The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-11-21
w. W.C.T.U.COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. N. l.. HoBBs
Prom Patriot fhaianx
hARvEST-f FIELD JUG, AND HUSKING.
BEE BOTTLE.


> lhc eueIvescent orator, once In
while speaks Of the time when ou
fathers could not reap the wheat O
husk the corn until the toilers il
the field were supplied with goo,
old New England rum. Then will
flourish OF the trumpet he SAYS
"How Is it today? No man think
OF taking Jug Of brandy to the har
vest field. In some respects he
i. rightly concludes that we are max
ing progress: that conditions are
better and that the nation is becom-
ling moral paradise.
II We contemplate the harvest
field Of a half century ago, and ie-
member the disappearing jug, and
forget what is going on today, we
may safely conclude that moral SEN
timent is in the ascendancy, and
that by course Of evolution hard
to describe, and still harder to see
we are hedgeing in the powers of
darkness, and will soon realize on
our constant effort to put to flight
the emissaries OF Satan. Be at once
undeceived. The world is not
growing better. We are making
progress in everything save spirit
ual life-in real genuine goodness.
The saloon incubates a hundred
devils while we retouch a human
soul and make a saint. The wire
room OF today, fosiered and protect
ed, starts a thousand girls towards
bell while we permanently locate one
10 the fold. The beer wagon stop
ping at the front door of the home.
iebauches multitudes Of the inno- {
,ents, while We, saints OF earth, re-
lain a fallen brother and plant bis
eet upon the "solid rock. = The {
'rocuress-damnable creature, who l
langs about the depots in crowded Z
ities-sIa:ches from lives Of purity
hundred girls while the church, in G
n "off an on"revivai, glad1ens the II
fe OF some fallen girl by introduc- "
,g her to a new life. The world q
rowing better? Who said 50? d
'r. 1. De Wit Talmage, some
me b-fore his death, said: elf
liquity progresses in the next one
undred years in the same ratio 81
lat it has progressed in the century
DIV closing, there will not be a YES
se OF moral or religious influence
II. II the people knew how the
rus was spreading they would Ia
op it," A,
There was nothing visionsry I
out DIR. Talmage. He was, in a So
'nderful degree, a practical man,
10 occasionally left bis parsonage
me long enough TO make explor- Dii
ons in our social nadirs, and then. MI
ice better, the old "money bag Go
pocrite" in the cushioned pew {
I'D not seal the lips Of the great
'acher. Talmage knew that MI
lie we often hypnotic ours.l Ives Tn,
belief that we are growing 4
Ter and safer from danger we are Dis
] y dominated in business social. |,
l political life by the ever in Eco
asing city, and that the city a
rywhere is cursed by the saloon Dis
the bawdy house. Mu,
here is city in Indiana-not a The
e city, and yet containing near al
orty thousand people. II edges Disc
70 the Wabash river and builds One
ards the east. Like Nehemiah Adj,
ID, take a midnight ride about
treets. As you finish your ride Mus
se a moment on Eagle street B,
ask yourself, "Is the world The
ring better?" an
ut hold! Possibly this is not a s.
pie city. We must not tread Med
avenues of social degradation Natu
Judge the world from that. Quar-
this would be unfair, but you Dialc
make it a view -poin; from Hi
ice you can look back to the Musi
when the slug" was hid away Ado,
Q shock Of wheat. r,,,,
is Indiana city is a sample Of -
memha, ~ !, ,ha H. 80. "e" Musi,
,nnd,ed saloons sad 1913 Pract
many houses Of shame; when D'scu
low as the people OF the plsce A SUP
(, that a cancer of shame ! will b
ing, like a mighty simeon and ]
the river banks toward the Oven
we have right to believe that Il. >.
- is breaking its record in n. G'
ide-open business. and that the sp
in city life is in the saddle