The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26
TEMPERANCE.
THE WRECK

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THE WRECK
M sight OF the careless passer-by
no sees, but not with the sailors eye
Inc wreck lies stranded high and dry.
A noble ship once staunch and strong.
Mhose cabins echoed the joyous song,
whose deck was trodden by happy throng
Conc are her towering masts and spars
That almost seemed TO reach the stars,
crowned many time by gallant tars
The battered hull now crushed and thin,
Where the rising tides rush out and In,
Was built in ocean wars to win.
She fell But not by the hand of time.
This bark should now be IN her prime
A perfect ship in any clinio.
She fell, as falIeth mortal man.
who has thwartcd heavens allotted plan
by the cursed cup-hfes poisonous BAN
But how the useless ships wreck fares
NO mortal knows, no mortal cares.
-Mrs.M M.A .kiGder, in Temperance Advocate
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION IN INDIA.
From an article by Bishop Hurst under the
above title In the Century we quote the fol-
lowing: IAN army surgeon, Of twenty years
Intimate knowledge Of India, in paper read
oe1ore sss the Colonial Temperance Congress in
1856 wrote thus:
Twenty years personal observation In tho
northwestern provinces has demonstrated
70 me the appalling fact that the entire rnco
OF hereditary owners of the soil have all been
swept off by drink Brandy or Government
rum Is what these poor creatures take to
when the taste has been lighted up; and il Is
certainly subject for thoughtful considera-
hon, that, while we In this country are re-
Ioicing at the reduction of tho excise revenue
IN britain, what are we to say Of the gradu-
ally increasing liquor revenue in Indiaf'
What wonders A penny's worth is all
wreck. Even If a poor native has no money,
ne can manage to get liquor. He can get 1t
on credit, and mortgage his few possessions
SO be he can quan the Intoxicating cup.
keeper In Great Britain and the United States
is made to do its full work, il the proprie-
tors prevent ingress by the front.
NOW, dark as this picture is which we
have nnwillingly been compelled to draw,
there is no real ground for discouragement
The Gospel has never been carried to a coun-
try without at the same time, If not earlier
the transportation of the vices of the land
which sends the truth. Already the mis-
sionaries are awake to the danger The
English people are becoming aroused to it,
The real rulers Of India do not hold council
IN calcutta, or enact laws in the Westmin-
ster Houses OF Parliament, but are the vast
commonalty of the British Isles-or, rather,
are the whole Anglo-SaXon race India will
be conquered for Christ 1t will be a com
plete conquest-alike over tho evils of false
faiths and over the vices which still grow, as
tares among the wheat, in Christian lands"
wRuNG FROM THE ToILINa MASSES.
What fortunes the leaders In this business
wiring out of the toiling masses, few exam
pies will show. A Chicago reporter took oc-
casion to look up a few of the palatial drink
ing places Of that city. The first which
seemed rich and flne enough, cost $4,000
but, in quest Of still finer saloons, the repor-
ter went into one a few steps away, and was
fairly dazzled by the glitter of mirrors, pol
tshed brass and stained-glass screens, with
gaslights placed behind to show Off their
beauties: This cost st4, ,OO0,' said the proprie,
tor, and it you don't believe it, l can show
said to the man who fixed it up: Go ahead
und send in your bills" This establishment
Is fitted up with imported English oak and
mahogany wood. A wide fireplace is built
brass. Wherever window can be- put, a
fanciful design in stained-glass is placed, anS
half dozen fine oil paintings decorate the
walls. Across the street is another place
marble The bar mirrors cost 5000
and the screen in front of the entrance, COM
posed of massive carved walnut, with a
mirror and clock, cost S14OO. A short tour
were dozen other places where the thirsty
pedestrian can satisfy. his appetite for
alcoholic beverages in saloons costing from
100000 to $4,000 to fit up. AS If th s were
not enough, New York has one saloon, and
Indianapolis has now another, where silver
dollars are actually used to pave. the floor
OF the new one we are told: aThe floor is
Ibid with the most expensive tiling, and 100
silver dollars lust from the mint are inlaid {"
With all the poverty and distress in the
land, our workingmen are actually trampnC
silver dollars under foot as they go to get
their drinks. Is it any wonder there should
be hard times2 What can the. best tariff
legislation do to put this locked up money in
circulations-The Voice. e.
WHY HE FAILED TO GRADUATE.
A few days ago at the commencement exer-
cisos of the United States Naval Academy, at
Annapolis, the entire first class graduated
with one exception. That exception was a
youg cadet from Indiana, and the telegraph
news in bis case was headed: "a Naval Cadet
Ruined by Drink" Instead of receiving class
honors that might havo tsen his on that
graduating day, and a commission that would
assure him an honored position and noble
living until tho end of his days, he was being
confined in the prison ship Santee for some
drunken misdemeanor If he had been sober
on that day he would not have been prepared
to graduate, for he had given more attention
to liquor and the pleasure of drinking than
to his studies 1t has been found that a man
who has habit of getting drunk cannot do
anything else well. BY and by he has moth
ing to do, and he does not know how tits He
did not quit business; but business, to go on
properly, was obliged to quit him. To be n
good drunkard q man must give his whole
time and attention to drinking, and he will
have no time and attention for anything else
The poor naval cadet will soon be forgot and
only his relatives will feel his disgrace; but
the shame is on all men in a way. It is a con-
fession of weakness for which there seems to
be no cure. A man who can drink reasonably
and moderately gets considerable enjoyment
out Of pleasant drink at the proper time.
and likes the misfortune well enough to re-
peat it, there be nothing but misery ahead.
The man who drinks and gets drunk should
quit drinking as quickly as he would run away
from the food stream Of a broken dam. The
habit will not fail to sweep him down to de-
struction.-New Orleans Hcayune.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Last year 1856 people died Of delirfum
trenens In England.
Drinking shops in California increased In
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