Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22
The Temperance War at Wash
ing C. H.
CINCINNATI. O., Jan. IS, 1874.

EDS. HERALD A brief visit to your
town recently, satisfied your CORES
pondent that the citizens of Washing
ton, or major portion thereof,
have arrived at the conclusion that
intemperance is an determination that
maketh desolate,' and that as source
of revenue, it is a cheat and alpable
fraud combined And it occurs to US
as remarkably singular, that the wis
dom of your people did not cause
them to make this discovery long
ago. We can see nothing that hindered
them from observing this fact, except
total Willingness to see things in
their true light, for it most certainly
has been manifest for years that the
crime, pauperism, suffering, death,
&C., superinduced by Intoxicating liz
uors, together with the enormous sums
demanded of the sober and the dis
Greet, for keeping up the desperate
work of killing off men and peopling
the realms of woe, have been heavy
drains and eXhausting draughts upon
the legitimate resources of nations
wealth, exceeding by millions the in
come derived from Intoxicating bev-
erages. 1t is we'll, however, that men
not only in Washington, but in other
places as we'll, have come to their SEN
ses even at this late hour, before the
fiery finger of God write US nation
of drunkards, and hand over our do
minions and Inheritance to another to
guard, cultivate and manipulate, in a
manner that shall glorify the Great
Donor, and aid in the melioration of
suffering humanity. AS eviden 3e that
intelligence, conscience and wisdom
are gaming the ascendency over bcstial
blindness. willful ignorance and vicia-
ted and enslaved appetites, the Chief
| Magistrate of the nation, many heads
of departments, and the better states
men and diplomates are speaking out
boldly against the reprehensible prac-
tice of having social parties, festivals,
DC, robbed of their beneficial influ-
euccs by imported wines, brandies
&c, or any other sparkling beverage
Such utterances from the nations
head, we should hail as the foresound
ing notes Of our redemption from the
heaviest curse that ever spread its
dark N antIe Of devastation and death
upon any people, May they be The
precursory knell of multiform do
mons death. All honor to the men
in high places who will dare to throttle
Helfs chief minister-on murderous
!. mission-and call on nation to help
strangle him in his own fiery stream
and death dealing fumes. The people o.
Washington have taken step in The
right dire ction. Their power has al
, ready been felt. They have giver
uneasiness to the demon and his min
ions; and we hope that the day is not
far distant on which Heaven and earth
shall unite in a grand jubilee over the
crucifixion of this giant evil. We have
other fattering signs for those who
work and sigh for freedom from the
awful curse entailed by rum. Anc
prominent among these, we notice
that Congress treats with becoming
gravity memorials on the subject, ask
ing that the evils Of imtemperance be
mitigated by prudent and timely legis
lation. If still better sign is needed
it is found in the fact that the press
to quite an encouraging extent, is Civ
ing its powerful influence to all the
above named movements. But never
theless, the demon holds his carniva
in our midst, and has his bacchana
troops in readiness for any species oI
crime, keeps up his midnight orgies
, in gambling squads ofyouug men, anC
is even now plotting to throw off tht
few restraints that prevent your enter
prising town from becoming a Sodon
"a Kissing and by word" More lati
tude in crime, already bold and ram
pant, is being sought; and men whC
. want and expect patronage of upright
citizens are in it, willing, it seems, tc
hand us all over to the devil, if they
may reap trifiing financial harves
| thereby. We make no personal dis
J ordinations. We write in the interes
ii Of humanity. We write in the inter
est Of the rising young men, with char
+ ity enough to believe that many o
l ] them would pursue an entire dlHeren
course if they were not misled. W.
= leem it the solemn duty of every goOC
I citizen to take decided stand in be
half Of down-tr trodden and enslavet
humanity, to assist by all the mean
: within their power, in lifting oul
young mea out of the folds of tn
f fowery wreathes of vice, and to neve
, cease using every available mora
weapon against the combinations G
= drunkenness. Indeed, all the resour
!, ces to conquer the enemy and save TIL
:, young men known to professiona
J., experience, are comparatively inetfi
&, cient without those moral and relig
;, ious safeguards which experience ha
Y | proved to be essential to perfec
cure. AITCH.
= When a boy is put to farm labo