The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-22
THE CURSE OF THE DEMON RUM

THE CURSE OF THE DEMON RUM
How DR.. VIM. F. Biederwolf (who
Sunday night closed the greatest re-
vival in Greensboro history views
the saloon and its attending evils is
told in the following account, being
his farewell Sermon
Look here, l'll tell you what's the
matter. lt's the damnable. hell
soaked saloon business that's at the
bottom of it,
The evangelist said the liquor
traffic IS 1.-The most fendIsh, corrupt
and hell-soaked institution that ever
crawled out of the slime of the in
fernal pit. Like a red-handed as
sass n it has gone through this land
dragging our dear ones from our very
affairs to, leave them dying, dead and
unburied by the Wayside. Line a
body and >oul-destroying ogre it has
haunted the hearths of rich and poor
alike, gorged itself in unsatiabl
thirst on the warm blood Of its vic
Tins, dug for them every year U.s.,
600 graves and sent as many souls
unshrived to the judgment bar of
God.'
He said the saloon IN the first
place damns society in general, and
that it is a. cancer eating out OF the
very vitals of the body polite. He
said it is the source of so per cent of
our poverty, and that every year
the nation has been spending an
even billion dollars for strong drink.
Converted into silver dollars and
laid flat one upon another it would
make d shining mountain 1884
miles high, and this money, if spent
for bread, would buy leaves enough
to make a pavement nearly three
feet wide and reaching 400 times
around the globe at the equator.
Two hundred thousand children are
thrown by this incarnate flen1 of
he'll, helpless on the world every
We IT, and for every five of them you
can throw in the sad tace 81 a drunk
ards widow. You talk about
poverty. A richer country Gods
sun never shone down upon. Then
what's the matter?
In the second tlace the speaker
said the saloon damns the CONNER
cial and industrial side of COM
munity's life. He said the saloon
gang tell four lies, one being that
the saloon increases the population
OF the town and that if driven out
the commercial interests will be hurt;
that lot OF men will 60 unemployed
and that the saloons are needed to
reduce the taxes.
DR.. BiederWolt said in the third
place that the saloon damages the
individual, body, mind and soul,
paralyZes the nerves, Weakens the
muscles, Ccrrupts the blood, inflames
the mucous membrane Of the
stomach, ulcerates the kidneys,
stupefies the liver, produces fatty
degeneration and bloats the hole
physical system, besides impa!ring
the brain, expelIlng reason, drown
ing memory, undermining the insti-
tutions and at last transforming the
wretch who sticks to his bottle into
senseless, jabbering idiot. Worse
than that it takes the mothers
precious, promising boy, robs him
of every sCintIla of deCencv and
manhood and Transforms him into a
profane, worthless, degraded, de-
bauched drunken sot.
IF would 10 in IS minutes to a
young man what the saloon does in
as many years, The whole neighbour
hood would rise up and hang ME to
the nearest !amppost. Here is a
splendid young fellow calling lao
out of the audience to the PLATFORM
What promise he has for the future.
Now am going to work on him
with some sort of black art, some
magic and will make out of him in
few minutes what the saloon does
in as many years. | will begin by
poisoning his blood; Will tai,,t his
whole system, ruin his stomach
disfigure his face and detilahls W hole
body with disease, viii now lr