The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1879-12-03

Establishments are now brought to feel
the fearful curse of their proximity.
The iron is entering the souls Of parents
heretofore unused to such sorrow, and
new Rachels are weeping for their chill
dren cut down by weapon more de
structive than the sword of HerOd.
Parents are exhibiting a strange, If not
criminal apathy in thus allowing these
snares of youth to be set I'm their midst,
and exposing all they hold dear to the
most imminent peril. If it were pub
licly announced that ferociOus beast
had escaped from travelling menagerie
the widest CONSERVATION would imme-
diately seize upon the entire commune
ty. Men would arm themselves and
scour the country i'm hands to intercept
and destroy il; mothers would close
their doors i'm terror to prevent il from
from dashing into their houses and
carrying of their children before their
eyes; but these very same people, per-
haps, would exhibit utter indifference if
dram-shOp were established i'm their
midst-a very den of wild beasts to be
turned loose upon their own and their
neighbors' children; which, i'm destruct-
iveness, surpass the lion or the tiger,
and whose venom exceeds that of the
deadly Coya of Peru, or the hooded
monster of India. Almost all the avo-
cations of life have their Uses and con-
| fer their respective benefits upon the
community; but the business of rum
selling stands i'm striking contrast with
all of these as having no Use, at least
i'm this sphere or i'm this state of exile
/ tense. If all the arguments that can bs
brought forward in defense of intOxi-
eating drinks were summed up they
would not be worth the attention of a
five-year-Old boy. Their effects are evil,
and evil continually. The saloon-keep-
erjustly possesses the reputation ofdOing
more mischief in, and to the human
family than all other causes put tOgeth-
er. He vitiates youth, drags down
manhood, and dishOnOrs old age. From
his counter the gambler, the thief, the
burglar and the highway robber draw
fresh inspiration for the prosecution OF
their nefariOus vOcatiOns. The hOwls
and blasphemies and screams of riot and
murder are heard i'm the vicinity of the
dram-shOps; the traces of blood are seen
ON the dOor-steps of the saloon-keeper.
Let him not try to shift his prominence
i'm evil ON to the shoulders of others.
He will be held rigidly accountable by
an enlightened public opinion. He Is
not needed, he is not wanted; but vol
unteers his evil services and pushes
himself on the people without an invi-
tation, and generally, against Their
known opposition. 1t is to be hoped
that the time will soon come when a
gentleman will hesitate as much to en-
ter a saloon to imbibe from its Internal
fountains as he would now to enter d
bagnio to indulge in another description
of merchandise offered to his concupis-
cence.
The people should be educated up to u
full knowledge and sense of the enOr.
nifty of the practice of rum-selling. II
should be made as Odious to them rs il
deserves to be-so odious that no one
would venture i'm the business without
making up his mind to part at once
with all respect and all yespectability
Il is absolutely necessary for the success
OF the temperance cause to work the
public mind up to a general and intense
detestation of this trade. If that could
be done brighter day would soon dawn
Let the great temperance orators rise In
their might and strike nj IL with tho
club of Hercules. We need "a new tenn
perance wave to move over the land
like that, which, under the direction 81
Murphy, rose on the Atlantic coast anc
rolled like the Mosaic deluge over the
tops of the highest mountains and Ovel
the interior valleys and cities withtheil
boom of sin, nor subsidized till il reached
the meridian where the continent
"Opes To the sunset its gateway of gold"
r. G..