The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1873-07-11
GOOO TEMPuR's COLUMN.

We have seen that the business OF sell
ing whisky inficts positive injury upon
every legitimate profession and vocation
in society. Now IL Is a fundamental
principle Of society, that each member Of
society shall be held accountable for his
own acts. Hence, each individual or
corporation is amensble under the law
for whatever Of injury that may be i'm
posed upon others by such. II my horse
and buggy fall through trcacberous
bridge on any Of our turnPikcs, the cor
porsticn Of such Is, by the law, made re-
spousible for all damages, both to my
person and property.
Ifmy mule or COW Is jncautiously ran
over by a train Of ears upon the railroad,
the company is made, by law, response
bic. Every man will ssy.the law is just
and good that holds each Of these parties
accountable fbr is deeds. Why. in the
name of everything that is good, make
an exception to the whisky trafBci Why
make pets of bar-rooms, saloons, tippling
housesi Why, for a few dollars Qicense
money! grant the right Of way through
the whole length and breadth Of our land
10 whisky, to construct its broad and de-
sccnding road to ruin and infamy' Why
sanction and legalire a business that can
not sustain itself except by inAicting a
positive injury upon every otheri The
more money comes into the saloon, the
wider and deeper and blacker the curse
that il pours out upon society. If my
neighbor construct q mill-dam across a
stream. and thereby cause its waters to
overflow my farm, destroy my fencing
and my crop, and expose my family 70
malaria and disease, the law would inter.
fere, and remove his dam as q nuisance.
But the law that icenses my neighbor to
construct whisky shops by my fmm, by
my store, by my home, thereby grants
him the right to drive the business from
my door, and my family from its quiet
home.
A widow lady, in one Of our little
towns, said to me only to-day: Il have
only one child-a son-with me now, and
am afraid for him TO live with me lon.
ger in this town. He is being drawn
into these bar-rooms, and will be ruined
if he remains. / don't know how / am
to keep house all alone, but / will submit
to anything sooner than see him learn to
drink" Here is lonely widow, com
PEELED to send away from her own home,
her only son, her only protector by
night and comfort by day, to avoid the
moral malaria of the tippling shops. and
escape the food Of iniquity that they
cause to overflow the land. But for tn,
law that legalizes the whisky traffic, hel
boy would not be exposed to the danger'
Of drunkenness. How many mothers arr
there in Lincoln county-yes, and faith
en too-whose aching hearts are crying
for protectioni Shall they cry in vain
God forbid. Shall this one traffic o.
whisky, the most demoralizing Of all 9th
ers. be sanctioned, licensed and petted By
the voters Of Lincolni
But the whisky trade is responsible fol
more than the inAiction Of q fnancia
loss upon the county and upon its citi
rens. 1t destroys the lives of our people
Forty thousand are supposed TO die an
nually, in the United States. from intem
perance! Add 10 this the fearful mum
Der that are slain by violencel Ther
add the number who commit these bloody
deeds under the influence Of whisky. ans
how appalling the spectaclell
What has been the losses in these re
spects, in Lincoln county, within the las
generationi Are there not names Of un
sullied fame. living fresh and green OF
msmory's page, whose sad and untimel,
death are tracsable 10 the whisky trade
Are a few dollars Of license money an,
compensation for the loss Of thesei Car
Lincoln county afford to exchange tn
blood Of her citizens for such q pricei-
Can society afford TO have its noble son
made wretched for life for the sake Of |
business whose fruits are only evil. ans
that continually No, no. But ther'
are other and more terrible losses still
There are Assrtlossssi There are home
from which the peace and light and jo,
Of life have aed forever. What intellec
s competent 10 dstermine the extent 0
heArtlo~ TO the loving mother whose sol
has been converted by saloons. from
noble, aspiring and gsserous youth int
. purposeless bloatsd vagabond. beref
Of selfrespect. and doomed 10 the end
le- reproachss Of socistyi The miD'
Of au angel cannot compete the mAgni
tude Of that mothers loss And Is III
los 10 his father lesi No. no. He iesl
In all the depths Of his nature that th'
whisky traffic has robbed him Of the psid'
Of his heart, he goes through life with I
heavy heart end soul bowed down. Ill
finally he sinks into the tomb. How
many hearts are bleeding NOS over Iosse
like thsssf How ra@ny complaints ar
going up 10 God from hearts pieroes
through with many sorowsi God vii
listen 10 the voice Of their griei, ans
ayenge their vrones.