The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-08-09

. meanume let the newspapers have
done with ."gushing" ever the recent
revenue outrage.
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INTEMPERdN g. PROIIIRITION
Messrs. Editors: The subject of in
Temperance and prohibition is rapidly
growing into Importance among u.s.
1t demands our attention. herewith
send YOU OH article on the subject
taken from tho Interior, a Northern
religious journal, and will ask YOU to
have it published III your paper. It
does not cover the whole field Of argll-
! mcnt, but it is convincing as far as it
goes, and well calculated to do good.
1t should be carefully read and con-
sidered by all.
Why should we hesitate to press this
/ matter when even men addicted 10
! drunkenness are petitioming and anxi-
.ous TO have the temptation removed
out ofthcir way--and when mothers
and wives and sisters and daughters,
some Of them almost in rags and
heartbrokcn, arc asking for it by the
scores? Surely enough bread and
meat land clothing and the advantages
of education, and Of the other COM
forts aud blessings OF life have in the
, past been taken from the families of
our land and turned into liquor to
suffice for all time to come. Surely
enough Of The hard-carncd money Of
our people has been used to enrich the
wonders of body and soul DESTROYING
drug, and after passing through their
hands to light the lamps and improve
| the streets Of our towns aud villages.
The amount Of money thus wickcdly
wasted and consumed is indeed mar
vellous, but it by no means presents
the whole of the evil. To that should
be added the midnight tears and secret
hcart-burnings Of many IL devoted
mother and wife and daughter and
sister, who would he willing to sacri-
flee almost their lives if they could
but recover their loved ones from the
drunkard's path, the drunkard's dis
grace and the drunkard's grave. NJ.
Facts and Figures About Intcn,prr,ncr.
One good result already accomplish.
cd by The temperance movement is the
accumulation OF definite and rel able
information, both as to the evils of
drunkenness and tho pernicious intu-
cnce of the liquor traffic. This inlor-
| lN11Li i,.l
Is now given to the public through Il
thousand different channels, and in the
end must have the effect OF thoroughly
arousing the people of every State to
the subject. Facts and figures form
the best basis OF discussion on sub
ject like this, and when they have
been fully attestcd and siftcd cnunot
tail sooner or later to influence public
opinion and the legislation Of the
country.
The temperance reform, in its rcla.
ton 10 Legislative cnartmcnt, is dis
cusScd with philty and di>rrimina-
ton by Henry Wndc Rogers, in re-
cent number OF the PihcciOn Rericm.
Calm, clear argument, resting on sla.
tistical facts and high legal aulhori-
ties, is whnt the public most needs on
the subject at present, and this MIR.
Rogers has given. lie sets out bv say
ING that every great reform, in passing.
through its successive stages Of dcveI-
opncmt, is likely to receive from the
public three different modes of treat
ment. In the first, no notice is taken
OF it hy the practical mind; in the
second, it is denounced as unworthy
: Of notice; while iu the third stage its
cxpcdicncv is conceded, and its prac.
teal character recognized by all. And
he adds: ''Tliat the movcmont in favor
OF the legal prohibition Of the Liquor
traffic has met with ridiculr, dcri>ior
and contempt, is neither surprising
nor important. No great movement,
running counter to all tho Gus, oms and
habits of thought of Il people ever had
Il different experience. lit bc ground
) ed on a just principle, its ultimate sue.
E cess is assured"
Ills paper is a temperate and well
fortified argument to show that tho
principle Of legal restriction. even tc
> the point Of prohibition, is a lust
. practicable and necessary one; and
this he does on the several ground,
that a prohibitory law is constitution.
nj, that it is needed for the protection
Of tho home, that it is made necessary
by the crimes growing out o: drunk.
cnncss. by the public health and by
the burdens Of taxation caused by
paupcrism, insanity and idiocv. ii,
shows how all these enormous evils
spring from drunkenness as thci,
prolific root, and how drunkenness
/ with its whole prolific brood of crime
, springs from the tcariully augmented
liquor traffic. And then he shows Il.
clearly as argument can show any
thing that it is the legitimate provinc,
of legislation TO take cognizanrc o
, these evils, aud by the strong arm o
: law to protest society against then
aud against the causes which produce
them.
The writer cites the opinioE Of Hon
S Noah Davis, Chief Justice Of the Su
s preme Court Of New York: "Whcthc,
=, Judging from the declared judicial cx
pcricncc of others or from my own. o
from carefully collected statistics ru,
, ming through many series of years,