Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-07-11
1t Pays to be Temperate.
NEAL DOW TELLING WHAT TIE LAW HAS
DONE FOR MAINE.

Tho thirteenth anniversary of tho Ma
tional Temperance Society was celebrated
last evening in tho Broadway Tabernacle
The platform before the pulpit was occupied
by many city pastors, and largo audience
was in the body of the church. The Hon.
VIM. d. Dodge presided. Tho secretary,
Mr. j. n. Stearns, read an abstract of tho
yearly report, which said that the society
had founded tho most valuable and com
pleto temperance publishing house in the
world. In regard to tho national govern
ment, the whskcy manufacturers have
mado partly successful efforts to obtain a
reduction on whiskcy. Tho prisoners con-
victcd and imprisoned for participation in
tho frauds of tho notorious Whiskey Ring
have beon freed, and Southern dealers huvc
defied the government and refused to pay
the tax. Little has been done to compel
restitution Of the immense sums of money
Of which the Treasury was dofrauded, aud
the whiskcy interests remains powerful
factor in national affairs. Tho society
has brought out sixtyscvcn new publications.
Tho rocoipts were S54,08075; expenses,
100000.
The Rev. II. l.. Cuyler spoke of the
Crosby movement, and said that while it
abstinence only could remedy the evil Of
intemperanco. Compromise was all wrong.
Attempts woro made to compromise slavery
before tho war, but slavery became stronger
every year. 1t is as great Il crime to get
drunk in grand hotel as in rum hole.
The church should fight it as strongly as it
docs any other sin. Clcrgymen should not
sot bad example by drinking them
selves. If you got demijohn of good
vino into tho pulpit it trickles out into evory
pow.
The Hon Neal Dow, of NIaino, said:
Years ago the mon of NIaino concluded TINT
tho suppression of tho liquor traffic could
alone remedy the evil Of intcmpcranoo.
They addressed themselves to the people
and showed that the traffic was injurious to
their interests. We won't to the State
Legislature with tho bill on Friday, the day
before Adjournment. We desired certain
members to be appointed on committee to
report Immediately on tho bill. 1t was
done. They were afraid to do otherwise
than obey. When wo had gono there tho
year before thoy had laughed us to scorn
as lunatcs. Through popular sentiment
and tho ballot box we turned out all the
men who voted against us. Now the Legis.
laturo was only too happy to be of service.
The packed committee reported the bill
unanimously. We had it printed that
night, and it was enacted by both houses
the next day. The Governor approved it
on the following Monday, Juno 3, 1851.
The bill, which entirely outlawcd liquor,
went into force. What has been the result?
It has beon successful. Liquor has abso-
lutcly vanished from three-fourths Of tho
State in the country districts. 1t lingors
little in the dark places Of tho city among
tho foreign population. Maine, before tho
law, consumed annually 100000 worth
of liquor 1t now oxpends less than
$1,0O0,000 year for liquor. The sixty
eight distillorics no longer exist. The
effects can bo seen in better homes, better
farms, and better living. Maine has not
felt the panic al you have. It's real estate
valuation has risen, against depression in
other States Maino calls on tho other
States to follow her example, and they will
find safety and protection from tho liquor
traffic.
=, Tine Rov. Mr.. Sabine offered a resolution
expressing hope tiat the Holahan liuuor
bill will be defeated by tho Legislature. It
was adopted, and Mr.. Dodge said it was to
bo tolegraphcdto Albany.
Parson Newman then said that ho hoped
for the timo when Maine law would prevail
all over tho Union. Ho beloved that tho
church, with its 10000 ministers acting as
temperance lecturers, was tho only real
agent capable Of turning public opinioh
firmly against the liquor traffic Each ono
of tho 100000 church communicates
should be pledged to total abstinence, which
should bo incorporated as an article Of bolief
in the oroed.