Excerpt from The Black Plague of the American Continent

I have but one reason for writing this little volume, and that is that it may bless those who read it. I write to save the boys, the girls, the young men and the young women, the home, the wife, mother and her children, to save them from the scorching, withering and blighting effects of the liquor traffic and the trapping and selling pure, innocent white girls into the worst slavery ever known to this or other lands, to save them from ruin, remorse and death, I write to warn the fathers and mothers of this land, into whose care the Heavenly Father has so graciously given their tender offspring, and Whose homes have been blessed with children, against the crime - and it is a crime, though done in ignorance - oi giving their children alcohol before they can walk or talk or during the young and tender years, thereby creating an appetite for strong drink which may consume them in the years to come, and bring your own gray hairs down to the grave in trouble and sorrow. I write to save the homes from mourning and tears, wives and mothers from broken hearts, and children from poverty and ruin. I write to save the pure, innocent and sweet girls from being trapped and sold for immoral purposes and to save the boy and young man from the death of the gin mill. I write to scatter sunshine and gladness and happiness into the lives of the disconsolate and the broken hearted. I write to save my country and her pe0p1e from the awful and fearful calamity and doom which is coming and which will overtake us unless the whisky and white girl slavery is abolished.

I shall not make the story long, for the whole is like unto the parts given you in this little volume. The cases mentioned are not isolated ones, but are samples of thousands of others like them. They are not the result of the imagination, but real, and took place just as stated. May you read this book in the fear of the Lord and with an honest heart, bent on doing everything you can to help rid this country 'of these great.

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