Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-03-09
LINCOLN AS A PROPHET.
He Noresnw the Overthrow OF the
Giant Liquor EVIL.


Giant Liquor EVIL.
Even the boys in the first grade Of
our public schools have been taught Of
the services and character Of Abraham
Lincoln during the past month, when
his birth has been celebrated by a
country loving people. What were his
sentiments on the liquor question in
1S42? He said:
"Of our political revolution of 1T76
we are all justly proud 1t has given
us q degree of political freedom far ex-
ceeding that of any other nations Of
the earth. In it the world has found n
solution of the long mooted problem
as to the capability of man to govern
himself. In 1t was the germ which
has vegetated and is still to grow and
expand into the universal liberty Of
mankind.
"But with all these glorious results,
past, present and to come, it has its
evils too. 1t breathed forth famine,
swan in blood and rode in fire, and
long. long after the orphans cry and
the widows wall continued to break
the sad silence that ensued. These
were the price. the inevitable price,
paid for the blessings 1t brought.
Turn now to the temperance reyolu-
ton. In 1t we shall find stronger
bondage broken, viler slavery manu-
mitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in
1t more of want supplied, more disease
healed. more sorrow assuaged; by 1t
no orphans starving, no widows weep
Ing; by 1t none wounded in feeling
none injured in interest. Even the
dram maker and the dram seller Will
have glided into other occupations so
gradually as never to have felt the
change and will stand ready to Join all
others In the universal song Of glad,
ness. And what a noble ally this to
the cause of political freedom! With
such an aid its march cannot fail to
be on and on till every son of earth
shall drink in rich fruition the sorrow
quenching drafts of perfect liberty.
Happy day when, all appetites con.
trolled. all passions subdued, all matter
subjugated. mind, all conquerlng mind
shall live and move the monarch of the
wOrld"'
'There seems ever to have been a
proneness In the brilliant and warm
blooded to fall into this vice. The de.
mon of intemperance ever seems to
have delighted in sucking the blood of
genius and generosity" said Lincoln in
an address delivered Mt Springfield on
Feb. 90. 1S42. What one of us but can
call to mind some relative more prom.
isfng In youth than all his fellows who
has fallen sacrifice to his rapacity
He ever seems to have gone forth like
the Egyptian angel Of DEATH commits
stoned to slay If not the first, the fair
est born Of every family. Shall he now
be arrested in his desolating career2
In that arrest all can give aid that will,
and who shall be excused that can and
will not? Far around as human breath
has ever blown he keeps our fathers,
our brothers, our sons and our friends
PROSTATE I'm the chains of moral DEATH
To all the living everywhere we cry,
"Come, sound the moral trump. that
these may rise and stand up an exceed
ing great armyw Come from the four
winds, o breath. and breathe upon
these slain, that they may liver II
the relative grandeur Of revolutions
shall be estimated by the great amount
Of human misery they alleviate and the
small amount they inflict, then. indeed.
will this be the grandest the world
shall ever have seen.