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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1882)
•OHT1IST1AN 11 Kit AT.b X X the more outspoken one said, ‘‘Mad liibited below hvere captured by the must drown the old cat, then they am, we have a license to sell li ‘ Society for the Prevention ot cru will not have to take care of the Licensed to Ruin. _ quor, and we can’t promise any elty to Children,’ from inhuman kittens.” The old gentleman sadly shook Then her I arent«, and were actually used by It was a quiet little village, and thing of the kind.” his head and hurried away to take you would have thought, when bursting heart broke forth and she them to inflict torture on their a South-End car. He owned a Underneath passing th no ugh it, that nene, fo its said : “ License for what I License helpless children.’ block of stores and let one of them inhabitants ever had a thought o.f •i to take the bread from the wife and were a dozen or-mOTcr-photograpbs for a corner rum hole.— Ex. care or sorrow ; but right in thé childr^n’s mouth ’ License to fit of the “ little innocents” who had heart of that village a sad tragedy our souls for hell • License to been rescued »by the society’ from A Whis'ky Panic. was once enacted. The life of two make beasts of God s noblest work • their unnatural protectors, with a There is some well founded good women was cursed out. Once License to drag a _whole family short printed history of each case of cruelty. But the strangest (?) i ’ down to the grave ! Oh, you cow alarm among the liqiror manufac riches were theirs; the husband part of it was that they all read ards, remember there is a day of turers aver the prospects Of a whis and father had been one of the tore nearly alike, something like this: reckoning coming, when your li key panic. Since the temperance most in that little village ; he had “ Maggie Burns, aged eleven years, censes shall be turned into fetters. ” victory in Iowa, these fellows have held all the public offices that the • (>eopLe could give him, and com But *she soon found that nothing scarred with a hot poker by tier n*ot been so insolent in their blasts, manded the greatest part of the pa could turn their stony hearts; so drunken mother.- “ John Edwards, nor so certain of the permaner.ee of tronage of the neighborhood in bis lonely, heartsick, and tired of her aged nine years, ribs crushed by an their grasp upon the American business as a merchant.*" llis name weary life, she went Jion.c, to be inhuman father jumping on him purse strings^ They have tried to was honored and be was looked up met by-the drunken husband with while in a beastlystaUr of intoxiea- laugh down prohibition as a failure, to by every one who knew him. worse abuse than ever; for he had tion.” And so on through the to no effect. They have claimed whole series—“ drunken father or agitation as a source of profit as Children played around his knee, learned of her business abroa I. '-'r long as they cm consistently. They -and the happy mother-ruled thé -■ That night, she-lay down on her drunken mother.” bed .never, to get up again. In the “ How.atrocious !” sighed a lady have squandered large sums < f household with a loving Ira nd and a morning she was dead ; a black in the crow d. “ How-i-ble!” lisped money in the conflicts that have happy heart. Peace and prosperity i ring was around Jier neck ; some a dandy.. ; “ ¡Cannot something be been waged, and met only with de were theiis until the demon drink, like a wily serpent, set its fangs one said she um'd have been chok done to’¡-top such Cruelty ?” askfeu feat. The manufacture of their deep in the soul of the huAayuch ed to death The bus bund was ar- a venerable old gentleman. A good wares is increasing, the demand is and be would not rid himsel' of it. . re.-ted, tried, »and found nut (jtlillif. natured, verdant looking individual weakening and now some of the He saw his business pass out of his j The proprietors of the .different who had been quietly gazing in at wiser ones of them am beginning to hands without one sign <»f emutmn— giogishops' wcie hi:» principal wit the window, eyed the old.man from tremble at the probability of à Their little children were growing nesses, and they swore that be was bead to foot, and finally answered.: whisky panic. fad, and soon they were able to go in one of their saloons all night.» “ That reminds me of an old cat J A leading distiller in this State If we Could have looked behind used, to lfave at home. ’.Every few has published a letter on the de out i to earn ther - own living. ° One daughter alone remained, and she the scenes, and