The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-03-15

100000 paupers to be supported at an
expense of ten million dollars year
sends 100000 children to poor houses
or asylums yearly; creates one hundred
thousand criminals year, the prosecu-
ton of whom costs 800, ,OO0, 600; causes
fve hundred murders, four hundred
suicides, four hundred and seventy.three
deaths by delirium tremens year.
China's River of Sorrow destroyed the
house, not the family; at least the fam
lily ties were not broken among the sur
vivors. Our river attacks the family first.
that immaterial house within the ma
terial-the home. The Intoxicating cup
has subtle power to dissolve the golden
links that bind husband and wife and
and parents and children together! Ruin
ed homes, how they multiply!
Our river of sorrow at length falls with
a Niagara roar into bottomless pit, and
carries with it hundred thousand hu-
man beings every year. Alcohol destroys
both soul and body in hell. No drunk.
ard shall inherit the Kingdom of God.
Oh! the sea has claimed his victims.
But he shall give them back.
The bowl ne'er yields the votaries
Who walk on its downward track.
The sea has wrecked its thousands,
Ten thousands has the bowls
The sea but kills the body
The wine cup, body and soul
One might as we'll talk of the Yellow
River as an industry of China as to pirate
about the traffic in liquors as an indus
try. It would be an insult to the COM
mon sense of the people. The facts and
figures make any claim on it's part to a
position among legitimate trades prepos-
ferrous. The decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States tears the last
shred of respectability from the business,
and relegates it to the level of nuisance
to be abated.
We are charged with fanaticism in at
tempting to turn back this river OF rum.
In view of the facts, is not the fanaticism
rather on the part of those who supinely
allow this inundation to continue? No
citizen of China can be held accountable
for the overflow OF the Yellow River.
Man does not occasion, cannot prevent
that overflow. How different with our
| river. For its existence with all it's
tragic sorrows mailman only-is re-
sponsible. Appetite Graves it. Greed
supplies it. Indifference tolerates it.
Patriotism, Philanthropy, Religion, are
pleading with Indifference to awake.
Thank God! they are not pleading al
together in vain.
An aroused public conscience is here
and there throughout the land in the
forms prescribed by law ringing out its
prohibitory "thou shall not!" to that
heartless Greed which is the fountain
head of our river OF sorrow. An agitation
has begun that will never rest until this
evil is abolished. There are occasional re-
verses. Trusted men and measures fail,
but on the whole the forward sweep is
majestic. 1t bodies victory. 1t has struck
terror in heart of the "trade," as any
one who reads the tell.tale liquor organs
knows. A volunteer army of conscien.
tious and patriotic voters is rapidly re.
cruiting. "Fall NJ" brother, "fall into
line -
II wish to acknowledge my indebted.
ness and to commend the following
valuable works: Encyclopedia Britannica.
Liquor Traffic in all Ages-Dorchester
Our Country-Strong. Our Wasted Re.
sources-.Haryrares. Outline Thoughts
on Prohibition-MerriN. Foundation oi
Death-Gustafson. D. w. C.1