The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-03-25
FROM CONJUNCTION, IND.
CovIaGroN, FOUNTAIN Co,
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large audiences in Charlottesville
Montgomery county. Although WI
had the largest room in town, score.
could not get in. The people listenet
with the closest attention. evidentl,
from a deep sense of the great impor
lance of the temperance question
Here, as elsewhere, they fully realize
that the people must rise in Their
might and put the drink traffic down
They are vigorously at work raising
500, 900, for the purpose of wagine
war against the rum traffic. until every
saloon is wiped out of the county. In
this city is situated Wabash College
the foundation of which was laid by
Professor Hovey. many years ago.
had the pleasure of an introduction to
him, and found him to be, as expec-
ted, not only Il person of great intelli-
yence, but also of much suavity Of
manner. Here also live Henry s.
Lane. General Lewis Wallace, author
of 1.-The Fair God, and Colonel Car
iington. l found the latter very
earnest worker in the cause of tenn
perance. He furnished me with some
valuable statistics bearing upon the
question of temperance, which l hope
to make good use of during my pres
ent canvass of the State.
On the 10th, l addressed large
crowd in the Court House, at Will
Transport, Warren county. Here also
l found the people all aglow on the
temperance question. A woman S
movement is on foot. working very
effectively. They have now only one
licensed saloon in the county. Sew
cral indictments are pending against
its proprietor, which they say will
shut him up. Intempcrance has de-
creased wonderfully here during the
past six months, under the new law.
On the 18th spoke at West Leba-
non, Warren county. Here. also, 1
found the temperance feeling up at
fever heat. The traffic is virtually
sauelehed in this town. met with
Dr. j. Fleming, one Of the Oldest and
most respected physicians in the coun-
ty-a livelong temperance Doctor
and for more than a third of a century
an intimate friend of our honored
townsman. George W. Vanneman
He speaks in the highest terms of
T. 81. h.,
when he was youth struggling to
gain his profession.
While at this place, my eye fell
upon the resolutions, or platform, just
laid down by the ANTI Temperance
League of this State, and which they
are now working most industriously
TO press upon our next legislature.
For the benefit of the readers Of the
Palladium, l will transcribc this re-
markable platform
Il. The enactment of a sensible and
inst license law, for the sale of spirit
uous and malt liquors, the license fees.
as formerly, to go into the school fund
of the State
According to these anti-temperance
men, we had sensible license law and
fee from 1859 to 1873, and what did it
90 for the State? Under it, from
1860 to 1870, the consumption of alco
holics increased 3O5 per cent; and as
Il consequence, pauperism increased
100 per cent; crime POI per cent; in
sanity and idiotcy Az per cent. What
n glorious result this to the State?
What model State We should be-
come in thirty years under such a
sensible CD license law as that
The idea of the school fund being in
creased from such source as this I!
As Wendell Phillips says, that to in
crease the school fund by money raised
for licensing grogshops, is like reach
ing up to heaven with one hand and
down to hell with the other" In
hnitely better would it be to shut up
the whisky traffic altogether, and use
the money which it costs us to support
the pauperism, crime, and insanity
produced by that traffic, to educate
our children. By this means not only
would immense suffering be prevented,
but q much larger amount secured to
the school fund. So much for the
first plank in this platform.
80. The State shall appoint officers
whose duty it shall be to examine
carefully all distilled and fermented
liquors, which are to be sold. All
adulterated liquors, OR SUCH AS ARE
INJURIOUS TO HEALTH, to be contis-
Gated, and the manufacturer, as well
as dealer to be punished severely"
This resolution suits me exactly,
and cannot but be in accordance with
the wishes of every radical temperance
man and woman This is all the most
ardent temperance man has ever de-
manded. There is not a rabid prohi-
bitionist in the State that will not say
Amen" to this second resolution. 1t
comedies every thing We wish. for it
promises to con6scate all Liquors
injurious to health, and punish the
manufacturer severely" What is
there in these alcoholic liquors that is
cohol itself?
Dr. Thomas Sewell, Professor of
Anatomy and Physiology, in Column
bia College, Washington City. says !:
Dyspepsia, jaundice, dropsy, ulcers,
Rheumatism, govt, palpitation, lethar-
ey, apoplexy and premature old age,
compose but a small part of the cata-
logue of diseases, produced by alco-