The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-05-15
A Defense Of AurpIy fsIH.

have Just read in late nurlber OF
he liERaLp An essay GA NurPhNIsm,
written hy IAN outsider. winch l., a.
ar as am able to judge. i,,eud,d to
.Llow we blanket ON AL tear perLuc
-nIcrpri-e- T:ai the article is sufficient
}, elaborate, al vi admit, but that il il
Ill true or strictly consistent, no one VIII"
~ill give il /. careful serussl can admit.
His positions present so many Nulnera-
hle points that the eve OF the most care
les oh,crNer cannot tail 10 detect Il EN-
lie has made - direct attack upon the
cause OF temperance, tut lie has proved
himself an irjudici,'us taclicisn. H.
has been unfortunate in his choice OF
time and in the disposition at his force,
lie hss built h,- stockade in low ground
aud a few we,l-directed yulieys from .
mountain houiIzer de ivrrrd by n Murph,
srul!erist, will quickly knock it about
hIs r.rs. lie ststes on starting out thai
he 10 neither the son OF a drunken father
nor the father Of drunken son-so TAR
he and ! are equal. How tar the inn
morality from drinking could be claimed
Tor him aud me Individually. is best
known 10 cur oldest acquaintance, Tor
wh.tevtr charges may Ice brought against
drunkenness II cannot be ssid 10 be
strictly hereditary. Some Of the greatest
drunkards in the land have had sober
and on TIE other a,G, many OF
the most sober and worthy OF our Citizens
have had immediate ancestors notorious
for drunkeunesr The cure of drunken-
n - often falls lice the thundrrboit
where We would leas' expect IL. The
mere fact OF IAN outsider" having had
sober father does not elevste him to
plateau of moral pu'it from which
there is 10 danger Of falling, aud above
which there is no necessity 10 rise. He
ought to reflect on the line- of the poei
"Tbsy that on glorious cCstor. enlarge
Prudu 5, their debt Inrteai OF their dischsrg.."
He saws that as whisky has never
killed any OF hIs friends or relatives, lie
has no reason to be partial TO it The
reader will recognize this az = strange
reason for his impsrriality to liquors
Were King A cohol srrsigned before
court in which IAN outsider" sat as Judge.
TO lie tried on hi mer,ts the very lesst
he Won d hsve 10 fear would he that the
partislity Of the bench were forestalled
against him. Every agony that dienIta-
~ ieels 10 psng TO him, every groan he
hesves an outsider hss "a vial Of tears
ready to be poured out Else why do-s
he come forward so grstuitously at this
time, and in the most lugubrious toner
and prognosticate the downfall of all
existing temperance organizations ? II
he we're actusied 10y that true devotion
20 the temperance cause which he pre-
tends IN some part- of ms article to be-
why wuuld lac thus 20 back AMI ira.
from tie tomb OF ages, p"s temperance
enterprises. and 10y drawing invIdrous
comparisons between them and existing
societies, attempt TO prove to unwilling
cars that oblivion is yswning with ali
the avidiiy of the dog OF Ce'herus to en-
gulph IN it's horrid NAV the hottest ei>
iorus and highest hopes of the noblest
philanthropisI? Would he thus exhume
their buried skeleion- and march them
before our -y,s in melancholy procession.
aud then exclaim with an air of triumph /;
"These were Whatever you have been;
Thee were whatever you will be-.
lie conGesses. though, unwillingly. that
the Murphy movement has already aC-
compnshed much rood-good that will
tell for all eternity. lie farther says
that it is the natural outgrowth OF the
exigencies Of the times; il so the reme-
dies il proposes to apply must he COM