The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-04-27
FROM DES MONIES.


FROM DEs MONIES.
D1s MoISEs Iowa. April ed. 1871.
Dear Advcrtiscr:-After a long cold
"spell," with a heavy frost last Friday
night, the clouds have gone, and the
bright sunshine with all its animatiug
influence has again come. How chang
ed! Yesterday, and for three or four
days preceding people were seen with
elongated count~nancss, tho feathery
songsters scarcely clirped, the newly
born leaves hung limp and Timber, AMI
tho sonorous and harmonious music Of
the frogs was among the things that
were. TO, day the earth il flooded with
light, the air fragrant with the perfume
Of flowers and vocal with the music OF
birds. and all nature declares
1.-THE hand that made us 10 Divine"
The Iowa State Medical Society met
here, aud was in session Wednesday and
Thursday Of this week. There were
about one hundred NJ. D's present. and
the session was one of the most interest
ing and harmonious ever held. l was
sorry that Cedar county was not repre-
sented. Cedar county could have sent
some representatives that would have
com pared favorably with the best in Mt.
reimbursement Of ex, erience and W. II
posted, who ought to have contributed
their quota to the advancement Of sci.
| ence and who in return might have
been benefited. Why didn't they
come?
Before coming here had heard that
Des Moines was very sickIy place; that
there was great deal Of malaria here,
and that diseases, usually mild in form,
assumed malignant type, and conse-
uuently that the mortality wa. great
There were l2G deaths in tho city last
year, including thoae from accident aud
violence, which is considerably below
one per cent Of the population. Judg-
ing from what have observed during a
half years residence believe the place
is remarkably healthy.
A great many violators Of the law,
especially Of the liquor law, have been
brought to grief lately. Fine and i'm
prisonment, aud confiscation have been
visited upon them, in some instances
the streets bei,g made 10 run with
"liquid damnntion." Dens Of prostitu
ton have also been broken up, and
their unfortunate, though compared
with tho former class Of criminals, hon
orable inmates, have felt the firm grasp
of the law. There are those here, A
elsewhere, who cry prescription and
persecution, aud talk Of reaction aud
sympathy, &C., but still tho work goes
on until the new Mayor and police force
have become a terror to evil doors.
Please understand mo that not al liquor
dealers are prosecuted, but only those
who violate the law.
Somehow or other the conviction has
become deeply fixed in my mind that
the liquor seliers-I don't mean saloon
lists merely, but all drunkard makers,
whether styled druggis,s or anything
else, have the penalty Of their crimes
Arrays visited upon them in this life-I
mean the beginning Of tho penalty. The
law may never arrest them, wealth may
flow Into their Golfers, aud they may
Flourish like green bay tree" but it l.
only for time. In the midst Of oil
their apparent prosperity calamity /,
visited upon them. 1.-THE iniauity q
the fathers Ia visited" If not upon them
selves, upon their children even unto
the third and fourth generation" Thei,
children became drunk ards, their prop
erty 10 squanderesl and in Thousand
ways they como to feel the miser,
and wo retailed to others come home {.
themselves and their families With
Wholesale and terrible force.
1t Seems to mo that II one were to si
an hour and think Of all the families
that could he called up In that length o
time til the result Of the refloctio,
would be, that while in many familie
who utterly ignore strong drinks non
become incbriates, there are no familie
who sell or drink intoxicating liquors
but that have some II not all their mem
bers the victims or apoiogists Of stron,
drink. All medical observers agree tina
inebriety il hereditary as welt as nc
quired. Who then in view Of these ter
rible facts can afford to become drinker
or drunkard makers?
J.F.KESNEDY.