The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1859-06-16

MEssRs EpIroRs.-Your correspondent
"Seth" has made the very common mistake
OF making Daoncy the cause OF nearly all the
..ills that flesh IS heir to-" 1t is not only
misduotation OF scripture to say that ''money
is the root Of all eviP' but it has no founda-
ton in truth. Money in itself Is the source
OF vastly more good than evil IN the world,
but like all other good things is liable to be
abused or put to bad use by bad men.-
The thing used is not to blame but the user.
The Bible tells us that The korc Of money
is the root of all evil" And it is literally
true that there is hardly any evil with which
mankind is afflicted that cannot be traced d.
rectv or indirectly to undue aud lnord'-
nate love of gain.
OF nothing is this more true than ct the
traffic in spirituous liquors. The man who
can deliberately deal out liquid death to his
fellow creatures with the certain prospect Of
bringing many of them to temporal aud per
haps eternal ruin must certainly have had MS
conscience deadened 10 all sense OF right
We can account for his conduct only on the
supposition that all the higher and no0Ier
faculties Of his nature have been smothcred
out by the base and groveHng passion lust
for money. What "A terrible sacrifice does
he make who thus sells his soul t. the Devil
But IS he only guilty! Can we who are 50
lavish of our naledictions upon the rumsetler,
lsy our hands upon our hearts and say we are
innocent in tins matter? All no. We are
all of us responsible in some sense and 10 a
certain degree for all the evil we see resulting
from intemperauce. And in more than one
way In the first place we-the PeoPle-are
the sourse OF power and whatever We if'|'
that IS the supreme law OF the land and to It
all must WELD obedience. We can II we VIII
put = stop to the manufacture OF the article
the conversion Of " holes food l1to dead
lv poison. and this | conceive to % the only
sensible aud feasible mode of restraining by
lar The use of it as Il beverage.
But we are more 10 blame for not using
1q9ral forces at our command rightly ana
efficiently. These after all are the great
AGENTS to be depended on in reforming the
world. Men are free moral agents aud they
mus; be acted upon by moral agencies. \
man who is restrained fgom evi. habits by
force is not a reformed man; his hear.-'Ae
man himself. Is unchanged
From those whose moral perceptions have
been weakened by bad habits or perverted by
a wrong training or any other cause--W nose
iucliuati3ns 10 evil are TOD strong fer then
own power Of self-restraint. let the laar sieI
in IS an aid but let the re'ormcr beware 40"
g. he depe,1fs on iaw as q chief means Of maxi NJ
: men >jrtuous and temperate and respectable
4 ItcaQ't do H. | consider this 10 be one o
> the greatest errors among temperance reform
r ers. They get good law and then sli dow
( AT their ease thinking their work IS done
while on the contrary unless the law be car
risd out. and followed up by "12r1I H7777S
is worse than useless.
And now what are these moral forces -
They are principally temperance meeting
and temperance publications.. Particular.
= etiugs-weekly meetings continued re7
al after wear without cessation. How IS aa II
terest IN religion or in any o,her subj act Sei
up bat bv meeting often together and by Coz
siam, discussion sad agitation. 8Itaog
these. interest in any cause however imPorta1
or interesting in itself Will as surely die ot
As that plant Will die without its a2proPr
ate nutriment-
There is a small and beautiful village q
the east end Of Long Island unknown
fame il Is true, but it deserves to he held
as on example to this whole nation. SeTe
teen wears ago Nv WashlaEt 'aian IemTe
anee society was formed there The eneT
then had strong fo2thold and counted h
victims bv scores Weekly meetings We
started ana tfeg herr 5eea kspE ~ GaE 'F
tqtsrsst 10 t5is dag. Nhat has been the re>d'
Why there is not place where liquor Is 50
and scarcely an incorporate person. 70 u
place.
49, | presume there i not place ot is size
the great state Of \. Y whefe there : such
isy high tone Of morals as prevails there. L
At churches are well hlled ana the schools 4
" Of character that any place might be prH'
r Of.