The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-22

bave law and we have q riuht IN
stop everything which would tend to cor
degrade our citizens by its use When tbe
cholera-that dreadful plague-was raging in
CINCINNATI, all vegetables, green corn, cucum-
bers, and cabbages were prohibited from sale.
Now there was no law that could prevent any
person from partaSng OF them, II they so de-
slred; but there was a law, as O wholesome pro-
vision for the safety of the communities a
sanitary measure-that no such vegetable should
be brought into the city or sold; ana If Il hao-
pened that some old farmer, who had spent his
labor In Iaising fat cucumbers and plump cab-
bages, should arrive within the limits of the city
during that period, some officer would dash up
and, In an authoritative manner, tell him that
IL he offered to sell, and should sell any of his
vegetable stock, he would throw horse aud
wagon and cabbage into the Ohio river. No
one objected to this because IL was a REQUIRE
ment, pecessitaed for the safety of the city from
terrible scourge. So far as intemperance is
concerned we want no protection, but We want
the morals and safety of people protected
Who, suffers the most, the poor, destitute
drunkard's wife and shiyering child, OF the
druDkard2 What life to live2 Destitute of All
comfort, beIeft OF all happiness a home of pow
erty, starving to death, the poor woman and
little child linger out a miserable existence
while the father damns his soul, blghts the
happiness of his wife, casts an evil influence on
every hand, while the barkeeper, cold.hearted,
caring only for money money chuckles
behind his bar, near his warm fire.
1t is hard thing, mothers aud fathers to
think that one must live under the curse of
hundred
thousand children there are in Pennsylvania,
| who to-day are suffering aud destitute with
| drunken mothers and besotted fathers, They
| have right to seek and demand the protection
| of the law. Close up the rum-shops on Sunday,
and go witness the result which will be attained
| when snares and pitfalls, more horrible than
| Imagination can depict will once again be eradi-
| Gated, and men freed from those heilish innu-
ences which concentrate about the dram
| shops. Close up the rum-shops, and soon the
| prison doors may be opened, and there shall 90
| out those who will reform, and no more will the
| barred gate fall back to hide from the world
that misery and woe accomplished by the seeth-
| ing cup. Close these places and on some bright
Monday morning glance over your police reports,
| and see what a wonderful change has been
! wrought in this vast community. When those
| who once we're drunkards may return to their
happy homes, once the scenes of misery untold
and desolation unutierable, sober men,
| rejoicing in strength OF body re.
gained, moral elevation, and the satisfaction
Of fair and honest name among brothers re-
| established. 1t Is meet that we should have
| one day Tor rest in the seven-yes in order that
! there may be rest even for devils. We all need
\ 1.-THE very beasts of the field require it, and
man cannot live in strength and good health h
without this recess in lites labor. This ques-
! tiCn is one Of great import now to all the in
/ terests of society-the moral, religious, educa-
tional, and one which presses down home to
! the heart OF every person in the community.
| Is there father here that has family, aud
among his sons one who has become endeared
to him by warm sympathy of feeling: one boy
| VINO Is more promising IOr R0OQ WORKS ana
deeds than the others, who has the finest sus.
capabilities, a generous nature, and gushing
heart which goes out to all who come within its
contact? !? Father, have you such one? II you
have, let me say he is in the most danger
of certain destruction from these dram
shops and groggeres. Fer should he
start once on the road, he steps on
the fast descending volute, and will be dashed
to pieces-a life blasted and hopes withered ere
| you are aware. Such are the men who fall.
Our best men, our noblest men, many of them
simply because their natures were softer than
others, more generous and sociable, were the
first TO fall. They are not like your cold
blooded, phlegmatc, surly individual, whose
minute No danger of their becoming drunk
ards-they have become liquorproof by drink
ing the evil for fifty years...you take them by
the hand, and it feels as If you we're grasping
the caudal appendage of dead fish. They have
drank so much that their brains seem to have
been Systematically spread over their entire
body, without concentration and their natures
are deadened TO all good influences. Far differ
ent are they from the noble young men, of
whom so many are finding pauper's and
sand every week of Just such young persons
in this noble land OF Washington and Lincoln
(applause), until along our pathway are long
tombs strewn with broken hearts and desc
late homes. Ard Philadelphia is reserved her
share of this great sacrifice. CouDtrymen, think
OF it They are the very ones we can least
spare. The very men who, If we wanted money
to send to the heather, or distribute neces-
saries to the poor, or build churches, would
sink their aims to their elbows in their pockets
10 aid us; and yet we see them sinking fast on
every hand, engulfed in that yawning abyss -
inemperance If we could exchange and turn
over the $4,000 of those old and impenetra-
bic drinkers to the sexton and the devil, and
save the So 600 young men, a vast good to the
nation would be accomplished! The world
would be bettered, society would be elevated,
and morality would become more deep-seated in
the communities. But the liquor seller claims
that his freedom is curtailed, that he is OPP
pressed by the law. Is that any abridgment OF
the law which requires that liquor seller shall
observe the same rules and regulations in
the community the same as any other
man? And we see that no other busi-
ness-eyen tof such untold superiority
over the infamous liquor trafic-is carried on
on the Sabbath day. The coopers do not split
their slaves nor pound their barrels; the smith
does not labor at the forge nor heat the iron;
the grocer 1oes not sell his provisions nor keep
his cart moving through the neIghborhood with
his produce; and why should he who sells
liquor, which cannot aid man in any form
whatever, and tending only to his speedy de-
gTadation? Another thing we know. A nation
OF drunk ards cannot be nation of freemen, and
unless something is done Immediately to stop
this awful sway of intemperance; unless there
he counter currents or bulwarks, to prevent the
Derpetuation of this evil, it will result in ter
Iible storm of vice. and all that is pernicous in
the extreme, to the speedy ruination OF this
people; and In the nineteenth century we Will
have 900, 900 drunkards in the land. Shall 1t be
that this thing shall go on? oh, stand by your
authorities in this legislative enactment which,
il carried out, will give the people the best
liberty in the truest sense. Ladies, you have
something 10 do in this matter-a grand-a
noble work is left in your hands Oh, know
bow true the women are, aud how they labored
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