Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-09-01

United States would far more tina
furnish a glass daily to each of til
!; millions, and, every body know
that the average cost to consumer
is more than two cents a glass.
And let it be admitted that all tn
time now employed in importing
manufacturing, distributing an,
, drinking this deadly poison nigh
be devoted to other business equal
lJ productive; and here we hav,
another item of at least eighteel
hundred millions of dollars wasted
the simple interest of which would
be sufficient to support the Chris
tian ministry throughout the ma
ton.
Add to these the, enormous ex
pense of sickness, pauperism
crime and premature death, occa.
stoned in the same period by in
toxicating drinks, and you have
third item of at least eighteen hun.
dred million dollars wasted, which
would purchase a bible for every
inhabitant of the Globe. Any one
who has patience to calculate lit
tie will see that these estimates are
far within bounds.
1t must not be forgotten here
that, in nearly all the States, every
male drunkafd of proper age is a
voter and has equal power in the
elective franchise with the most
elevated citizen.
Nor can it be concealed that
thousands of votes are every year
purchased by this poison.
Nor must it be forgotten that
should intemperanee increase fol-
fifty years to come in the same ra-
ito that it has done since 1860,
about one third Of our voters
would be daunkards, and probably
half the remainder somewhat in
temperate. What tEen would be
the character Of our beloved repub-
lie? What spectacle would she
present to surrounding nations,
and how would she appear in the
pure eye of Heaven
And should the tide of intemper-
ance still roll on, and with the pop
ulation, increase in the same ratio
for eighty years, a majority of our
voters would be drunkards, and our
population then amount to q hun
dred million. Who then could raj
ly the nation and turn back the
burning tide! Or who could gov
ern the maddening multitudes and
save our ship amid the raging OF
such sea of fire. 1t is not q vain
thIng'that patriots and philanthrop-
lists have awaked up to this subject,
Their trumpet should thrill in thun-
ders through the land, and in tones
ofredeeming mercy should urge all
the young to save themselves and
their defendants. These can, if
they will, cause the river Of abomi-
nation to be dried up and the pure
river of God to flow in its place
What christian, what youth, then,
what child that loves his country,
that loves mankind, will not now
cooperate with Patriots, and States
men, and Physicians, and Divines,
and the respected of every name, in
applying the remedyP Who does
not see its certain efficacy and the
grandeur Of the result! Who does
not see that drunkards Rre all form
ed by moderate drinking! and that
if the young will abstain, all drunk
ards now living will soon die, and
the great national evil be extermin-
ated. What christian, what youth,
then, SO perverse, so selfish, SO cold
to his country's glory, SO devoid of
philanthrophy, that he will not alb
stain, even from sweet cider.
While Wilberforce was lifting his
voice for the abolition of the slave
trade, three hundred thousand in
Great Britain abandoned the use of
sugar.
And when our patriot fathers re-
sisted foreign taxation, hundreds of
thousands in this land renounced
the use of tea. And could they
abstain from things agreeable and
innocent because they hated op-
pression9 And is there a christian
or patriotic youth who will not
openly renounce that which poisons
alike both soul and body, and in
fects both temporal and eternal