Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-03-20
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medicine is being abandoned and de-
nounced by a growing number of the
most learned of the medical profession.
The Church of England and Parliament
so long dead are waking up.
Legislature after Legislature is being
spoken to by the people so as to under
stand. The whisky ring in Congress
has been defeated in one House and
sees that it has not long to live in the
other.
Though not a single thief has yet
been made to disgorge, it is becoming
somewhat more dangerous to take
bribes.
There are ups and downs in this as
in all reformations but each succeeding
up is observed to be higher than its
predecessor, and the determination of
the public mind at each rise 10 be more
and more determined. We shall see
another and more thorough campaign
for the right before long. | send here
with as below some miscellaneous items
which will be of interest to your read
ers. y. w. a.
THE GREAT ScoURGE OF THE COUNTRY.
The dram shop is to-day the greatest
foe to society with which we have to
deal. Governor Dix, in his veto mes
sage, May 20, 1873, speaking Of intem-
perance, said it was
"The undoubted source Of four-ffths
of all the crime, pauperism, and domes-
tic misery in the State.
Hon. Roscoe Conkling, United States
Senator, in his speech before the Re
publican State Convention at Utiba,
September 23, 1874, said:
81 know too we'll that intemperance
fills the poor houses and prisons, and
feeds the gibbets."
Hon. John Sherman, United States
Senator from Ohio, in speech at Spring
field, Ohio, September %, 1874, said:
"Nine-tenths of all your taxes to en-
force the laws against crime are caused
by intemperance.
The women of Lynn, Mass, are or
ganizing for the purpose of "interview-
ing" the liquor-sellers of that city.
The Michigan Druggists Association
adopted resolutions expelling any drug
gist who should be guilty of the habitual
sale of liquor as beverage.
Seven hundred persons took the total
abstinence pledge in the st. Johns
Roman Catholic Church, Trenton, n.
j., on a Sunday night recently.
A temperance revival in Bangor,
Maine, is attracting the attention OF all
classes. Over two hundred persons
have recently signed the pledge, some
of whom are rumsellers.
The Rutland, VT, Weekiy Globe pub
fishes list of one hundred and four
liquor-sellers who have been fined un-
der the prohibitory law for selling
liquor. The fines must be paid, or i'm
prisonment follows.
A Maine clergyman in answering
recently the enquiry, "Does Prohibition
Prohibit 2" says: "If we are to under
stand the object of the prohibitory law
to prevent the use ofintoxicating drinks
entirely, we may say it is failure, for
it does not, 1 presume, entirely prevent
it; and the same is true opinion 'that If
the prohibltory law was repealed there
are twenty men who would be ready
to engage in its sale alcoholic liquor
in spite of moral suasion, and that TWEEN
ty gallons would be drunk where one
is drunk now," he adds: 'lf prevent
ing nineteen-twentieths of the evil is
not failure, then the Maine law is not
failure in this town" This is fair
statement of the case. The prohibit
tory liquor-law is no more failure
because sometimes violated than arc
other Laws which are similarly disre-
garded.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-From the an
nual report of the Board of Metropoli-
tan Police we find the following in
reference to the liquor-traffic:
"The board embraces this opportunl-
ty of again stating, as it has in several
previous annual reports, that under the
operations of our laws it is found I'M
possible to prevent the sale Of intoxi-
eating liquors without license. The
better class of saloon-keepers obtain
licenses, while very large number OF
low shops sell the vilest kinds OF liquors
without license. Numerous complaints
are entered at the Police Court, arrests
made, and convictions obtained in that
court, but in almost every instance an
appeal is noted, which must be allowed:
Tie appeal is certified to the Criminal
Court, where it comes before jury,
when, from one cause or another, an
acquittal is the result in most instances.
This evil will go on and increase, unless
SC me effective and summary process is
devised TO prevent illicit traffic in iu-
toxicating drinks. Not one nor all the
evils combined which affiict this COM
munity leads to as much misery, suffer
ing, pauperism, Generalization, and
crime as flow from indulgence in intox-
icating drinks. And a very large pro-
portion of these lamentable results
proceeds directly from dram-shoPs,
which dispense liquors, not simply IN
violation OF, but in defiance Of law.
AMERICANS AREA NATION OF DYs-