The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-10-01
Temperance Paragraphs.

The city of Atlanta, G,. ha' raised
the license fee from 5000 to $500
= The Texas Melhodis' colony have
Prohibition clause in all their title ,deed'.
Tennessee raised a school fund in
1854 of sl5O,5OO, and paid liquor bill
of 100000. 49,,
The Rev. "sam" Jones says: Talk
about high license for whisky I'd as
soon have high license for small pox."
DIR. J. G. Holland wrote in Mrs.
Hayes album these words: "Women
only can make wine drinking unfashlon.
able and heal the nation of this curse"
- There are sixty thousand ministers
in the United States, one.third OF whom
are out of business. There are lSO,000
saloons in the United States, and all of
their proprietors are busy.
a short time ago some startling
figures were given showing the consump.
ton of beer in Philadelphia to average
moro than FIVE hundred glasses per year
for every man, woman and child.
= The Madagascar government has
passed laws prohibiting the mannfact,'z0,.1
or or sale of ru1n. The penalty for each
offence is the payment of co and ten oxen.
Any one found drunk with rum will be
fined 2Ss. and seven oxen. The penalty
for introducing rum is fine of FL and
five oxen.
= Mississippi has 93O saloons, Miane.
sofa, with about the same population, has
over 5000 saloons. Old Bourbon Ken
tucky has 4,461 saloons, and Ohio has
1880. Startling as the statement may
be, in proportion to the population, the
North has twice as many saloons as the
South.
-"He drinks" We are heartily
sorry for the young man of whom this is
the current report, not only because ne
is in danger Of going to drunkard's
grave, but because it is becoming harder
every year for him to get chance in the
world. The time will come when he
must either leave off drinking entirely,
or suffer an almost social and business
ostracism. m.-Sprinqfeld Union.
- The local.option campaigns in
Georgia have won nearly the whole terri.
tory of the State to Prohibition. There !,
are only % of the 1873 Counties that are
not under local option, and Prohibition
is absolutely and strictly enforced in at
least 100. The Atlanta Constitution
claims that in nearly every locality
public sentiment opposed to the liquor
traffic has been created and is maintained.
"The truth is," says the Constitutions
Georgia is to-day the banner Prohibit
ton State of the Union" ~
John B. Cough likens the liquor
traffic to a good bowler who hits the king
pin every time and with it knocks down
all the rest. When q man begins to-
drink the chances are that he places {
himself in a Central position at the end
of a steep, smooth vista, inviting the
aim of the most accomplished and relent-
less marksman who ever threw ball.
When the shock comes, it not only oveA
throws him, but scatters wife, children 7
and home, and every interest clustering
about and depending on him.
: = Let liquor selling be confined 10 the
saloons, the filthy "dives" and rum shops,
and half the temptations that lead to
intemperance would be removed. 1t is
in the bar-room of the respectable hotel :
at the wine table of the fashionable
resort, that young men begin to tread
the road that leads to drunkard's grave.
1t is here that the first drink is taken
and the conyiYal habit formed. The
elegant bar room, with its cut.glass mir.
rors, its paintings and tapestry, is only
the feeder of the grog shop and the
"diye." The transition from the one to
the other is easily and quickly accom-
plished.-Mew York Observer.
= There is no doubt that the practice
of Creating" is one of the chief promo.
ters of drunkenness. If it could be
abolished. and laws abolishing iteuforced,
the temperance work would be greatly
helped. The Rev. DR.. W. L. Philips
said at temperance meeting in Brook
lyn recently: Treating is doing more
harm than anything else that can be
thought of in connection with intemper.
ance. All those in favor of temperance
should raise the cry, Down with treat
ingP" An anti.treating law, such as
Nevada has just got, would be good :
thing for the whole country.