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Show OH! THE PiTY OF HI We are fully aware of th fact ! that it is impossible to exaggerate ! the horrors and the extent of tli , misery produced in the homes of, a large proportion of the pe-iple by j this drink habit; we know that we j can not fully estimate the loss and j injury that the comm.inity sutler t on account of its awful tax on the! resources of labor; nor can we fathom all the crime and degradation degrada-tion that is the direct outcome of this terrible appetite for strong drin k. So amount of regret can atone for the wail of a mother's awful agony over her lost son, no amount of good intentions will compensate the wife of a drunken husband, no tears of anguish or even real repentance will ever re pair the broken hearts or stitlo the ; cries of homeless, starving children j who have been made worse than fatherless by the toleration, and j even protection, that the lit nor trailic has obtained through votes. Eternity alone will reveal all the horrors that this traffic in alcoholic, poisons has produced. But that the people should tamely and willingly tolerate these atrocious atro-cious outrages is a fact that challenges chal-lenges credulity and shook s our moral sense, From ' What Does Conscience Say?" in Pemorest's Magazine for April. |