The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-16
The Victims of the Saloon.

The Victims of the Saloon.
Speaking of the Sunday saloon, Andrew
Paxton. agent of the Citizens League Chi
cago, said few days ago:
1T Is the wife and mother who has to suffer
from the Sunday saloon. 1t is the undeServ-
ing and helpless who are made its victims.
remember one case Of that kind. 1t was over
in the Desplaines street police court. A good
looking young man was IN the dock charged
with drunkenness and disorderly conduct
His wife appeared against him, young wo-
man with baby in her arms. "A better
husband and kinder father and more in
dustrious and capable workman never lived
than my husband when the liquor is out of
him. All through the week we live happily,
and he is sober because he is busy. But when
Sunday comes he has time and money, and
when he gets drunk he abuses mo and the
children till he is that stupid lie falls asleep.
I dread to have Sunday come Her name is
Mary Rogers. Think Of it! In land called
Christian the laws for the protection of the
people are ignored and the Christian Sab
bath that most people look to as day Of rest
and comfort, q day Of rejoicing, IS made a
dreadful thing and a terror to the helpless.
And there are ten thousand such women as
Mary Rogers in Chicago"
Death Due to the Use Of Liquor.
The following testimony from W. Wynn
Wescott NJ. D., Deputy Coroner for Central
Middlesex, lately appeared in the London
Lancet:
"Prompted by my friend, DR.. Norman
Kerr, l have made an analysis of 12OU con-
secutive inquests held by'me in London, and
cannot refrain from making the results
public I am not, and never have been, a
total abstainer, or an advocate of that cause,
80 there need be no fear that the figures are
exaggerated. OF l2UO cases Of death, includ-
ing death from violence, sudden deaths, per-
sons found dead and deaths with regard to
which no medical certificate is forthcoming,
40 were infants, children and persons telow
the age of sixteen years. These may be pre-
sumably removed from the deaths from alco-
holic excess. OF the remaining $50 deaths, no
Tess than 143are recorded as being the result OF
chronic alcoholic disease, acute alcoholism,
delirium tremens, suicides caused by drink
or of accidents arising because OF incapacity
when intoXieated that is. one death in every
524. OF these 14S cases. 81 were suicidal, .3
accidental, and 80 the result. more or less
sudden of syncope, appoplexy, etc, due to
disease Of the heart liver and kidneys. stated
in sworn evidence as due to alcoholic excess.
OF the l4S cases, Q died suffocated during. the
stupor Of alcohol, 8 died of syncope due TO
degenerative cardiac muscular tissue, and
three were run over by vehicles in the streets.
Only Of the cases were Of persons under
thirty years Of age but 21 cases were of per-
sons over sixty years OF age"
Ihtoxicants and Yellow Fever.
There is conclusive testimony that intox1-
cants, judiciouSly prescribed or INDUCED In,
have added largely to the mortality IN con-
nection with the yellow fever epidemic IN
Jacksonville. A Jacksonville correspondent,
in the Metropolis, of that city, under the
head of "Too Much Brandy" writes:
1.-The case of Mr.. w. P. Sandy, as reported
in your yesterdays issue. and in the ItmeS'
Union this morning, shows that too much
brandy was the cause of death. This appears
to lie acknowledged by the attending physl
clan.
IF the truth could be learned, it would be
found that more than half of the deaths dur
ing this epidemic were from the same source.
I have passed through several yellow fever
epidemics and l know from twenty years
experience that brandy and other spirltuous
liquors are not good for yellow fever
patients; and i'll nine cases out or ten tney
will do more harm than good, often causing
death, and yet some physicians persist IN aa-
ministering them. :,
"Some are wondering why 50 small a
I number Of the colored people are dying from
the plague. The answer is, because they
| have had no champagne, brandy and other
liquors that have been lavishly used in other
quarters during this epidemic.
"'We live to learn is an old adage often
quoted, but how many heed what thoy have
lived to learn in this connection is exempll-
fled by the doctors, who, although they know
from experience, that brandy will kill yell
low fever patient, still run the risk of trying
not to give them too much brandy"
The Metropolis, Of JacksonVllle, also
quotes an eminent physician Of the Medical
Bureau of that city as saying: I'm all the
cases have attended of yellow fever have
! found those persons addicted to strong drink
the most stubborn to subdue, and have lost
several from 10 other cause but drinking
against my directions while convalescing."
Temperance News and Notes.
The w. e. T. u, of Tennessee. is actively
engaged in work for the colored population.
More than 30, 600 children of school age in
the city of Chicago are said to be addicted to
the use of strong drink.
! A children's organization, composed Of
about ten thousand members, is connected
with the Norwegian Total Abstinence So
ciety.
Thomas Jefferson said: ITO the use of
ardent spirits is to be attributed much evil
legislation. If We're again placed in posi-
tion to do so, my first question to candidate
for office would be: do you drink ardent
spirits!'"
when you feel course is wrong,
And conscience tells you so;
Though friend should bid you err
BE firm, and answer No!
Thus, in every step of life,
A good example show,
Nor fear to speak that little word
No! No! No.'
There are thirty rum-shops to every school
throughout Western Siberia and thirty-live
ruln-shops to every school throughout East
ern Siberia and in a country where there
exists such disproportion between the
facilities for education and the facilities for
intoxication, one cannot reasonably expect to
lind clean, orderly or prosperous villages,
says George kennan i'll Century.
At u recent meeting of the Scottish Tenn
perance League, Mrs. Mair, who has been
| engaged in mission work in Africa, told how
she demonstrated with chief for accepting
present OF rum and giving it his people.
The chief replied by asking her question to
| which she had nc answer He said: Don't