearts of wives and
mothers-daughters and sisters, and l
seem to hear their means aud shrieks.
I have wondered when will be enacted
the black drama that shall arouse our
people in this warfare, as did the sink
ing of the Maine. VIII it be the re-
enactment Of the awful tragedy in
Peterson, New jersey, or will it be the
increased drunkenness which threat
ems US with drunken motherhood as
well as fatherhood, that shall send
the cry, remember the Maine" To-
day it is the war cry Of determination
and not compromise the war cry Of
determination will give place to the
war cry of victory, and the saloon will
ended and the land viii be free"
DR.. Cuyler, says
l. Unless people are educated and
influenced not TO use intoIicants all
legal attempts to prohibit their sale
can achieve on a very limited success
,. Pupils, parents and schools
must do most Of the educating.
3. The license system ought to be
abolished altogether.
4. Corporations and all employers
ought to require abstinence from IN
toxicants as essential 10 secure en-
ploymeDt.
5. The church of Christ must fight
the drink evil just as it fght- theft,
adultry or any other sin.