The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-17

One night poor wretch in wayside saloon
Who fingered half drunken about,
Heard the voice of the rumseller's wife. as she
said, .." ..
Go put yonder drunken fool OUT
The rumseller laughed as he shrewdly replied,
In tones that would brook no reproof
Let him stay if he WILL he is doing no harm.
The fellow is shingling our roof /
Are you shingling the rumseller's roof?
Are you shingling the rumseller's roofe
While your own house decays
Are you spending your days
In Smuggling the rumseller's roof?
The months passed away. but he came not
again,
The rumseller noted with pain,
And seeking him out with hospitable air.
He begged his old friend to explain,
"You want me to visit again your saloon,
And ask why linger aloof?
With thanks for your kindness allow me to saw.
Because am shingling my roof"
Ye men who are Smuggling the rumsellers roof.
BY robblng yourselves and your own,
Remember the winter of life draweth nigh,
And soon will the summer have flown.
Twill little avail in the day of Gods wrath,
To offer high heaven the proof,
That your house is now desolate only because
You've shingled some rumseller's roof.
And now to the man with the rum-sel]er,s
heart,
Who covers himself at the cost
Of manhood and womanhood, marred and
despoiled
Whose gain is that others are lost.
Tn ha 10 u1rhn hi
self,
The weight of his sins shall bear proof.
When the lost whom he ruined shall curse him
and cry,
eve shingled that rumseller's roof
l have yet the first woman to
find who is happy in the thought
that their husbands and sons drink.
On the other hand, no matter how
Indifferent they seem, they say we
believe drink is a detriment or a
curse. One woman said to me not
long ago l do not envy you your
home, but the assurance you have
of your husband coming home
sober is worth more than anything
else.
[ believe that any man can own
his home and support his family,
who uses the money he pays for
drink and the time he wastes on
account of drink, to gain a home
and buy the comforts needed
there.
Any man who has had expert
ence in prisons and reformatorjes
will tell you the men there confess
to have had their downfall through
drink. Many Of them commit
their crime in a state of semi-un-
consciousness. The time has gone
by when anyone can plead igno-
rance in regard to their duty in the
matter of the drink curse.
There is another side to the
question of whether the grand
jury pleased or not. Men
who are endowed with the
right to vote their convictions
become responsible to God for the
downfall Of their brother, and
whether it pleases that brother or
not it is the duty of every chris
tian to make it easy to do right
and hard to do wrong. The man
who would please God is above
the reproach of the world.
$50.
The home cannot be protected
and the saloon legalized under the
same flag.
DR.. Joseph Parker, in referring
to intemperance, says: s'Our re-
lation to great public questions
must be clearly defined, notably
our relation to the great drink
question. We must regard the
liquor traffic as a mortal enemy of
all things good and sane. Drink
is the foe of the world. Drink has
challenged and defed the God of
Israel, let the Christian church
adequately answer the blatant and
impious challenge. A sober ma
ton would have no difficulty in
settling all it's own social ques-
tions.''
EFFIE A. BURGAN.