Year: 1874

iniquIty, with their painted windows and
screened doors, on both sides of our


streets by means of which to entice


away our boys, and lead them to destruc-


ton? and then when the demon of appe-,


tite has taken hold of them and the God


given will has been crushed--when they


are no longer able to govern thems Ives,


then turn them over to the cruel mercles


of the law. Yes, but some one says, we


hold men responsible if they do this


How hold men responsible If the drug


gist or physician has administered poison


to my child and killed him, must l hold


him responsible? Can he bring back my


child again Can he cause the flush OF


intelligence to beam upon that dead face


as it did in days of yore? When the
boy has gone from my household; when


his brain has become crazed with strong
drink, (Which would not have been done
had you not put your legal dram shops


upon the streets); when his intellect is
gone, his purposes and prospects are
blasted, can you restore that boy to me





was upon his cheek? No, you cannot.
There is no power in heaven or earth to
restore to me what | have lost and make
me as l was Can few dollars which
might be obtained after a sluggish pro-
cess at law compensate that broken
hearted wife for the sleepless hours she
has spent, the pangs she has suffered, the
desolation that has come over her home,
the bright prospects of girlhood wrecked,
= -drunkard's nature and drunkards
shame fastened upon innocent children 7
you who have pleasant homes, faithful
wife and fond children, tell me for how
much money would you barter all these
away? Talk of compensation in money
to such woman, such family such a
desolate home. All the gold of Ophir and
the cattle upon a thousand hills could
not be an equivalent. Could the pangs
of remorse fierce as ten furies, terrible
as helr' be visited upon the man who
could do all this wrong it would be no
compensation. Society in such case is
a robber 1t has robbed me of my child
rem; it has robbed me of an affectionate
husband; it has robbed these children of
a kind father and happy home; it has
robbed the State of good citizen; it has
robbed heaven of glorious inmate, "for
no drunkard hath eternal life in him. "
Not only is the community which will do
such things robber but the men who
stand by with their hands in their pock-
cts and permit the thing to be done, are
privyj to the theft, and the law of God
will hold them responsible. All honor,
then, say, to the 1873 men in jackson
county, who are willing to bare their
bosoms TO the blast, and save their child
rem from the legal crime which was
sought to be thrust upon them by soul
less politicians of the State, who worship
no God but success, and all pity and
sympathy. and kindness for the l00l per-
sons in this county whose vision was so
obscured they saw men as trees walk
ing" who meant to do good (most of
them hope), but really did evil; who
supposed they were shutting in the food,
when in reality they were lifting the
gates which in little time would have
sent vast deluge of crime all over our
land. May your teachers in Church and
State be SO vigilant; may your editors
who influence men through the press
may the earnest Sunday-school workers
of your county may all the educators of
the public do their work henceforth so
carefully and so thoroughly, that if in the
future we shall be called upon to cast an
other vote upon this question, these 1901
persons shall have been so taught by the
Aquilas and Priscillas of the land, that
the scales shall have fallen from their
eyes, and they be able to see more clear
ly than before, the way of the Lord.


1 appeal to you, then, as you love the
community in which you live; as you love
the commonwealth of which you are a
citizen, and which has lately saved you
from the curse of legalized crime as
you love the nation to which you belong,
and whose flag is honored wherever-the
sun shines; as you love those things
which make for its peace, virtue, and
prosperity; as you love everything which
purifes, ennobles and elevates man, and
hate everything vicious and degrading;
as you love the church of your choice,
whose help you expect to reap
everlasting life; as you love the child
upon your knee, innocent, artless, a
lump of possibilities, with powers yet to
be developed which shall make it an
angel or a devil as you love your God,
and everything God-like, 1 beseech you
care for the children. OF all the inter-
ests with which you have to deal, they
are the most important. Our politicians
are spending their breath and their ink,
prating about third terms, about salaries,
of territories, civil rights, fnan-
ces, custom houses, and a thousand other
interests, but what are all these,
as they may be in themselves,
with the present and final des-
tiny of 10,000,000 human beings. Take
care of these children, and they will
settle all these other interests. Those
things can be best adjusted by adjusting
them through your children. So teach
them, that when you are in the silent grave,
the good work you have begun shall becar-
ried on through them. If you have de-
frauded them of their just rights, remem-
Der there is law above and beyond civil
law, an eye that sees when and
where the eye of the policeman can not