BKYANITES ON SHIPPING THE DEMOCRACY HAS NO PLAN BY WHICH TO BUILD IT UP. Expend* All It* Effort* In Attempt* to Tear Down Always Oppose* ltepub llcan Polley, liut Has Mo Policy of It* Own—Allies or England. The platform utterance of the Demo cratic party regarding American ship ping is a clear index of the inherent inability of that party to construct. It seems only to be able to oppose and denounce the constructive policies of its progressive political opponents. The foreign commerce of the United States is regarded the world over as the most Important of all. To this country come the finest foreign ships. The greatest and most powerful steam ship lines vie with each other for our trade. The largest, the swiftest, the safest and the most luxurious ships that are built are for the carrying of the trade in merchandise, passengers, specie and mails from and to the United States. But eight per cent, of our foreign trade is carried in American ships. Foreign ships carry ninety-two per cent. Tills carrying is worth fully $200,000,000 each year. All but eight per cent, of it goes out of the pockets of American producers and consumers for paying foreigners for doing our for eign carrying. Not only does it go out of our people's pockets, but it goes out of the country. It goes abroad and is there used to pay for the building and running of foreign ships. It gives the employment to foreigners that the carrying of our foreign commerce creates. People ask. Why Is this? The an swer is simple. Foreign ships are built more cheaply than American ships. This, however, is a disadvan tage that could in time be overcome if the shipbuilding industry were put on a basis of permanency. If a steady and large demand were created for our ships soon the cost of their con struction would be reduced to the level of foreign prices. It. is the unsteadi ness, the irregularity, and the uncer tainty of employment in American shipyards that keeps the cost of Amer ican ships from twenty to twenty-five per cent, higher than the cost of for eign built ships. Better food iiti'l more of it is given on American titan on for eign ships. This also create® a disad vantage which the American ship can not easily overcome. Then again wages on shipboard are much higher under the American than under foreign flags. In the cases of officers the wages on American ships are on the average twice as high as they are on foreign ships. Worse than all this, however, for eign governments pay their merchant ships great subsidies and bounties. Great Britain spends about $0,000,000 a year in this way; France spends over $7,000,000 a year. Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia. Austria and Ja pan all give large subsidies to their ships. In all the subsidies and boun ties paid by foreign governments to their ships amount to more than $20,- 000,000 each year. Unaided American ships, it must be clear, cannot profitably compete with foreign ships under the conditions above described. That is why it is that foreign ships have driven Ameri can ships from off the seas. The Re publican party, recognizing the unequal conditions which confront American ships in flic foreign trade, is committed to a policy of subsidizing American" ships in that trade. The amount of the subsidy proposed Is barely enough to enable American ships to compete on terms of equality with foreign ships. This bill Democrats have singled out for denunciation In their national plat form. They "oppose the accumulation of a surplus to be squandered in such bare-faced frauds upon the taxpayers as the Shipping Subsidy bill, which under the false pretense of prospering American shipbuilding would put un earned millions into the pockets of fa vorite contributors to the Republican' campaign fund." The alternative of the Shipping Subsidy bill Is to keep on paying nearly $200,000,000 a year to foreign shipowners whose govern ments, In paying them subsidies, en able them to prevent American ships from competing. Rather than have our Government pay n subsidy to American ships, the Democrats would prefer to have our people send nearly $200,000,000 out of the country each year to build and sustain foreign ships. In their platform the Democrats "es pecially condemn the 111-coucealed Re publican alliance with England." When we remember that Democra cy's platform denunciation of the Ship ping Subsidy bill will nowhere be re ceived with such favor and grnti'ude as in Great Britain, whose command oft h, ai 1 especially of American forei rylng the Democrats would pcrpitnt and which preseut British monop«<y of the passage of that bill would do much to destroy, the Insin cerity and the secret pro-British lean ings of the Democrats are clearly ills cerned. Not a word have the Democrats to utter lu behalf of a policy that would cause the bulldliiK of