Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-07-29
Written for the Republican.
THE EVIL EFFECTS OF VICE

light, or calculate the near, and the |
more distant consequences. Take,
for instance, one of the vices much
practiced in our own town, and
falling under the observation of the
most causual observer, almost every
day, in one or the other of it's forms.
I mean the sale and consumption of
Intoxicating beverages, with all
their attendant consequences. We
will begin with the Saloon-keeper
What do we understand by sa-
loon? Why when we read on
sign-board saloon, we understand
that that is the place where intoxi-
eating liquor are sold indiscrimi-
nately for all purposes; or we
understand it is an invitation to all
persons who wish to drink, get
drunk, play cards, billiards, or
almost any other game of chance,
that this is the place where they
can be gratified, Sabbath Gay or
week day, night or day. Now,
what can we think Of the man who
so advertises himself; No one but
knows that drunkenness is a viola
ton of the laws of God and man !;
no one but knows that it is a fruit
full source Of civil, social and
domestic misery. Then we may
define the sign over..his door as an
advertisement of himself as ready to
assist in violating Gods law, the
laws of his land and the laws of all
social and, domestic relations. He
further advertises that he is ready
to help bring about all the misery
that drunkenness brings upon us in
our civil relations. He is ready to
sell the Legislator of civil law, any
of his beverages to unfit him for his
responsible position don't care
what the law, so he gets the money.
He sells bis ware to the civil judge
who sits in judgment over the rights
of the widow and the orphan, to
disqualify him to do justice in the
cases brought before him. He
agrees to sell to the citizen that is
on the way to the ballot box, that
he may deprive him of the capacity
of exercising the highest functions
entrusted to him in the sphere OF
civil government He sells to the
husband. no matter if his pale wife
is sitting over the embers that have
grown cold for want of fuel, weep
!, ing because her children have nc
bread, weeping, because he vowed
to love and cherish her, is now pre-
ferring the society Of Bachanals, to
the society of one he professed to
love. Weeping, because the one
whom she trusted above all others
is now heglecting her. Weeping
because her husband is going the
downward road to eternal ruin. He
persists in selling rum, although his
own wife is reproached as eating
the bread of dishonesty, and his
children have cast up to them: YOU
father is dirty saloon keeper, youl
clothes are bought with the bread Of
widows and orphans. He advertises
that here you jolly rumsuckers yor
can find ready market for your
hard earned money. I have cards
billiards, or what you may want, to
spend your time and money for
He makes no conscience of carrying
on his wicked business Oh the hol,
Sabbuth, Notwithstanding God has
said remember the Sabbath day te
keep it holy" He has no time to
| go to church, he agrees to sell his
customers whisky to prepare then
to abuse their wives and children or
their way to the sanctuary Of Cod:
house; to prepare them for profane
swearing, Safeguarding. scoffng at
and insulting whoever may chance
to go by, where he is, whether to
the church, the sick-room, or the
hovel Of poverty. But why exten6
the catalogue OF. evils, misery an6
, shame, entailed on us and our chill
dren, by business known to be
unrighteous, and only an instru
ment of mischief, misery and wretch
edness, without one redeeming fea
ture, or the least shadow Of a bless
ing to a community, but only ( te
say it in one word curse. Ant
now what must we think of the self
respect, the respect for his neighbor
wife or children. of that man, who
is a habituaI customer of such F.;
place. The proprietor has adver
tised by his sign, and perhaps il
, the periodicals of the day, come
here if you wish to be degraded
impoverished and murdered, and ]
will, for your earning, or for th'
legacy bequeathed you by you
father, make your wife a widow ane