The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-12
Tho Saloon a Deadly Curse.

No one can doubt that we need the church.
the school and the factory, but in the light Of
our present. civilization no one will set up
claim for the saloon on its own merits. One
has said the saloon is the heaviest clog in the
progress of our country. Every evil that
curses our nation to-day flows to a great ex-
tent from the saloon. 1t is the prolific source
Of most Of our political corruption. It traf
death. 1t drags in dishonored graves hun
dred thousand human being annually.
Is it any wonder that Gladstone declares
the saloon to be greater evil than war,
pestflence and famine combined2 Why, in
the presence Of such desolation as this, war is
white winged angel of peace, pestilepce q
healing fountain and famine q table OF plenty.
Tho saloon has been compared with tho
deadly Upas tree which not only kills those
who touch it, but sends out its terrible p olson
even to those who endeavor to shun iG.
If we consider the saloon from moral
standpoint 1t is a curse. 1t Is the direct cause
Of thres-fourths of the Sabbath breaking,
profanity and gambling. 1t desolates q
million homes, and transports men beyond
the bounds Of reason into the seas of dissi-
patton and ruin. 1t makes 500 maniacs and
loon in which million men have lost their
self respect, their health, their character,
their all. Men with defiled clothing, wrecked
hopes, starving children, empty purses, lost
manhood, the product and support of the
saloon. But yet this monster cries out for
State and National authority to ply its dread
full work, saying: '.License me to sow the
seeds Of shame. License me to make widows
aud orphans. License me to write disgrace
upon the fair forehead Of helpless innocence.
License me to befog the mind to paralyze
the reason, damn the soul. License me to
lncite the red-handed murderer to his terri
BILE deeds Of deadly violence" But the ca
loon gets all it asks for.
It is financial curse Nine hundred and
forty dsa s.:ttfors ce dollarz ar: EnAGt over
the till of rrmseller More money than
we spend as a nation for all civil service,
army, navy and Congress. Pioneer
Temperance News and Notes.
It is said that 80, ,OC0 people go to bed drunk
In Glasgow every Saturday night.
Bands Of Mercy are being formed in con-
nection with the Loyal Temperance Legions
Of Ohio.
A Kentucky w. G. T. u. woman recently
said she had six unanswerable arguments in
favor OF prohibition-her six sons.
In one court Of London twenty seven out
Of twenty-eight cases of attempted suicide
within a short time were traced directly to
drink and the twenty eighth was doubtful.
DIR. Daniel Dorchester Is responsible for
the statement that q distillery firm within
three miles of the Massachusetts, State
House has a contract to furnish 5000 gallons
of rum daily to the African trade for the
next seven years.
Professor Kovaievsky, of the. Chair of
Mental Disease at the University OF Khar
koff, Russia. has published book in which
he strongly denounces the giving of alcoholic
beverages to children aud enlarges on the
propriety OF not administering alcohol as q
| medicine without frat ascertaining whether
| the patient has an alcoholic diathesis
The VIC. T. u. OF Columbus, Miss, re
Gently sent an earnest request to every
clergyman In the place to preach a sermon
on sThe Evils of tho Opon Saloon" The
| plea was considered in the minister's meeting
1 and the chairman made answer by note
saying that the ministers, after prayerful
reconsideration Of the request, deemed it "in
| sxpedient TO comply"
Mrs. Mary A. Lathrop. OF Michigan, who
| has been dubbed by her admirers .'the Danis
| Webster of the feminine world y has a poor
/ opinion OF saloon keepers In a lecture a
4 PitttsburE shc said: "Capnibalism Is decen
| compared with the saloon busipess. hav
/ moro respect far q savage who VIII kill
I missionary cook him and eat him. than fo
man who Will allow the liquor business be
,csuse Il win lessen his municipal taxes r