Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-04-11
TEMPERANoE coLUMN.
by Ladies Of W Washington Temper
ance ITnInn.
We'll said.
". A. DAVIDSON.
pittsburg Christian Gazette.

Christian Gazette.
Every word of the editorial of Jan.
slth, on ''The Temperance question:
It's terse, manly utterances are timely,
truthful, and eminently suggestive to
those who have assumed TO champion the
movement of the hour.
We have had enough of surface work.
It is time to begin to sound the depths.
Enough of mawkish sentimentaIism.
Enough of sophistry. Enough of sense
less pleas for human infrmities and
weaknesses. Too much ignoring of per-
sOnal responsibility and accountability.
A new departure is imperatively de-
manded. Thanks to the editorial pen of
the Advocate for inaugurating it.
/. The drunkard must be put in the
right catalogue-just where he belongs.
He must be labeled criminal as well as
an unfortunate. He is both. He is en-
phatically a criminal. His crimes are
crimson. They are against himself, his
family, the community and against God
Up to a certain limit, at least, they are
without excuse; they are willfully, de-
liberately, ommitted-committed agains
entreaty and warning, both within ant
without.
A man with his eyes open, and with al
the probable consequences staring him il
the face, follows strong drink, destroying
his own manhood, torturing and murder
ing his wife by inches, beggaring and dis
gracing his helpless children, endanger
ing the peace and safety of society, ha
surely done enough of crime to justify hi
classification with criminals. If he is no
shall we find one?
But then there is this plea made 70
him: "Poor fellow, he is a slave to ar
petite; he has lost his will power" Fo
the present admit it all. Who consigne
him to that slavery? Himself. And h
did it of choice, and did it too, KNOWN
exactly what he was doing-what the is
sue would be. Who destroyed his wi
power? He did it voluntarily, and did
for the base purpose of gratifying an az
petite ofhi own creation. These fact
are against him. They but increase an
intensity his criminality.
But much of this prating about th
: slavery of appetite, and the loss of wi
power, is sheer nonsense. 1t is worse
! it is false in fact, and pernicious in tel
5 dencv. The drunkard pleads it in justit
cation of his drunkenness, and makes
! it a convenient scapegoat, to which
transfers his own personal responsible
! ties. Let us have done with all such twa'
die, and let us speak the naked truth.
At least nine-tenths of all the drum
ards of to-day, are such, not because the
! appetite is irresistible, but because the
2 won't resist it-they prefer to crafty
Not because they lack will power, but b
cause they do not use. what they have.
s They could cease drinking if they won
t cease it at once and for ever. And cea
. it too, without Gods converting grac
/. His ordinary preventative grace and the
L own will are sufficient.
: No matter where we start, we end he
-drunkards are criminals. Let them
I so branded everywhere, and be held stric
I Iy accountable for all their crimes. L
pity and punishment go together-ti
! Murphy Pledge and the Work House.
) Gods plan for criminals is safe guild
} He pities and Furnishes. And on all h
administrations might be written, ''Wit
7 Malice Toward None and Charity #
: ALL"
2. There must be less apologizing fl
: rum-sellers.
: s'Poor fellows. They are In the bus
| ness, and don't know how to get out; tht
I are to be pitied." Such is the cure
! and popular temperance shibboleth.
! utter any other would endanger a man
n standing in the modern temperance rank
d 'sPoor fellow! ~ Yes, that is we'll sal
i ''rhey are in the business So they ar
a and that is just where the overwhelmil
h majority of them want to be. They knC
7, it is a mean Observation-Disclosures it SUI
Q their tastes and fills their pockets. ''Th
don't know how to get out of it."
Il they do. They don't want out. No 6
e gument on earth can get them out. Sor
y can be bought out by paying them an e
r horbitant price; and not a few of these
back again to do an increased business
L their temperance capital.
:, 'FThey are to be pitied." Surely. A
Y punished too-punished as criminals, f
i criminals they are.
II OHIO.