The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-06-14

boast of our thrift and prosperity, oul
churches and our morality, we have grog'
shops outnumbering any two respectable
branches of bu.inesS, which deal out theii
fiery poison upon The Sabbath with as muci
impunity as other days of the'week. Here
in these places, are men armed with impli-
ments to damn the souls of their fellow
creatures and then sink their own into he'll
Not the shadow of b benefit flows to the
community from these Infamous dens
whether they reek with filth and obscenity
and the miserable appurtenanccs of low
/. doggery, or whether they are fitted up with
the more gaudy and vulgar appointments Of
iasLgentilitE, Theyt ssre non productive
save in the rnin and misery they scatter
throughout the community Their fruits
are blood and tears and wretchedness. Let
any one ponder upon the influences cast
over the community, by these coffee-houses
/ during the length of time within his own
knowledge and observations, and be will
have presented to his mind the uhmistakable
proofs of the detestable traffic. lie will find
in them the causes of many family sepa-
! ration; the instigation of crime and disor-
7 der, aud the sequel to mems failures in busi-
ness, when they were reduced from afiu-
! ehee to poverty. He can trace the footsteps
I of more than one good citizen, good hus-
band, and honest man from the dramshOp
down 10 a drunkard' grave. lie viii then,
/ perhaps, know the reason the grass grows
upon the last resting place of more than one
who, had it not been for liquor, might now
be moving among his fellow citizens, a mod
el business or professional man, and an or
nament to society.
There is no evil on the face of the earth
in which the responsibility of its existence
is shared alike by all classes, in so great a
degree, rs in this prevalent vice. We have
men W no made their fortunes ia the whole
sale liquor trade, and there are yet those
who seek their fortunes iu this line Whetll-
er or not it is a legitimate pursuit accord
ing to their views, We leave them to decide
Ii their own conscicnces are untroubled it
is enough for them. They are good men,
as the world goes, and we woad not quar-
rel with them. Doubtless they find an apol-
Ogy to the mate sense of right which it is
presumed all men possess in some degree,
in the present manner and mode the world
is going on, and has been going on for thou
sands of years. ...' -, ~, 80. F.F
1t must be admitted that they are remoy-
cd TO IA considerable distance from the stand
point of the -doggery, though it is true they
are equally responsible with the doggery-
keeper, in the blight and ruin wrought 10y
the sale of liquor Politicians count the in-
huence which the eoffee-house proprietor is
supposed 10 posses, and thereby strengthen
and encourage him in his calling. Others,
! while they give him no immediate aid or
, encouragement occupy neutral position
lest they might possibly lose few pennies
I in the way of business transactions, as it is
presumed the dealer in whisky is link in
the chain of mutual pecuniary interest and
I dependence and young men who claim TO
be respectable, frequent the saloons, to loiter
away their nights, drawn to them by their
/ Establishments, and the smell of liquor, sup
/ posed 10 he good article; nor stopping
to think that they are engendering
habits which few, very few, have the forti-
tude to resist. Here then is the conclusion ::
! Men have an inherent andi rresistabIe love
of stimulation, and they will find that slim
uation even in the poison that destroys the
mind and the body, and turns manhood into
brutality. Compulsatory laws in regard to
the sale of alcoholic drinks are not sustained
by public sentiment and are thus rendered
impOtent They have proved failures.
There seems, then, to be but one sound
aud practical system to pursue in order to
stay the ravages of intemperanee. Social
institutions must be created, which shall
f give tue tufth
and delightful moral and intellectual stimu-
lation which shall supercede the demand for
the grog-shop, and which may not only he
erected on the ruins of the demolished drink
4 ne-hauso, bat may bo introduced at once
into all communities where the erog shop is
hourishing, and gradually withdraw people
& from the den of vice to more fascinating re-
sorts, where the spiritual nature shall be re-
freshed and strengthened, and the appetite
for low indulgences destroyed by substi-
tntiug that which is purer, higher, and ho-
lier. 1t is marvellous, indeed, that world
so full of learning, so full of benevolence-
paying millions to two professions for the
cure of bodt and soul--has not yet under
stood and applied some remedy for this great
social disorder, and the discovery of a cura-
tive power for its eradication Will rank in
Importance second to no discovery ever yet
made upon earth. r. - l.. r
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