Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-12-16
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EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE.

EFFEClSOF lNTEMPERANCE.
Who that has passed through 81.
Mary's County. has not noticed the
number Ut empty whiskey barrels piled
around the ssoredoors, to say nothing
Of the quantity which have been sold
or disposed of in various ways: The
questions arise what becomes of all this
whiskey and other drinks which have
left these empty casks so numerous?
Where does all the money come from
to pay for Il? Costiog as il does from
$50 to $50 tarrel? These are ques-
tions Of momentcus interest to the
people of our county, temperate as well
as intemperate. / am under the i'm.
preston, that the amount of money
spent in this one article, would feed,
clothe, and educate every INDECENT child
in the county, and buy . very decent
farm for their parents in five years
time. IL not this something to think
about! Look around your neighbor-
hood, and see some of the evil conse-
quences, produced by this immense
trafic-wives with no decent clothes and
not even the common comforts or even
necessities Of life. children naked and
ean'tbe seatto school, but stay at home and
and grow up in ignorance, with no bet
ter example set before them than the
curses and drunken department of their
father, who has forgotten the manhood
to which he has been raised; the mother
often skunk awav in the corner worn
ont and broken down by the brutal man.
ner in which she has been treated for
years, and who was probably once the
pride Of family, and now you find her
eking out q life of toll and misery too
intolerable to think of, aud not much
less to relate. / asked q man some
days ago why be did not send his chill
dren to school, bright intelligent chill
dren apt to learn) the answer was II
haint got any clothes for them;" the
same answer l have received from many
Of similar nature. The very children
that are in need of education, and upon
whom an education would do most good
for the rising generation, are kept at
home, because they can't get clothes,
when the price paid for one gallon of
whiskey would probably buy suit of
clothes. 1t is for the benefit of these
very children, that the State of Mary
land provides the means of education,
and vet they canno. be sent to school be-
cause they have no clothes. Is the State
to furnish the clothes too! answer If
it didit would be none the better for it; for
the children would not be sent even upon
this condition, unless forced by some
arbitrary power on the part of the State.
Is it possible that man has lost all bis
sense of duty to God and his country,
in thus throwing himself below the brute
creation. and depriving his offspring
of the henefcent consideration Of the
State in providing the means Of rails
ing his children to the top step Of the
ladder which has been placed within
reach of every child to climb at his
leisure? l had class before me a few
days ago writing the definition of words;
among them was, "deplorable" / asked
them to write the name of the most
deplorable evil in this county, and erery
one of them wrote-"Whiskey." which
shows very distinctly that the very
cDliuTen are aware bI TIE haHelul eHectS
of intemperance. A truer saving never
entered or proceeded from man than
this. "Intemperance DESTROYS its vota-
ries" And also might be classed with
it, likeness aud ignorance are the pa
rents of many vices" For all proceed
from intemperance.
The industrious and temperate man
is always prosperous, his wife is happy,
children well clothed aud educated,
while the indolent and incorporate
man is poor and miserable, his wife
worn out and detected, children naked
and uneducated and everything around
him marks ont the path of degradation
and ruin. What n prosperous country
this would be if the money thus spent
could be applied to the moral training
of our youth, who are one day to rule
this to be hoped for Glorious Uu-
ion."
w RT