Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-04-29

III oAo SAHo VI oo PNSFAo' 0AANA
) teach my boys one thing by pre-
cept, and another by example.
} There is not a saioon-keeper il
all the land who will not say tina
1t is wrong to get drunk, but al
right to take drink. Oh, how
sick and tired I get when I heal
a so-called christian talking thu
same way. There Is not a sot ir
all the land who will not tell you
that he is against drunkenness
Every saloon-keeper believes in
Temperance, but he has one
meaning for the word while we
have another. Mark this, reader,
no man is a temperance man, per
so, who does not. vote it. It is
your vote that, demonstrates your
position that proves you are a
prohibitionist, nothing else. The
christian should oppose dram
drinking, dram-selling and dram
voting.
Whose gang are you in? Are
you with the school teachers,
christians and preachers of the
land, or are you with the saloon.
keepers, who are in the business
for money only, and who vote the
anti-tlcket to man; not because
they think it helps or makes one
better, but purely from none
tary consideration.
In the rear of this army of g.
100000 moderate dram-drinkers
we see another army coming.
What is it? IT'S the army of
100000 drunkards, the natural
spawn of the saloons-frst a dram
drinker, but at last a drunkard
Many women are in this vast army
of human derelects. They have
fallen quite low, oh, low down, to
death and hell.
"Fell like the snow flakes, from
heaven to hell,
Fell. to be trampled as the filth
of the street;
Fell, to be scoffed at, to be spit
on and beat,
Pleading, cursing, -dreading to
die,
Selling her soul to whoever
may buy,
Dealing in shame for morsel
of bread.
Hating the living, fearing the
dead,
| Merciful God, has she fallen SO
| low?
Yet once she was as pure as the
beautiful snow.
The drunkard has no place, no
home, save the refuge of the asy-
lum, the Jail, and the peniten-
tiary,
LICENSED TO MAKE DRUNKARDs.
The saloon is licensed to sell
that which makes drunkards, and
we take the product, the poor
drunkards, and punish him for
that which the license purports
he shall do-wrong. Alas, our
shamel "But shame is a small
matter as long as the business
pays-the revenue.
The saloon-keeper, after he has
completed his job, in making the
drupkard, is ashamed of his pro-
duction, and often kicks him into
the street. 100000 people,
most of whom are wage.earners,
are spending their money IN these
dens of iniquity, and letting their
families suffer for the common
comforts of life. Many of these
men abuse the poor defenseless
wife aud her innocent brood.
None can ever know the SORROWS
of this poor mothers heart, God
can only know, who sees the
sparrow when it falls. And this
same God, whose eye is over all
His works that he has made, will
surely bring thee, o. man, unto
judgment, for this, thy devilish
work.
Many of these drunken wretches
murder their wives and children
while in this condition. O, where
is my boy! Is he drunkard1
If 80, am I excusable? I have
known of men being brought from
wealth, honor, fame and high
christian character down to the
lowest degradation. I have heard
people say if you would let liquor
alone it would let you alone.
This is lie! and I will say 80.