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THE ADVANCE. ITBLIBHED F.VEKY SATURDAY BY M». 11. KVAW A MON, Proprietor*. Terms of Subhckiption : ■One year, in advance - - - - . $1 00 Six month#, in advance - - 50 Send all subscriptions and remittances, com munication# and corrections of addresses and other matters of business to ED. M. EVANS’ SON'S, MM E- Alabama St. 1890 Club Booms. Advertising rates made known on application, but guaranteed reasonable. Objectionable ad vertisements not taken at any price. Official Organ of the 1890 Club Entered at the I’ost Office at Atlanta, Ga., as second-class matter. 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. FETZER’S CLOTHING STORE 37 Whitehall St., ATLANTA, GA. Our aim is to show the most complete stock of Clothing, Furnishings and Hats, at the lowest prices in the city. HOW FAR WE MISS IT? We leave our friends and the public to judge. We have for this week some special bargains in Overcoats. Fetzer’s Clothing Store, 37 Whitehall Street, ATLANTA,iCA. The DeLoach Saw Mill. ti » A .IL fr (milk / • w /owl I ' \ JI, ; i On •». life ica “ By solid merit lias won first honor in almost every State in the Union, and that too in three and a half years’ time. Over fifty of these mills are shipped out monthly, going to all parts, from Ver mont to California. Any size fro 3 two to four hundred Horse Power. 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