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

beer lS very much increased. LINUS ne
who drinks drinks not merely the result
of fermenAd and dsdistilled grain OF, fruit,
but.he may drink ut impregnated with a
very deadly agent beside. That indi.
i vidual is mystifed much toEhis own hurt,
and to the hurt Of all who come near
him, or toswhom he comes snear, endan-
| gering his own life and theliv Of others.
May we legislate about such thing? F?
What is the object of law? Is it not the
preservation of life, property and hap.
piness? And looking to this, is it not
1.-THE maintaining and promoting of justice
and equity among mankind? Here is
something that constantly disturbs the
peace, and endangera the lives of men,
women and children. Does the chival:
rous manhood of. this land. admire or do
they scof at the maternal devotion of
the mother who climbs tosthe mountain
height, going beyond where the strongest
mans head grows dizzy, and snatches
her stolen child from the eagles nest z
Can the manhood of this land find terms
sufi iciently 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 serpent 2.
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 coevalsj
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 here 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 responsibility and moral OBJ
legation, and she is troubled not, as 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 solic-
itude exposed to temporal and eternal
death. 5.1s
Demos means people, and democratic
government means government by the
people. Shall the whole people in this
so.called democratic land have the priv
ilege to say at the polls whether this
monster invention shall hold high car
niYal here forever, and deal out death by
the legion, or shall it be sent into exile I?
It may be plead that if the last kettle,
and cap, and worm in the land we're
treated as Moses treated the golden calf,
and the knowledge of it obliterated from
the mind of man, still fermentation is q
possibility, and drunkenness would not
be banished from the land. We admit
this, but wine is not so highly concen-
trated, and man must drink more of it
before he becomes dangerously drunk.
There is not the constant danger from
quick and, ne might say, almost sudden
drunkenness that there must be where
there is such high concentration of spirit.
It is fact we'll known that many of
those who are as yet only occasional
inebriates 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
ah intelligent manhood refuse it!
It 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 tippler's child ! Shame
on the manhood of any land that would
walk on pavements made of fagstones
received in Communication for loayes of
bread taken out of the mouths of the
drunkard's wife and childl
HUGH MCLEEs.