Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-03-20
Local OptIOn-NO. 5.


| il local option prevailed hero tho revenues Of
our city would be i:cteascd rather than diuia-
ishcd as the costI of running our municipal
government would be greatly reduced under
tho improved order ard lesseoing of pauporism,
consequent on the baLi4hm,nt Of the liquor
traffic. Aud further calm to have shown
oonclusivtly thst business would not be irjuri-
ously effected, but rather much improved by
tho new order Of things. so that the scare Of
some coed business mon was without any war,
rant. Add | believe that a new era of pros.
parlty would come to our CID town, resulting
rom an Increased popu alton, attrac ed hilher
by the good order and absence OF temptation
70 drbk, and resulting also from tho txpondi
urc tor hous chold nCc ,esiies of the moDey
hitherto spent ln liquor, and that with improv-
cd older and trade here capital would be at.
trectsd to Alexandria and manufacturing en-
terprses would soon sprirg up 10 our midst.
have likewise given the Opinions of some Of the
most learned judges and stats cans, showing
that tour htths of all the crime is trsceable to
drink, and have a mass OF statistics aud facts
proving that where local option prevails that q
marVtll,ua change Tor tho better is everywhere
manifest, so that IN s0mo PLACES the ss are
siihout an inhabitatt. and criminal prooesscs
grow moro and more rsrJ. As an evidence of
The result in Worcester county, Mj., auoto ::
I'm one ycar after the law was in foyc, 10 this
c;u1iy. the States Attorney stated that his
ets went down from $1,000 to 81, 500 per
sGnum to $500 In Caroline, Calvert, Tai
bot ADd DNchCs.or counties the results have
been simply marvellous. | qIoto from q CDR
respondent Of tho Bsl,imore Sun, residing in
Calver. c,uaty "rho cfic, of jailor in Prince
Frederick is n6W almost siuecurc lie is fast
boooniug gentleman of leisure. The busi.
ness Of the o1urt is growing less. Give as ten
yeats Of good enforcement Of this law and We
will show an empty Jail. lawyers With scarcely o
brief bad for lawyers. you see, Judges without
orminal ,sce, taxes largely reduced, churches
better filed and universal good order" And
all this will not be dream, as tie same result
is reached nearly everywhere. | mentioned
also that it could be proven that it oosrs tho
peopo Of the U. 8. tho vast sum of 81 200 OOO, ,.
600 per annum for drink, and it's resulting sick
nts' crime, 10. c.llcd attention to tho good
results already reached hero 10 Alexandra by
the Temperance Reform 80 successfully carried
en-, and if such Improvement bo manifest al
ready, what Will he the effect, when We suec,od
in driViag tic trafi, avay2 10 my last paper
demonstrated thas sell protection dsuapd ID
that the sslc Of liquor hero should csas.; tina,
IS there was law TO ab,te nuisanoes 1r ildicial
to tho pubic health, 30 there ought to be law
to destroy traffic that is constantly prtiudicial
t, Iublic morals; that all liconso laws were
really permission by tho State to luiu men and
promote crime; that you might just as We'll Ii.
censo the sec oil evil, gambling. lotteries, &C.
NC, as to l'c,Hso the sale of liquor; that Tho
greatest good to the greatest number" demsn.
ued that The traffic be destroyed, although it
might bcgqar those wac, as class, have beg
cared hundreds Of thusanCs. Aud now my
work for the present 10 this direction il ueally
done. csll on oil good men and tluo, who
believe that this curse should be swept away,
to egltato this subsc. or ,ssingly. until the
whole community is thoroughly leavcood By
the truth, and until, 10 your might. you cln
d.mand as right what has rccou,ly b,en de-
MED you. Surely whom We remember the ruin
that has been wrought in couutless homes; the
misery of heart broken wives and tho sufferiuRs
| of ioncc nt children, tho degradation of man,
who, otherwise, might bo ncbc and good. and
that all efforts at the ameliOration OF SUFFERING
and for tho elevation of man havo as their
greatest foo tho curse Of drink, NC ought to
bauish its public salo foreve. Lut US mako as
cur motto that Of tho Temperance Alliarc, of
Ma,yIand.:v Moral suasion for The drinher,
legal suasion for the seller. total abstinence for
the indiriduaI and prohibition for the traMc.
l have said but little directly on the sutiecS OF
morals. We preach Temperate, everywhere.
abstain frcm sermoniziog 10 the public prints q
this timc, aud shall only say that believe TIA,
dram drinking is sin against mans own beds
and as this IS tho temple of tho Holy Ghost, 81
to drink ardent spirits as beverage ia to Sin
against God. Tho life irsur.rc companies
who have closely studied vital statistics, will
cot Insure drinkiog man. The tatl,s show
that the expectation of f, of an intemperate
man Is lass than oDe half about 40 per c,nt
OF that OF temperate mar. 1t is now held ty
nearly all tha leading tclentists aud physicians
that acohol is poisor; hat il has 90 value as 9
fbcd, aod that s6 a r:medial agent its use i.
| nore than questionable. Ii then it be not 3
food, if it be poison, il it in no way builds ur
tho health and strength Of men, we claim thst
! its use is sinful, and ough! to be bsnished from
cur nlds. AIN not responsible il the truths
hsVe written hsvo rssped the sensitilities o.
s3rnP, aDd yet am willing TO stsnd by all
have said and done. and / shall not cease TO Ia.
Dor and pray for the extrpation of the MOS
crying evil OF The Times. w. K. BOYLE
March ~, 1880.
So' NOTWITHSTANDING the very great ad
vance in tho price of leather and coat of Boot
and Shoes, We will sell our entire stock of Ysl
and Winter BOOTS and SHOES atasmsll sd