The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-11-15


Fit yor n continent OF Kings.
q. w, Buraan.i u, Temperance Advocate
THE BEER-DRINKERs.
The World recently sent out reporter b
n number of the big breweries Of New YorL,
city to see il there was any truth in the WON,
derful stories told OF the drinking habits Of
brewery employees, and It claims that the
widest stories are not exaggerated. Brewery
hands are generally furnished, free gratis,
with all this beer they can drink, and tho
World man says that they take advantage of
this privilege often to the extent of from
forty to one hundred glasses daily. One
monumental beer-Suszler, who tips the scale
nt330 pounds, has n recordof 14O glasses i'm a
single day. Our men," said one brewer,
drink twenty to thirty glasses a day"
| Another declared: ''Tho average number of
glasses drunk by our people during day is
seventy.6v apiece, each glass holding half q
pint. We have few brilliant stars who con-
slider 1O glasses per diem to be only ordinary
exercise" But what stars! Six of them
weighed 1920 pounds. II men were to be val.
to constitute excellence in hogs, no doubt ail
| the prizes at any exhibition of hnmnn an
imals would be carried Off by some of these
brewery hands, Their only competitors
would be some of their best customers.
For all beer-drinkers the Bremcrs' journal
places the consumption of beer in the United
States in 1879 at 7.05 gallons per capita,
while In 1888 IL had increased seventy seven
per cent. to 12.4S gallons. During these
years the consumption of beer in England
nnd Germany remained about stationary,
being 32.sS gallons in England, and 100
gallons IN Germany. These figures show two
things: First, that while In England and
Germany the per capita amount of liquor
consumed has remained the same during tho
last ten years, yet in this country it has in
creased during that short period seventy
seven per cent And second that tho ave
German m he's tyyN nd fhn Itch
three times as freely as the American. Yet
drunkenness is more common in this country.
MORAL AND LEGAL EFFORT. -
Moral suasion and moral force is one Of
the foundation stones of the temperance re-
form, and must ever and continually be
maintained. To make, to SELL or to drink Is
to have part in sin and wckedness of the re-
suits. Tbs appeal to the conscience is one of
the strongest weapons in this warfare Rev.
DR.. Ecob snys: Every man who touches,
tastes or handles this accursed thing is sin
ner against man and before Cod" This is
one OF tn. strongest arguments for the abso
lutte prohibition of the traffic that can be
| presented. The sin of the drink habit and
| drink traffic must be proclaimed so long as
th@drink exists, and until IL is banished from
the face of the earth.
Moral suasion and moral effort, however,
can mover have much more than a few indi-
vidual triumphs here and there so long as
the strong arm of the State is thrown around
the liquor traffic, and it is legalized and sane
toned aud protected by statutes and Gov
ulate this gigantic crime of crimes" The
power and support of tho State Must be taken
from the saloon and be placed around the
cor:c. The saloon must be outlawed and tho
individual projected. Then and only then
can moral suasion have its full and rightful
influence. Moral and legal effort Joined
-,and in hand will as surely bring the victory
a" there is a God i'm heaven who favors right
.'c'sness and disapproves of sin and all in-
-quiry.-Nd;ion0t AdrOcdte.
THE REAL coNTnIBurons.
The Chicago brewers are being congratu-
iaied Tor their generosity in subscribing
but how would it do to give part of the
| credit to the real contributors-thc innpover.
| iShed waGc-wCrkers, the distressed wives and
mo; hers, and pinched and starving children,
whose living passing through the channels
sn wealthy that they can subscribe this large
| sum without feeling it, even if they had not
the prospect of getting it all back again, and
| yGVy much more besides, if the Exposition
should be held in Chicago?-The Pioneer.
EVILS or ALCOHOL.
The evil wrought by alcoholic drink is now
! Acknowledged and proclaimed by all the or
! rans of pubic opinion 1t undcrmines health,
! en!eeoles the will, coarsens the mind and in
, hames animal passions. ltseparates husbands
! and wives, divides families and deprives
! children of the home influence which moth
! ing else supply 1t lowers the standard
of rlorals, fills prisons and insane asylums
with its victims, and feeds the germs OF cor
rnption in the body polite. 1t is, in word,
The cause of the occasion Of four tbs of tho
| crime by which national life is dis
graced.-Bishop $pdlding
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
a hoy five years old was treated in q rri-
vate hospital in Bcslin for delirium tremens.
fANearly two hundred new w. G. r. U.
unions have becn organized In Pennsylvania
this year
1t is estimated that $4,000 is spent for
drink on an average steamship from England
to Australia.
The Cadiz Ohio FIambcnu cstim ates that
the liquor traffic takes one boy from every
fifth household.
In Germany fifty per cent. of the poor and
seventy per cent. of the criminal are incor-
rigible drinkers.
The total number of licenses in Great
! Britain and Ireland for the sale OF intoxicat-
ing liquor is 16S, 3S5.
The keeper of the morgue in New Yorl,
city states that four-fifths of the lann -hNc!fes
that leach tsaa tX ReSSSsss RReSS - every year arc
Mrs. John Greenway, widow Of tba ,o.o
ihiiEonaTe brewer of Syracuse New yor
na" oeeh pronounced by the courts nm bnh
,uai drunkard and deprived of the control %
her husbands vast estate. VI u
~ have treated nearly seven tbousopd oos,.
"rir;nntesy i,n;sesy and eighttenths of that number
says albert Day, NJ. d., Supsrintent,rnt ~
'he "ashingtonian Home at Boston. VI
San Oblspo, Cal, a town OF I3oO inhoh;.
@ii,S' HS' supports eighty saloons A local w
- -. -. secretary, in trying 80 raise funds