the ships our for eign commerce employs out of Ameri can material ami with American labor, instead of, as now, their const ruction out of foreign materials by foreign la bor In other countries. No policy is sug gested by I hem they merely denounce the Republican policy that would still Mtitute American for British ami other foreign ships in our foreign trade. Hav ing no plan of their own lo suggeM for building up our shipping 111 the foreign trade, expressing uo regret ut seeing nearly |£io,ooo t uoo annually paid by Americans to fort luti ship owners (chiefly Britishi for carrying our com merce, the Deiuocruts, ou the shlppluix question HI least, pl'oclullU IbcllMulv** tit' allies of b.utfluud. SENATOR HANNA Give* Hl* Opinion of President Mcltln ley'* Administration. The country is to be congratulated that we are to have no change at the head of the Republican ticket In the coming political contest. A favorite saying of McKinley's is that "you can always trust the people." And this is their opportunity to show their appre ciation of his confidence in their judg ment by trusting the management of their affairs for four more years in his liauds. Mutual confidence means suc cess. And the success of the Repub lican party means a continuation of our material development and pros- It y. For a candidate this time the people want a man who has been tried and not found wanting—a man equal to any emergency, one who is broad and liberal enough in ideas to keep abreast of the rapid evolution of nations, while keeping to the policy which contributes most to the inter ests of our own country. A study of the present administra tion during the past three years de cides the question that President Mc- Ivinley tills the ideal as Chief Execu tive. His personality stamps him as a true gentleman and a loyal patriot, the highest type of an American—able, conscientious and devoted to the work which comes to him In the discharge of his public duty. His is a nature in which the elements are so happily blended that, while his able and dig nified public course commands respect, his private life wins sincere affection. Connected as he is with the present happy condition of our country, as the result of an entire Republican adminis tration of Republican principles, there is a feeling of satisfaction and confi dence In the future which will call for his re-nomination and re-election. —M. A. Hanna. Two Coaraes Open. It is safe to predict that the Demo crats on the stump during the present campaign will criticise the course of the administration with reference to the Philippines, but will offer no posi tive line of conduct regarding the same. There are but two courses open: either to pacify, hold, govern, educate and develop; or to abandon, withdraw and allow anarchy to run riot until, in the interests of humanity, some other Power steps in ami takes up the task we are advised to perform. The first course is Republican, the other must be called Democratic. Hryan's Good Work. Content means stagnation, as we see to-day amid the millions of China and the East Indies. So let us not be pre judiced against the great Apostle of Discontent—William J. Bryan. He is doing a great work. Perhaps, the best work he will do will be by his very aggressiveness, by the extreme to which he goes to solidify all the forces of order, all the conservative elements, all the real strength of the country around their chosen leader —William McKinley.—John C. Freund. Democratic Policlen. The Democrats have not ceased from their efforts to reduce the American worklngman to the conditions of Eu ropean labor. They insist that Amer ican goods be carried under a foreign Hag; they oppose expansion, so that the congested centres of population shall have no opportunity to send em igrants to new lauds to build up new homes and new markets for American products. A Pretty Picture. The picture of Tammany preparing an anti-trust plank for the National Democratic Convention, with Tam many office holders under Indictment for forming an lee Trust to oppress the poor of the metropolis, is an ex ample of congealed assurance of such monumental magnitude that the de crepit old party deserves a few tears of sympathy. The Transport of Troop*. According to a statement by the War Department, the Government has spent upwards of $15,000,000 for the transportation by sea of men, animals and supplies to the Philippine Islands. There has been a saving to the (Jov ernment of more than $!),(KH),ooo through owning its own transports. Changeable. In ISO 2 the Democratic platform was for sound money. In 18(10 it was for free silver, in 1000 it seems that the party wishes to put one foot on the platform of ISO 2 and another oil tin* platform ot lKOti, and then In gen eral terms appeal to the "historic dec larations of the party." The