The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-10
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF lNTEMPsRANcs.

VI the brewer G mighty Ciydesdaies.
With the janglmg of the harness,
And the crushing, grinding thunders
vi the Juggernaut behind them,
Rushing from the lofty portal
Wide and solid, high-arched portal
Of the brewers gloomy castle,
Built with dead walls far extended
Flush along the public footway
Mined beneath the reeking dungeons,
Rat-infested reekng caverns
Ger whose bricklaid arch resounding
Drives the monster vain deep.loaded
Wide and high and strangely freighted.
Who so comes with bursting thunder?
What so ponderous encumbers
Massive car and street and city
III the stagnant air must shudder;
Window, pave and spire all shudderl
And voice from out the black vaults
Hollow sounds, but dread and near.
Il am Beer"
Der dull piles of brick and mortar
Far and broad and blankly ranging
Rise like towers black. .throated chimneys
From the modern feudal castles
vi the modern master barons.
Slender, tall, cloud .belching chimnevs,
Night and day belch broodlng shadows,
Ger the towns still brood their shadows
In the wide and dim recesses
Md the grinding and the splashing,
Mid the stcaming and the stirring,
Md the soaring and the rotting.
Giant arms ply IN the mash tubs.
Men like solemn ghosts are walking
Mid the monster watts and watching
All the mixing and the tuning,
All the frothing and the sinking
" the yeasty witch-broth making,
Which Tor turning senses sodden
Claims the price OF half the comfort
Ot the home.lifc of the humble.
Who has built this pile so sombre?
Who beclouds the town and city!
Who SO tricks the stupid workman
VI the veal OF wife and children!
From the wide and dim recesses
Comes thick and drowsy murmur
'lch vas Bier!"
Mark the vicious, Kissing faucet,
Like the serpent tongue of Eden!
See the mighty foaming beakers,
Like the deadly foam-capped surges
See the mighty foaming beakers.
For Columbia sixteen gallons
To each soul OF seventy millions!
. Gambrinus, in Nalhalla,
How much fills Saxon pirate!
Four and fifty for Bavaria.
For Britannia seven and thirty!
Seven and thirty for each infant,
Thirsty father, youth and mother,
From the wage one hundred dollars
Lost to every beery household,
Oh. the long and cruel winter!
Oh. the famine and the fever!
Who brings poverty in bumpers:
Robs the man and loots the cottage?
Builds great paunches, weak and slushy!
Lays pink skins on muscles flabby!
Giving stupor for ambition!
Making mothers harsh and bleary,
Whiles embruting sons and fathers?
Who debars the weary soldier
From the health in God-made nectar!
Who serves every vicious contact,
Stirring up the human fermentt
From the bureau OF statistics"
From the canteen and the barracks,
From the hovel and the revel,
"Midways' OF the world and "Plazas,'
From the gaudy corner taproom,
From the reeklng filthy basement,
And the toulness of the brothel-
From each cursed trap and vice den
All may hear:
Voiced i'll multtudinous concert,
Il am beer!'
| In the halls of legislation
| Sits the bloated god OF Mashpot,
| And the courtiers pale before him
When the pri 'thood call and beckor.-
puISN powerful IODDles'
The Republics plant consuls,
Delve in foreign lands and cities
Seeking channels OF new traffic,
Laying far words under tribute
For the overflow of maelstroms,
Froth OF maelstroms ever whlrling,
Swir,ing, seething, weltering, steamlng
In the bowels of the castles
Under pressure I'd eruptive
Like the waters of Mont Pe,ee.
In the heavens appeared wonder
lin the heaven or, somewhat under,)
Men who loved to pay high taxes!
Oh, the wonder OF excises!
Oh, the dragons of the cities!
Oh, the Mayors and the councils!
On, the constables and sherifs!
Oh, the wonder OF the people!
For the beast, that often wounded.
Lived, and still "spake as dragon
while you make our business legal
Tax us, tax us; We enjoy it,
We will make you roads and bridges,
Pave the streets and lay the cutters,
Build poor houses and asy!ums;
High or low, still issue license,
And in any way restrict u.s.
Let us live, and name your contract"
Fairly spoken" shout the ~apers,
Fairly spoken" said our statesmen;
Fairly spoken echoed people;
Politicians all applauded.
Village papers, and great dailiesl
Free press of a Christian country!
Who to Cabinet and Congress
Comes with power and ready access?
Who enthrones the soulless MammOn,
Lord of Christian" towns and cities!
Who, alas! herds Christian voters
With the banded rogues and robbers,
All the truckers and the iobbers,
After schemes at best "commercidl?"
Grinned the beast--and with ieer:
Find the names marked in their fore.
heads,
Every man as he has voted"
Said the dragon;
II am Beer!"
Leaning from the walls OF jasper
All the angels blushed and whispered:
"Ah, alasi what do men worship
When they look and act so queerV
But the ancient time-wis, Devil,
With derisive blink and sneer,
Laughed outright the yhiles the dragon
shouted:
81 am Beer"
"A. T.. Allaben, in The New Voice.
the Crusade In Brief.
The Oakland City Und) temperance
people are gaining in their fight against
the saloon. The colored people are falling
in line for the Anti-Saloon League.
The alcoholic subject has become so
prominent part of the evils of the world
that clergymen must be trained to meet