The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-19
and prevent him obtaining it again 2
Mol He will simply pay the fine and
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and prevent him obtaining it again ?
Mol He will simply pay the fine and
then resume his business. Very little
good, if any, would be accomplished
even if prosecutions should be had until
screens should be utterly annihilated,
and no minor ever be able to-sbuy q
drink. The aoodgates of intemperance
would still be open. 1t would be equiv
silent to stopping up the spigot and
losing at the bung hole" This is the
true reason why such violations 60 un'
punished, and it is not because public
opinion is not sufficiently strong against
the license system. Let the law provide
punishment that is calculated to stop
the evil, and numbers of men will be
found in every community who will en-.
force it. By public opinion is meant
nothing more than the views of the ma.
jorisy. If prohibitory laws are passed
against the wishes of the majority, yet it
would not be impracticable; for the
minority, backed up by the machinery
of the government, could md would
overcome all opposition and enforce
them.
Mr.. Brown suggests that the Legisla-
ture should tax the sale of strong drinks
severely, and encourage in those who
will drink the use of light beverages
such as ale, beer and wine-as means
of lessenipg intemperance. This is no
new suggestion. 1t has been thoroughly
tested, and as an argument against it we
will see how it has worked where it has
been tried. California" says Commis-
sioner Wells, with her cheap wines for
temperance, in the year ending June 80,
1867, sold fourteen times, per head, as
much alcoholic stuff as Maine did, and
more than any other State" A conven.
ton of the friends of temperance, of the
same State, in October, 1866, resolved
against wine growing. Conventions Of
congregational ministers and lay dele
gates, same month, reached the same
result.
Now, let us look at the facts concern.
ing domestic wines and their influence
upon drunkenness in the countries where
they are raised and made. It is stated
that in Paris, the city Of wine, where
more wine is consumed than in any
other city in the world, in 1868, there
was consumed seven gallons distilled
spirits fox each man, woman and child /;
that she produced l,086,000,OO0 gallons
Of wine in 1865, and yet consumed more
brandy and other distilled liquors per
head than any other nation on earth.
This indicates that wine does not wean
men from strong drink. Our author,
]. Fennimore Cooper. says: II have
been more struck by drunkenness in the
streets of Paris than in those of Lon.
dom" Horace Greeley wrote from Paris
that "wine tviN intoxicate, does intoxi-
cate; that there are confirmed drunkards
in Paris and throughout France, is noto-
rious and undeniable." Hon. Caleb
Foote, of Salem, Mass, writing from
Paris, after large Investigations. "denies
iu. toto the theory that the people of the
wine producing countries are sober"
Rev. E. s. Lacy, of San Francisco, six
months 10 Switzerland, a wine growing
section, says: "Here more intoxication
was obvious than in any other placetit
was ever my lot to live in" Cardinal
Acton, QMef Judge of Rome, says:
Nearly allths crime in Rome origi.
nstes;in=the use Of wine."
AIshopa. the day will neyer-be reached
Iin spdth gatalina when; eur Legislature
and our people will encourage the use of
vine as d asubstitute for liquor. The in
ebriate will still revel ia his drunken
ness, and the young be beguiled into
habits of intoxicatior, for in almost
every case the thirst originates with the
wine cup. You might as we'll speak of
quenching fire with oil, or of saving a
mans life by killing venomous serpent
that is about to attack him, and leaving
on his body innumerable teaches. You
save him from instant death, but leave
him in a condition where death is slow
but inevitable.
Prohibition has fewer plausible objec.
tons than any other remedy. It will
stop three. fourths Of the drunkenness
and nearly all the crime. Let its friends
be bold and perseveriDg, yet courteous,
for it is not war against Individuals
and ere long the banner of victory will
proudly wave over the ruins of the ene-
my. 81. u. SCUDDAY.
- Thirteen Indian mothers in Alaska
confessed to a missionary that they had
killed their girl babies to save them from
the misery which they themselves suf-
fered, and which is the lot of all women
in most of the Indian tribes of that
country