The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-02-03
plea for Order and Decency.

Plea Tor ORDER ana Decency.
To the clear-headed, honest-hearted,
enterprising and respectable citizens
OfGrant parish:
In the name of our dear common
Lord, and for the sake of all who may
be influenced by your example in the
future, as regards your life in right
eousness and godly sincerity, please
open widely your eyes, and with the
profoundest conscientiousnesssu survey
the present situation of your parish
concerning the awful curse OF strong
drink, and, with all the manhood OF
your noble ancestors, robe yourselves
with the garb OF justice, honesty and
decency, and with a heart filed with
sympathy, love and devotionto your
fellowman, and especially in behalf OF
the younger generation OF this day
and all generations, plant yourselves
on the side of truth and virtue. With
your faces set like flint against the
mighty foe, and your eyes sparkling
with the confidence and softness OF
soberness, with all manifestations OF
determination and victory, march
manfully against the ranks OF the un-
merciful, money loving, bloodthirsty,
malicious, drunken, maddened and
hell-deserving liquor traffic, and, with
oil the weight and power OF God
{ favored people, stamp it utterly out
s Of existence in this part OF yourLord's
VINEYARD, that the man-degrading,
widow md orphan making, homeand
virtue stealing, misery and trouble
making, soul and body destroying,
and hell-filling monster, will be even
more DESTROYS OF fleeing from your
midst, and hiding himself and keep
ling hid, than he ever was OF coming
into Your parish and into your homes
to disturb your peace, destroy your
&happiness and ruin both soul and
body for all time and eternity.
> Again. my beloved countrymen.
keep well in mind this thought and
important fact, that if you sit still
while. the battle is being planned and
ffnil to prepare for the coming conflict,
while the unprincipled, yet subtitle
nnd deadly foe is seeking every pos
sible advantage to cripple your forces,
Sand, in order to carry his point, will
faIsely accuse, maliciously abuse, and
call in question the human affinity,
/. love and devotion, integrity and sin
cerity OF your noblest man and wo-
manhood, SO far as you and i are
Irresponsible, we may expect that we
3 deserve defeat, humiliation, degre-
&dation and destruction. But, my
dear pArishioners, let US be on the
*nlert, and, as Gods word commands,
ssHave no fellowshipwith the unfruit-
4ful w0rks OF darkness, hutsrather re
<prove them." Let us be careful to
heed the Word which saith not in
vain, "Whosoever transgresseth, and
4abidth not i'm the doctrine Of Christ
Fhath not God" "lf there come any
unto YOU, and bring not this doctrine
receive him not into your house, Meth
err bid hin God speed. For he thai
bid him God speed is partaker OF his
evil deed"
Now. felIowmen, and brethren, if
have 4 privilege on earth that NJ
man has any legal or moral right t.
deprive me of, certainly / am priviIeg
ed to protect my own family ant
home interests against any such mer
ciless enemy and foe as the liquo
traffic and, If it be a. privilege to en-
Joy the quiethess and peace and salts
faction resulting fromthe aNo Salool
Law, = then it becomes my boundel
duty TO oppose aud forbid comm;
into my home anything which nigh
encourage something to thecontrary
Now, therefore be it resolved. that
will forever forbid any man or com
pany of men sending to my HON
such filthy, unworthy, degrading
corrupting aid unmanly stuff as
<given,out to the public through til
scoD,mns OF the little (called great b
its editor) 1.-THE Peoples Demands,
and further contendthatno one ca
permit or suffer this paper to com
into his home without sustainin
considera BILE loss to. himself, his lam
Nv and the Community at large, an
besides, he win be implicated Wit
them in all they accomplish, an
therefore sPartaker with them
their evil deeds"
Yours sincerely, in the work fe
righteousness, Justice and godly sil
tcerity, j. b. BLACKBURN.