Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-11-18

goes out. Social life in Ameri-
ca is such that the man with a
weakness for alcohol has ire
mendous battle to fight, and in
most instances is the loser. At
some time in his life, / know not
when, he tasted the poison and
later found the Scriptures true,
AT last it biteth like a serpent
and stingeth like an adder" The
habit once contracted, it's effect
felt, his viii power weakened, it
got beyond his control until the
finished product, the legitimate
fruit Of the American saloon. lies
"a helpless, pitiabIe corpse before
gs. a woman has been made q.
widow, three children made or
I phans, because the liquor traffic.
z pays revenue, and some men will
sell il regardless Of the Widows
cry and the orphans wall
Some one is saying, 'IIe ought
20 have let it alone when he saw
he could not control it. @ yes,
how easy to say that and how lit
tie it means. That strong man
who boasts that he can take it
or let It alone, usually takes it,
and sooner or later becomes q
4 hopeless wreck himself. Anoth-
er says, "Let whiskey alone and
il vail let you alone.a This is
another assestion as false as
Satan himself. These Innocent
children let it alone, but it did
not let them alone. This heart
broken widow let it alone, but
E}t dId not, it would not let her
alone Either directly of indi-
rectiy this horrible monster, the
liQaor traffic, has hts satanic
clutches around the throat of
every man, woman and child in.
CUR fair land.
Want to say here that to my
personal knowledge Clyde Iiller
d49 maAe o struggle, and d brave
one, 10 stem the tide and free
himself from the manacles that
bound him hand and foot. When
he would go to work iii The hope
eilat ne was victor, Oh his way
% tie shop his nostrils were
greeted with the stencil 5f the
foul poison; boon companions
were ready to lure him away
from all his good resolutions
mon were ready to take his last
SlcsSel and sell it to him regard
less of the protests of his inno-
cent wife every fiber ofhis being
was crying out for alcohol. He
fell time and again only to ret
aD and make q brief struggle
ana tstil again, s.siSii, a hopeless
helpiess wanderer, away from
home and friends, the tired body
lay down to sleen the dreamless
sleep. Such is the future of the
awful tragedy, Of one human
life But ne make in this coun-
try 100000 drankards' graves 4
year, 2'77 each day. Dllying
TINS funeral hour Ii other Of our
fellow citizens will go III the
same way, and thus the, nlisefa
bic work goes on from year t9i
year.
Clyde sought the conlIQ l
help OF religion. He had d g9 I'll
Gus nature, ! have prayed N I'll
him in my own home, and Wit
messed with .profoundest pity
MS homeless struggle.
MY predecessor, Rev. j. b.
Workman, told me he neverI
worked rs hard to save 3 man
Is he did to save Clyde Liller.
But the miserable grog shop
with its doors always open was
sufficiently powerful to oyerbal-
aace any influence for good, and
thus The task of saving him un-
der the present conditions had
to oe abandoned. He tried work
ing in a dry town, but the ma
tlonal government itself, is inI
the miserable liquor business
and for the small pittance Of
SD will give a man federal Ii
cense, and shield him from fed
eral prosecution if he violates
the law of the state in which he'll
sells. Then when a poor drunk
ard wants to free himself from
his slayish chains he NAV 90
from Maine to California, from
the gulf to the lakes, and on
every foot of territory over
which old glory waves her proud
folds, he is bounded and hunted
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