The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-05-15
For the Advertiser.
A CLEAN OF LIGHT,
The Hydra-Monster being Cheat
ed in High Places.

| am glad to see men in high pla
ces throwing their influence agains
intoxicating liquors. Not only emf
nent, but good men and heart broker
and crushed women, on their knees
are joining them in seeking protcc.
ton at the hands of our rulers agains,
the traffic Of ardent spirits. Our
representatives in Congress have ia
ken wise step in this direction in
passing bill providing against the
promotion of any officer in the army
who may be addicted to the use of
intoxicating liquors. Who will not
say amen to this? Why so many re-
verses in our late war? Is it not a
fact that many mothers have been
made to weep over their dead ones
that might now be blessing to them
around the fireside had it not been
that 50 many foolish charges were
made by the command of some officer
when his brains were crazed by Ii
quor? And now papers through the
country call him a great warrior when
ne could more properly be called a
military murderer For proof Of
this hundreds of our noble soldiers
are ready to come to our rescue; aud
no doubt our honorable representa-
tives, in passing the above law. had
an eye to this.
But should this precaution be tax
EN- with our military men alone? 1t
should apply to all who are entrusted
with human life--in time of peace as
well as in war. Every railroad from
President to the brakesman. and ey-
cry steamer or floating vessel from
captain to the steersman should be
held to strict abstinence. Our repre-
sentatives at home and abroad. our
Judges from the least to the greatest,
should be put to the same test. What
client would have drunken attorney
to take an important case into court,
or Judge sit in judgment upon his
case while crazed with intoxicating
liquor? None.
! have learned through an Illinois
paper that the House of Representa-
tives of Indiana adopted almost unan-
imously law to remove from office,
for the crime of drunkenness, men
holding office under the laws of that
State; but when the bill was sent to
the Senate, the rules were suspended
by large vote in order to take the
vote upon the bill. When they were
ready to vote the bill could not be
found. What became Of it. Per
haps some Senator's fingers found
way to the Senate file, and through a
joke, or hankering after his .tea,'
took it from the file to save him in
his senatorship.
Again, look at the conduct of Uni
ted States Judge Delano, of Kansas.
who is to be impeached for habitual
drunkenness. 1t is sometimes said
that our President is given to wine;
but look at his conduct as well as
that of Vice President Colfax on
New Years day; they had neither
wine or whiskey on their side tables.
Our town Of Upton is moving for
ward in the right direction. Much
has been said about hanging being
"rclic Of barbarism,' equally SO is the
liberty of getting drunk or selling in
toxicating liquors. Now, in order to
get out of our state of .sbarbarism,'
let us put away those relics from our
midst. then we can walk in pure
light. Put down the hood-gates of
intemperance, and nine-tenths of the
crimes committed will be stopped.
Then away with the monster is the
prayer of one in the
South END OF TIE COUNTY.