The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-22
Inwood Items.

Fred Yahn spent Sunday with
Miss Gibbons.
John Bright has moved to Johns
town Plymouth.
Ira Gibbon spent Sunday with
wife and children.
Mrs. Noak Goodyear and son Roy
were Plymouth visitors Saturday.
Charles Henessy called on his
lady friend at Bourbon Monday
night.
Miss Euniee Gibbons transacted
business between trains at Bourbon
Friday.
Rev. Powell and family of Mobile
are visiting at the home of Mr..
Frank Holby's.
Miss Elnora Dugan of Plymouth
came Saturday to visit with her
grandfather a couple of days.
Roll Switzer has moved to the
country and John Dawson is NOV
ing into the place just vacated.
Tomas Burman and family of
Osman Illinois, are here visiting re-
latives and friends, he formally re-
sided at Inwood.
School commenced Monday and
one hundred and twenty-five enrolled
InwOOd feels sure of good school
this year as We have our old "Prof.
back again, and the other teachers
are just where you want them.
This was written by an InwOod
citizen.
If you would know the full ex-
tent and destructive power of liquor,
read the history of the past. Count,
if you can, the slaughtered victims
that found their last resting place
in drunkards grave" SO numer-
Gus are these graves throughout
our land and nation, that it is, as it
were, a national potters field of
drunkards. Travel over our country
enter every home, and watch the
tears of anguish and sorrow, the ex-
preston Of affectionate hearts, brok-
ell by the fierce rum curse of this
so-caIIed Christian nation. See them,
old and young, floating, as it were
in mighty river.---going down to
everlasting ruin
The great river of intemperance
is sufficient to drown the rising gen.
eratiOns of strong and able-bOdied
young men. Just hearken to the wall |
of widows and orphans, full Of an
guish, and terrible enough 10 startle
even the myriads of hell and cause
them to cover before the\ storm of
anguished. Oh, why cannot all the
so-ealled Christian people pray and
vote, that this curse of rum may pass
away.
Drink destroys the best OF our sons
and should be wiped from the face
of this nation. The great distill-
cries of our land and nation should |
be turned TO better use. Why not
turn them into manufactures of i'm
plements TO turn the sod, and pre-
pare il for the seed, which, at har-
vest, shall present to man the bount-
les of nature? That, Christian friends
will be our most glorious triumph.
Christian men and women, let us
work with might and main to wipe
from the face of the earth, this
liquor curse, so that darkness share
retreat, and that grand morning
of moral independence. may dawn
Then shall earth be like heaven, and
our grand old United States will be
Garden of Eden. Then we will be
able TO hear great rejOicings break
out, even i'm our deserts and barren
lands. while the ancient fertility will
bless the earth, az when Adam first
sang his morning hymn of Eden.
Then the sons of God will shout for
JOY. as in the morning of young
ceation.
Give us the money that has been
spent by, and through, the liquor
curse of this nation, and we could
purchase the whole globe. We could
clOthe every man, women would be
proud of. We could build a school
house upon every hillside, and in
every valley upon the globe. We
could supply every schoolhouse
with able professors. We could
could build an academy in every
town and endorse it, We could build
a college in each State, and fill it
with able professors. We could
crown every hill with church, and
fill each pulpit with able preachers
of righteousness. And each Sunday
morning the voice of prayer and the
song of praise should ascend like a
tribute of alteration, from
earth to heaven.
Oh that all distilleries might be
closed, and the rum curse removed
from our fair land, that King Alec
hOl would no more stalk over the
earth, trampling under his giant
foot all that is lovely in our sons
and daughters. 1t is the darkest
chapter of our history that our gov
eminent uphold curse that destroys
her young men, the bone and sinew
of this fair land.