scheme is shrewd, but not honest. A Democratic Tank, The Democracy has a big task before it to persuade the American voter that 10 to 1 Is worth more to the country than protection, sound money, pros perity, trade expansion, the honor of the flag and the inevltuhle growth of the great republic, saved by Republi cans ami made prosperous by Repub lican administrations. The Par Capita of Money. On July 1, 181 HI, under the last Dem ocratic administration, the per capita of money lu circulation lu the Uultcd States was $2 1.10, This year, on June 1. It was $20.71 per capita, ail Increase of s.Ylll for every luhabltaut in the country. Tesas for Prosperity. Texas Is a I>lk Stale, and some day It will lie big enough to throw aside Its prejudices and vote with the party that legislates for Its prosperity. Qlllls t It would be emiueutly proper to ad dress tin* present Governor of Kin tucky as His (.outlets. I.lvcly Tl.aes In KiglM. Dick Croker Is coming home to edit Dave 11111. There will be some lively times when Dick takes up the blue pelt ell. • I LABOR AND THE TRUSTS. LARGE COMBINES DO NOT TRY TO LOWER WACES. Wage-Karners and Capitalists Catting Closer Together Every Day steady Employment. More Psj mid Shorter Hours the Itule—Labor Movement. "Down with the trusts" Is one of the slogans of the Democratic party this year, aud its agents will endeavor to capture the laboring man's vote be cause they say that trusts lower the wages of the workers. But what is the truth? Not one single instance can be cited where a large in dustrial institution, employing hun dreds of thousands of people, has at tempted to reduce their wages. Neither can it be shown that a single one of the hundred national and international trade and labor unions of the country is lighting the large combinations. In stead of tighting them, they are getting closer together every day. The grow ing tendency between labor and cap ital has been toward annual confer ences to determine wage scales, hours of work and conditons of employme .. The tendeui v is to employ arbitral.on anil conciliation iu the settlement of differences. This method has long been in vogue between the railways and their employes, with the steel rail makers, with the wire-nail makers, wit h tin plate manufacturers, with the steel beam producers, with the Amal gamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers, with the newspaper publishers, with the employing book and job printers, aud with the Inter national Typographical Union. The more that labor and capital concen trate their interests individually, so much the more are they endeavoring to concentrate their interests collect ively. Large and small labor unions instead of tightiug industrial combina tion, lind It to their interest to join hand in hand with them. There Is no better combination in the United States to-day than the American Federation of Labor. Speaking for the vast army of wage earners employed in the iron, steel and tin industry, Theodore Seliaffer, Pres ident of the Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers, before the Federal Industrial Commission,has declared that the effect of trusts lias been beneficial to them. "As a general rule," he said, he believed that the members of his organization "would prefer to deal with combinations and large corporations rather than with smaller Independent mills." His expe rience was that they always received fair treatment in negotiating with these combinations, and he was certain "they did not prevent competition." Democratic politicians "point with pride" to the fact that there have been more labor disturbances and strikes In the past year or so than in the four years of Democratic admin istration. Why all these strikes, then? The average wage worker never thinks of going oil a strike on a falling market, and certainly not on a falling market under Democratic rule. When business is stagnant and factories are silent, and the laud is full of unem ployed labor, the voice of the agitator is lost in the general murmur of dis tress and there are no strikes, because there is little employment. Every labor organization in the country, be it large or small, for the past two years reports steady employ ment for its full membership,increased pay, shorter working hours and a gen eral improvement in all its conditions. At the eve of President McKinley's re election the whole world is engaged In paying tribute to the wonderful pro ductivity of our farms and factories, telling a marvelous tale of American prosperity, proving conclusively the general distribution of the flood of wealth being poured into this favored land. It N scarcely four years siuce labor in the Cnited States was crying out for work at any price. Its pockets were empty and its children went hungry to bed. These events are significant, because, by