The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-05
Eighteen Lions Contrasted with
Eighteen Bar-Rooms.
charlotte Observer.

LIZ, instead OF the eighteen SI"S-ehop
which disgrace Charlotte and blast tnt
happiness, prosperity aud physical wei
/, being of her citizens, We had elghteeI
fulL-grown lions, roaming at Will through
the streets. alleys yards, gardens anc
houses, we would be greatly benefited
by the change. Let the lions u them
selves sleepily on the west pavements o
Trvon street In the morning, and under
the awning of Trade street in the after
noon let them make a dinner on o.
one of our best citizens every month OF
So. living the meantime mostly on
horses. COWS, cats. dogs and poultry,
and vary the bill of fare by occasionally
crushing the tender bones OF some fan
child snatched from Its cradle or car,
rage | say, let them do all this, and
free us from the gr~og-shops, and we VIII
be immense gamers thereby.
For see how the grog shops destroy
these same fair children. Died OF
CONFUSION. did hep" asks some friend
as he hears of the death of som beautl-
full baby-boy, and the answer is ~ s. f"
But a truer answer would be, Died OF
the intemperance of the father" For
it is said no fact is more clearly estab-
lished in medical science than that In
temperate drinking on the part OF the
parents produces nervous diseases, and
! often idiocy in children. If the un
blessed father were torn limb from hmb
by some of the noble lions, the child
would be an orphan, it is true, but he
would, in all probability, be a healthy.
well-grown, intellectual orphan. tie
would not have a %precoclOus thirst tor
whiskey; In every respect he would be
better off than those who are not or
phans, but whose fathers are drunkards.
These noble lions would kill people in
stantly, and not likely the grog-shops,
by inches, destroyed the soul as surely
as the body, in the slow, cruel, dIgust-
ing death of the drunkard. The most
disgusting sight on the face of Gods
beautiful earth is a drunken man. The
combination of weakness, Wickedness
and brutishness in a creature originally
created in the image of the Creator, is
painful and nauseous beyond expression.
The law ought to allow a divorce to
every woman who is cursed and dis
graced by a drunken husband. The
children of the drunkard ought to be re-
moved from the mental, moral and
physical danger to which they are ex-
posed by living with him. The State,
if she canHot enforce prohibition, ought
provide inebriate asylums, in every
county, and shut the dIunkards up for
Life. Not on their own account, but to
remove the disgrace, scandal and mise
ry which they bring upon all connected
with them.
saw, not long since, a fine eng-av-
ing, in one of the pleasant residences on
Tryon street, entitled Glory 1t
ago, and represents an ancient Roman
am~phltheatre at night, after the thous-
ands of spectators had left their seats.
The amusement for the day had been
throwing Christians to the wild beast,
and the dead and dying martyrs are
lying on the ground, with the lions still
around them, but the angels of God,
with shining garments. are descending
to bear their souls to heaven. They
were not disgraced by being slain by the
llons-they were glorifed. But any
poor wretch who is slain by drink,
brings down upon himself infamy both
in this world and the next. For of all
the sins, it is the most useless, the
most disastrous in its effects, and the
most universal. Some say that they do
not want to drink, but they cannot help
it. Then they ought, as [ said before, TO be
classed with the insane, and kept away
from the same portion of the popula-
ton, or what is still better, and what
we are now trying for by law, have the
temptation placed beyond their reach.
PUBLICo.