The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
NUMBER II.
TEMPERANCE.


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| STRIKE FOR FREEDoM.
Oh, slave os the cup, say how long will you
kneel;
The yoke on your neck, the chain on your
heel
The stripes on your back, the dust on your
And body and soul in the darkest cclipsep
Do you breathe the free air, is this free
land
Where you kiss the red rod in the Bacchanal's
Will hyyS, yOS crinse to the men who stand by the
When giving the stripes without stars on the
soul?
VIII, tnsO you go to the altar of freedom, and
Like the craven bow to the merciless men
Who'd chain you and sell you as did Judas Of
When he, FOR pieces of silver, his Master
solds
Will you be slave on American soil,
And leave i'm saloons the hard earnings Of
toll;
Will you blot out the stars on the flag of the
And be scourged by its stripes on the suppliant
With your neck meath the feet OF the tyrant
you fear,
Give your money and life to Gambrinus and
beer?
No! Arise and be free in land that is freel
Let your appetites drown like the swine in
the sea-
The spirits you drink are the spirits of wine:
Not changed from the water by wisdom di-
vine;
But like demons of evil that entered the
swine
Now let Your motto he: "Freeclom is minep
&C. w. Bungdy, in National hdpocate.
wANAMAxER on TEMPERANCE.
Postmastcr-G General Wanamaker recently
made a very effective speech in favor OF
temperance to his Sunday-school scholars In
Philadelphia. Among other things he said:
me man who Will not sign a temperance
Pledge though he does not need il himself to
help weaker brother is not as much of a
man as he thinks himself to be. Christ said:
Deny yourselves. Take up your cross and
follow Me- There is no need to be drunk to
be under the influence of wine. The man who
takes only little and will not give it up is
as much controlled by it as II he was an
habitual drunkard. He is under the infiu-
ence because he won't give it up. What's
amendment? Because you like glass Of
beer. You say: Il want to he free to take
an occasional drink if feel like it, Isn't It
the influence of the glass of beer? There are
thousands of men in this city who do not get
drunk: They say: We have the right to
drink it If we want to; to sell it, to buy 1t or
to give 1t away
"a man may not drink it at all, but he NAV
be under the influence Of the liquor spirit.
He will say: Il AM temperance man. but /
am in business and the liquor people deal
With With me, SO won't say anything against it,
Now, what influence is he underf It's tho
same with many politician. He's afraid he
won't get votes, SO he is silent on the LIQUOR
question. When a minister or teacher re-
fuses to speak out on this question he is ruled
"a saf6K Pf6Kbiaes fbefasss & hs 4lsss the
It in the harness Of high fsssssss just 1 Is TuS Tn
saloon keeper must answer for every glass Of
for liquor. It's simply question of whether
question of high license The quibble that
prohibition doesn't prohibit has nothing ~ t:U
with it, The law against stealing does not
prevent stealing. The same power that puts
tend to the enforcement of the law. 1t is
our duty to make 1t as difficult to get liquor
as 1t is to get poison"
ALCOHOLISM IN FRANCE.
The consumption of alcohol in Franco has
been made the subject of report drawn up
| by the French senatorial committee. From
| this document it appears that since the inva-
sion of the phylloxera spirits have been
with the French people, the spirits most used
! being moreover, no longer distilled from
wine, as formerly, but from potatoes, plums,
is, it seems, extremely deleterous, and to it's
use is ascribed the deplorablo increase of sui
eide, criminality and insanity in districts
where these drinks are most in vogue. I'm
pure alcohol, in fact, is known to he most
detrimental to the public health, and medical
testimony proves that the spirit drinkers of
Paris and other districts in France not only
suffer from nervous and other diseases, but
that their children are liable to epilepsy in
sanity and hysteria. Normandy, where the
consumption of impure alcohol is very large
Is noted, it appears, for the high death rate
OF infants, while the proportion of suicides
the number. The senatorial committee
strongly recommends the abolition Of private
distillation and the prohibition of the sale Of
all spirituous liquors which are dangerous to
health, and insists that all alcoholic products
shall pass through rectifying establishments
This recommendation ought certainly not to
be neglected. Standard.
RISING TIDE FOR TEMPERANCE.
There can be no question that, as the years
go on, there is rising tide for temperance
and for prohibition The number of people
who believe liquor selling n sin and crime
| is on the increase and so is the number who
have resolved that it must be stopped The
saloon and the saloon keeper are regarded
with an increased abhorrence and the business
is gradually passing into the hands of the
! lowest class, nearly all OF them foreigners
and men who will never leave it except on
compulsion. And this compulsion ought to
receive a new impulse at the municipal cleo
tions now near at hand. Many of our cities
can be carried for prohibition, if the friends
of temperance will organize and put in the
hard work that has secured no vote in Cam
bridge Somerville and elsewnere.-Congre-
gationaiist.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES
The saloon must have boys, or it U.ust shut
up shop.
South Africa has Woman's Christian
temperance Union composed Of natives.
An Inebriate Home Tor Women has recent
ly been opened In the north of London.
Mr.. ID. H. Burwell, Of Allegheny City,
Penn, recently did a weeks campaigning for
the amendment at Erie, under the auspices Of
the w. @. T. U. 10 is stated that 5000 per-