their unprecedented intensity, they have called public attention as never before to what is known as "the labor movement." The problem of the rela tions between employer and employed is not of easy or quick solution. The promises of this country, inaugurated by the protective policy of the He publican party when it came into power in ISIHS, were for n restoration of prosperity. This we have had. and now it is to be hoped that good sense and prudence will, through the votes of tli • people, direct its contlu uance. What the Itepubllrana 1)M. The ltcpubltcana are doers rathe* than boasters, aud the party promise is as good as a bond. They promised protection aud prosperity and gave it without burning any red lights or brass bauds. They promised sound money, aud the currency bill was passed, even to the quiet satisfaction of those who opposed It. In the quiet field of diplomacy they |>er*uadfd Kuropc to consent' to mi o|a>n trade door In China, so that after the pres ent Chinese trouble Is over, Without having to play for position or ask for n sphere of Influence, American wheat, Ann i lean cotton, raw and manufactured. American lumber, American Iron and steel, American machinery and a thousand other Amer ican product* will be granted equal rights with the pioducts oi other coun tries. I'm blind. Mr. Tillman persist* in seeing ni> American Kuiporor, but Is unable to see the necessity for uolsiauce to Alltel li an commerce. llepuMleau Free lluines. The booui 111 free homes Iu Oklnhonik la another of the fruits of Hcpublleuu leglsltttlou. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. | SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE Br THE NOTED | DIVINE. Subject: Profligate Literature—Erf I Pub lication* the Greatest Scourge of the World—lt Fills the Prisons and In saue Asylums—Power of the Press. [Oopyrtght IMMJ.I WASHINGTON, D. C.— Dr. Talmage sends the following report of a discourse, which will be helpful to those who have an ap petite for literature and would like some rules to guide thein in the selection of hooks and newspapers; tejt, Acts xix, 19 "Many of them also which used curi ous arts brought their books together and burned them before all men, and they counted the price of them and found it 50,000 pieces of silver." Paul had been stirring up Ephesus with some lively sermons about the sins of that place. Among the more important results was the fact that the citizens brought out their bad books and in a public place made a bonfire of them. I see the people coming out with their arms full of Kphesian liter ature and tossing it into the flames. I hear an economist who is standing by saying "Stop this waste! Here are .$7500 worth of books. Do you propose to burn them all up? If you don t want to read them yourselves, sell them." "Xo-." said the people; "if these books are not good for us, they are not good for anybody else, and we shall stand and watch until the last leaf has burned to ashes. They have done us a world of harm; and they shall never do others harm." Hear the flames crackle and roar! Well, my friends, one of the wants of the cities is a great bonfire of bad books and newspapers. We have enough fuel to make a blaze 200 feet high. Many of the publishing houses would do well to throw into the blaze their entire stock of goods. Bring forth the insufferable trash and put it into the fire and let it be known in the presence of God and angels and men that you are going to rid your homes of the overtopping and underlying course of profligate literature. The printing preen is the mightiest agen cy on earth for good and for evil. The , minister of the gospel standing in the I pulpit has a responsible position, but I j do not think it is as responsible as the I position of an editor or a publisher. At | what distant point of time, at what far | out cycle of eternity, will cease the in fluence of Henry.l. Raymond or a Hor ace Greeley, or a James Gordon Bennett, or a Watson Webb, or an Krastus. Brooks, or a Thomas Kinsella? Take the over whelming statistics of the circulation of the oaily and weekly newspapers and then cipher, if you can. how far up and how far down and how far out reach the influ : enees of the American printing presses. | What is to be the issue of all this? 1 I believe the Lord intends the printing j press to be the chief means for the world's ! rescue and evangelization, and I think , that the great last battle of the world ! will not be fought with swords and guns, i but with types and presses, a purified and gospel literature triumphing over, tramp ! ling down and crushing out forever that which is depraved. The only way to | overcome unclean literature is by scatter ing abroad that which is healthful. May God speed the cylinders of an honest, in- I telligent, aggressive Christian printing