The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-09-18

reason be found for the use of intoxi-
eating drinks? Rather ask, is not the
practice to be condemned from the first
glass to the last debauch; if the appar-
ent innocence and pleasure of their
moderate use do not work like a hidden
and artfully-devised trap to catch and
destroy with satanic cruelty those who
were taken. What delusion has seized
man, who will claim that an inflama-
bic chemical compound, like alcohol, is
one of Gods gifts for ordinary use.
Self-deceived they are in the eXtremel
Call liquor by what name you please,
it is alcohol that gives them their power,
and men drink them for the stimulating
effects that are produced. The best
medical men in the world class it as
poison.
Is the Bible, by every sort of implica-
ton, to be pressed into the service of
Intoxicating liquors? And all this when
it is so full of denunciation upon drink
ing and drunkenness? 1t is astounding
that some Christian men of respecta-
bility defend its use; that distinguished
civilians fall into drunkenness; and so
many others are feeding an appetite
that may very soon assert its uncontrol-
able power. What good has it ever
done? What depth of misery that can
be sounded. by the imagination of man,
has not produced? Bible principles sus-
tain these facts as presented.
What Is proper and right for US to
use, is shown from its nature and the
effects of its use. If in its nature it is
injurious, or If its continued use proves
injurious, it is our duty to discard it.
This is the principle of Gospel tenn
perance.
Gospel temperance protects. but it
does not compromise with social pleas
ure or convivial enjoyment. 1t does not
yield to the qualification of an abnormal,
diseased appetite. The fruit of the
vine in its native and unfermented state
is Gods gift and fit for our use. 1t
does not disorder mind or body.
Strange that it should require so much
effort to convince me that it is best to
put away this greatest world curse.
We have law sufficient for all ages and
countries. all times and places; a law
which affords ample protection and per
feet safety, and places its enforcement
upon ourselves. 1t is the divine law of
Gospel temperance
The liquor traffic in all its various
phases of dis.illing, brewing. selling,
etc, is spoken of by their organs as
the trade" When you drink it
You trade thrift for thriftlessness;
you trade competence for poverty;
you trade a happy wife for a miserable
one; you trade Ia useful life for a use
less one; you trade honor for dishonor;
you trade home for vagrancy; you trade
happiness for Indebtedness; you trade
a clear brain for an added one;ssyou
trade strength for weakness, you trade
health for disease; YOU trade normal
children for defcients. Yes, it is a
trade-a horrible one"
Citizens of Garrett county will you
keep this trade. or will you abolish il?
Can YOU afford to allow it to carry on
its awful work in your midst. Stand
for the right and resolve that you will
never cease your efforts until you have
driven this hideous evil out of your
county and State.
1t will pay better to give the boys
chance than TO give the saloon full
swing at their destruction.
Let US try it. 1t is worth the effort.
T NJ FRANCE.