Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-03-09
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MEssERs. EDITORS

mEhSEkSs EOliNhS
thank IA Sup
eryisor" for answ, ring nv query 'whN
can we not have n sober steward at the
Aims House" He reply, though
frank AID candid, is by no means saiis-
f,ctory. He tells US that more than a
ear ago charges, by ii number oil re-
spectacle citizens. were preferred against
the present encum bent; that a con-
mi tee Was arpoi nted TO Investigate
these charges that committee report
I'd that, though they had no fault 10
find with the management Of the firm
AID Aims House. Yet it is ture that
tie steward did occasionally get drunk. !"
Ii mans physiognony is any index OF
is habits in regard 10 the use IF IN
toxicating drink, then the word Occa-
sionaUy sounds like grim joke, aud
the cnizrns OF Woodstock who have
OBJ. erved this mau's condition in his
frequent visits TO The town. must con
clude that the committee put the fact
very mildly.
Gentlemen # he Board OF 5. do you
in your private mat err, act out the idea
that seems TO be conveyed In that re-
porly Do you in selecting an agent,
to transact your afiairs, consider the
uan who occasionally gets drunk as
trustworthy az the man who never get
drunk at all or. do you mean to tell
me that in the whole Parish Of Beck
ford. you cahuot find a sober and COM
pelent man TO take charge Of its affair."
at the Aims II use? you have ADM =
led The fact that the present incumbent
is an occasional d. unkGrd, it would
have been much nearer the truth II you
had said an habitual drunkdyd, and now,
IT, in the face IF IA fact, that every right
minded man knows utterly units lin
tor the place he occupies, if despite the
remonslrance Of the better class OF your
fellow citizens. you are still determined
10 keep this man iu his position, then
every candid and Observant man will
be driven 10 the conclusion that there
is a maligu hueuce al work 10 Ike, p
this man in offi, regardless OF the pul =
hc interest aud the moral sense OF the
community.
Messrs. E,litors, l rejoice to see our
pc pie, / kc other communities, a"ah-
eniug to a sense of the evil OF intempel-
auce, an evil that rermeates every IT.
llliou of life. Our political as we'll as
our social atmosphere is rocking with
its vile fumes. But let us not cOnine
our wafre 10 the liquor sellers aloue'
rather let us strike heavy aud hard at
The liquor drinkers tdty are the guilty
ones VITO III ke government so Ouerous
through Poor House,, jeiIs aud pen
,enliane- /; they are The men who teach
The rising gene ration how humanity can
degrade Itself below the level oil the
beasts that perish. Especially. let u
take by the throat official druukards.
the men in high places. Let our peO-
pie once admit, aud act upon the fact.
fact that dptes conlrsdlction-that
the hasilual. or ever tie occasional U.s.
Of intoxicating lq IOrs is prtma fdcie
evidence OF a mans unlilness for aul
I'll :e Of honor, profit or tru-t and you
hold a rod in ierrorem over the vast
army of flee seekers that ALL do more
- purify lae political atmosphere, an
advance the cause OF Temperance III
that direction, than any prOhiolIory
Jaw.
Liquor has become most potential
weapon in the hands of the demago1ue
W no paud,rs 10 the most BEAST appe-
NE of human nature 10 further his OSS
se.6sh purposes. Can you conceive
yiler character than this? And yet We
meet with such daily and they carry
Aer heads as high as # they woulo
brush the stars with their caps, SEEM
mgly UNCONSCIOUS that they are but
political l,pera, deserving ouly tue
,corn aud cJnIempt OF every deeen'
man.
"Faugh! an ounce ef civil, good
apothecar, ;" TOR onr sccio-pol Cal a :
mosphere has most intolsraOie
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