Pocahontas star herald., 1915-03-26


you win have hundreds Of thousands
more heart broken cast outs. Faith,
ers aud mothers with bowed head,
Fastening TO premature graves,
Brokeuue9rted mothers bending
over the washtub endeavoung {,
sustain life for self and neglected
street waits. Did you ever VISIT tn,
ails, enitentiaries, the insau,
asylums, and strong cells behiaC
whose bars are criminals doomed
TO death. Did you ever think thAi
these hardened criminals were one,
some father and mothers baby boJ
or girl and fond parents as you OF
I have fondled them on this parent
al knee and oaressed them as only
parent can and with fond hope and
expectations wonder in their loving
hearts what will my precious boy OF
girl BE-. But alas! what are they
now, aud 90 per cent caused by the
dread monster rum. OF the mul.
tiplied millions Of dollars wasted
by It. The indesoribible misery,
woe OF broken hearted women and
children, the multiplied hundreds
Of thousands Of children yet unborn
who will inherit the habit from
fathers and forefathers and go down
to drunkards graves because Of
their fathers sins. Its too awful TO
think Of. Kind reader did you
ever think that il you vote for It or
encourage 1t in any way that you
become a party to all the vice and
crime that is entailed by it? You are
Just the same.
Some will say, Oh, will never
let it ooutrole me, | have too much
will power. Did you not know
that ali the teeming millions that
have gone down through just as
you do when they started but II
got them and il will get you Just
the same. You are no exception.
Yes every man that votes for or en-
courages it is guilty Of a great NOR
al crime.
Some years ag) there was a vic
tim Of the drink habit. who was
tried for his life for the murder of
his wife and child. He was con
victed Of murder and when the
court prepared to pass the death
sentence he asked the criminal il he
had anything to say before passing
the sentence? To which he replied
that he did aud after partsaying to
the court, jury, lawyers and speota-
tors the awfulness of his crime
admitting that he loved his wife
and inooent child better than his
own life and that he deserved more
than the death sentence. lie SAID,
81 am not altogether to blame /
moved out on a fran for one year
away from the Temptations Of the sa'
loon and while there we lived as
happy as could be. Afterwards
moved back to town. Then the
election came on and you the court,
you the lawyers, you the jury. as
we'll as many others, voted for sa.
looms. The temptation and that
awful craving APPETITE acquired
years before overcane me. l was
crazed with drink which caused me
to commit the awful crime for
which ! must pay the death penalty
and you gentlemen are equally
guilty with me morally by making
it possible for me to get the dam
liable poison" Kind readers how
many unrecked lives and ruined
homes have you known in the little
circle of your acquaintance. Hun
deds and hundreds of them, have
and so have you, then compare our
little acquaintance with the balance
Of the world and ITS only as a grain
OF sand on the sea shore In com.
parison. Awful, awful in tbs ex.
treme: "And yet the halt has new
er been told" Everything to be
lost and nothing whatever to be
gained. But some will say that
we need it as a medicine. How