press! I have to tell you that the greatest bless ing that ever came to the nations is that I of an elevated literature, and the great est scourge has been that of unclean liter ature. This last has its victims in all occupations and departments. It has helped to fill insane asylums and pene tentiarics and almshouses and dens of shame. The bodies of this infection lie in the hospitals and in the graves, while their souls are being tossed over into a lost eternity! The Loudon plague was nothing to it. That counted its victims bv thousands, but this modern pest has al ready shoveled its millions into the car nal house of the morally dead. The long est train that ever ran over the tracks was not long enough or large enough to carry the beastliness and the putrefaction which have been gathered up ill bad books and newspapers in the last twenty years. Now. it is amid such circumstances that 1 put a question of overmastering impor tance to yon and your families. What books anil newspaoers shall we read? You see I group them together. A news paper is only a book in a swifter and more portable shape, and the same rules which apply to book reading will apply to newspaper reading. What shall we read? Shall our minds be the receptacle of everything that an author has a mind to write? Shall there be no distinction be tween the tree of life and the tree of death? Miall we stoop down and dring out of the trough which the wickedness of men has filled with pollution and shame? Shall we mire in impurity and chase fan tastic will-o'-the-wisps across the swamps when we might walk in the blooming gardens of God? Oh, no! For the sake of our present and everlasting welfare we must make an intelligent and Christian choice. Standing, as we do, in chin-deep ficti tious literature, the question that voung people are asking is, "Shall we read nov els? ' 1 reolv there are novels that are pure, good, Christian, elevating to the heart and enobling to the life, but I have still further to say that I believe that seventy-five out of 100 novels in this day are baleful and destructive to tin- last degree. A pure work of fiction is history and poetry combined. It is a history of things around us, with the licenses aud the assumed names of poetry. The world can never pay the debt which it owes to such writers of fiction as Hawthorne and M.K enzie and Lamlon aud Hunt and Arthur and others whose names are famil iar to all. The follies of high life were never better exposed than by Miss Edge worth; themcmoncsof the past werencver more faithfully embalmed than in the writ ings of Walter Scott. Cooper's novels are healthfully redolent with the breath of the seaweed and the air of the American forest. Charles Kiiigslev has smitten the morbidity ot the world and led a great many to appreciate the poetry of sound health, strong muscles and fresh air. Thackeray did a grand work in caricatur ing the pretenders to gentility and high blood. Dickens has bunt his own monu ment in Ins books, which are a plea for the poor aud the anathema of injustice, aud there are a score of novelistic nens to-day doing mighty work for Cod mid righteous ness. Now, 1 say, hooka like these, read at right times and read iu right Proportion with other books, cannot help nut lie en nobling and purifying, but, alas, for the loathsome and impure literature that has come ill the shape of novels like a freshet overflowing all the banks of decency and common sense! They are coming from aomc of the most celebrated publishing houses; they lie ou your centre table to curse your children mid blast with their infernal tires generations unborn. You find these books in the desk of the school luiss, 111 the trunk of the young man, in the steamboat cabin, ou the table of the hotel reception room. You ace a light in your child's room late at night. You suddenly go in ami say, "What are you doing? ' I am reading." "What are you reading?" "A liisik " "Where dill you gel it?" "I borrowed It." Alas, there are always thost abroad who would like to loan your sou or daughter a bad book' Everywhere, every where, all unclean literature! I clutrgc upon it the destruction of lO.OOU immortal touts, aud I bid you wake up to the magiii tuile of the evil 1 charge >ou. in the first place, to stand aloof from all Itooks that give false pictures of life Life Is neither a tragedy nor a farce. Men are not all either knaves oi heroes. Women are neither augela nor furies And yet, if you depeuded U|sin much of the literature of the day, you would get the idea that life, instead of he ing something earnest, something practi cal, in » fitful and fantastic and extrava gant thing. How poorly prepared are that young man and woman for the du ties of to-dav who spent last night wading through brilliant passages descriptive of magnificent knavery and