The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-01-30

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another term for it is compromise, and
the people of this county cannot afford
to compromise on question of princi-
PIES. You may talk about eXpediency
as much as you please, but, people of
Cecil county who are iesir2us of a tenn
perate and moral community, nigh IL
cense is not the most eXpedient ser
want you can employ for the prohibition
of the whiskey evil. Give US total pro-
hibition and you give us a clean and
uncompromising sweep of all means to
intemperanCe from the county, give us
high license and you conspire with the
rum seller and are dependent upon his
faithfulness in performing promises.
Men who do not respect God or their
fellow creatures so much as to desist
from offering them the subtle poison
that impoverishes body and soul gill
not respect oath or government.
1t is not that the temperance party
in Cecil is divided, it is not that it re-
fuses to work IN harmony that this clique
of high license advocates have with
drawn their support from the new move
ment, but that they are. temporarily, let
us hope, laboring under the cloud of
mistake which the clear sunshine Of
reason will presently break through ard
dispel leaving ali the true hearted tenn
Derancc men of the county united in
hearts, bound in hands. and tied in
honorable faith to support the now
movement which has been established
upon the blsis provided in the present
Local Option Law when the Lesisll-
ture has granted ii the amendments
asked for. Many years ago this idea of
making Cecil county an entirely tenn
perance county was born in the fertile
brain of of some igh-principled man.
Since then it has been nursed publicly
and privately until now 1t can be no
longer held within certain limits but
must become as great and glorious as
its philosophy indicates. Men Of Cecil,
this grand new movement which in
spired US to speak to your hearts in
these columns last week presents an
outlet for all the principles ana theo-
ries you may have harbored in refer
ence to temperance. Come forward
and join its ranks, lay your hand upon
the holy emblem that stands for its
motto-Total prohibition-and swear
to support and defend ii till your
strength, ,Orr hopes, IA. spirits are
all gone.
Totalprohibitlon through the avenue Of
Local Option will save the county from
a record that stains and black ems it in
the eyes of its neighbors. Every COM
munity yearns to be moral, every con-
course of citizens demands freedom
from the oppressive yoke of vice and
crlminality intemperance hangs about
the neck. The purity of our homes,
the nobility of our public institutions,
the eternity OF our learning and inteIIi-
gence are built upon the foundation of
temperance. Let the serpent OF drink
strike the wall continually with its bit
ter fang, its thousand bitter flngs, for
it must have a thousand heads to &C
complish all its diaboical arts, and it |
will totter and fall eventually beyond all |
hope of repair. Temperance is 4 kingly !
virtue, wherever it reigns life is beau
tiful thing, not a burden and torment |.
Temperance is passport to something
m )re sublime and the priceless talsman
beside which all the jewels of Sinbad |
would be eclipsed. lntcmperance,
on the other hand is the gall that
imprcgnates the milk of human kind
ness, it is the mastodon with glaring
eyeballs that flash devastation upon
all before them and leave liteless |
bodies, dead souls robbed of their |
Immortality in the track Of their gaze.
IntemperanCc is the milliner that |
Grapes the dcsolate widow in her .
mourning wcedsis the ungentIe leech .
that saps the blood and sinew from
the starving children of the incbrlatc,
is the dark magician that robs the I
minds of the worlds Falstatts and
Compels them to live on from day to
day with the foam Of manlpotia bub-
bling on their lips. Drive it from
your borders, people of Cecil county!
Put the checkmate Of total prohibi-
ton upon it and keep the feet Of your
incorporate neighbors from being
blistered on the pavements of hell.