The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-06-05

your hard-earnings! Does il make i, any
easier to pay the cost o! inlemperance,
tina, the demand is made by the indirec. I,
process of taxation for county expenses
Do you no, then by licensing the rum.
seller, voluntarily authorize a class of
men to rifle your pockets of you hard.
earnings, aud deprive your families of
many of the conveniences of life. and is
1t right that this thing should continue
Will you permit it to continue, for i, is
for you to say. The people of other
counties and other states are opening their
eyes 10 this subject. and acting with a
manly firmness and decision. We are
certainly taxed enough to pay our debts
and sustain our credit, without adding
hundred per cent for the support Of in
temperance,
Third Proposition.
lnlemperance is great personal, So
cial, and moral evil. On this point the
observation Of every individual will fur
nish the most interesting and satisfactory
statistics. You have all Witnessed in re.
pea,ed instances, the unhappy wreck of
individuals and families occasioned by
this vice. You have seen the Young,
beautiful and vir,uous bride, who had
committed her all to one who solemnly
pligh,ed his entire devotion in return,
mourn in wreched obscurly the dsap.
poin,ment of all her earthly hopes. You
have marked her iolsome, discouraging
and miserable course through life of ad-
versiiy, until an obscure death closed her
troubles, delivering her from the crushing
embarrassment of drunken husband.
You have noticed children, endowed with
good natural capacities, and full of native
aspiration after their appropriate devel-
opement, become entirely discouraged,
and sink into gross sensuaity and vice,
under the influence Of drunken father
And whenever intemperance comes, il.
blasts all that is beautiful and worthy,
and spreads desolalion in its progress.
Its empire is the destruction of all mo-
rali,y and the mother of all vice. Felix
Grundy from Tennessee, gave it as his
opinion after 80 years extensive practice
as a lawyer, that four fiflhs Of all the
crimes committed in the United States
can be traced to in,emperance. Now
shall such moral peslilence be sanction
ed by law! Shall men be licensed and
encouraged TO SOW broadcast over our
beautiful county, the buds of vice and
crime! A volume Of facts might be de.
rived, showing the effects OF nlemper-
ance upon individual well-being, in the
production of disease and premature
death. as well as self-abandonmen, and
all forms of Woo. BuI we need no, fur.
r iher illustrate the effects Of vice, that Is
f the natural parent Of all evil things. You
cannot want proof Of the truth Of the pro.
position, that intemperance is great per.
sonal. social and moral evil. We come
now TO the
! Fourth Proposition.
1t is the duty Of every individual to dc
, what he can TO remove this evil. FoI
long ages tie evil was supposed to be
: remediess. But a principle has been
developed in or age which has power ,o
remove drunkenness with all its oa.hsomt
r and dlreiul effects from the world, and tC
restore the empire of temperance and vir
tue. 1t is the temperance principle, OF
I the prlncip pie Of voluntary associations
j against inlemperance. 1t is in the power
D Of the community by this principle TO ex
pei the demon of in,emperance, TO dry ur
The fountains Of vice, and to restrain
a health to the body, humanity to the hear!
q. and happiness and prosperity to the fam
$ lily Of the drunkard. And who will re
e fuse to develope the full power of this
Q principle ;! Say, fellow citizens, will 20,
: not come up to the rescue. will you no
l., give your names, your influence and you
n efforts to promote this cause! Pas
# through the streets Of your principe
II towns, count the grog-shops and thu
e drunkards that disgrace the community
!. and gay il there is not an urgent reason
:, for immediate, decided and universal &C
S ton on tho subject. Are you inclined Il
}. throw off responsibility, and say it is M
!. concern of mine! What! is it nothing
n to you that the public interests suffer
e Is it nothing 10 your feeling Of humani..
e when your neighbor comes into town t.
|. dispose OF his grain, that he should b.
+ decoyed by the fascinating cup into tn
e grog-shop. and there be robbed no, onl,
If Of his money, but of his reason, his char
q acter, his health and his heart, and b
IS sen, pennyless 10 his family with the spi
e rii of a tiger, instead Of carrying 10 then
Y The comforts of life, and the kind heart @
At husband and father! Is il nothing 1
!. you, that so great a proportion Of tn
" crime and pauperism which you help
y support is occasioned directly by in,em
v perance! Is no concern Of yours, whe
If every other dollar of your hard.earne
y tax money is required to defray the ex
;, penses Of rumselling! o, Citizens, ope
v your eyes to your true interests, and max
il vigorous and manly effort 10 remov
!. this great evil from your midst.
Thus it appears tina, the use Of arden
lie spirits is not necessary az a common