Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-04-29
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| AhFo mauy lTl0llQS TO mourn Gle1
! loss, hence we can put thirty sue
iprocessions in a mile. We thu
| have procession 8, ,353 miles long
1t will take them good part o
the year to go by, we see depicted
upon their countenance a horro,
that hung over them in death
Some of them died with deliriun
tremens, some froze~ to death by
the roadside, others stumbled
from the wharf and were drowned
while still others were mangled
under cars, ,:others burned in build.
ings set on fire by themselves
They died in various ways, but
strong drink killed them all, and
their tombstones, should they
have any, may be ftly inscribed,
"He died the death of drunk
ard"
Close in the rear of this army
we see another long line of funeral
PROFESSIONS. They are the ones|who
met death through the carelessness
aud cruelty Of drunken. comrades.
Many die of broken hearts, some
were murdered, and still others
were horribly mai gled on the rail-
roads because OF drunken engi-
neers or conductors, many were
drowned at::ssea on account of
drunken captains,
Now We wish to consider the
army of orphan children who
have been..left by the dead drunk
ards. Though they be innocent
of thessiuiquitles of their fathers
that have been visited upon them.
Two hundred Thousand in mum.
Der; each of these must bear
through life the stigma Of being a
drunkard's child. They are re-
duced to proverty, want and beg
gary.
They live in ignorance AND
vice; they are suffering with HUN
ger and cold Many of these
children are idiots, made so by
brutal, druaken fathers. They
will fill up the ranks Of the army
of drunkards that ever move
toward death.
Remember we have been consid-
ering this street tor one year, and
in the rear comes the next years
supply. If this is what liquor
does for us in one year, what must
be tne result through the long
centuries?
Thus far we have listened to the
stories that the figures tell, but
they cannot tell it all. They
give only the outline of this ter
rible tragedy that is going Oh
round about us.
MUCH IS NOT KNOWN.
They cannot tell US the uphap-
piness of the drur kard's home /;
they cannot tell us how many un-
kind and cruel words strong drink
has spoken to poor wife and child
rem.
They cannot tell us the many
blows that have fallen from the
drunkarh's hand upon those whom
it is his duty to love and protect.
They cannot tell US how many
fond expections and bright hopes
have been blasted.
They cannot tell us how many
mothers have worn out body and
soul in providing the necessities
of life for children whom a drunk
en- father has left destitute.
They cannot tell us of the for
lorn and broken hearts of the bride
while the horizon of life is radiant
with life's first hope.
They cannot tell us how many
gray haired mothers have gone to
the grave mourning her drunken
sons.
They cannot tell us how many
hard battles the drunkard has
fought with the terrible appetite,
We cannot begin to tell any
thing about, nor can we search
the records of the other world and
tell how many souls have been
forever shut out of heaven and
forever cast into hell, by the de.
mon strong drink.
Who, then, would not vote to
have that street of b. IL with its
awful traffic in the Internal stuff,
sunk to the lowest depths of perd-
ition and covered ten thousand
fathoms deep under the curses of
tho univarae