The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-05-28

peer lS very much increased. Thus he
who drinks drinks not merely the result
Of ferment4d and distilled grain OF fruit,
but he may drink 1t impregnated with q
very deadly agent beside. That indi.
yidual is mystiied much to- bis own hurt,
and to the hurt OF all who come near
him, or to1hom he comes near, endan-
gering his own life and the lives Of others.
May We legislate about such thing?
What is the object of law? Is 1t not the
preservation of life, property and hap.
Piness? And looking to this, is it not
the maintaining and promoting Of justice
something that constantly disturbs the
peace, and endangers the lives of men,
women and children. Does the chival.
rous manhood Of this land admire or do
they gcoff q. the maternal devotion Of
the mother who climbs to the mountain
height, going beyond where the strongest
mans head grows dizzy, and snatches
her stolen child from tho eagles nest i?
Can the manhood of this land find terms
sufficiently strong TO express their admi.
| ration for that mothers devotion who,
at the risk OF her own life, snatches her
ignorant three.year old child from the
dangerous delight Of playing with the
speckled folds of the deadly scrpent Z
And yet that same mother, when the
same child has attained the age of fifteen
years, Is disregarded as she appeals to
our manhood to aid her and her coevals
in putting it out of the way of that boy
TO play with the poison emitted by
worm that is just as dangerous as q rattle
snake. Her trial hero Is worse, for the
serpent would quickly do the work of
temporal death, and the faded little form
would be laid away without question
as to his spiritual safety but growing
life and expanding reason has borne the
boy across the line that lies between
irrational irresponsibility and moral OBJ.
legation, and she is troubled not, az in the
first hypothesis, for the temporal safety
OF the child, but imploringly stretches
out her hands TO our manhood for help,
while she beholds the object of her sole.
itude exposed to temporal and eternal
death.
Demos means people, and democratic
government means government by she
people. Shall the whole people in this
so'called democratic land have the priv
monster invention shall hold high car
nival here forever, and deal out death by
the legion, or shall it be sent into exile =?
1t may be plead that II the last kettle,
and cap, and worm in the land were
treated "a Moses treated the golden calf,
and the knowledge Of it obliterated from
the mind of man, still fermentation is O
possibility, and drunkenness would not
be banished from the land. We admit
this, but wine is not 80 highly concen.
trated, and man must drink more of it
before he becomes dangerously drunk.
There is not the constant danger from
quick and, wo might say, almost sudden
drunkenness that there must be where
there is such high concentration of spirit.
1t is O fact we'll known that many of
those who are as yet only occasional
inebriate8 say that If there was no open
\ saloon and social crowd to tempt them,
they could abstain from its use. Shall
these poor souls, who thus live under
! temptation, implore the stronger and
| untempted part of the race to put the
| cup OF death out of their reach9 Will
an intelligent manhood refuse itf
1t has been plead in other places, it
will be plead here, that the town must
have the license paid by bar.keepers for
the expenses of improving the place,
| lighting the streets, &C. Shame on the
manhood of any town that would walk
in the light OF lamps whose wicks are
made of the fabric that should cover the
squalor of the tipp!e.'s child Shame
on the manhood Of any land that would
walk on pavements made of hegstones
received in Communication for loaves of
bread taken out of the mouths Of the
| drunkard's wife and child
HUGH MCLEES