Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-02-04

know not the gross receipts of all; but
We do know, that it would take at least
SO day TO support them.
l know one bar which has taken in as
much as from $500 to 500 day. One
bar. the Union, has taken in 81, 100 on
Sunday! Oh! what scenes! what des-
ecra'ion of the Sabbath!
On patriotic days, as the Fourth of
July, these bars are supposed TO take in
double their average receipts. Suppose
The average receipts of all to be $50 per
day; this makes $500. 600 per day spent
in California for intoxicating liquors; or
more than 73 millions per year.
But this tells not half of the tale
California with her exhaustless ireasu-
ries of gold. could afford TO pay IS mil
lions OF money; but OH the loss of health.
the wreck Of morals, of intellect, the
blasted hopes, the agonizing hearts, the
crime, the Iobberies and murders, the
drunkards' death.
One distillery establishment in San
Francisco has half million of money
inves ed in The liquor traffic. They
make % coo gallons Of liquor a day
The Messrs. Dow are said 10 have sold
$500, 600 worth of liquors. since they
opene- their manufactory of poisons in
that city. They say their liquors are
necessary for civilization. to kill off the
Indians-but they are killing of the
while man TOO.
Every where go ia the Atlantic
States. am asked--"Did you see my
SON." Have You any. news of my hus
band?" Often | am distressed by these
inquiries. l dare not tell the truth
People of The North tremble for your
friends in California
l have seen fine young men-nay, l
have seen young women die of deliriuna
tremsnS. | remember now the case of
son OF Governor of one of your West
ern States. l am told awful things of
your Congress Hall hotel in this city Of
Albany. | have heard of the death
there of Harxood, the Clerk of the Court
of Appeals. l haze heard, too, that
some of your finest young men are being
ruined there. We too have such Con-
gress Halls. well remember hearing
a fine lad say, "I'll not go home TO the
North, they viii say, there goes the son
of a 'drunkard!' I will remain here; l
will fight whiskey till die" That boys
f iher had died of drink. He was the
grandson of Uniled States Senator.
l was summoned, near the famous
Mariposa. you have heard so much of.
10 the post mortem examination of a
young woman. She had lately attended
bali; and was the gayest If the gay
1t was testified, that within a few hours
she had drank six bottles Of champagne.
| said there is need OF no more testi-
mony- Six boules of champagnel why
they would poison y our mules, let alone
young ladies.
Thirty thousand persons have pelished
in California since the breaking out of
the "gold fever" BY far. the greatest
portion have died from strong drink
What Lave told you will give you no
idea Of the rfvages Of this curse. One
of our Supreme Court Judges has died
of delirium tremens. One Of our State
Attorney Generals our State Printer /;
our State Surveyor-alI have died of
drink. And still this curse is permitted.
Still this traffic is licensed by law. 1
have seen the licenses granted by au-
thoriiy; and have seen the skulls and
the bones of these men; conspicuous VIC
Tins of those same licenses. bleaching
and rottiDg in The sun. OF all the thirty
thousand who have died in California
since l849. | doubt if 100 have died by
natural causes. The climate is remark.
ably healthy. Inever bIealhed air which
is SO exhiliarating. And yet. for the
most part through rum. thirty thousand
citizens, soroe buried and some unburied.
sleep the sleep of death. under those de-
liehuul skies. Is not the liquor traffic
a reproach to this people? Has not the
sin of intemperance proved itself a ''les-
sening of the tribes?" 1t is so, men and
bretheren, all over this country And
appeal to you. as Christians. to help put
down this system; this law sanctioned
traffic put it down by law.
Of all the evils suffered by California,
rum is at the bottom. You hear of stuff.
fed ballot boxes. 1t is rum that stuffed
those boxes. You hear that our highly
beloved King. the most honored and in
fluential editor of the State, is shot down
in open day. Rum shot him down.
Rum calls for Vigilance Committees
Fifty pistols have been taken TO house,
loaded, 10 shoot the humble individual
before you, who dare to war against
rum. have not hesitated to declare the
whole counsel on this subject; and toayow
my desire to see the selling of rum
classed among the gravest offences known
10 the law.
Brethren, as Minister of Religion, L