Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-07-01
COMMUNICATED.
The Rum Question.

Editor Of the Times:
Science is a knowledge of the laws of nature
in all its varied and complicated structures
human science is a knowledge of the laws that
govern our physical forms. To know thysslf
is the highest of human wisdom.
1t is not necessity that every one should
possess that knowledge in all its minutia in
detail. AnatomiCally man is composed of
bones, muscles, tendons, brains (?), nerves
&c; or in other words. man is n compound of
small quantity OF earthly salts, little ami
NAL tissue suspended in about four or FIVE
buckets of water Can such creature afford
10 be Incorporate in any relation of life? If
we could by aay mesns keep the intricate ma
chine OF our bodies always in a normal condi-
ton, we should never he i'll ; we should simply
die OF old a:e. We are all subject to the one
law OF temperance in eating and drinking
The violation of these laws causes illness more
or less severe and shortens the period of hui
man life. The sins of the fathers are often
enough visited upon the children. Everything
that enters the stomach or passes into the svs-
TEN otherwise, is sent forward into the blood
for veal or woe The poison Of a rattle snake
or of the bee entering the toes or fingers is i'm
media,ely taken up by the blood and sent on
to the heart. If the poison is weak, as in the
case OF the bee, il soon spends itself in local
inflammation bnt if il should be of sufficient
strength as in the en.e Of the bite Of = venom
oss snake the blood and heart being unable TO
master il death ensues. IL We take into our
stomaehes substances foreign TO our wants and
necessities the same laws come into play and
we suffer sccor diugly The stomach USUALLY
expe,s them in a natural way-throws them
cut into the aliDentary canals, there the alb
sorhents take them up and pass them into the
blood, from thence thev are distributed 10 all
parts of the body. The stomach is the mos,
useful OF the various organs Of cur bodies and
the most abused, bnt fortunately il has confer
red upon IL tue power Of wiihs,anding abuse 10
a certain degree. cloud of delirium seems to
hang over The minds of millions of people for
the want OF little education upon the func-
tons of the blood and stomach
The weak aud irrrsolute drench themselves
with all kinds OF vile eondimrnts-als, beer
rum kc,-riciously cooked food, as IL their
siomachs could digest like steam mill every-
thing thrown into it. The glut,ou stand.
upon no higher plane thaa the drunkard
Dyspepsia and delitium iremens however. takes
e-Ftaiu vengeance tor all such abuses, IL is
~i;h the last class that propose to deal Nth
this time, know tHg fu l~ell thu, shall incur
the displeasuvc Of many Of nv friends bat Il
bad rather be righ, than 10 President Of the
United States"
I have been informed by reliable parties
that we have about ifty places 10 ,h, county
where rum is sold and that it is possible that
sale. OF the article amounts to an average OF
one thousand dollars annually, being a tax of
hfiy thousand dollars per year upon people
sho are 50 poor Ihst they can hardly make
both ends meet. lie, us How compare this with
With the expenditure for religion without the
true statistics. will suppose that ~e have ia
Charles county oil told about fit places of
worship. 'hese allowing SIX hundred dollars
each snnual expenditure, we have the
poor aud meacer sum Of s.. eco against $50,
600 for rum. Sal 0ao 10 favor OF king alcohol
The above is dark picture. and if the las,
hgIrcs are an error by one half then is the
ease had enough TO cause US 10 hal, and seek
remedy
| give the following statement from ID. ninth
Census Repor; 10 show the extent Of the whis-
krr fradr in The ITuitri STATES In ls-n