Richland beacon., 1874-11-21
Alcohol Curses Everything.
BY MRS. :. \. V.

The limited space Of these column
VIII not allow Us to enter upon dis
cussion a. to whether drunkenness i
sin or a disease; whether the appp
lite for liquor is inherited or acquired
whether alcohol is a product of growtl
or produced only by dccomposilion.-
The state called intoXica'ion produced
by alcohol is an unnatural one. detri
mental to the individual and the Ia,
ton, and every way urdcsirable.-
The individual is harmed not ONLY
physically but morally, the moral
degradation dependent upon the
amount Of liqgOr consumed ond the
organization OF the individual: A.
amount consumed dependent upon the
will Of the person u~''g il, 50 that
while few strouf '..I use liquor and
are only moderate drinkers, many
whose. wills are weak. stumble over
their example and are wrecked. The
avenues to all rational progress are
blocked. Education, business, all
righteous enterprises evolved for the
benefit of humanity are never carried
forward 10 full aud free complction.
because of this misery that is dog
ging the footsteps Of our civilization.'
This was pronounced against when
the questions, who hath woe: who
hath sorrow? who hath wounds with
out cause? were asked, I'd much has
been said and written concerning it
since. An old writer fifty years ngo
said, "lntcmpcrance is the sin Of our
land and with our houndless prospcri-
~ is coming in upon us like a flood,
and if anything shall defeat the hopes
of the world that hang upon our ex-
pertinent of civil liberty, it is this riv-
er of FIRE which is rolling through the
land, destroying the vital air, and ex-
tehdlng around an atmosphere of
death" Wendell Phillips recently
said, "The hoy is born who shall
write the downfall of the American
nation, unless this trafic in intoyicat-
ing liquors shall be stopped" While
statesmen are moved with fear, and
are seeking remct IS to avert the evil
with which we ar, threatened, we as
a community mus use tie power we
possess to heir onward the work.
The question was long ago taken into
politics, aud cannot be taken out
Those who desire to have liquors re-
tanned as an article of commerce, those
who think it desirable to collect revc-
nue. from them, those who have for.
gotten that it was written long sgo,
oe to him that covetcth an evil
covetousness to his house that he nav
set his nest on high, thou hast con-
suited shame to thy house by cutting
of many people and hast sinued
against thy soul, the stone shall crv
out of the wall, and the beam out of
the timber shall answer it," will still
continue to desire To have laws made
TO regulate the traffic, as if an evil
could he regulated 1t remains for
US to extend information as we NAV
the subject of in,emper-
ance, to seek to learn its causes and
its remedies, to call attention 10 its
evils, TO arouse the moral sentiment
of the people, that they may become
total abStaincrs; to convince business
men that the traffic harms them and
that they sustain large pecuniarv loss
instead of gaining, through unreliable
labor, and by direct taxation to sup
port the criminal classes. made such
directly or indirectly through intem-
perance, to arouse public sentiment as
to the dangers surrounding Us, that
some way may be devised that will
strike at the root of the evil, and re-
move it out of The way. We are to
come personally into the work, look
ing for aid from churches, from asso-
Citations. from the press, from legisla-
ton. The lines are being drawn clo-
ser and closer, the enemies of temper
ance are defining their positions, all
thinking men and women should unite
in vigorous effort to destroy intempcr-
ance and advance sobriety nd right
pousness.
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