Arizona republican., 1909-03-29
THE EVIL OF DRINK
 SUBJECT OF DISCOURSE
Special Sermon on Temperance Yes terday by Rev. H. Franklin Bray.

Look not thou upon the wine when | 1t Is red. when 1t giveth it's colour in | the cup, when it moveth itself alright.
 At the last it bitest like a serpent. and stingeth like an adder" Proverbs | XXIII:3 3192. was the text by Rev. MT. | Bray at Tanner chapel A. NJ. F.. church. Among other things the pas tor said:
 This is the worlds temperance Sab
 bath and with the teeming millions of
 earth who are even now gathered to invoke the aid of an all-wise- -provi- dence we gather to send forth our Epetitions and to let the world know on
 which side we are fighting. We are
 accused of being a race of immoralists. 1 drunkards. adulterers. thieves and mid
 night carrousers; and it is commonly
 said that when a fight for moral prin- | ciples is on, that the Negro cannot be
 depended upon to do his part. but am here this morning to pronounce that statement as unqualifiedly false. The American negro is against everything that has proven detrimental to his | happiness and success. Nothing has done more to retard the progress of
 this race than has liquor and he is
 therefore, with all his strength and in 1 fluence. opposed to its traffic. We are the members of sorely oppressed and nightly hampered race, and are therefore greatly limited in our efforts
 to do what We would wish to do. How ever like the woman who went forth poker in hand. in the civil war, with the declaration that she could at least,
 show which side she was on." dozens of the best blood of the race in this | city signed the petition that vas pre-
 sented to the recent session of the ter
 ritorial legislature calling for the over
 throw of this hydra headed monster:
 thereby letting the whole people know
 which side they were on"
 The whole world as never before. Is stirred with a consciousness of the l sickness. suffering. diseases and deaths
 which are traceable directly or indi-
 rectly to this international evil In formation has come to me that there
 are those who have decreed that the man who presumes to raise his voice against this destructive evil shall have his support cut off.
 Believe me today. I had rather go forth half clad and with empty purse. and beg from door to door than to cOwardly keep my mouth closed in the midst of the cry of starving children. deserted wives. human woe and human
 want everywhere. Nor do I believe
 there is a man pr woman of my race
 tn this city directly or indirectly en- gagged in this business who has fallen
 so low in the moral scale but that they l would denOunCc as a moral coward. @ cringing sycophant and a base hypo- crite any such preacher who would pre-
 sume to pose as their minister and oc-
 cupy their pulpit and comc~into their
 homes as their christian guide No.
 no thousand times no. the very low
 est want the man of God to be just
 what he professes to be; and more. the very lowest will honor and respect him just to the extent that he impresses
 them that he is what he professes tc
 be. Both God and man despises a
 coward.
 If there is any man or woman in
 the world who would discourage the
 onward march of temperance it must
 be one who is not conversant with the
 facts concerning this gigantic evil HIS AS Allhffi all liAltTTdNItIldl Gkll belching forth disease and death in ev-
 cry land. coloring the waters of every
 ocean. opening Golgothas and filling Gethsemane gardens everywhere.
 The passage through the house of commons by an overwhelming major ity of. the licensing bill is the cuIminat-
 ing triumph of the temperance move ment which has run parallel to the temperance movement ia the United States.
 Liquor makes widow or orphan in England every twelve minutes" was one of the slogans Of the temperance campaigns. Statistics were produced to show that 1255i married men died every year as the result of the exces- sive use of alcohol This number null tplied by 5.62. tho a verage size of families in England, gave a total of 4J,4i5 alcohol widows and orphans a year. or over 124 each day.
 From a bushel of corn the distiller gets four gallons Cf whiskey. II re tails for s16S0. Tine farmer gets 45 cents. The United States government ~cts $40. The railroad company gets So cents. The manufacturer gets S4. 1 The drayman gets 15 cents. The re- taller gets $7. The consumer gets drunk The wife gets hunger. The children gets rags. Woe unto him | that giveth his neighbor drink. that puttcst thy bottle to him and makest ! him drunken also" Hab 2:15.
 This is the nations greatest evil If ! all the drunkards were marshaIed in l one great army and general from the | skies were to march in review before | them and cry with stentorian voice | Forward march," this old earth would | quake and tremble beneath their tread | There is no American river that has | not been swollen with the tears of 1 weeping wives and hungry children | and received it's quota of suicides | God help me to impress this subject | with all its importance upon you this | morning. You may not be able to | leave your children houses and lands | your opportunities are very limited | and you may therefore struggle as | earnestly as you can and then fail in | that But however poor you are you | can bequeath to your children a good | name and appetites governed by re- ligion and morality.
 Whiskey is the enemy of labor. Give | me the money expended for liquor by working men alone in the last thirtv