New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-08

oes society might be placed Id one eoumn, anu he
forty dollars paid by quOrseins into the public treasury
in another in order that the balance might be struck All
agreed that here grief to society OF social beings
which could lot be graduated in dollars and cents
Let m stand the representation Of this class OF fruits
the evidence Of which any intelligent person IN Rumston
can read TO you from certain and not very few suen'
hlocks in the several graveyards in the township. Inc
tales connected with of these terrible, We only
had space give them voice. We count no less than
twelve or twenty particular graves made within six years
each Of which contains the body OF drunkard who had
died in the prime of fe II IS tremendous fact, and Is
worth thinking of.
But let ne look at citizens OF Rumston VINO are !e'
alive 10 see the handiwork of this business There is
man able bodied and naturally as honest as other people
80 demeaned BY liquor drinking that we heard him ask
s,okener for some small article for his wife promising
paynent in few days and taking the article to liquor
seller ard bcrterng il for quart of rum. Question
Wes this eeune.s of soul in Gquordrnker and liquor
seller The fruit Of the business Here is another smart
aa,iye man. who has been known TO work hard several
DAYS and then out of all his wages, take home couple
of osves Of bread having spent the rest for rum anu ca
rousings with drunken companions AZ tne AFORESAID
tayems The life of this wife was harder man 'ha'
Of raeyslave and at last she sunk under it and died
one Of the indirect fruits Of quorellng Here another
ingenious mechanic who has superior in his business
society," He only works enough get liquor. lie often
abuse. his family sadly and hi wife looks heartbroken
and often s seen weeping. Here man not over iory
years old surrounded by interesting family ana YET
he is loss 10 them well as loss TO society az iafge
which he IL admirably fitted to adorn and strengthen
Here another mechanic who in his branch IS exceed
incly ingenious and sober might set ms own wages anu
yet Low he rotten ulcercd, loathsome lump OF living
mortality He part OF the tine reduced to the neces
IIo roiaht have heCn
be is pauper lie intelligent man, and yet his in
,eiceuce and ingenuity lost society or prosttued
70 ouotipc with JUNCTION from Johams parable about
wine that cheers both God and man, and similar pas
.cges ignoring such look not on the VINE when II Is
red AT the last it biteth like serpent, it sting
e,h like an adder Society has lost capital member IN
the habits CT this man,
Intelligent people in Rums,on have no hesitation IN
reckoning these and many other similar cases "a the posi-
tive fruits oflquorseling These living fruits are dread
fully apparent on election days Fourth OF July and other
public occasions.
1t might be suppo.ed that the families OF these men SUI
fr .ever.lv We can recall several instances in which
the wife has fed from the house for her life put jeopardy
by n drunken husband. We have known woman IN
such with young infant frequently 10 pass
the ngbt in the woods and another for several nights
10 hide herself in barn, TO take refuge IN neghoors
house. Quite number of young children also suffer from
insufficient clothing food and other ha.ishps ana from
the los. Of educational means In fact the habit of these
drunk ards in Rumston has produced distressing results IN
the physical mental and moral welbeng Of their families
Here is class OF fruits from liquor-seng in the COM
munitv which cannot be graduated by any pecuniary
scale and vet which enter seriously into the hap
pinoss of the community. These fruits are as egi-
ma,ey those Of quorseng as apples are the fruit Oh an
appe.tree or the shoe production OF or
death the fruit Of swallowing poison Is tree known by
its fruits
One Of the Rumston drunkards met us one day. ana
the following scene occurred which throws hight on the
fruits Of this business lie was partially drunk, and began
as follows: You need not talk to me. know what
.you want 10 say. You would tell me that for such
man MS me TO be drunk is bloody shame know that
"as well as you do, You need not say it. You
would tell me that who can lay up several hun
bred dollars year if he would keep sober and yet only
makes enough keep drunk on is a fool You need
mot say that, for know il now. You would further
saw that for man murder his body and soul as a
doing is crime against nature and against "ou.
know H. so you need trouble yourself to say it. You
would say that for TO abuse and neglect such
family as have is to be monster. Well knsw that
too and don't need any instruction l now know
more about it than you can tell me-
And thus he clearly forstaled every appeal although at
tie time half maudlin with rum.
"Bu, why DO YOU not break up the habit !" we asked
Because can't" was his reply. This appetite Is my
master and drives me like slave. sometimes make
desperate efforts get free but cant bring about
This Door fellow had drunken father, and was brought
up on rum until the appetite for it now burns like vol
cano lie has been reformed apparently but in one case
small beer tempted him back, and in another the social
ru.inauences about him reknded the smohered fires of
passion The Maine Law in Rum'ton would save him
yet with several others powcrless as himself
Here lie a condition of moral weakness and degradation
induced in several persons condition which even liquor
sellers themselves declare TO be terrible, and TO winch
tbey do not wish themselves or their children to
The popular verdict here also purns every theory Tor ac
counting for this tremendous degradation of good and
valuable men except that which traces these fruits,
these apples of Sodom right back to the parent stem OF
legaized quor-seng The people cay this is the tree,
and these its fruits They would expect to gather
grapes Of horns as pick any other sort of fruit than we
have described from hquor-seing. In fact one OF the
people in answering advocate Of struck his oppo-
nen who was deeply involved in the traffic, in the very
heart by saying Come LEI 60 up to the graveyard
and hold an argument over hall dozen graves VIII
name to you mentioning several deceased drunkards
made so at legal and orderly rum-tevernsl
These fruits are tremendous Here is the grave OF
drunkard killed instantly in foc-haiy experiment when
be was drunk Here led by the victims OF de-
rum remens Here are the graves Of three cholera VIC
Tins whose sysems were burnt up BY rum, that me-
dcine was poweress Here is the grave Of one found
dead in his hut with bottle Of Here the graves Of
four frozen TO death the public highway when drunk.
Here the graves Of three tortured by sort oil $40"
murder in the drunkenness OF their husbands Here IA the
grave of an honest good man killed outright the inst
CATION OF liquor seller. Not that these graves are N ono
ward but they are ia and about Rumston and the half OF
n .l,aa.aa that