Litchfield enquirer., 1870-02-03

Ilsetaat naaeht; aaistillefiss1 breweriss and J liquor shops are in fall blast; prisons poor, Ehouses, insane hospitals and inebriate esy- f1qms are thronged with their victims, and
 drunkenessG reels through our streets at monday muttering its maudlin acnrses,
 while,the grim rnm.poyer gloats over the
 frightful ruins with fierce defiance
 Here, then. the practical questions arise
 for solution What are theg causes of this tsad reiapses this down7hil slide; and how
 can lt De stayed. and the ~ cause put on an
 My own belief is, that an ainsidiou6, sub
 tie and powerful foe has had much to do
 in nentralizing and bafiing our efforts, in
 turning the shadow on the temperance dial
 backward, while the policy has been to
 maintain peaceful relations toward him, and shun an open rupture, as if afraid to arouse his wrath, and while, moreover, many pro- fessing temperance have actually yielded to
 his bewitching sorcery. Like che Spartan boy who suffered the fox which he had stoI len, to gnaw into his vitals, rather than ex-
 pose the theft, so we have suffered this foxy foe of temperai1ce to eat into her vitals | without complaint, thinking sufferanee and silence to be the best policy, the dictate of l lexpediency. Expediency forsooth! Out upon such an iexpediency, which has SO crippled and shorn us of our strength, and
 after SO many. years of cowardice and de. feat; let us declare open and eternal war
 on the twin-demon of alcohol, ,-its nseduc-
 tive haudmsid and terrible ally for, the de-
 struction of mankind. Let us enlarge our
 base and plant our guns on the everlasting hills, whence they will sweep the whole field Of the enemy, and pour hot shot not I,only eintotheC serried ranks of King Alchy,
 but also rake his-wily accomplice and pan! ders Let no longer folloR the cratic and delusiye metsors of expediency, to be led further backward into qusgmires and
 pitfalls, but take our course by the eternal stars of truth and 'rectitudeo To sAIoa !ia slWhen we were, ,bOyse our sagacious and
 forecasting mothers blessed be their dear
 memor1e 1esi-used to forewarn us against
 the use of tobacco lest it should lead to the use.of intoxicating drinks; and it was
 then current opinion thstyit creates, fos- ters, and intensifies tha alcoholic appetite; and subsequent observation has confirmed i it's truth Not that every tobacco. user tseeks to qnench his morbid and burning l thirst with ardent potations, but many, too
 many do, and such is the tendency in most, if not in all cases. T Nearly every tdrnnkard uses. tobacco. John Hawkins, the father of Washingtonianism, said he ] never had seen, in all his travels. but one
 who did not use it. He began it's use be-
 fore he began to drink, while it is not
 true, I admit, that every tobaecoist drinks liquor, though I cannot predict that he
 never will. At this point the speak CT was interrupted by a call to order, by some one who wanted to know if tobacco was a
 legitimate subject for discussion, in the n1I I42 A. time. To whom MT. e. replied that he was careful to avoid the general subject of
 tobacco--its mnltiforms evils which led a
 British statesman to odonbt whether the
 discovery of America and the consequent
 introduction of the article into Europe, had proved blessing rather than curse
 to the eastern worldsa He had nothing to say in this conne nectiono of the effects of to- tbacco producing or raggrayating eighty diff
 ferent diseases and bodily ills,s according to pbysicianss nor of its fearful tendencies
 to enaasculateand4 dwarf the race;s but he was considering it simply and solely iniits
 relations to the cause of temperance. He continueda Rhysicianse represent stobac.
 co to be the milton, the Estepping- stone to
 intemperancea in alcoholic drinks Says Dr. Rush, ia desire is excited by tobacco for strong drinks, and these lead to drum kenness. Says Dr. Stephepson: Chew I ing and smoking tobacco exhaust the sali-
 vary glands, producing dryness and thirst. Hence, after the use of, the cigar, or, the
 quid, brandy, whisky, or some other spir- its is called for" pr. Woodward says: T." Tobacco is the most common stepping
 stone to that usetof spiritensl liquors, which leads to, lntemperanee." Says Dr Muzzey: Smoking produces huskiness of the
 mouth, which calls for some liquid, hence the kindfed habits of smoking and drink Iing.'i DEp Beresford, of this city, no sec ondary authority, in his address before the says: ]" The truth is, and think it'patent Ito most candid andtlsensible persons, who will take the tronble. to carefully and broadly investigate the subject, that tobac- ! co f1sing1 !, like other unfortnnate and unJ ,
 natural practices.l isomerely e habit, and a
 bad one. morally and physically consider
 ed. Morally, because its use oflen leads to
 debasinq customs and vicioms indulgences:
 physically, .insomuch that it's inveterate ) abuse perpetaally violates wefEFecogni 1 idaWs bfaoar nature, and pretty constantly
 insures, sooner oEt later its oEn Eoi1 i;1nerited
 On this point medical authorities the
 world over, could be quptedto any extent.
 They testify, emphatlcally, that tobacco
 using leads naturally to iquor-drinking;
 that it is the fdciHs descensMs avsrni- the
 slippery and smoky gangway to the hell of
 drunkenness. There islay touch dof phiIos3 ophy ia the wish of tho poor degraded 1n-
 dian. Said he, 1T want three things--aH the rum in the world; all the tobacco in
 the world, and then more rum.baI smoke
 because it makes me love to drink In
 his case, at least, the tobacco-demon seems livery like that unciean spirit which, when it' has gone out of a man, or gone into him
 rather, says in its unrest,l ss I will take to lmyself seven other spirits still worse; and Ethey enter in and 'dweil there, and the last
 state Of that man is worse than the first l Moreover the permanent reformation of
 inebriates,g one of the leading objects of lEhiseso oeiety haa baeno found to be imprac-
 ticable so long as they have adhered to the aae of tobaccoaoI IheIgren WHshingtoni- an uprising, in 1S40, was rendered abortiye, well-nigh, by this demoralizing agent, and
 Ia very large proportion Of the inebriates
 hopefully reclaimed, all over the country. twhot had ldespe struggled up and
 grasped 8t their lost manhood, fell back
 again into the depths of sdrunkenn esseunr def'its gifeeafd sorcery.a Such, itiis! to, be 3apprehended, will be the lamentable re
 suit of the Good Samaritan movement, in
 which we all rejoice, should hot the repri- fsals from the grog shops, Sdfns away from | k1xo