Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-27
Discussion of the Temper
aRce Question.

? BACoNsBCRG, Feb, %, 1867.
EDITOR CHRONICLE. DEAR SIR Per
NIT me again TO occupy a space in the
columns of your excellent weekly. 1
believe the point is admitted, that ours
is the best government in the world.
and that we are the most enlightened
and enterprising people in the world.
| believe. too, that it is an admitted
bible truth, that according to the light,
knowledge and privileges enjoyed by
individual communities, they are ac-
countable.
ITO whom much is given, much will be re-
CURED"
1t is cogently and clearly taught from
all the pulpits in the land, that it will
be more tolerable in the day of judg-
ment for Sodom and Gomorrah than
for the enlightened sinners of this day
and nation who neglect their duty.
We have quarantine laws, boards of
health, police, peace officers, courts and
jurists, state and national lawmakers,
bibles, churches, the living ministry,
and the holy sabbath, and yet the most
prolific source of disease and death,
moral degradation, misdemeanor and
crime, is fostered by law and uneheck-
ed by the restraints of public senti-
ment.
Let it be kept before the people,
that $4,000 drunkards die annually in
the United States. and that the liquor
traffic makes $4,000 drunkards annu-
ally. Keep it before the people that
the liquor traffic kills more men in the
United States than sIl diseases that
prevail. That drunkenness is' a dis
ease and a crime in the sight of God.
That more than half the crimes COM
mitted, are the fruits of the liquor.
traffic. It arms the assassin, Whets the
dagger of the murderer, nerves the
h~ighwayman, points the fatal pistol,
fills y prisons, crowds wi peniten-
%tiaries, orphan asylums, poor houses
and insane asylums.
1t corrupts public morals and retards
national thrift and prosperity. 1t pre-
walls everywhere and is a curse where
soever it prevails. 1t is a curse to the
maker, a curse to the vender, and a
body and soul destroying curse to the
drinker.
Now, sir, how is this national, state,
county, township, community and in
0AfAOAAA CdAdlattJ W De EcLueul0Q ! Leu
the friends of the cause rally to their
duty. Organize in every village, town,
and city. Get out and circulate petit
tions to National and State Legislatures,
demanding laws and penalties that will
effectually prohibit making or vending
spurious or adulterated liquors.
1t is a greater crime to sell adultera-
ted liquor than to make and pass coun-
terfeit money and why not make the
penalty adequate to the crime? In
business transactions, cheating, de-
frauding or swindling, is punishable
and men are held accountable.
But the juntos of the liquor traffic
are allowed to make and sell a cheat, a
fraud and q counterfeit. and thus carry
on Wholesale andretail s1indling with
impunity, and the work of murder goes
on, unrebuked by the people and the
offenders UNPUBLISHED by law.
By fair estimates, it can be shown,
that the liquor traffic costs the people
Of the United States at least 500, 000,-
600 annually, more than allits revenue,
and is nationally impoverishing as we'll
as nationally degrading and demoraliz-
ing.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink Is
raging, and he that is deceived thereby
is not wise" ALLoPATH.