The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-08-30
The Liquot Interest.


Tramp, tramp, ttsup, the boys arc
marching: how maf,y ofthom ? Sixty
thousand! Sixty full regiments, every
man of which will, before twelve months
shall have completed their course, lie
down in the grave of n drunAard -
Every year during the past decade has
witnessed the same sacrifice; anl sixty
regiments stlui behind this army rca DIV
to take its. place. Ii is to bc recruit cd
from cur children aud our children $
children, Tramp, tramp, tramp"
sounds come to US in the echoes Of the
footsteps of the ar.ay just expired. tramp
tramp, tramp -thcScar:h sliakci with the
tread Of Of the host now passing; tramp
tramp, tramp comas to US from the camp
reslstlcss!y TO its d6atf. What in q oce:-- <
name are thcy fighting for. The privi-
Iesc OF pleasing IN appetite, OF cOu.or-
ming tOa social usage, of iillins 60, coo
homes with shame and sorrow, of Ion d .
ing the public with the burden OF pau
pcri>m ut cruwding our prison houses
with i'eons, or dctractins from the pro
ductivc ia u1ustrics of the country, @! rain.
ing fortunes and breaking hopes. Of
breeding disease aud wrctchcducss. of
destroying both body aud soul in he'll
hciorc their time.
The prosperity Of the liquor interest,
covering every department OF it, depends
entirely OIL the maintenance OF this army
1t cam ot live without lit never did
live without it. So long as the liquor
interest maintains lis present prosperous
condition, it will cause America the
sacrifice of 10000 men every year. The
effect is lnseparable from the cause The
cost TO the country of the liquor traffic
is II sun so stupcndous that any figures
which VIC should dtrc to give would
convict US Of trifling. The amount of
life absolutely destroyed, the amount Of
Industry sacrificed, the amount of bread
transfyrmcd iuto poison, the shame, the
unavang sorrow, the crime, the power.
ty, thcpaupcrism, the brutality, the
wild was of vital and financial rcsour.
ccs, make an aggregate 50 vast-so in
calculably vast, that the only wonder is
that the American people do not rise as
one man and declare tha: this curse shall
exist no longer, Dlcuantc conventions
arc held on the subject Of peace, 5y men
and women who find it necessary to fid .
die to keep themselves awake. 4 hue.
aud cry is raised about women suffrage,
us if any wrong which may be involved
in womans lack Of the suffrage
could be compared to wrongs attached
to the liquor Interest!
Does any sane woman doubt that wo.
mon are suffering a thousand times more
from rum than from any political disa-
bility?
The truth is hat there is no question
before American people 90 day that be.
gins to match in importance the temper
nnce question. The question Of Amcri
can slavery vas never anything but
baby by the side OF this and We prophesy
that within ten years if not within five
the whole country will be awake to it,
and divided upon it. The organizations
Of the liquor interest, tho vast funds at
its command the universal feeling among
those whose busines is pitted against the
national prosperity and the public NOR.
als-theee are enough to show that, up.
on one side of this matter at least, the
present condition of things aud the social
and political questions that lie in tho
Immediate future are appsehendod. The