The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-04-24

greater influence, aud control more vote
at one OF our popular elections, than tn
president of a bank could. Furthermore
the fine margin Tor profits which tn,
whisky business has always afforded hs
always been found sufficient inducemen
for men of means and of the finest char
acrer of business qualifications to engage
in the business And | believe as
business class they are the most omnipo'
tent. irrepressible, ubiquous set of indi'
viduals that can be found upon the face
of the earth, and you find them more
generally and universally distributed
than any other class in all the broad ex'
panse Of all this country OF ours
Wherever the foot of civilized man finds
q resting place, there you will find men,
beTs of the whisky fraternity. Iou may
take the wings OF the morning and fly
unto the uttermost parts OF the earth
there YOU are confronted by whisky
dealer If YOU say surely the darkness
will cover me from them, lol there they
environ you on every hand, and il you
we're to descend into hell, | have no
doubt you would find them there in solid
phalanx. crowding and jostling through
the corridors of pandemonium, and be-
seeching his Satanic Majesty to grant
them some licensed privileges that would
enable them to monopolize the business
10y bcggsring the human family, while
here upon earth and working on for
their immortal souls damnation eternal.
With this half completed estimate of the
power and strength Of the adversary. the
friends OF temperance are contending
against, before ne. very readily come
to the conclusion that Murphyism is not
the fundamentally through which the
world is to be sobered and evangelical.
and those who have INDUCED such vain
have certainly greatly
the strength of the enemy
thsy are contending against You can
take the original Frank Murphy and iu-
p'icate him AZ many times as there are
followers of his in the United States.
You will not see a temperance millenni-
um as it exists in the minds of some SAN
guine temperance men and women Of this
'lay and time. But it is much easier to
find fault with existing laws and customs
than it ia TO suggest something better
that we all know, and IN passing in
review the past and present Of temper
ance movements, hope no one will infer
that | am governed by any captious
motives or a fault finding disposition, for
| think the best means of gaining knowl-
edge that will enable us to perfect meas
ures of reform for future action will be
found in scrutInizing closely those that
have been inauguratei heretofore, and
failed in accomplishing their ends; by
ascerlaining their deficiencies We will he
enabled TO show them. | take it for
granted that every thinking individual lie
cosnizsnt of the fact that no measures
li reform now before the minds of the
people can subsrrve the wants of the
lines. The first and most ultra faction
Of temperance advocates arc the prohi-
Dnonists They, AS their name would
IMPLY, advocate the entire prohibition OF
he manufacture and sale of all vinous,
'piIiruous and malt liquors. This is
'pecies of tanaticism and intolerance that
rad its birth in the State of Maine.
L is generally regarded rs a twin sister
If spirilualism, frtelovelsm and republic
,snism, and is obviously impractical.
There are in the United States at least
me bundled thousand practitioners of
medlcine. These physicians are the
guardians and conservstors of the health |
md life OF more than forty millions of
human beings, and their united testimo>
~ is that yinous and spirItuOus liquors |
erye a purpose in pharmacy and in the
Practice of medicine second to no other |
wa articles that could he mentioned. |
Hence YOU see leaving out the constiiu>
ionality of such legislative measures as
IRE proposed 10y that class, that they are
Inwise, impracticable, and their enact
nents could not he otherwise than pro-
uctive of mischief Then we have one |
more class of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
radiators depend upon moral sua>
ion. They provide themselves with a
record OF money expended,
|eaths, crimes, insanity and pauperism,
esulting from the nse of intoxicating |
liquors. and they sally forth in the vain
expectation of evangelizing the world,
md il Won will let them make the figures.
tate the premises, draw their own cons
lusions and differences. they will dem
'nstrate beyond the possibility OF
oubt, that one>half of the whisky used |
!, this day and time is the product OF
Iouble dislilation of the saliva OF \
sbid dog. and the other half highly
decoction of the deadly |
Ipas tree, and that st Paul promulgated
IN egrrgious error when he taught that
in came 10y Adam. and that our blessed
Saviour was premature in offering him.
elf as a sacrifice for the atopement Tor
he sins Of the human family, for they |
an make il patent to your understand,
ng that sin and crime, with all their
of woe and misery, were
,rought directly into the world by this
ank combination of deadly poisons
.alled whisky, and that the tenets OF
aiih or practice inculcated by whatever
emperance society or organization is the
Inject OF their championship at that
line. are the baptismal waters that are
o cleanse us from this leprosy of sin.
No reformation upon snch a basis rs