The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-04-03

drunkard to hopeless ruin is repudiat-
ed. They adopted a more enlarged
philanthropy. They go for present as
well as future good. They labor for
all now living as we'll as hereafter to
live. They teach hope to all-despair
to none. AS applying to their cause
they deny the doctrine of unpardon-
able sin. AS in Christianity it is
Taught so in this they teach
while the lamp holds out to burn
The vilest sinner may return
And what is matter of the most pro-
found congratulation they by expert
ment upon experiment and example
upon example prove the maxim to be
no less true in the one case than in
the other. On every hand we behold
those who but yesterday were the
chief sinners now the chief apostles
of the cause. Drunken devils are cast
out by ones, by sevens, by liquors and
their unfortunate victims, like the poor
possessed, publishing to the ends of
done for them. To these now cham
pions and their new system of tactics
our late success is mainly owing and
to them we most mainly look for the
rolling gloriously on and none are SO
| able as they to increase it's speed and
| its bulk, though unlearned in letters
| for this task none SO we'll educated.
To fit them for the work they have
been taught in the true school. They
have been in that gulf from which they
| would teach others the means of es-
| cape. Nor is the condescension very
great. In my judgment such of us
as have never fallen victims, have
been spared more from the absence Of
| appetite than from any mental or NOR
| al superiority over those who have.
indeed, l believe if we take habitual
| drunkards as a class, their heads and
their hearts will bear an advantageous
comparison with those of any other
class. There seems to have been
promises in the brilliant and warm
blooded to fall into this vice. What
one of. us but can call to mind some
relative more promising in youth
than all his fellows who has fallen
sacrifice to his rapacity. He ever
| seems to have gone forth like the
Egyptian angel of death, commission
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| born, of every family. Shall he now
be arrested in his desolating career?
In that arrest all can give and that
we'll and who shall be excused that
can and will not. Far around as hu-
man breath has ever blown he keeps
our fathers, our brothers, our sons
| and our friends PROSTATE in the chains
of moral death. To all the living
everywhere we cry, Come, sound the
moral trumpet that these may rise and
stand up, an exceeding great army.
Come from the winds, o breath and
breathe upon these slain that they
may live" If relative grandeur of
revolution shall be estimated by the
great amount of human misery they
alleviate and small amount they in
flict, then indeed will this be the
| grandest the world shall ever have
| seen. OF political revolution of 1776
we are all justly proud. 1t has given
us a degree of political freedom far
exceeding that of any other nation of
the earth. In it the world has found
solution of the longmoted problem
as to the capability of man to govern
himself in it was the gem which has
vegetated and still is to grow and eX-
pand into the universal liberty of
mankind But with ally these glorious
results past, present, and to come, it
had its evil, too 1t breathed foul
famine, swan in blood, and rode on
fire and long, long after the orphans
cry and widows wall continued to
break the sad silence that ensued.
These were the prices, the inevitable
prices, paid for the blessings brought.
Turn now to the temperance revolu-
ton. In 1t we shall find a stronger
bondage broken, viler slavery down.
trodden, a greater tyrant deposed. In
1t more of want supplied more disease
healed more sorrow assuaged BY 1t
no orphans starving, no widows weep
ing; by 1t none wounded in feeling,
none injured in interest Even the
dram-maker and dram-seller will have
glided into occupations so gradually
as never to have felt the change and
will stand ready to join all others in
| tho uniyarSa1 SONG IF UlodnnSs And