The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-09-27
THOSE ACCOUNTABLE TEMPERANCE
e SOCIETIES. as

/ Yxs, those abominable Temperance
Societies II there is any one abomina
ton more abomipable than all othel
abominations, that abomination is com
iprised in the abominable temperance so
cieties. ss --r...s---
Look at the increase Of members il
these societies during the last few years
They may be counted by millions. Their.
is scarcely village or hamlet to bt
found in the United States which ha:
not been invaded by some apostle ol
temperance and society organized
But this thing has been going on quite
long enough. 1t is high time for the
friends of rum to arise in their might
and crush out these pestiferous societies.
Unless something shall be done, and
/ done quickly, it will require but few
years more, if they continue to increase
in the same ratio they have of late, for
| the temperance men of this country to
be in the majority. And should this de-
| plorabie event ever occur-why, it makes
one shudder to contemplate the awful
consequences! gs4ssgffa = s,zf.-. .s-s 49,. p
Chief among the evils which would
inevitably result, as national calamity,
may be mentioned the almost total loss
of splendid institutions, erected at a
cost of millions of dollars, and which
are now the pride and boast of Ameri-
can civilization. We allude toour State
prisons, our penitentiaries, our jails,
houses of correction, homes for the
friendless, orphan asylums, aims houses,
and various other benevolent and ele-
emosynary institutions which are now
kept up at a yearly cost of millions of
dollars.
The total annihilation of these mag
nifcent institutions, we feel assured, is
the object at which the temperance men
and women are aiming. In word, sly
as they keep it, they aim at revelation
bloodless. it is true, nevertheless revolu-
ton. They are nothing but conspira-
tors, conspiring against the rights of the
rumseller and the drunkard-rights the
oeA'es' "n' nAose S~cIeo W 'ne huHah
race-the right of the rumseller to coin
money from the tears and agony of wo-
men and children; the right of the
drunkard, to beggarE and disgrace his
ianiiy' 10 become q Vagaoona ana an
outcast Ihese rights, OF both rumsei-
teHEp pepd .dgApkard. have been acknowl-
are SO old that ..the memory of man run
meth NOT to the contrary" and now for
q party Of fanatics to spring up with the
aEoWed, ,ppEppae Of rohhing these most
IResth ~ lent nea7fh rpapselt1
~ 4o6l - ofa1e epn1sen1kanA .nal
ldng vested right, 4. toetnation
That the temperance people are rank
and reyolntionists, appears
in the fact of their secrot organizations.
Under q variety Of names THESE Organi
cations are sown broad cast throughout
our land Old men and women, young
men and smaidens, and even ch1dren-
poor little things !---are being daily Sc
duced from the allegiance which they
owe to King Alcohol, to become mem
bers of these abominab ble temperance so
cieties.) 30 s-5 ma 81 sss sat a
Can anything be conceived more de-
plorable than the persuading of an in
nocent child to put its name to a solemn
pledge, promising TO totally abstain from
the use of spirituous and Intoxicating
Pehars the little thing has
never yet tasted Bourbon; knows moth
ing of gin cock tails; is profoundly slg-
norant of rum punches; IN fact never
..'smiled !" never ''induiged never
took a "night-cap." Once within the
influence of these abominable temper
ance societies, and it is highly probable
that these children will hive to a healthy
olo age ~i'iiou' ,oi ese' nno ''."s no" any
OF tnese beverages taste- oai any liilinhg
De imagined more noffloie
/" i'nou' Tue innueuee VI 'nese auo'n
lnaDic temperance Societies., now ulueT-