Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-11
TEMPERANCE COLUMN
Teanperance.

A friend requests lis to publish
the following temperance items.--
ED:
Some of the anti-prohibition pa
pers are considerably exercised
over the loss the country is likely |
to sustain in the matter of revenue |
in case the manufacture and sale of |
ardent spirits should be prohibited
by law. The revenue tp be lost IS
the tax now imposed on liquors and |
the income from the license sys-
tenn: but, while they bewail the
loss 81 the revenue, they seem not
to think of the savings in the crlln-
inal- processes, the jails, the penl-
tentiaries, the workhouses, and the
asylums; the savings in time ana
productive labor now lost the sa-
wings in poverty, misery ana
wretchednCss, against which mon
ey is no offset at all. These savings
aggregated. would more than
double all the revenue now derived.
from LIQUOR. Wonderful economists
are these self-same anti-prohibItlon-
lists Is.
1t is thought that prohibition OF
the LIQUOR traffic will triumph in
the approaching election in North
! Carolina. 1t is fitting that the hrst
state to declare independence Of
political tyranny, should lead IN
throwing off the slavery TO drunk
enness.
There is much excitement In GER
tain Localities about mad dogs. one
well patronized whisky saloon VIII
do more hurt than a dozen mao
dogs. The whisky saloons are
licensed the mad dogs are shot
: And this is American common
sense. s
If every man in North .Carolins
Who has been hurt directly or in,
, directly by whisky, will. vote
AGAINST. it in the approaching cleo
ZION. the result will be the deliver
! ance of that grand old state from
the curse that has so long blighteC
ifs manhood and broken the heart
of its women.
/ The Christian Statesman of NIL
r waukee, thinks that the cutlery 0
' the Wisconsin liquOr-sellerS agalns
: the enactment of prohibitory laws
o because it would turn immigratloI
away from that state, is an exeel
+ lent argument for it, and eXclaims
# aBlessed is the state that prevent
= people coming into it to drink.
:. In Carlyle, Illinois, seven saloo
|. keepers We're recently arrested a
n the instance of the Womans' Chris
q tian Temperance Union, for sellln
l. li0uor on Sunday. All seven Wer
q fined, two of them one hundre
dollars each. The prosecution
have had Il very salutary effect o
IS Sunday observance in the town.
i In the fight for prohibition
y the LIQUOR traffic, the young MAJ
l. hood of our country Is stake
n AGAINST whisky. The mothers, 81
E. ters. and wives are on the rigl
r. side, 1t is safe to be in their con
! pany.
! A nauseous drug is added to IL
- exciting, intoxicating drink WING
! temptation offers, and though !
Y; flavor is at first disguised by Il
u nleasanter taste of the sin, its bite
p ness is persistent though slow, al
- clings to the palate long after tn
20 has utterly faded.
r In 1870 the New York Evenii
s. Post estimated the liquor traffic, |
s. Guiding imported liquors and Il
Il retail trade, at 100000, 900 dollal
lie At this rate, since 1870, this ira
W. in the United States has amount
On to SO, $50, 100000.
The right of the state to regula
ty or prohibit the liquor traffic h
y. been frequently affirmed by t
lie, Supreme court of the United Stat