Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1871-07-11
Bethel.

with an appreciative audience. lilo Is n
( very powerful speaker, and spoke fluent
ly, sometimes cloqueEtly, for IN hour
and half. drawing the closest attention
OF his hearers, and often receiving their
applauses The speaker pictured out tho
physical effects of alcoholic spirits on the
human system, burning up the yitals, de-
throning reason and wasting the souls
temple, thus bringing the strong man
low, and rendering him impotent rs in
fancy. lie said The great cause OF the
increasing intemperance, comes from the
tendency of Americans TO over labor, by
which we attempt to do in twelve hours
the work oil twenty four; and when we
break down, as is inevitable, and resort
TO The doctors, instead of seeking for rest
which we need they order stimulants.-
! Doctors are thus, to n great extent. re.
sponsible for the drunkenness that pre-
walls In many cases he said children
are made drunkards before their birth,
and in their immature years, by parents
who follow their orders, while others in
herit appetiles for the same reason.--
! While yet there are twenty to thirty spc.
cities, he says, that can be used instead
OF liquor In discussing "Woman's
Rights" the speaker said The day is not
/ far distant, when women shall have the
right to vote; then, with their co opera.
ten, we must still circulate the pledge,
and lift up our voices against the evil.
/ The efforts at moral Suasion have not
been given up, nor should they be. lie
| touched upon the duty of young ladies TO
make home pleasant and attractive, there
/ 10y cntcing their brothers To spend their
/ leisure hours nj home. keeping them from
the crimes and their curses that fill our
/ prison. houses with the victims OF vice,
who ought 20 be the champions OF virtue.
contracted by spending their time around
villages or dcnscly populated cities, alar
of where rum drinking, rioiing, robbery
and assassination are so life.
/ On Friday evening, his subject on
Moral AMI Legal Suasion was very in.
tcrcsting. He began by relating m IN
cidcnt upon The street one Sabbath morn
( Ing, when he saw man ravins from the
effects of liquor, being carried along in
an express. wagon. Such scenes are
quite common. DR.. Justin Edwards says
that more than sixty thousand die every
wear from the effects of Drunkenness
Savage, the Chief OF the Boston Police
/ Court. SAYS that in the last seventeen
( years there have been over four hundred
. thousand arrests in that city. of which
over two hundred and twenty-five thou
sand have been for mtoXication. while
nearly thirty thousand have been helped
home without subiccting them to the dis
grace of mn arrest. He said drunken
ness has increased one hundred and sew
cnty-fve per cent in the last fourteen
wears IN Boston The City Clerk Of Bos'
ton SAYS that eighty per cent. OF those
/ sent to Deer Island Tor various crimes
committed, owe their confinement 10
drink. Warden Haynes, of the Charles
/ loDn State Prison, says that OF twenty
/ four sent there for murder, all were ha-
| bilual drunkards, and MI but one, drunk
nj the time they committed the deed
| The speaker spoke OF the terrible power
OF the appetite Tor drink. He referred TO
one case while lecluring in the State OF
Ohio. OF u wealthy old farmer who own.
ed farm of two thousand acres; one
day while in conversation with him, the
farmer painted to liquor shop down
the street, and said, Ill you will cure me
of my horrible appetite for liquor, % that
can pass that shop without making q
beast of myself. will give YOU half oI
my property" So long rs there are liquor
shops, the streets are not safe Tor such
men. The speaker said he introduced a
bill into the Massachusetts Legislature
which was laughed at, but which he be.
licves will one day be adopted. 1t pro
I vided for the establishment OF County in
ebriatc asylums, to support which the
various cities and towns should be taxed
These taxes would show what drunken
ness costs, and the people would shut NJ
The dram shops. He said in no ease wa;
n licensed dealer known 10 complain o.
an unlicensed one. They dare not com
plain, for If they did. these unlicensed
sellers and their allies would vote fol
prohibition out OF spite, and carry it,
Dram shops manufacture voters faster
than any other agent known; and these
voters have ruled Boston for years, ant
this Is the ease in all large cities. The
speaker closed by urging temperance
people to vote Is they preach.
Mr.. David Holt, OF Bethel, had n cal
culous convection removed from hi
bladder, by DR. VIM. Green of Portland
which was one and half inches lang,
TIN ec fourths of IN inch thick and weigh
inc one ounce and halt. {.
The boarding houses in Bethel are al
ready about lull with summer company
The hotels are fast filling up. The pros
pect is that Bethel will have more com
pany than ever the present season, an'
ii is no wonder.
We noticed in The yard of Hon +
Woodbury. in Bethel, the other day, ;