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Show Wbat Intemperance Does. From Woman's Work. It cuts down youth in its vigor, manhood man-hood in its strength aud ago in its weakness. It breaks tho father's heart, bereaves tho doting mother, extinguishes extin-guishes natural affection, destroys com-jugal com-jugal love, blots out lilial attachment, blights parental hope, aud brings down mourning age, iu sorrow, to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength; sickness not health; death, not life. It makes wives widows, children orphans, fathers fiends, aud all ages, paupers and boggers. It covers the land with idleness, idle-ness, poverty, disease.shamc and crime. It tills your jails, supplies your almshouses, alms-houses, and demands your asylums. It engenders controveries, strengthens quariels, breeds riot, crowds our penitentiaries peni-tentiaries and furnishes the victims for our scaffolds. It is the life blood of the gambler, tho aliment of the highwaymen, tho -midnight assassins, and the incendiary, It violates obli- Sations, upholds fraud, honors infamy, efames benevolence, hates love, scorns virtue, and slanders .innocence. It incites in-cites the father to butcher his hclpuess offspring, tho husband his wife, and tho chilit to grind the patricidal axe. It ruins life, curses Coil, and despises Heaven. It suborns witnesses, nurses perjury, deliles the jury-box and stains judicial ermine. It bribes voters, disqualifies dis-qualifies votes, corrupts elections, pollutes our institutions and endangers our government. It degrades the citizen, citi-zen, debases the legislator, dishonors the statesman, and disarms tho patroit. It brings shame, not honor, terror, not safety, despair, uot hope, misery, not happiness. It does all this, aud more. It murders tho soul; is the curse of curses, the devil's best friend and God's worst enemy. Iowa. James H. Gibson. |