The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-07-02
PERSONAL.
For the Kenosha Telegraph.
EntenB BecaRce.


Next to slavery, the most blighting curse that
rests upon our land is intemperonce. 1t is sad
subject for contemplation, 10 see the young man
whose da wing intel eut bids fair to make him one
of earth's most gifted sons, reeling through the
streets, his brain on fire, and dethroned by
that cup of iniquity, intemperance. 1t is truly
piteous, and less appalling sight, TO behold the
father Keeling home at night, his sensibiltles for
his family all blunted and the lamp of love that
should BEEN upon the altar of his heart, extin>
guished and disconnected curses falling from those
lips that should breathe only prayers for the well
fare of those God has given him TO protect, and
shape their minds for eternal things. Yet sad as
is the picture of intemperance, its cup of woes,
and the number of its victims are daily increasing
Every public gathering is saluted with the rbald
ry of the vocabulary of Bacchana. Dram shops
are the principal resort On such occasions of far
too many, whose ruin is written upon their faces.
as soon as the cheap poison moisens their lips.
There are but few whisky shops in the conntry
the people of the respective towns having the
power in their own hands, use the only safeguard
to prevent the spread Of intemperance. They do
not believe in granting license to sell ruin. misery,
paupcrism and death. The man who trafiics thus
in human souls is not more responsible than those
who license him to do it's only mere show
of throwing the responsibility from Que 10 the
other. Our county seat grants license to men tc
sell antcmpcr ance, and puts the license fee in the
city treasury. The crime, the paupersm and the
numerous evils accruing from this, that generate
n large item of ncidentals must be met in equal
proportion by the county at large. There is scarce
Iy II hat fha pfru
is not Injured by ntoxcaton, the result of liquor
drank in the city, or obtained there However
much averse to the use of ardent Spirits the mas
jority may be, however stringent measures they
may adopt TO prohibit its pernicious influences
they have no appeal, no hope of escape and re-
form for the nebriate. so long he can get whis-
ky by the glass gallon ard barrel in the city and
bring home and drink at leisure, and treat his
ueighbors aud thus revel and riot nights and Sun
days, disgrace to themselves, their families and
to a moral and religious community.
1t was only last week that from the coun-
try left the city drunk and on his way home was
thrown fro m his wagon and severely injured
that his life is despared of and should he recover
there is no hope that he will ever be able to do
days work and yet he has family dependant
upon the labor of his hands for support
would to God there was law in force cons
peling every liquor seller to meet all liabilities,
and pay all damages resulting through intoxica-
tom Intemperance is the greatest destroyer of
humaA happiness. Its victims are numbered by
the thousand, its woes stop not with him who is
consumed by its devouring fame but its ruthless
grasp is laid with heavy hand upon the innocent
and unoffending, and they must bitterly feel the
whitening curse that stamps with disgrace fath>
er,s shame, aud the stain upon brother mans
hood They are doomed to suffer not only this
but the worlds dread scorn, who too often cold o
pity look with Contemptuous upon the
drunk ard ragged. starving child Would that
men could view this question in moral aspect
and not in present pecunlary Que Would that
men acould act with reference to the great hereafN
ter and then the multitude of evils that now cast
their dark shadows our land would melt in
blessings, and happiness reign supreme.