wickedness! The • man will be looking all day long for his i heroine, in the office, by the forge, in the factory, in the counting room, and he will not find her, and he will be dissatisfied. A man who gives himself up to the indis criminate reading of novels will be nerve less. inane and a nuisance. He will be fit neither for the store, nor the shop, nor the (icld. A woman who gives herself up to the indiscriminate reading of novels will be unfitted for the duties of wife, mother, sister, daughter. There she is, hair dis heveled, countenance vacant, cheeks pale, hands trembling, bursting into tears at midnight over the fate of some unfortu nate lover; in the daytime, when she ought to busy, staring by the half hour at nothing; biting her linger nails into the Quick. The carpet lliat was plain before will be plainer after having wandered through a romance all night long in tessel lated halls of castles. And your indus trious companion will be more unattrac tive than ever, now that you have walked in the romance through parks with plumed princesses, or lounged in the arbor with polished desperado. Oh, these con firmed noy-1 readers! They are unfitted for this life, which is a tremendous dis cipline. They know not how togo through the furnaces of trial through which they must pass, and they are un fitted for a world where everything we pain we achieve by hard and long continu ing work. Again, abstain from all those books which, while they have some good things, have also an admixture of evil. You have read books that had two elements in them—the good and the bad. Which struck you? The bad. The heart of most people is like a sieve which lets the small particles of gold fall through, but keeps the great cinders. Once in awhile there is a nund like a loadstone which, plunged amid steel and brass fillings, gathers up the steel and repels the brass. But it is generally exactly the opposite. If you attempt to plunge through a hedge " of burs to get one blackberry, you will get more burs than blackberries. You cannot, afford to read a bad book, however good you arc. You say, "The influence is insig nificant." I tell you that the scratch of a pin has sometimes produced lock-jaw. Alas, if through curiosity, as many do, you pry into an evil book your curiosity is as dangerous as that of the man who would take a torch into a gunpowder mill to see whether it would really blow up or not! In a menagerie in New York a man put his arm through the bars of a black leopard's cage. 'Die animal's hide looked so sleek and bright and beautiful. He just stroked it once. The monster seized him, and he drew forth a hand torn and man gled and bleeding. Oh. touch not evil with the faintest stroke! Though it may be glossy and beautifiil, touch it not lest you pull forth your soul torn and bleed ing under the clutch of the leopard. "But," you say, "how can I find out whether a book is good or bad without reading it?" There is alwavs something suspicious about a bad book. I never knew an exception—something suspicious in the index or style of illustration. This venomous reptile always carries a warning rattle. Much of the impure pictorial literature is most tremendous for ruin. There is 110 one who can like good pictures better than I do. The quickest and most con densed way of impressing the public mind is by a picture. What the painter does by his blush for a few favorites the en graver does by his knife for the million. What the author accomplishes by fifty pages the artist does by a Hash. The best part of a painting that costs SIO,OOO you may buy for ten cents. Fine paintings belong to the democracy of art. You do well to gather good pictures in your homes. But what shall I say of the prostitution of art to purposes of iniquity? These death warrants of the soul arc at every street corner. They smite the vision of the young man with pollution. Many a young man buying a copy has bought his eternal discomfiture. There may be enough poison 111 one bad picture to poison one soul, and that soul may poison ten and fifty and the fifty hundreds and the hundreds thousands until nothing but the measuring light of eternity can tell the height and depth and ghastliuess ami horror of the great undo ing. The work of death that the wicked author does in a whole book the bad en graver may do on a half side of a pic torial. I'nder the guise of pure mirth the young man buys one of these sheets. He unrolls it before his companions amid roars of laughter, but long after the paper is gone the result may perhaps be seen in the blasted imaginations of those who saw it. The queen of death holds a banquet every night, and these periodicals are the invitation to her guests. Young man, buv not this moral strych nine for your soul! Pick not up the nest of coiled adders for your pocket! Pat ronize no newsstand