The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-02-26
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CoMMUNICATED.
MIR. EDITOR: have not been accllstom 10
writing for your paper, but l feel ii my duty to
| take my pen in compliment of those noble men
who seeing the evil done by liquor in our land
| and having 1t in their power, have at last ey.
| Guided 1t from our county; whose names will
| ever be to us as "applcs of gold in pictures of
silver" And do not think any sane man who
has the good ofhis country at heart, or a spark
OF love for humanity will wish or try in any way
to repeal or change this law. All ofus are fore.
ed to see the evil this loathsome curse has long
spread over our land No sane person at the
present day can question the fact, that ntem-
perance and the liquor traffic is an unmitigatel
evil and curse; evil in its individual social.
civil, political, moral, ana religious aspects
Science too, tcstiiCs it is evil. Heaven, earth.
and hell witness it is evil, only evil, and that
continually.
When the friends of tcmperancc would abolish
it from the land and cry it is an evil, why com
bereth it the ground then the liquor dealer be.
gins his pleading, it has brought me wealth and
ease and III protect it now. "rhy money perish
with thee" say the friends of temperance, and
high CLEANS the glittering blade that wonld
strike 1t out of existence, but ere the blow is
made one pleads for his business relation, one
for his profession, one for his office one for his
political career, another for his popularity.
My reputation, oh appropriation" And then
when the danger is imminent procession of
ministers and church members cry out against
such harsh measures, trying to plaster up the
wound with soft speeches No earthly arithme.
tic can estimate the amount of crime and unit
terable woe which this curse has brought in orr
land; but still the liquor dealer cries, the reyc-
nue., me vast revenue, say S60,0O0,000 income.
S9O0O0,0OO expense TO the government. Mis-
cradle speculation this is. A revenue derived
! from widows tears and orphans cries from hoU
gard want and shiyering limbs from shrieks of
the maniac and dagger Of the assassin, The clnll-
ing chain OF the prisoner and groans of the DIV.
in hp md, i1t,,,r \ n
teeth, the impenetmblc darkness Of an eternal
midnight. The man that would favor such n
revenue as this is surely blind and dead to all
that is good, or else one who delights in SEEING
humanity plunged in the lowest depths of want
and sin and misery and DEATH Only think who I
blessing it will be to have this curse ONT of
our county, and let all Hartford (who has had
the name of being so full of drunkenness have
the honor OF being freed from plague that hos
go long disgraced her.
Know there are thousands who are grateful
to the grand jury for having decided for the
right, and hope there are few who oppose
Surely there Is some way for liquor dealers 70
make living without robbing wives and chill.
dren, and making widows and orphans and I'll.
ing mothers hearts with sorrow and anxiety on
account oil Their sons who they see are being led
on In the path TO ruin; surely they can live
without filling jails and pcnitentiarieS and poor
houses, and the land with want and misery
The whisky sellers will have to render an ow.
iul account in the day of judgment How many
will there rise up against them, how much evil
they have done in the world, none but God can
know until that day. But now may we have
hope for the young men of our county "a great
many of whom have already felt the effects of
that poisonous plague, whose signs we have
seen by the Redeemed. fiery eyes and swollen
tongue, ,obstrncting utterance, full of delirum
and madness; in word he exhibits all the de.
testablc passions that rankle in the bosom of n
sayage). If this law stands, in many a home
will peace and'plenty reign, in which has Ion o
rcigned sorrow, fear poverty and despair
Alexander the Great conquered the world,
but If these men conquer liquor they will have
conquered greater enemy than Alexander ever
encountered; they will have conquered the enc.
my that at last conquered Alexander the Great
for he died from the effects Of Wine
L. H.