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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1891.
(RANKS.
The whisky friends call all prohibi
tionists cranks. All right boys. We
glory in it. We are in good company.
Upright judges are cranks. They are
against all manner of violation of the
law, hence by the same taken that we
are cranks so are the judges. Christ
and his apostles by the same rule were
cranks because they denounced all
manner of evil and preached doctrines
only of good to the people of the earth,
among ot hers not to look upon the
wine when it was red. The framers of
our National Constitution were cranks
because t hey taught the doctrine of the
greatest good to the greatest number
to be enforced at the ballot box where
the majority should decide what was
the greatest good to the greatest num
ber and in all compaigns where the
result is told by a count of the votes
education and consequent agitation
are necessary. Grover Cleveland is a
crank because he agitates and educates
the public mind to believe that lower
taxes are better than higher. McKinley
is a crank because he agitates and tries
to educate the people to believe that
higher taxes will bring the millenium
to the poor people. We are cranks be
cause we agitate and try to educate our
fellow-citizens to see that morality is
better than immorality, that virtue is
better than vice; that a sober man is
of more credit to the community, his
family and himself than a drunkard;
t hat the carress of a do is better vethan
the bite of a snake and that God is
bet ter than the devil.
We agitate and educate only for good
and we are called cranks by all lovers
of evil.
Thank God! we are cranks.
A MOTHER’S BOY.
Not many evenings since the writer
heard a mother’s prayer for the reforma
tion of her son. The mother was ill
nigh unto death and her and her mind a
blank to all other ideas except the
moral welfare of her darling boy, whose
sole and only fault was love of strong
drink. He is a good business man,
honest in all his dealings, is truthful
at all times and has heretofore been
obedient to the wishes of his parents
in his daily conduct. Recently, how
ever he has begun a downward course
through the pleasures of the wine cup,
has lost a good position, become callous
to the voice of conscience and mother
alike, a frequenter of bar-rooms and
a passenger on the lightning express
to Hell. He knows that his old mother’s
days are but few, that she pleads with
him to change his course and prays
that he may see the error of his ways
and change his course, but he is on the
t rain, has paid his fare to the conductor
(rum seller) the engineer (the devil)
has opened wide the throttlethe train
has pulled out of the depot of an almost
perfected manhood and with his fellow
passengers booming down the grade to
everlasting damnation, charmed by the
scenery as he passed along where all
seems conleur de rose but before long
he will enter that long dark tunnel of
contirmned and beastly drunkenness
from which he can only emerge to meet
the general wreck that shall kill his
immortal soul. His mother’s tearsand
the tears of the friends of his millions
of fellow-passengers, may, however, so
tlow that they will cause a torrent to
sweep across the track in advance of
the coming train and washing it away
necessitate a delay while repairs are
made.
If such should be the case he can
alight and make his way back to home
and friends renewed and regenerated
son of the Lord, but if he fails his soul
will pay the forfeit of his sin.
May that good mother Jive long
enough to see her son come back into
the home of his boyhood and the love
that awaits him, prepared to do the
right as it has been taught him and by
his experience may he join in the
efforts being made to prevent others
from joining into the exodus to hell
through the wide open doors of the
doggeries.
LIQUOR AND THE CHURCH.
The Church Responsible for the Existence
of the Saloon.
J. R. Hoffer in the Mt Joy Herald,
writes thus: If three-fourths of all
church members would unreservedly
exercise their influence against the
making, selling and using of intoxica
ting drink, children even now born
might live to a time when crimes are
no longer committed under the influ
ence of strong drink, and when there
will be no occasion for anyone to weep
over a drunkard’s grave. Is not there
fore the church from now on responsi
ble for the continuance, and especially
for the increase, of drunkenness and
its destruction of human character and
and life and of property, as well as for
all the evils it brings upon society?
Here is an immense scope for home
missionary work, in educating the
members of all churches to a proper
comprehension of the Necessity for
themselves to abstain from the use of
strong drink in their families, in their
worship and in their own lives.
Science and experience show that al
cohol, the root of all intoxicants, has
no nourishment for the human body,
and is not needed as a beverage or in
food for health or real comfort. And
wherein a thing is of no use it will
work harm if employed. The Chris
tian will not employ anything contra
ry to its divinely implanted use; and
all ought to be convinced by daily ob
servation that to indulge in any love
of strong drink is contrary to the law
flf Christian uses. This is therefore
not a hopeless field for the Ci istian to
work in.
Here is noble Christian work for all
Christians; and if all are faithful the
world will be speedily redeemed from
itsjgreatest curse; for nothing else is
so potent in upholding immorality
and crime as drunkenness. But can
ail Christ ians be awakened to a proper
conception of this their urgent duty?
Woman is the great reformer, but
from her position in society, and by
her very nature, she follows the lead
ing of the man. She even followed
him with the temperance cause into
politics in which her voice is silenced.
Direct the attention of Christian wom
en to the church in this important
matter, and wonders will rapidly fol
low her untiring work there. Let her
see that the church has power to ban
ish drunkenness from the earth, and
her whole life will go forth as an irre
sistible stream that will not only puri
fy the church from all intoxicants,
but make it a power before which no
maker and vender of intoxicating
drink can stand.
Money is the god of the world, and
his worshipers make great efforts to
extend the liquor business, because it
is very profitable. Who would engage
in such a cruel and degrading business
if it were not profitable? But many
persons who are not willing to engage
in the business still give it their ac
quiescing influence, because they re
gard it as one of the world’s great in
dustries from which governments de
rive large revenues. But can the
by Christian’s voice be silenced this in
fluence, when he is shown how many
human victims to want, suffering, crime
and eternal destruction are required
to make the liquor business profitable.
