Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-01-23

The following extracts from Mr..
Coughs oration will be read with inter-
est:
TEE LIQUOR TRAFFIC IN LONDON.
Inever had my righteous soul (if 1 have
a righteous soul) more yexed than on
recent Sunday, coming from Craven
Chapel, where I had partaken of the Com
munion. It was jnst time to open the
pubie-houses, and and my wife and
two nieces passed through the streets
right in front of some half-dozen of them,
and it was positively awful to see men
who had been hanging about the doors
licking their white lips for an hour before
perhaps, pushing in, and notmerely men,
but women with babies in their arms all
pushing in.
just look for one moment at the cost of
this enormous traffic! An English gen
tleman In New York said to me, ''You
can't do anything In England. Look at
the immense amount of money invested in
the breweries! Look at the immense
wealth of the brewersi' ~ 1 said to him,
''My friend doy you forget what God has
done for our country? There was more
money invested in slaves here than there
is in beer there. There was one thousand
million pounds invested in slaves in the
United States, and you have not as much
"a that invested in beer that know of;
but when God saw 1it TO move, what were
millions to Him ?''
By the loss of SOC, 900. lives, and at the
sacrifice of thousands of millions in blood
and fire and smoke, He swept away the
awful degradation; and tell you as
look upon the victims of this vice in this
metropolis, I feel sometimes as if political
slavery could only be exceeded by the
voluntary slavery of the victims of this
vice.
Why, s14O, ,OOO, 900, they say, are spent
in the drink traffic every year. For what ?
Not for bread, but for that which makes
every loaf of bread dearer to every con-
| sumner. Not for meat, but that which de-
creases the business In all healthful food.
Not for that which prolongs life, but for
that which notoriously shOrtens it. Not
for that which supports schools and col
leges, but for that which cripples them.
Not for chat which lessons taxation, but
for that which results in the dishearten-
ing enlargement of prisons and reforma-
tories and lunatic asylums, and places
for the helplessness that might be pre-
vented, and the abOmiable vagrancy and
brutal erime-all the property you pos
sess is levied on to pay for. 1t seatters no
beauty or blessing in single home, for
it menaces ali things lovely and beauti-
full. 1t give no cool brain or just judg-
ment, but is an admitted foe to all this.
Il remedies no legislative wrongs, but is a
factor in most of them. 1t holds back no
murderer's hand, but nerves it. 1t helps
no one in paying honest debts, but every
where is hindrance to all upright en-
deavor.
Fancy the building of gaols and lunatic
asylums and reformatories for the results
Of any other business in the world but
this. Fancy keeping a staff of men at the
public expense to take care of the refuse
of any other business than this-and dc
look with pity at your policemen. Oh
what work, poor fellows, they have tt
do-bruised and battered and cut anC
MANNED, and in every case it is drink
drinkll DRINK - -Chrtstian Herald.