Show TEMPERANCE I BY MISS C S BOB1TETT SAN FRANCISCO Gal July 9 1888 Headers of THE HERALD I am now in beautiful but wine cursed California the only State in the Union that has no Sunday The legislature persistently refuses to protect pro-tect Christian people or throw any restrictions re-strictions about the day How unlike our quiet Salt Lake Sabbath Sab-bath 1 And the city is cursed with other open dens of vice besides the saloon I am about ready to believe the city deserves the reputation it has gained of being the wickedest city in the world Last week I attended a Temperance Conference at Pacific Grow This is the famous seaside resort of the Pacific Unlike the rest of the State it is free from saloons and enjoys a quiet Sabbath Sab-bath I found grand men and women here The cry of each seemed to be for home protection Is it not strange that poluHans can get up so much life and cry about protection for industries indus-tries but give not a thought to protection pro-tection from tnat which destroys the good effects of all industry Close the saloons and let the poor laborer save his money low as is his wages and poverty would almost cease The fact Is not that men earn too little but they spend too much for that which only rums I have engaged to lecture here for the Womans Christian Temperance Union commencing at the close of the National Educational Association The field is ripe for the harvest but the laborers are few Californians never do things by halves and they tight the liquor traffic with the same zeal another post defends it The contest here is to be a bitter one and a long one Twentyfive million mil-lion gallons of wine will be made this year This is a powerful factor in the solution of this vexed question Well the money invested in slaves did not prevent the overthrow of the system Neither will it do so now Conscience will sometime assert itself B Christianity and the Temperance Question Has Christianity power to save Christendom Chris-tendom Unless it has it is folly to expect ex-pect it to save the heathen world Christianity cannot save our own nation na-tion the first in the world in intelligence intelli-gence with 215000 ope l saloons plying their work of death and damnation There are many who wonder why we cannot have old time revivals The Lord cannot bless a church whose hands are dyed red in the stain of rum A church cannot prosper whose i pastor preaches loudly on Sunday and i prays Thy kingdom come then votes for rum on the Tuesday following and this is just what the majority of our ministers are doing A Licensed Murderer The way liquor digs the grave of genius is fully set forth in the following lines from the Issue The grave Cf Tom Marshall one of Kentuckys greatest orators is in open field near Versailles It is uncared for and only a small slab at the head of the grave tells the stranger who lies beneath And the same serpent power that stung to death this eagle genius pays the Hate for legal right to billow our soil with myriads of just such neglected graves Shall the slaughter never cease Items WOE unto him that giveth his neighbor neigh-bor drinkHab 215 TilE Texas Prohibition Convention had 200 delegates and nominated a full State ticket ADD faith courage knowledge temperance tem-perance patience Godlikeness charity Sum total A true man ABSTAINERS have nearly a third better chance of life and health than the most respectable class of drinkers and smokers smok-ers ersTHE THE public school education of American Ameri-can children costs 9GOCO000 their public saloon education costs 700000 000 IT is doubtful says the New York Press whether anybody believes more sincerely in high license than the saloonkeeper saloon-keeper who gets it No matter whether one saloon or ten do the work of death the fact remains that high license does not prevent or check the sale of liquor THE Prohibition party stands today far ahead of any other party in this country It is the only party whose purposes arc di Itinct and unmistakable LET us speak out clearly and frankly of what we can do and let alone what we cannot do This is the only honest course and is the surest basis of sound and enduring growth THE smaller saloons are not of worse character than the large ones for toe guilded palaces are only low dives disguised and sugarcoated therefore all the more dangerous CUE energies are bent for Prohibition as the most effective moans of progress against the all controlling political powerthe liquor oligarchy whi < h prevents a just settlement of every other public question THEKK are strong and controling tendencies that are developed in thu Prohibition Partythe party of the future Surely no party can go before the country with a platform and a purpose pur-pose more broad comprehensive or hopeful SENATOR BLAIR says that the Christian Chris-tian ministry and the religious press can not keep silent on a false plea of nonpartisanship while tba Christian men administer wicked license laws and sustain parties that are in alliance with the liquor traffic JUDOS WHITE of Pittsburg Pa has recently published a letter in which he says From thirteen years experience in the criminal court I am thoroughly convinced that there are far more evils resulting from the use of beer in this country than from whisky THE prohibition of the liquor traffic will produce the most