that keeps them! Have your room bright with good en gravings, but for these outrageous pictori als have nut ouc wall, one bureau, not one pocket. \ man is no better than the pictures he loves to look at. If your eyes are not pure, your heart cannot be. At a news stand one can guess the character of a man by the kind of pictorial lie uur clmscs. When the devil fails to get a man to read a bad book, hi' sometimes succeeds in getting hint to look at a bad picture. When satau goes a-tishing. he does not cue whether it is a long line or a short line if he only draws his victim in. Be ware 01 lacivious pictorials, young man, in the name of Almighty (iod, 1 charge you! Cherish good books aiwl newspapers; j beware of bail ones. The assassin of Lord I l'u.-sell declared that hi- was led into crime by reading one vivid romance. The consecrated John Angell .lames, than whom England never produced a better man, declared in his old age that lie had ; never got over the evil effects of having lor fifteen minutes once read a bad book. But 1 need not go so far off. I could tell I you of a comrade who was great hearted, , noble and generous. He was studying for an honorable profession, but lie had an infidel book in Ins trunk, ami he said to me one day, "IV Witt, would you like j to read it? 5 ' I said. "S'es; I would." I j took the book and lead it only for a few minutes. I «us really startled with what I saw there, and I handed the bis>k back to liiin and said, "Yon had liettcr destroy 1 that book." No, he kept it. He read it. He reread it. After a while he gave up religion as a mvth. He gave 110 (iod as a nonentity. He gav. u, the Bible as a fable. He gave up the church of Christ as a useless institution. He gave up good morals as being unnecessaiil) stringent, I hate lii-aid of him but twice in many years. The time before the last I heard of hint he was a confirmed inebriate The last I heard of him he was coming out ot an insane asylum, in body, mind and soul an awful wreck, I Islieve that one tnlidcl Ismk killed him tor two wot Id* Go home to-day and look through your I library, and then, having looked through \our library, look on the stand where >Oll keen your pictorials aud newspatters and apply the Christian principles I have laid down this hour. If there is anything 111 your home that cannot slaud the teal, do not give it a»a>, tor it might spoil an immortal soul. !•" not sell it, for the money you get would lie the price of blood but rather kindle a lire 011 )i>ur kitchen hearth or in youi ha- k yard and then drop the poison in it, and the Ism lire 111 your eitv shall be as cousuiuiug as that ONE HI £pUe«us. THE GREAT DESTROYER'' SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Gr mud father's Telescope How Alcohol »oe» Its Deadly Work In Its Victim'* Hody-First It Darken! the Blood, Then It Irritates Every Organ. He is laying up for the poorhouse now, ~ ,/' a " "f p , '*• Plain iih day. If the jail donit catch him before he's old," My grandfather used to say When he saw a boy with u short cigar And an air like a circus clown Stand oft before the swinging door Of the best saloon in town. You're laying up for the poorhouse now It you never care to try To do your work in a manly wav; When you let your evenings fly mischief mean, when you oft are seen With the roughest chaps there are. v\ ho won t take proof that the poorhouse roof Grows out of the licensed bar. There's many a way to the poorhouse, boys. But the surest, straightest road Is the idler's path thro' the near saloon \\ here the wild-oat fields are sowed. Ihese grow, a harvest of pain and woe, Of poverty, sin and shame In spite of fun and the free lunch hun And the spirit they sport as game Have a dean design for your life-plan, boys; Live out in the light of day And thank the Lord for the honest toil That is oiled along your way. 1 It is grand to pledge yourself to Right, Go bind yourself to tread With the sturdy few who are always true. Who supply the poorhouse bread. Are you laying up on the noorhouse plan. In gravel instead of gold? , Each oath a wound in a conscience seared I And paralyzed with cold? | Each drink a receipt for a pauper's bed! | Each year a thousand miles On a hurrying car from the luring bar To the nlace where the poorhous" "miles? —Jessie MaeGregor Shaw, in the Temper ance Banner. Hnw Alcohol Acts. Physicians tell us precisely now alcohol i acts on the system. Almost the moment ; it is swallowed it makes its way through ; the veins of the stomach into the blood, which it darkens. Its action is immediate, ; for it has undergone no transformation. It passes away very slowly through the skin, and kidneys, which are irri : tated by its passage. Once it has been in ; trodueed into the body it performs its deathly work. The digestive apparatus is i the first point of