Not all who are in the churches are
Christians: but by the aid of Christian
women the churches will soon be made
so pure externally as to make it intol
erable for any one to be a member who
is not willing on all sides to give his
influence in favor of physical, moral
and religious purity. Moderate drink
ing, as it is called, can find no support
or even toleration in a purely Chris
tian church. And her influence is
great in the world. That there is more
drunkenness in Christian countries
than in heathen, and that Christian
nations are forcing the drink habit
upon those whom they are trying to
Christianize, shows how great a
waking-up the Christian church now
needs.
But no Christian church teaches
drunkenness! Why blame the churches
for the excess of drunkenness in Chris
tian lands, and fortheir extending the
evil among the heathens? Unless the
churches were grossly negligent this
state of things could not be. Let
the chrildren be instructed to abhor
this crime against God’s providence:
let the women direct their efforts for
its suppression to the churches, and
let every Christian cry out against it.
Who cannot see the glorious change
that must speedily follow.
Brothers Belk and Cleveland and
Dr. Hawthorne certainly entertained
and interested the large gathering in
Trinity Church last Sunday afternoon.
The church was full although the
weather was most inclement and those
who turned out were certainly paid for
their going.
THESE FARMERS NOT AFRAID.
The Ohio Alliance Adopts a Ringing
Prohibition Platform.
The Voice says: The Ohio State
Farmers’ Alliance which closed the
three-days, session of its second annual
convention, Thursday, with 500 dele
gates present, adopted as a part of its
platform the following ringing de
clarations •
“ Whereas, 'Hie traffic in intoxica
ting drinks is now, as it ever has been,
the eternal eneiiiy of good government,
the home and mankind; and
“ Whereas, The farmers are largely
the sufferers frqm the traffic on account
of having the heavy burdens of taxes
to pay in prosecuting crime and in
maintaining jails, penitentiaries and
poor houses; and
“ Whereas, No evil has ever been
abolished by selling it the right to
exist, and the saloon is a place that
every decent person is ashamed to de
fend, therefore, be it
“ Resolved by the Farmers’s Alliance
of the State of Ohio, That the liquor
traffic is an enemy to the home, to
society, to church, and to state, and
that the time has come when all
Christian people and all lovers of good
government Would cease to be in
different and finite their efforts for the
suppression of the evil.
“ Resolved, That it is the sense of
this convention that in the event that
the demands upon our State and Na
tional legislators are unheeded we
shall co-operate with other labor and
reform organizations, and all those de
siring political reform in the call of a
mass convention to form a people’s
party that shall enforce our demands.
A Political Fable.
A. F. Worden in the Voice.
An old Principle came limping down
street on crutches and a careworn face.
Curiosity marked his slow progress
and asked : “What is the matter, old
friend ? You seem to be going into a
decline.”
“We have fallen on strange times,”
said Principle. “ I seem ‘to lay super
fluous on the stage,’ as Shakespeare
saith. Look at the medals on my
breast. This silver one Igot in service
with Luther in the 15th century. This
bronze one Wilberforce gave me, and
here is one dated 1776 with a profile of
Washington on it. Here is a new one
marked 1861, but I seem to be ignored
now.”
“ Politics is Wre place for you; there
is where your help is needed,” said
Curiosity enthusiastically.
“No doubt,” said Principle; “but
there is the fellow that knocked me out.
Look at him.”
A shrewd young fellow with a genial
smile on his face came sauntering
down the street. He bowed to every
one he met. His vest pocket bulged
with cigars, and ever and anon he
stopped before a dive and handed out a
bundle of beer-checks to the waiting
mob. Then he went on and crowds
followed him.
“ Who is that ?” asked Curiosity.
“Expediency, the new leader in
Politics,” sighed old Principle.
“You ought to have been in the Leg
islature; there you might hava done
something,” said his friend.
“ Have you been up to Albany lately?”
“ No.”
“ Well, then, don’t talk. There is a
new leader up there. He has a car
buncle nose, a big watch chain and a
pocket-book like an old-fashioned
saddlebag.
“ What do they call him ?”
“ Influence, and he rules from top to
bottom.” And old Principle sighed
heavily.
“So you arq not in it,” laughed
Curiosity. “ But say, old man, you can
do like other disappointed mortals.
You can fall back on the comforts of
religion.”
Principle laughed sardonically, but
said nothing.
“What are you laughing at ?” asked
Curiosity.
“ 1 used to be invited into the pulpit
every time I went to church,” said
Principle. “ But last Sunday I went
to meeting and the pastor had a new
man in the pulpit. He bad a button
hole jouquet on his coat, a diamond
stud on his shirt and the desk Bible
was all covered up with a $2,500 sub
scription list. Two Brewers took up
the collection, and the front pews were
filled with wholesale whiskey dealers.
They put me in a seat back by the door
under the gallery, out of sight. I tell
you it was tough.?
“Yes, indeed,’* laughed Curiosity.
“ And who was the clerical dude ?”
“Popularity, James Popularity, D.
I)., I.L. D.” said Principle. “They
want to pension me under this new
disability bill, but I am good for several
years’ service yet, and I guess I will
break up my crutches, scour up my
medals and join the Prohibitionists.”
And he braced up, winked ominously
and strutted down street with new
vigor.
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