Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-02-14
WhiSkeY.

| Ed. hegaStef-Permlt me to reply to your
correspondents, ''Uncle Isaac" and Soon
sentative" upon the whiskey question. /
regret that they SO misquote the friends of
temperance, that Il correction is required.
A SUNDAY School Scholar" asserted that a
certain saloonist would not be disinterested
| evidence on the medical properties of
whiskey, whereupon "Uncle Isaac" charges
him with inpugning saloonist's testimony in
count and of intimating that saloonist would
perjure himself "U. I.'' claimed that one
would be gentleman aehile drank. ''Sine
Praejudicio" denied that fact, whereupon
"Conservative" charges him with saying or
implying that one who takes an occasional
| drink is not a gentleman. Please do not
misquote, gentleman, and it will shorten
! matters. l regret that "Conservative'' will
| exert his talents in defense of so bad course
| II not interested in the sale of liquor, why
not leave it to the defense of itselfy The
greatest declaimers for personal libertyo
are too frequently those who want the liber-
ty to do wrong. MY conservative friend,
you must be for or against whiskey. II
against you should not right its battles for it.
II you claim 'for the ID his DUE" we will
grant your claim, but what is his "due?o
Surely to be treated as he treats his disciples,
quite harshly. Some of your colleagues
casil on the word temperance" and try to
appropriate it as the Globe styles its self the
''Great Religious"
The word has no reference to LIQUOR i'm its
strict literal sense, but means welf-timed i'm
ones habits. You object to its being applied
to total abstinence. Now we are authorized
to use words as the public understand them.
If popular usage be guide, the, modern
use of the word can not be objected to.
Ii Temperance Lecture" were announce
ed, you will not understand it to mean
Distiller's Association.
You say, Conservative" that "liquor is
no more an evil in its use and abuse than is
every other thing known and used by man."
You would class ii with 'tgluttony," "gossip
&C." Now, Conservative" did you ever
know man to eat too much of good din
ner and then get up from the table and whip
his wife half to death, or dash her brains out
with hatchet because he had eaten too
much! Too much whiskey provokes him to
do 50. 1t has more than once provoked the |
former offense here in your own Valley. |
Does good dinner inspire the glutton to |
rush out upon the streets and offer fight to |
every man who refuses him his hand!
Does too much beefsteak move the glut- |
ton to seize a knife or pistol and kill his best |
friend or dearest relative. Whiskey does
provoke thousands to it. Is too much good
cooking the source of eighty per cent. of the
crimes Of the age! Figures prove that whis-
key Is that cause. Are courts and juries
kept busy simply because gluttons enjoy too
much good food or because "gossip' is a
excessive whiskey is the greatest of evils.
Ye know it is, CONSERVATIVE" 1t win get
in its work in the ratio of fifty to one of the
former. If the thief at the bar were to plead
on Tue GROUNDS I0dl crimes equal to
or worse than theft were committed by 9TH
ers, would his claim be allowed? Neither l.
shall whiskey go free because of other sins. |,
The comparison Of whiskey with backbit-
ing, hypocrisy etc, will not excuse the former
The temperance people do not rely upon any
one means of correction, but desire to COM
bine them all, not expecting them to COM
pletely reform all mankind, but to save more
than by one agency only. You say that claw
cannot form or reforms" that the ''taste,"
the "desire," must be corrected. But
what is it that gives one the ''taste, -
The ssdesire," but the use of liquor? Then
how correct the taste but by correcting the ,
cause of that taste? Few people have a I
taste, who have never tasted the critter. :
Il inherited, then SO much the worse for
Yhiskey. We must check it ere we become
nation of drunkards. You talk of educat-
ng the sentiment above the desire. Did you
tay out of the water till you learned to
win?
why did not our county refuse Ito estab-
ish schools and churches, and say we will
wait until the public sentiment is so highly !.
,ducated and christianized as to rightly ap-
,reciate such institutions? The public SEN f
iment, you know, would then be so lover !.
In favor of" schools that thew =
would be literally supported. No, "Con- !
ervatiye,o your plan has been tried these b
wo hundred years and I must confess that !,
hat the prospects of its success are not fiat
ering Resp'y,
A.REFoRMER.