Words prophetic.

The liquor traffic will never see another hour of peace in this country.  Mrs. Carrie Nation has sounded the alarm.  There’s a growing hatred of the saloon.  The speaker has sworn hostility to an institution that feeds on the bodies and souls of men.  I will pay my taxes like an honest man and not saddle by my vote, the burden on the tempted and weak, who will pay them over the bar and throw his wife and children on the charity of the public.

What shall the harvest be?

As a people for years we pressed to our hearts the evil of human slavery.  It was profitable, we thought, but every drop of blood let by the slaver’s lash, God made us pay back with blood of our own upon the altar.  Many fortunes were built up by slave labor, but how many of them were left after the war?  “Whatsoever a nation soweth that shall it also reap.”  What shall the harvest be from the wild sowing of the legalized saloon?  Our own country is a partner in the business for the of revenue.  I pray God that the liquor traffic may be abolished from America, without bloodshed, and yet who dares prophesy that it shall be so.  Much blood has been let in these long years by drunken husbands and fathers.  Many fortunes have been built up by the traffic.  What shall the end be?

Right shall prevail—­

          “For right is right, as God is God;
          And right the day will win. 
          To doubt would be disloyalty,
          To falter would be sin.”

Listen to the voice of the 20th century prophet as it comes ringing down the grooves of change:  “The saloon is going!  Perhaps not by your political party or mine, your church or mine; but God reigns and his people will awake.  And as it lies dying at last amongst its bags of gold, and we stand over it, as I pray we may, if it shall look up into our faces and whisper:  “Another million of revenue for a single breath of life!” You will say, as I will:  “No!  Down, down to hell and say I sent thee thither.”

CHAPTER XIX.

DR. MCFARLAND’S PROTEST.—­KICKED AND KNOCKED DOWN BY CHAPMAN OF BANGOR HOUSE.—­MEDDLING WITH THE DEVIL.—­TIMELY WARNING TO OUR BOYS AND GIRLS.—­BRUBAKER OF PEORIA.—­WITCHCRAFT.—­LAST TIME IN JAIL.

The determination of that rum anarchy in Topeka, Kansas, was such that three consecutive times I was put in jail because I went into these vile dens.  Dr. McFarland, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Topeka, came down at my last trial to see what the trouble was.  The police, when put on the witness stand, swore positive falsehoods and Judge Magaw, the republican police judge, appointed there by the democratic Mayor, Parker, that these two might unite their force of corruption, knew that these police were swearing falsehoods but were winking at the crime.  I saw that the Doctor was getting ready to offer his