visited that little months she would bi'ing into the cline of the whisky traffic which is and het mother tried to • brave it village a short time afterwards, .we house a litter of kittens (pretty" veiy sugg» stive, and coming from all; and what little they could would have understood why the kittens), and then I would have to that side of the question it certain save from going to the grog-shop home of the once happy family had take them down to the river and ly does not over-estimate the they made do for their living, The passed under the hammer, and why drown them. It got' to be monot achievements of the temperance husband did nothing but abuse his the escaped criminal was so poor onous—a nuisance. Mv children movement. He has seen the hand wife and daughter with foul lan-: while the landlords were so much called me cruel; my wife said 1 writing on the wall and read its in guage, and at la-4 resorted to blows better off. Yes, tlie landlords’ tes- was inhuman. But 1 could -better terpretation. There are (lie hun and in a drunken lit struck hi-» tim< ny had been brought; they afford to have a kitten aquarium dred and fifty million galkns of daughter a blow on the forehead bought their licenses , to make that a cat hospital. One time surplus whisky in the United which felled her to the floor, and thieves and liars of g<>od me n. so while going on my regular topr to States now. Treating’of the cause from which she never fully recover they felt no conscience pangs in the river 1 met a neighbor, who in of this, he says': “It is a hard and ed, but in a few years died—from lying for money themselves. quired what I was< doing. Upon stubborn fact that Jess whisky is <>b, the curse of drink ! Will nothing but her father’s brutal telling him, and also my frequent urank or consumed- in the United men continue to grow rich out of treatment of her soul and body. •troubles that way, he asked : ‘Whv States in 1882, with 50,000,000 of their fellow men ’ s sin, and t I jq law The poor heart-broken wife don’t you drown the old cat ?’ 1 people than there was thirty years not- stretch out a hand to save? tin,tight the death of their only went home, captured the old beast, ago, with only 25,000,000 of people. ; Euod men smn bad men ’ s licenses. daughter might work a reform in and putting a stone around hei There are- two cruses for the de her husband; but no, he drank as Are not the good men helpers to-- neck, soon put a quietus on all crease of consumption of whisky. badly'as ever. She found that she i wards this great crime ?—A unt further worry. Strange I did not ! The first is, that beef is coming to could not live with him unless H ope , in Church and Ifoine. think of that way before. So it is be universally diank by imbibers. there was some change. She talk with this trouble. You can’t drown Béer is thé worst enemy whisky A Good Reply. ed to him patiently and quietly in the worthless parents, but you can has to face in the United »States to his sober moments, but the free use Passing up Washington street drown on; those corner groceries day. The second cause is that the of liquors had made a brute of him, the other day, I was attracted by a where they buy the viie poison that class of people who usêd to consume so he laughed at her pleadings. large concourse of people before a takes away their very nature and the most whisky now consumes the She then bethought herself of ask show window, in which was dis causes all the misery. This society least. L mean the farmers. Thirty ing for mercy from the different played a motley collection of cruel is a grand institution,conducted by years ago a farmer could buy a bar men who kept the grog-shops, weapons .consisting of clubs, sharp- kind-hearted men and women, but rel of whisky for less money than praying them uot to let her hus pointed sticks, knotted robes, an •they can t stop this evil by provid town people now pay for a barrel band have any more intoxicoting old frying pan—in fact almost ev ing comfortable homes for the help of cider. Thirty years ago had the liquors. The more deceitful ones ery instrument of petty torture a less children any more than they question of prohibition been sub promised to do as she wished, but cruel mind eould invent. Over can stop the flow of the ihighty mitted to them, nine farmers out of said so with a low chuckle and a these articles was a placard some Mississippi by putting a Virginia ten would have voted against it. wicked gleam in their eyes, while thing like this: “ The articles cx- I fence rail across the mouth ! They j Now, nine farmers in ten will vote Temperance Department. l -i