A Plea for the Widow And Orphan Against the Traffic in Alcohol: a Discourse ...
A Plea for the Widow And Orphan Against the Traffic in Alcohol: a Discourse ...
B. Cocker
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No agencies are too mean, no tools too base and contemptible for its use. Blood is not too sacred to buy, nor religion too Divine to selL Could we only see Alcohol embodied, what an hideous monsttf should we behold I — a monster without a heart — ^whose eyes . know no tears — ^who is deaf to the cry of the sufferer — and who will neither pity nor spare. With more than the hund- red hands of a Briareus he grasps at everything lovely and Digitized_b]^ Google 11 pure, and, casting it to the dust, ...tramples it under hifi iron heel. He marches through the world dragging heavily his swarm of victims. There are 300,000 dnmkards chained to his chariot wheels, and there are 800,000 widows and orphans, a wailing multitude, following in the train. Now, if it be true that Alcohol is thus a deceiver, and a rob- ber, and a murderer, then we have no hesitation in affirming also, that the dealer in alcoholic beverages is an accomplice in this work of deception^ and robbery^ and murder. In the judg- ment of a rightebus God — in the solemn verdict of an enlight- ened conscience, he is declared an accomplice^ and by the laws of every Christian land he ought to be so regarded and ad- judged.
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