Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-01

l shows what intemperance leads to in nine 1 cases out of ten. So long the parents of l the child had no objection to her taking the part she did in the temperance work, 1t | don't seem to me to be anybody else's busi- ! ness. That the sympathy of the audience the cause, for it shows that It Is mere thoughtlessness on the part of the majority, that they never thought of thequestion in | this light.
 In Kentucky alone, according to the cen- sus of 1880, $8, 281 ,018 worth of this cause to humanity was manufactured in the legitl- mate distilleries alone, leaving out all the 'moonshine" made and sold of which, of course no account could be obtained; but am informed on very reliable authority, no less than a Kentuckian who is up in the mountains where good part of it is made, that there are more illicit distil- | leries than there are licensed ones, SS, ,2S1 018, or about S. 03 to each factory ! man, woman and child in the whole United States, and this from one State only and probably about one-half the product. New York produced over a million dollars worth more, Pennsylvania nearly two million dol | lars worth, Tennessee over $500, 900 worth, l Ohio S6, 692, ,736, North Carolina $225, 900, | Missouri $500,0 ,006, California $500, ,000, Mass | achusets over million, Maryland about the 1 same, Iowa over s250,000, Indiana nearly S3, 1000 900 and Illinois S14, 600, ,760 worth of distilled liquors only. The total value of the li- | quors produced, according to the census of 1880, was $144, ,291 241. Allowing tenth for l export, we still have s96, 194, 161, or about ! S4S for each factory man, woman and child | in the country. Forty eight dollars will | keep family of five in food for one month, | if not more. According to the census of 1 1880 there are employed in the factories of the country 2,019,035 males over sixteen years old, 531 ,639 females over fifteen years old and 1S1 ,921 children and youths, or a ! total of ,, 732, ,595. Figure it up for your | self, reader, and see how much is spent for rum in the country
 It has been said that ''no license" means free rum" We'll, better free rum than taxed rum, for if rum is to be free it certain | iy will not produce the poverty that licensed rum did, does and will produce until prohi- l bltion is in power. And again it has been raised as objection that if ''no hcense'' | is voted that the license fee will be sadly | missed by the city; but is it ever taken into | consideration that the greater part of the
 crime committed is done through the infiu- 1 ence of rum, and consequently if rum is ! abolished this crime is abolished and good 1 part of the police force is abolished also, re- I ducing the expenses, no inconsiderable sum. ! Colonel Robert Ingersoll was lately employed | in case (which involved the manufacture of ardent spirits, and in his speech to the ! jury he used the following language: 1T am aware there IS preJudlce agalnSt any man engaged in the manufacturing of alcohol 1 believe from the time it issues from the coil ed and poisonous worm in the distillery until it empties into the hell of death, dishonor and crime, that it is demoralizing to every body that touches it, from the source to where it ends. 1 do not believe that anybody can contemplate the subject without being prejudiced against the crime All we have to do is to think of the wrecks on either side of the stream of death, of the suicides of the insanity, of the poverty, of the de- struction, of the little children tugging at ! the breast of weeping and despairing wives asking for bread, of men of genius it has wrecked, the men struggling with imaginary | serpents produced by this devilish thing; ! and when you think of the jails, of the almshouses, of the asylums, of the prisons and scaffolds either hand, do not won ! der that every thoughtful man is prejudiced against this vile stuff called alcohol. Intem- l perance cuts down youth in it's vigor, man | hood in it's strength and old age in its weak ness.
 ''It breaks the fathers heart, bereaves the | doting mother, extinguishes natural af- { sfection, erases conjugal love, blots out flial
 Attachments, blights parental hope and brings a3 amr age in sorrow to the grave. It prS -ness, not strength; sickness, not br' @th, not life. It makes wives
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