thorough revolution revolu-tion in society taxation and government govern-ment the world has ever seen and the pillars for the foundation will be justice peace and prosperity confering bless rugs on all mankind in the fear of God and the love of man INTEMPERANcEby which I mean the use of ardent spirits in any manner at a beverage and tobacco in all its forms as a luxury or habit are evils of such enormity that they may be said to embrace em-brace all others they are certainly un like all others they wound wherever man is vulnerable THE millions of working men who like the millions of Prohibitionists have been asking in vain for the reform that the age demands are steadily falling fall-ing into line anv standing with us shoulder to shoulder The army thus composed will tread down the pestilent saloons and also correct the existing abuses by which capitalists are favored and laborers oppressed GARFIELD said ten years ago The man who attempts to get up political excitement in this country on theold sectional issues will find himself without with-out a party and without support The man who wants to serve his country must put himself in the line of its leading lead-ing thought and that is the restoration of business trade commerce industry sound political economy hard money and honest payment of all obligations and the man who can aid anything in the direction of the accomplishment of any of these purposes is a public benefactor bene-factor Ex Mr Garfield did not include in-clude chean tobacco and a perpetual whisky traffic in the list of his public benefactors IF the Christian Church today would make all other questions subordinate and can control its entire strength and energy towards overthrowing the rum power the work would be done in less than a decade and then her hands would be free to fight Satan in his minor strongholds Our people seem to think the open saloon of little concern to them Our young men are here tempted to vice and crime and so led on by the example of those in high position po-sition yet a warning voice is scarcely raised The work of the church today is to make one united attack by press voice and vote upon the saloon the greatest foe to its progress and the deepest disgrace of the nineteenth century cen-tury So long as Christian nations send out shiploaus of rum with every missionary just so long will little progress be made The people are wise in preferring honest sober Mohamedanism to this kind of Christianity But some one says This rum is not sent out by Christians That may bB but the Christians vote for and thUd sanction the traffic at home and from here it is sent abroad If Confucianism can save China and Mohamedanism can save 200000000 people from drunkenness drunken-ness cannot Christianity save Christendom Christen-dom Yes but in only one wayby total abstinence and total prohibition of all that can intoxicate B ESSE QUAM VIDERI To be rather than to seem was a favorite maxim of the ancients It seems in our day to be almost lost sight of so anxious are men to appear to good advantage before their neighbors The world should be interested more to know what we are than what we do Down deep are the hidden springs of character and almost spontaneously these burst in word and deed To be How much sgnificance in these words They should move us as no others To be what A man a woman To be all God meant we should be the noblest and best of creations myriad wonders To be pure and true in every relation in life The ancients were right Let our motto be Erse quam videri Broken Vows Oh curse this awful appetite for drink I feel that I am standing on the brink Of a precipice with not a friend around To draw me bick to firmer safer ground Oil the thirsting Oh the craving Oh the burning Oh the loathing Oh the loving Oh the spurning Every nerve every vein Throbs with pain But Ive sworn to never touch the stuff again Theres a barroom oer the way Hear the clink Of glasses as the boys step up 19 drink There is something now apulling me that way Hear the laughter Hear the singing All are gay For a moment shall I steo across the atr cf How hilariously would old companions greetShall Shall I go How my brain Throbs with pain But Ive sworn to never touch the stuff again Ah who is that a beckoning to me Tis my little sweetheartnone so fair as she She is waiting now to take the promised walk How I love to see her smile and hear her talk She it was who plucked me from the ragged rag-ged edge She it was who made her lover sign the pledge No more throbbing of the brain Vanish pain I swear Ill never touch the stuff again Hear the bells hear the clanging marriage bells What a tale of hopes and fears doth it tell See the brido see the blushing teirful bride See the proud and happy bridegroom by her side Tis he who cursed his appetite for drink Tis he who stood upon destructions brink Every nerve every vein Racked with pain Tis he who swore to never drink again See the tearssee the bitter scalding tears See the wife see the wile of two short years See the child see the puny starving child Bee the man see the man unkempt and wild See him raise his hand and strike with savage sav-age blow Her whom he swore to love two years ago Hear her beg for life in vain See the stainthe crimson stain She neer wM weep oer broken vows again Bruke Mottin Arkansaw Traveler |