attack. The stomach, whether bloated by beer drinking or . shrunk by brandy drinking, soon becomes i ulcerated, causing hemorrhages. Digestion ! becomes more difficult, for the gastric ; juices are diminished in quantity by the j paralyzing of the glands, j The liver becomes congested and swollen, i heavy and painful. This is fatty degenera tion of the liver. Then sometimes the liver | shrivels up and is covered with a hard, | stony tissue. This is cirrhosis. The taste changes very early, leading to all kinds ol ! iberrations. When an old absinthe drink er was put on a milk diet in the hospital he complained that the milk burned his throat. He managed to get some pure ab sinthe, which he swallowed, claiming that it refreshed and cooled his throat wonder fully. The circulatory system i.s no less af fected. The arteries become hard and brittle. Accidents which would normally 1 affect only the aged seriously, st'ike down ' voung alcoholized persons. The irritation of the lungs produces a dry cout.li. tending directly toward tuberculosis.. The kid- I neys, worn out by the accumulation of al j lohol, become inflamed, leading to Blight's ; disease or other kidney affection. | The worst troubles resulting from alco hol's abuse are those of the nervous sys tem. weakening of memory, nightmares, j visions of impossible animals, Tiallucina i lions, general paralysis, insanity. Delirium trements threatens every alcoholic patient. The finest intelligence is soon destroyed by this poison. Superior talents are drowned in the bottle.—New York Herald. Laboring Men Waking Up. 1 It is especially gratifying to see how generally the laboring classes of our fei | low citizens are appreciating the truth that the burdens of the liquor traffic are borne ; principally by them, even though they may never enter a saloon; that the terri ble waste made by the liquor traffic can be repuired only by production; that the landlord who pays increased taxes for the support of paupers, prisons and police, in ivitablv adds that cost to the rent charged to the laboring man, and that the manu faeturer reimburses himself for his in , ;reased taxation by reduction of wages to I his employes. Intelligent mechanics and operatives are ' learning that increased liquor sales mean reduction of house and furniture building; reduced demand for shoes, hats, coats, cal i icoes, silks and flannels, and therefore his employment in building machinery used in such production. The farmer will have, less sales of flour, pork, potatoes and other products of his toil in proportion as the MIOOU thrives. No department of honest industry can rscajie the devastating influence of the suc cess of the liquor traffic, except possibly that of the undertaker. Tradesmen are learning that their bad debts are made chiefly because the money that really lulongs to them is raked into the coffers of the saloon keeper. But the alliance of the slums with mush room aristocracy in defense of ruin selling shows us yet no signs of weakness. —Our Paper. The Mint 11 ii interims Prink of All. Yet another fallacy on which we need to concentrate the light until it becomes a burning glass to destroy it is the idea that lager beer, if not harmless, is the least harmful of alcoholic drinks. It is, in fact, the most dangerous of all. partly because this fullucy has mudc it seem one of the "little sins'' that so many are willingtodo. I once examined the inmates of the Christian Home for Intemperate Men, in New York t'ity, us to the way they reached the lust ditch of drunkenness, uud 80 |>er cent, told me that they begun with beer. Yonder is the dark land of lutemjieraiice reached by two bridges, wine and beer. Over the wine bridge go 20 per cent.; over the liei-r bridge 80 |ier cent. The most im portant temperance work is to stand at the entrance of the seemingly harmless beer bridge uud warn those who ure thought lessly entering upon it. The Presby teriau. The Crusade In Hrlsf. fly wholesome food and drink the appe tite is satisfied; by ulcohol it is excited. There are few instances of sunstroke among those who do not use alcoholic stimulant*. N'ervous Itriloiis are worrying again about the quantity of liquor tlie> drink "If dunk is doing me harm 1 will take none of it lor my own sake; it it i> doing me no harm, I will take none of it for tii« ihe sake of others," should l»e the motto ol every one. A recent investigation showed that nine ty-three per tent. of the inmates of the New \mi Mouse el lndii»tr,v were sent there lor crimes resulting troiu the use of intoxicating drinks. A novel scheme has been adopted by the Sharon ll'eiu:.) liquor dealei l\ ,< h week they set ure Iroui the lm si magistrates a list ol iiersons arrested lor drunkenness, ami then leluse sUih ones drinks at lh«
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