Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-05-01
A CATALOGUE OF ERRORS.

ton. after having all that appetite, Gus
tom, prejudice, ignorance pad chem,
lists and paid counsel before courts anu
Legislatures have to say.
/ With respect TO health. 1t Is an
error to suppose that the system can
resist cold or heat, or maloria, or that
more work oan be done in harvest, or
with less fatigue by using spirits 1hey
do positive injury in all these respects
As a medicine in sickness-not the run
ming to the whisky bottle upon every
little ailment, but as regular prescrip-
ton. We have the testimony OF 'he
mos, eminent ply siciaps and surgeons
in the world. Sir Henry Thompson lne
medical Staff of Greenwich Hospital,
Nathan II. Smith of Baltimore anu
others of like fame elsewhere not ohiy
that in most cases they hinder ins'eau
Of beloing recovery from Sickness put
that the profession has done and Is
doing a vast injury to human health o,y
nrescibinc them. to say nothing OF the
numerous cases of intemperance which
hay. been produced in this way.
>. In political economy it is an error
10 suppose that the revenue from IL
cencing the manufacture and sale OF in
toxicating liquors is any gain. On the
contrary the taxes which this business
in one way or another imposes upon
The people exceed, all the expenses
which otherwise would be necessary for
the support OF the entire government
OF the country-National, state ana
Municipal. The expense direct ana IN
direct resulting from first cost, hres, &C
cidents, crimes, prosecutions, prisons
almshouses, injury to productive indus
trv. has from careful calculation from
statistics hecn estimated at fifteen hun
died and sevcnty-one millions annually.
, 1t is an error to suppose that IL
ccnsr laws have heen OF ever will be
REGARDED. or afford the least protection
! il is an error to suppose that the
Withholding of license will prevent the
sale unless the people themselves take
the matter up and resoluteiy demand
honesty in the officers of the law.
). 1t is an error to suppose that tenn
ncrsnce societies are useless, or that they
can do everything; or that law is use
less or that law can do everything, or
that we do not need "a long pull,
strong pull, and pull altogether"
G. 1t is AN error to suppose that we
do not need the tongue OF woman and
her firlnness to do and suffer, or that If
one stand aloof refusing to help and
ruin comes 10 their family they will
have any SO much to blame as them
selves.
:. 1t is all error to suppose that any
thing is to be gained by compromise,
or that the time will come when law
and public opinion will be regarded
by the whisky interest, or anything
avail when the time comes but vote
Of the people inforced by the will OF
the people.
s. 1t is a mistake to suppose that the
revolution in public opinion steadily
though rot at all times with equal rapid
f., is going to stop where ii now Is, or
until the selling OF Intoxicating liquors
Will we held as OH n par, as 1t now Is III
many places, with keeping gambling
house or a house OF i'll fame.
Now here is a ca,alougue OF ereh'
n,;nciual errors. If there he any VINO
do not know them TO be so they are
sucl! as are not read zap on the subject
or who absent themselves from inc
rlsees where these things are discussed
and who instead take some Struggling
newspaper paragraph orthe hasty report
Of some half informed trareler.
We have yet to offer catalogue OF
delinguenis and catalogue OF rsHsedies.
In speaking of Virginia As home,
the Richmond Wing very pcrt'nently
asked: "What can any man expect TO
gain by moving from Virginia to any
Of the Western States, especially TO
such rs have the climate OF the polar
regions! If Virginians, instead OF NOV
ing away under the delusion that they
can do better. would only stay at hone
and work half as hard as they would
lave to do in distant States and
Territories, they would accomplish
much more than they could by a
CHANGE of residence. This has so often
been said that it is needless to enlarge
upon it," and it then truly says "there
are hundreds, we may say thousands,
of yirpinians now in other States who
would gladly return home ifthey could,
but having disposed of their property
here and invested all their means IN
property at the places to which they
removed, they cannot. The Wing
continues: 1--WE look forward to the
time, nor do we think it far distant,
when there will be thousands OF families
moving into Virginia from the Western
and Northwestern States. Cur cheap
lands. fine climate, and advantages OF
other kinds, will attract them. When
that day arrives Virginia will realize a
prosperity she has never known.
Tur ApvENTrsTs.-We had the curl
osity to be present, that we might see
for ourselvs how persons would act
who expected in short time to meet
the soiemnities of the midnight cry,
"Behold. the bridegroom cometh! go
We out to meet him." We found as
sembled, quietly seated at two long
tables at Mr.. Bowmans thlrty-tnfee
communicable men and Is womeE
of different ages, some of whom had
children in their arms. The following
preachers were present, all OF whom'
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