Smyrna times., 1856-11-26
The Temperance Press. !

andor, and so near our own feheSHo"s o'' "'e Nj,
anie subject, that we cannot refrain from CIV m
ug them place in our columns: [.
Nothing is more unpleasant than to expose tn
the faults of friends, or administer reproof to /,
those for whom we entertain kindly feelings; ii
but we shall not shrink from the performance OF 81
duty. 1t must be conceded fact, that no great a
can be carried forward in our day, d
without the aid of the press, and until it has y
assumed sufficient Importance to enlist IN It's q
favor respectable number of the popular pub
lie Journals apers devoted to it's interests must
be established and sustained. The temperance I
reform has many warm and sincere friends
among the propretors and editors of the seca-
lar sresS but the grogshop patronage is too
large to be sacrificed, and it might give offence
TO political aspirants. 1t is well understood,
that those in the liquor interest will not patron
ize any pa per that favors the views of Tenn
perance fanatics, while the friends OF Temper
unce will, without hesitation or objection, ln-
troduce into their families, for daily and weekly
reading. papers filled with liquor advertise
ments, and puffs of favorite haunts of dissipa-
ton. Ask these patrons of whiskey papers,
who love intemperance, to subscribe for faml-
ly sheet, which will come every week freighted
with pure, moral sentiment, and they will an
swer, We take more papers now than we can
read, and as many as we feel able to pay for.
Some will add, 1--WE are fully converted now
on the subject of Temperance. and do not,
therefore, want to read any more about it,
Most of our excellent publications are anguish
ing and dying for the want of support; and
occasionally publisher, after exhausting all
his resources and becoming bankrupt, is com.
PEELED to shut up shop;" and we have known
instances where thousands of dollars have been
thus sacrificed by editors and publishers. and
yet a few miserable, skinint, penurous patrons
would never cease to complain, because they
had paid for half dozen numbers which they
never received. These are illustrations of the
truth, that there are some who are Temperance
men becau use they are tso slingy TO be anything
else Ii would cost something to drink, and
they are. therefore, sober, and are likely to die
So, whsther the Temperance reform trinmphs
or not There is not, so tar as we are inform
ed, one paper in the United States. which is
specially devoted to the reform. that is gener.
ously supported, aud many of them are kept uE
by individual sacrifice and self-denial. There
are, at this time, several secular papers, either
of which has larger circulation than the COM
bned Temperance journals of the country, sus-
tained, too. in large part. by the professet
friends OF the cause; yet, these papers &C
freighted with moral poison into the family cir
Gle, and thousands of hopeful young men art
directed in the road to death and hell.
We are not induced to make these remark
because of personal considerations, but WI
speak thus, because Temperance men are care
less or criminslly Indifferent, to the highest In
terests Of the reform, and we would iDculcat
aud foster more liberal spirit among our bre
thren. You have no right to consider the pit
lance paid for Temperance paper charity
II you read, or furnish others with the mean
of knowledge on this subject, a full equiValeu
is returned for your money. +
For ourselves, we scorn to approach you o
mendicants or paupers, and we believe ih
spirit auilnates our cotemporaries. Some WI
say, "Give US better papers, and we will SUI
port them" To this, we reply,-furnish tf
publishers with the means, and then, it the
niito improve accordingly. it will be your liz
90 complain. All our papers are better ihs
their patronage justiies. We would exhor; tr,
friends of the cause, all over the land, to mo
lIbera lily sustain the Temperance press. If y,
wiil not heed the admonition, you must sxpe
publishers to fail, and papers 10 stop, and inter
perance unIebuked, to riot in your househol
aud ueighborhOods. - rat n'fan's4 Isl
Some honest men may be disposed TO inqui
what they eau do to iuaugurate new and b
ter era upon this subject. We answer
every reader of this article consider hims
obligated TO procure one more subscriber to
pen,oerance paper. This will be done easi
aud thus, in a single day, the patrons of I
Tempsrance press will be doubled. Who "
su.nd one-haIf hour in this work! IL the lad
would attend 10 the matter. it would be done
SCDpEx DE4Ta,=-Qn T"ursday msrning !
our citizens were startled BY the announcem'
of the sudden death Of David Cumnins, Z
Aboat - o'clock, he went to the pump, as '
his habi,. for the purpose eofwashpg,whenh he
an attack Of apoplexy, from which he expi
Il ina 4 few mIrates. When found, life was !,
axlipct, but no treatment could be applied
lead 70 his recovery. Dir. G. sas born
s,nvrua. where, with the exception of |
yrar,g ne hud spent all his days, and, at
time Of his death, was the Oldest man in
town. bejpg II years Of age He.was mi