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

liquof. Interest know there is to be a
great struggle, and it is preparing to
meet>t. People both in this con ntry
and in Great Britain are beginning to
see tie cnormity of this business, are
beginning to realise that Christian civ
llIzation is actually poisoned at its fouu-
tain and that there can be no publication
of it Until the source of the poison is
dried up.
The country is to be sincerely con-
graduated IN the fact that the wine
interest of the United States does not
promise much LITTLE no.;vo wine, .re-
all our painstaking, finds its way to a
ecntleman's table The California
wines are disappointment and fail
ure, and the Western wines are the same
Neither the dry nor the sparkling
Catawoa takes tho place of anything
imported. They are not popular wines,
and We congratulate the county that
they meyer can be. The lager beer
interest is endeavoring, in convention, to
separate itself from the whisky interest,
claiming to be holier and more respect
able than that. They are all to be
Jumped together They arc all opposed
to sobricty, and, in the end, We shall
find them all fighting side by side for
existence against the determined indigna
ton OF Il long suffering people.
a respectable English magazine re-
ports, as fact encouraging moment,
that of the fifty thousand clcrgymen Of
the church of England as many as four
thousand actually abstain from the use
of spirits So, cleven-twolfths of the
ciergymen of the English church con.
sent TO be dumb dogs on the temperance
question! How large the proportion of
wine drinking clcrgymen may be in this
country we do not know, but we do
know wine glass stops the mouth on the
subject of temperance, whoever may
hold it. y wine drinking Clergyman is
| soldier disarmcd He is not only not
worth straw in fight he is part OF
1.-The impedtmeMtd Of the temperance
army. We have a good many euot4tc.
carry, who ought to be ashamed of them
selves, and who very soon will be
Temperance laws are being passed by
the various legislatures, which they must
sustain, or so Ov.r soul and body, ia
| the liquor interest aud influence. Steps
are being taken on behalf OF the public
health, morals and prosperity, which
they must approve hy voice and act, OF
they must consent to be left behind and
left out. There can be no concession
and no compromise on the part OF
temperance men, AMI no quarter to the
Zoe. The great curse OF our country anl
our race must be destroyed.
Meantime the tramp, tramp, tramp
sounds ou,-thc tramp Of sixty thousand
yearly victims. Some are .bcsot ted
and stupid, some are wild with hilarity
and dance along the dusty way, some
rec! along in pitifui weakness, some
wrcak their mad aud murderous impulses
ON Que another, or on the helpless wo-
men and children whose dcstinics are
united to theirs, some stop in wayside
debaucheries and iniamics for a moment,
some so bound in chaus from which
they seek in vain to wrench their bleed
Ing wrists, and all are poisoned in BODY
and soul, and all are doomed to death
Wherever they move, crime, poverty,
shame, wretchedness and despair hover
in awful shadows. There is no bright
side to the picture. We forget: there
is just one. The men who make this
army get rich. Their children are robcd
in purple and fine linen, and live upon
dantics. Some Of them arc regarded as
respectable members of society, and the Y
hold conventions to protect their inter
ests Still the tramp, tramp, tramp
goes OF, and before this article can sec
tho light, five thousand moro of our
poisoned army will have hidden their
shame and disgrace in the gravc.--Dr.
f. e.. HoHand; Scribncr's.
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