The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-02-09
The CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK
PROGRESS MADE BY CHAMPIONS
FIGHTING THE RUM DEMON.
satan's vicegerent-Earth's Greatest
Curse.
ny JOHN W. COUGH.

throne in Pandemonium, crowned
with a circlet Of everlasting fire, call
Ing around him his satellites, to show
their respective claim for certain
privileges, by the power one possessed
more than another to bring men to
that burning lake. We may imagine
Mammon, the meanest of all the gods,
standing up and saying, Send mel
can send men from their homes across
the burning desert, or the trackless
ocean, to fight and dig in the earth
for yellow dust, and so harden the
heart that the cry of the widow and
the fatherless shall be unheard. /
will so stop up every avenue to fu-
man affection that my victim shall
stand as if made of the metal he
loves, and when the cold fingers OF
death are feeling for his heart strings
he shall clutch closer and closer to
his heart the bag Of yellow dust,
which Is the only god he ever Wor-
shipped" Belial, filthiest of all the
gods, next proclalms his power. Then
the Destroyer asserts his claim: ne
holds war, pestilence and famine IN
his hand, and makes mel whose
trade it shall be to deface Gods I'M
age, rank themselves in hostile array,
and hurry each other %shrieking, un-
shrouded, into another world. While
all is silent we may suppose a mighty
rumbling sound, at which all hell
quakes; and far III the distance is
seen, borne upon the fiery tide, a mon
strous being, his hair-snakes all
matted with blood, his face besmeared
with gore, he rises half his length,
and the waves dashing against his
breast fall back in shower OF fire.
"Who art thou?" 81 am an earth
born spirit. I heard your proclama-
ton and come. Send me-me-I will
turn the hand of the father against
the mother, the mother against the
child, the husband against the wife;
the young ma in the pride OF manlf-
ness 7 will wrap in my cerement and
wither him. That fair young girl I
will make such q thing that the vilest
wretch shall shrink from her IN dis
gust. T will do more. I will do more.
I will so deceive them that the moth
er shall know that I destroyed her
first-born and yet give to me her sec
ond. The father shall know that /
destroyed the pride of his hope, and
yet lift the deadly draught to the lips
of the second. Governors shall know
how I have Slapped the root OF States.
and yet spread over me the robe OF
their protection. Legislators shall
know the crime and misery l cause,
but shall still shield and encourage
me. In heather lands / shall be
called fire water, spirit of the devil,
but in Christendom men shall call
me a good creature of Cod" All
hell resounds with a shout, and Satan
exclaIms-"Come up hither, and take
a seat on the throne till We hear your
name" AS he mounts to the seat the
spirit says aloud, my name is Alco-
hol!" and, the name shall be shouted
in every part of hell, and the cry be
raised, GO forth, and the benson OF
the pit go with you"
Have Had Their Work For Nothing.
The following striking extract from
the Liberal Advocate, organ OF the
liquor forces, published at Columbus.
Ohio, in one of it's issues, should
certainly set those temperance people
to thinking who imagine local option
will settle the liquor question:
when all has been said n done,
it Wilt must-become apparent to
even the most narrow-minded OF
those long-whiskered bucolics that
they have had their work for nothing,
When the campaign has been finished.
the most they will be able to point tc
as a result of all the froth and fury
of their fanatical campaign will be
in the neighborhood of 1000 out OF
10000 saloons in Ohio closed. The
remaining 5000 will continue to dc
business at the old stand. There are
nine counties in Ohio which have
voted wet. So it will be seen that
those who have a Lucas and e Frank.
lin-in which the arm of the fanatic
is impotent, and there are others OF
the remaining two score or so which
will remain wet. So 1t will be seen
that those who have a desire for alco'
holic drinks or stimulants Especially
by the aid of express ~companies) will
be able to procure them"
Converted.
when I took charge Of the North
Dakota Penitentiary I was not a Pro-
h%ibitionist. But I want to say to you
delegates Of this congress that after
being in Office two years in a State
where prohibition is in force, II | nag
my say 1 would not only prohibit the
manufacture of intoxicating liquor.
but I would absolutely prohibit It's
importation into this country. l am
convinced that ninety per cent. OF
the crime of this country>is due either
directly or indirectly to intoxicating