The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-11
For The Bloomfield Times.
LOCAL OPTION.
Some Of the Results of Intemperance.
ITS INFLuENoE UPON OUR SCHOOLS.

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schools of the United States will become
drunkards in the course of ten years if the
liquor laws of the country are not abolished.
2. In the United States there is an aver
age of four whisky shops to one school.
3. At least two million of the children
of our country are deprived of school priv
ileges on account of the intemperance of
their parents.
4. From these statistics it is easy to see
that we are pulling down with ono hand
that which we are trying to build up with
the other
5. The conclusion follows that we have
more to dread from the licensed liquor
shops than TO hope for from our schools.
ITS INFLUENc cE UPON THE FAMILY.
I. One drunkard in family destroys the
peace and happiness of every member of it,
What family has not, directly or indirectly
felt it's blighting influence. Reader, is
your family an exception?
| 2. The drunkenness of men has been the
most prolific source Of misery to aoonaen.
Should not then, the mothers and daugh-
ters who read this, use their influence
against traffic which has been the cause
of more sorrow to their sex than all other
causes combined?
g. In the consumption of the liquor an
nually made and sold in the United States,
at least sixty thousand lives are yearly de-
stroyed one hundred thousand men and
women are sent toprison, and two hundred
thousand children are bequeathed to poor
houses and charitable institutions. Sixty
thousand year is more than one thousand
one hundred and fifty-four per week, one
hundred and sixty-four per day, six for
every hour and one for every ten minutes.
In addition to this, three hundred murders
and four hundred suicides are yearly COM
mitted on account of it. In the light of
these facts, alone, every man should vote
against license.
4. In the State of Pennsylvania, at least
one person in fifteen is made pauper by
intemperance.
5 Whose fault is it Not the drunk
ards for they command our sympathy
but those who sustain and perpetrate the
evil by their vote. win you share the
guilt of such wholesale destruction?
g. In the light of desolated homes, of
pinching poverty, of misery, of suffering
brought about by intemperance, we be-
seech you to vote against the further con-
tinuance of this, the greatest enemy of the
domestic hearth.
, y Eothar thiply fan IT,tc
band, consider If you vote against IL
cense, you are bestowing blessing upon
thousands of families which are the uu-
happy victims of this terrible evil.
IT'S INFLUENCE UPON THE CHURCH.
1. Statistics prove that the Church i'll
the United States loses at least fifty thous.
and members every day, on account of in.
temperance.
2. Only one person out of every eight is
|, in the habit OF attending places of public
worship. Every liquor shop is an enemy
to the Church. They SOW the seeds of in.
Q difference and hostility to religion.
3. The present temperance reform is moi
political, but religious movement. The
Church of Christ must take the lead, If she
be true to her Lord.
S A. The abolition of the liquor traffic j,
= one of the duties of the Church-a duty
that could be very speedily accomplished
, by united and vigorous action. viii the
I Church face the responsibility?
g. Every church member ought to vot,
against license. How can Christian low,
, God and his neighbor, and yet be willing
to perpetuate that which retards the ex
tension of Christ's Kingdom, destroys thu
body and soul Of his neighbor, and tn
peace and happiness of his family.
|. 6. Could the church members of tn,
y country all become earnest and consisten
|. friends of temperance, then Christianity in
! telligence, virtue, liberty and justice woulC
make more progress in the next fifty year
than has been witnessed since the downfall
of the Roman Empire.
Z. In view of these facts, let every Chris
tian come up to the help of the Lord, +
e the help Of the Lord against Che mighty
1t and vote against the license law on the 81
Friday in March.
8. Thus saith the Scripture "Wo
unto him that giveth his neighbor stron
drink" This applies not only to thos
m who sell it, but also to those who vote I
?. continue the practice.
IT'S INFLUENCE UPON THE STATE.
or 1. Nine-tenths Of the pauperism an
crime N our community is caused by il
y temperance.
~ ~ 2. The State pays every year 81. $50. $40