The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-22
WhikcY North and South.

sachusctts! One for every 22O in
Connecticut, that !provcrbial land OF
steady habits, and one for every 200
in that paradise Of learning and true
goodness, Ohio Verify the dcmoD
seems 10 be in no immediate danger
Of being exercised just yet. These
figures are foom the Internal Revenue
returns at Washington, and arc not
likely 10 err on the side Of cxaggcra-
tion. Although there are 1855
retail and 4,252 Wholesale liquor
dealers in the United States, besides
1868 rcctiliers. This means that
there are more ;han quarter Of u
million Of people directly engaged in
this traffic. 1t is q pretty large army
for The temperance folks to cope
with. ''h '-@
These statistics disclose some curl.
ous facts. Figures have Rnotoriously
no respect for theories. Many y time
: and often have they scattered fond
dclusions TO the winds. Rural com
muntics were believed TO be more
moral than the dwcllcrs in cities, un-
til somebody undertook to collect and
tabulatc the number Of illcgitimate
births, when the too easy virtue Of
pastoral simplicity became readily ap~
parent. So country youths were re-
putcd to make moro hardy soldiers
than those who came :rorti Tie more
unhealthy towns. Tlle late civil war
showed tho fallacy Of that Is well as
OF other things. The Irish .laborcd
for u longtime under the stigma OF
consuming more Nhiskey than any
other people, until ii WAS shown tbat
the Puritauiral, church going, hard
hca?cl, SaHbath-olatrying Scotch
man drank thrire as mach as Paddy.
And now It appears that our South
ern brsthrcn ,ha;e also. suffered Il
Grirvous wrong while wu here aat Tic
North haze been ttkin:; creilL for II
Y virtue that tlo not 7iIaHe: ':lISi; :. . 2
In what part of The Utioa is there
the most drunkenness? !? Every school
boy will promptly answer, ~ the
South in Georgia and Texas and
Alabama" Wrong, cnti:cly wrong, if
the number oflrc tail liquor dealers is
al index TO the comparative sobricty
ofa people. There a!c two rum shops
for every man, woman and Chi l,t in
Massachn* etts for every ono: in these
three States, and yet they together
are, if anything, mere lhickIy studded
with them than the. rest Of the late
.Confcderacy, Texas has one gin mill
for every 42o Inhabitants; Georgia
one for every 500, and Alabama one
for ever 600, the sauc as South Caro-
lima, Arkansas, Mississippi and Vir,
ginia, while in North Carolina there
is but one to every 800, and even in
Bourbon county itself there is one
for every $50 persons. Cohtras,
these figures with those OF, the North.
crn States. Here in New York ",
have one bar room for every 200 in.
habit4nts--tho same us in Ohio
and Ibis seem7g to be abon, the aver
age hercahou,s, The proportion in
: ,Pennsylvania, yNeY jersey, Delaware
Maryland and Rhode Island, like li,al
of l'nnnec!icHt, warning "oiJ little
from this. Niaine and Vermont makc
q better showing, The former having
but one for every 1000 Of her popnla-
: tion and the other enc FOR every 750
The natural inclinatiuns flhe people
arc, however, in.crlcrcd with ip these
two communities TO such All extent rs
to deprive the statistics OF all value.
Take those Statca Of New England
then, where the predictions Of th,
people have something like flir Play
aud the Middle and rs many Of tho
81 Western States rs you like, and com
pare them with The Southern States
The result viii show nearly three run
shops in The former !or every one i.
tho latter. We in New York, wht