Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-01-04


( plebeians. II the speaker had r drop OF
/ aristocratic blood he wanted il out.
/ Applause, He belonged TO the people,
and had come from the people.
The time would come when the pro
gress OF Christian civilization would ig-
more rank and only know the man.
George Washington was the FIRST Presi-
dent, but how that title paled before tho
man The people made him President,
but God made him the man. In our
country the people were masters, and
every man was 4 sovereign. All were
kings here, and all our wives and Gaugh-
tiers queens The object of true and
good government Shonld be to improve
manhood, and the government that does
not protect the people is "A bad govern
ment. There was nothing under our
government that was a greater health
destroyer, nothing so foreign to mans
happiness, nothing such an enemy To
man as alcohol, and no government was
true to the people that iostered the trade.
There was power at work that moth
ing could suppress; an irrepreSsible
power against il; aud that included all
good citizens, including the ladies' who
/ would soon be voting citizens, applause
and that devil. drink, having been once
arrested, and the chains cast about him
/ by angels from heaven, the links would
he locked with the pailocE of prohibi-
ton forever. In conclusion he called
upon all To rally around the flag of total
abstinence and legal prohibition unturl-
| cd here today. II WAS shown that 3d.
O)0OJ) gallons of lilnor were made
annually in this coIntry. There were
ll0,DJ grog shops, 3)J,0)D persons
eng lged in manufacturing lO),0)J went
, to their graves by its use, 6J,0)) drunk
ards were made annually, and yet good
/ people were dormant Where werctLe
( Christian ministry ? Where the Chris
tian men and women, let them rally
round the cold water flag and fight On,
fight ever, until not one grcg shop was
lett in existence.
MIR. BRADLEY, OF WASHINGTON.
Mr. +. VI Bradley, of Washington,
/ ID. G.. was the last speaker. He review
/ ed the horrors of the rum curse which
caused three tourths of ihc pauperism
and crime in the land. whirh traffic was
lcglliZ,d by the government, and de-
I clarcd him for prohibition in tho
! fullest sence. In Washington the board
of police commissioners, by vote of
) to /, had endorsed bill Introduced
in the Senate to prohibit the liquor traf-
tic in the District of Columbia, and they
hal good prospects of success. The
. speaker argued that the remedy for the
evil was education at homc-cducl,ion
at the family hcarthstole He pictured
/ the hlppyhomaS where the winecup was
stranger, and compared them with
those where its bighting curse had been
developed. He wished for battle field
/ where the rum advocates and the good
and true could fight ont this horrid war
and keep it ever out OF the home circle.
lie severely ccnSurcd the customary
Christmas carnival of drunkenness, and
expressed the hope that all good people
would oppose it. by excluding the wine
cup from their homes during the hoi-
day season.
DKINKiNG SALOONS ANp THEIR WORK
The Rev Louis G. Muller, pastor of
the Cross street VI. T. Church. corner
of Cross and Warner streets, delivered
a sermon in the morning on drinking
Saloons and their Work His text
was from II tbukkuk "Woe unto him
that givcth his neighbor drink. H.
said the liquor business il great bust
ness. Wealthy, talented. Influential men
are interested in it. 1t is planted in ele-
giant and arIstocratic siv-story marble
! hotels, in restaurants with tcsselated
marble floors and counters, gilded mir
rorS, &c, and also in thousands Of petty
grogshops with sanded floors, &c, where
drinks are sold for three cents. There
are 400 drinking saloons in Baltimore.
which, if placed together in line, would
make street from four 10 five miles
long. According TO the internal reve
nue. statistics there were spent last year
in intoxicating drinks $3.50, ,0)),0JD
That sum would pay the national debt in
two years, and relieve the country from
national taxation. the reverend speak
er then proceeded to show the vast re-
suits that would be accomplished if that
sum Of sl,jD).0JO,0)) was annually ap-
! piled TO education. or internal improve
meats, or IN religion He warned the
young and the old not 10 patronize the
liquor business aud not 10 visit drinking
places. When asked 10 drink, they
should answer "no' not hesiiatinoly or
family, put emphatically and re@olutcly
! 10.
The speaker then portrayed at length
the evils Of social drinking, and the
misery Of confirmed intemperabce IIc
spoke of the bad associations which il
led TO. Some gentlemen and persons
OF character may be found in drinking
places, but most Of the visitors have no
particular character, unless il H. bal. He
next described the frauds pradiced by
liquor dealers, and the mode in which
liquors are adnterated by poisonoussut-
stances and deleieriOus compounds. A
chemical analysis Of fifty samples Of
wines and liquors, all bought at the
tirst-class houses in New York city.
showed that bat five OF six samples yerr
pure. Strychonia, prIssic acid, arsenic
and other deadly poisons are used in the
manufacture Of liquors Over nearly
every brand Of ''pure whisky, &c. on a
barrel ought to be placed another brand,
aG.N