The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-08-08

deviltry. Both editors and propri-
etors are often the dupes and slaves
Of whisky and whisky men. There
is no more potent factor in modern
civilization than the printing press.
Every editor should be a Prohibi-
ton advocate and put dynamic
Prohibition truth under the liquor
traffic. Knights of the quill,
"Come off the fence"
9. All honorable merchants
should seek to destroy the licensed
saloon, because, first, a saloon is
always wrong any place. anywhere;
second, because the saloon is an
enemy to all other trades. 1t takes
the money of the people and gives
worse than nothing in return. Mer-
chants too often say:
My tongue shall delight to talk Of right.
will speak its praises each day;
will urge it strong on the listening throng,
But cannot vote that way.
10. Thousands of } Dung men are
not only ION the fence" but also on
the road to He'll through the curse
of rum.
They vote for rum, death dealing rum,
And then they pray "Thy kingdom Gomez"
They often sing and preach and pray.
But cast their votes the other way;
How can they pray "Thy kingdom come
And then go out and vote for rums
Say, brothers, come off the fence.
IL. The young ladies, thank
God, are few on the fence. Most
of them are ProhibitiOnists. Alasl
how many homes of young women
are turned into living Hells through
drink 2 How foolish the thought
of marrying a drinking man in the
hope of reforming himl With rare
exceptions such young men will
fortunes, become more
depraved and make the home a
pandemonium.
Sisters, if any of you are "on Il .
fence" in Gods name "Come off
and mighty quick.v Go to work to
save your city, your country, and
specially your home, from the
curse of rum.
Some women, too, there are, fear,
who indirectly favor beer;
They viii not work, whate'er may come
But waste their time and favor rum.
IL. "Churches on the fence,
yes, plenty Of them.
They waste their time preaching
temperance" and leave 100000
saloons almost unmoIested to fill the
land with intemperance. They
spend ten minutes, think of it, al
of ten minutes, in county, state
aud national conventions depIoring
the evils of saloons, or adjourn
without any speech on the subject
and allow their members to "go
right on and vote for rum" The
are too busy treating the
products of sal0ons-the crime
widowhood and power
tY-the symptoms of the disease
and have ne time or money to re-
move the cause, that is, destroy the
damnable saloon.
Such churches are synagOgues Of
Satan and ought to be bored for
the hollow horn or tapped for the
'simples.' The churches employ
lecturers and preachers, and pay
thousands of dollars to preach the
of faith, the design of
baptism or the doctrine of election,
but Who ever heard Of a church,
through mission boards, or other
wise, employing and supporting
half dozen we'll posted lecturers to
spend their time in destroying ga.
looms, the chief enemy of the
church,
No, the church is too often ION
the fence" or busy with other lines
of work. 1t will hold its business
meetings and disfellowship Miss
and Mr. So-and-So for dancing or
gambling, and still retain In full
fellowship the elders, deacons and
preachers who voted for whisky
politics and more saloons. would
as soon be in the church with a
gang Of horse thieves as with men