Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-12-06
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
Edited By Conansittee appointed By Weyare
DiUision, No. SO, Sons Of Temperance.

The LAST RuMsELLER Moderate your
jny genie reader; that being is moi found yet
we hope though he is born, and Thar The .
liTe will soon come when we shall see him .
hut we were thinking how such man
would stand in bold relief on the page Of lis.
,ury. The LAST RUMsELLER-how ii sounds
ow-how II vi sound al the time when the
heavens will have passed away with great
noise, and inqusltion is made for II oil,
The last drunkard! lhe lust rumst er! what
pair! Their memory will never be lost.
They will gain 10 lhems, Ives an imprrlsha.
BILE name. embulmet in nlamy. But let us
anolyze. Who is rums,llcrl lie is one,
who for The mere sake of gon, for beside
this no olher motive can inhurnce him. un.
less ii be The love Of 1oing evl. for the mere
sake of gain, we say, keeps in his shop and
deals out TO his lellJw men that which is tx.
ac.Iy calculated md admirably fued, MS
well as invariably and certainly tends TO
weaken their intellect, dc6ase ,hrr moral
senSibiiilies. squander their properly, undrf-
mine their health, brggar their families, de.
sIroy social affection aud happiness, induce
The commission Of crime, and render them
more despicuLle ,han brulrs, and AS mis-.
chevous and reckless as ftnds. Now in
sober earnest, we ask where is The man who
wishes TO sand proclaimed 10 The world, as
the last man who held ouI agans. CHI, and
love aid truth; as the last rum seller, drag
ged by force of public eX"rIion from hls un.
hall lntu nd nj i,,l.i tI,N
grave unwepl and unmourned! Such man
one would think. would wish 10 crawl away
10 The lauhest corner of creation, and there
remain in perfect solitude aud darkness to ulI
, eternity.
II is stated lhui an inteligen, ciliz n Of
Houston, Texas, has recently made close
examination into the matter. aud fluids that
abou. seventy.fve lhouSunl dollars are spent
annually in lha, CITY for intoxicating liquors
"a city olabou. three thousand white in.
hablIanls.
The New York Daily Tribune, of No.
vember 7lh. concludes long editorial on
Statistics and Sketches of Drunkenness and
Crime, thus: The whole number of places
where alcoholic liquors are sold in New
York city is 7,103 Unlicensed, ,222; re.
por'ed disorderly, 058; with grocery shops.
3,789; lager beer shops, l089; exclusively
wholesale, 183 or The ,averns fur travel.
ers there are only 1856. Or The whole num-.
Der, 5,894 sell three cent drinks; | 002 six
cent drinks "a, ole shilling drinks 2ll
are closed on Sundays; $50 have gambling;
l.o43 are KEEP, by Americans or persons call
1897 by Irish; 234 by other foreigners; 233
by women, and 92 by coorrd people. Open
on Sundays, 5,893. Drinking places where
boxing matches are allowed, IL; resorts oI
thieves, 1876; resorts Of prostitutes, full 500;
billiards, sl6; ncehouses Of prostitutes,
ETC., 162; dog.fghls allowed in 6; ra..kiIling
allowed in 4; cock. fighting allowed in T.
Coop HIT-The Btookvile, Ia, Ameri.
can, alludng TO the sentence passed upon O
liquor seIIerin Yankee land, by hard heart.
ed Judge, that he should drink, as punish
menl, three glasses OF his own bad whisky
SAYS that in Indiana such penalty would
be clear y unconstitutional, and ought 10 be
everywhere. Our constitution says lha,
"cruel and unusual punishmenIs should no
be inflicted"
Is IT PossIBLE,--The Buon Rouge La
Advocate contains nouce of The death OF &
: liule boy, only five years old, by delirium
tremenS! He was the child Of an nbandon
ed woman who fed him strong drink. Wha
lesson Of depravly!
The friends of temperance in Michigan
are now organizing Carson Leagues all owe
-, the state, and will be ready to strike al once
on The frs. of December. Our friends al,
in good spirits all over the slale, and Ih
"dealers" are "exceeding discouraged"
q A Convention Of all .he friends of tenn
perance in Indiana will be held in Indiana
n polls next January, 10 decide on the proPri
e ely Of making prohibiIory liquor law a les
al The next election in that slaie.
+. The Massachusetts Life Boat says "ih
}. town Of Geresee, in Allegheny county, N
is Y, has been organized as a town som
5, twenty-five years. During all the time sine
II there has never been license granted /
" sell liquor. As natural result thereo
N there have been no paupers in the Iowr
=. Two or .hree times an etfhrl has been mad
10 sell without license; bun the deed wa
>. promptly mel by legal arguments, and III
mischief stopped. The people are uniform
lily industrious, quiet, law'loving and law
u abiding.
W The American Temperance Union say
ln ,hs, the annual cost of pauperHge in Ne
- York is 100000. or This 100000 is S,
n down 10 me account Of inlrmperance. Th
IF average number of paupers there is 10000
= More than lhree.lourIhs Of all The Grim
er committed in The state, can be traced direcIl
ds TO n,emperance. More than nine..enihs
all the murders in The state are commute
under The influence of inluxicalion; 1900
" w. souls die every year in the state by nleu
!" perance. Nearly all The business of gran
u, iurirs, sheriffs. conslables, and almost III
u' entire polc, system in all the cities, is char!
able 10 in,empernnce. or l80,646 person
. commiued in six and half yeats, in III
u city Of New York, lac. 1888 were for oifenst
" resulting almos, entirely from The USE
liquor dram shops. In this estimate Of ii
OF appalling evils resulting trum the sale oi il
ISL tpxicarng liquors, we leave entirely ou,
IS. The account the incalcuhble amount Of po'
al cry, and wrechedness, and sorrow, whC
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