Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-08-16
INTEMPERANcE.
From the New ork Observer.
DR.HUMPHKEY'S. TO IJR. IN O. xLYII.
IRELASD.
lNTEMpERANcE.

A few more facts and estimates I Zee
bound 10 mention. before 1 dismiss Altlis
painful topic but l have nottime to- elas.
sify them-Priyate, or illicit disfillation,
works immense mischief. especially among
the low Irish, by reducing the price ol
whiskley, and stl,us enabling thousands ol
starving wretcfes to procure il who could
no., pay the regular duty and it was the
opinion Of the best informed friends oftem.
|perance, no longer ago than 1884, thatthe
evil was on thesincrease. In a small dis
,trict, III the country of. Down, and that an
uncommonly sober district, 100 il was sup
posed, there were so unlicensed stills. =
Some Of the owners Of private stills are in
the habit Of oftrayelling round the country.
carrying their satanic apparatus along nth
them, and distiiling every .hushel of grain
they can lind, at one shilling q hundred.
Thus many small tenants are induced to
cast every kernel ofbfead- -stufls they can
get, into the FIRE, and thence come out
scorpions, TO sting them and their children
TO death. &. y : * =. Z. ~.
sGrccers' licences, for selling spirits BY
retail, contribute greatly 20 increase the
evils 6f fintemperance. This was strongly
testified By several gentlemen before the
Parliamentary Committee. Therears. ].
says Professor Edgar, I. peculier facilities
afforded, especially 10 females, in grocers'
shops, of obtaining spurious liquors; and
many an individual. that I am convinced
would be ashamed 10 be seen going into a
spirit shop, would have no difficulty yin en-,
terings grocers' shop. Il is a well
known fact, he adds, that mechanics
aifes not dnfrequeatly get spirits at gro
GERS Shops, and have them set down to their
husbands accounts as soap, tea, sugar, &c
lit was decided some time, by Conmis-
sioners of the Excise, that the union OF. the
grocery and spirit license was Illegal but
they changed their minds, after a depnta.
ton Of grocers had aIarmedth the Chancellor
Of the Exchequer wishthe fear of q dimiIl.
tished revenue. So common has this union
now become, that il. has been said, there are
only stuezpe grocers in Dublin, who do not
seli:spiritous liquors. Indeed the license
tsysiem. in alt its forms, is one Of the mos
tfrightfnl causes Of misery and crime
throughout ireland, as it is with US ane
There, at least, the evil.seems to be great.
| " on the increase. In Belfast, since the
change Of policy insthe Excise Board, res.
pechng grocery licenses, there has been al
increase of399 places for the saleof spir.
itous liquors, and 22I of them grocers
/ In Dublin, the case is quite as bad. Ths
increase of dram.shops and whiskey
houses is enormous. In 1924, there wert
1868 in 1925, / .074 in 1926, ], 400 AM
in 1923, l,714! In Clonmel, which con
tains 1900 inhabitnats. there were, il
1871, "a spirit shops in 1888, l29 ani
/ in 1884, there were $50 THAT IS to say
zone to every. y.22 10 families. In Clare
morris. With q pppuIalion Of 800, there
/ wsre SO licensed shops, besides 9 shibeen
For UNLICENSED houses round about. ia
1deed, the alarming fact cannot be conceal
Fed, that withinth the last few years there hs