The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-05


And when you're assaiied by the tempter,
say "No."
-Goodalrs Sun.
THE LEAGUE OF THE CROSS.
A new crusade has commenced In the Ro-
man Catholic Church, which has attracted
much attention. I'm the community. The
League Of the Cross" is an organization
started by Cardinal Manning in England and
it has extended to various parts of this coun-
try: The following is the pledge:
II do solemnly promise, with the help OF
God, to abstain from drinking or treating in
saloons or like places, and from entering such
places without strict necessity. l also prom
observe its rules, and to do all l can to pro
mote Its objects, and induce others to join
it."
In st. Peters one of the largest Roman
Catholic churches in tho city of Brooklyn,
with Fathers Fransioli, Barry and Ward, a
large organization has been formed. Father
Barry at one Of the meetings said:
1--WE have from twelve to fifteen thousand
nominal Roman Catholics in this parish, the
area of which is eight blocks long by three
cese. Every corner of every block almost is
decorated with rum-shop. There are sixty.
five saloons about and we find that drunk
enness is constantly increasing. For every
drunkard we reclaim the rum-shops make
ten new ones. The parish is like ship with
strained timbers fhe five priests here have
been laboring to pump it dry, but the water
rushes iii faster than over. Now we are go
ing to stop the leak.
"The branches of this tree of intemperance
only thing to do is to strike at the root. We
are like an ambulance corps on a battlefield.
AS fast rs we fix one wounded man up, ten
newly wounded arc brought to us from the
front. What is the use of our work when the
bullets are allowed to fly as fast as everp We
Q ra M Dt,r fnr
before, drunkenness is OH the increase.
"There is no use denying the proposition
that saloons produce drunkenness, and drunk
enness produces crime. Against this state OF
course we must necessarily hurt the saloon
business, and that may antagonze the saloon
keepers. We cannot help that. What we
are going to do is to save our people from per.
dition. This is our duty, and we must do ii,
no matter whom we hurt. We have God on
may array themselves against us. With Gods
help we must win.
"Never in the history of our country has
the subject of intemperance received such
consideration as at the present time: Light
is now shed on it as never before. Religion
and philanthropy have thown their rays upon
it and laid bare its depths of iniquity. No
intelligent man has dubious views on the sub
jecS Tho evidence is clear-no clearer If
written by au angel. There arano faltering
-
VICES with which man can be afflicted. Per.
haps it has never ragged more fiercely than
now, and men are organized to combat it,"
THE ECONOMY OF PROHIBITION.
A correspondent of tho Newcastle Eng.)
Daily Chronicle emphasizes the economy Of
prohibition by careful statistics. He shows
that In 1888 in that district tho pre- portion
paid for manual labor in making spirits was
not quite two pence in every sovereign's
worth of liquor, and that only ten pence out
Of every pound spent in liquor went to the
working classes. Amy one therefore who
bought 95 worth of alcoholic drinks last year
benefited the labor market to the extent of
with the statement that of e5 spent for shoes
R2 goes back for labor, and Of 95 spent for
woolen cloth e3 goes back to labor.
DEER AND BUSINESS.
OF twenty-six of the leading business firms
and manufacturers in tho United States-all
rated by Dun's Mercantile Agency rs possess
ing capital of at least $50, ,OO0-interviewcd
by us, only one allowed the use of liquor in
his establishment, and then only during tho
dinner hour. Everyone reports that the
business interests of tho employer nro
jeopardized 10y the dram-shop association of
tho employee, and that most cases of in
dividual poverty among the latter can bo
traced to the saloons. .-Homiletic Reuie,o.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
hs D. sedS oY B1ss !ettsrss Slam sM e prd
claims its activity by means of a banner ut
tho Paris Exposition.
Sam Small hasn't been q newspaper para
grapher for nothing. He defines high license
as high lie with no sense In It,
Governor Humphrey says proposition to
restore the saloon in Kansas would be voted
down by at least 120, COO majority.
The w. G. T. u. of Minneapolis will soon
open large coffee palace where two thou
sand people can be fed in one day.
There is not single liquor saloon in TYR.
roll County, N. c., and consequently the law
yers In the county are on the verge Of star
walton.
The Niagara Square w. C. r. u, of Buff
falo, N. Y, has been incorporated and pro-
poses to establish a woman's sanitarium and
foundlings' home in that city.
A recent canvass of the schools of England
revealed the fact that ninety-five per cent.
OF the young people taking first rank were
of the Band of Hope.
Massachusetts manufacturer is alleged
TO have paid one Saturday to his army of
ia6orers seven hundred bright, crisp ten
dollar bills Each man received ono with his
pay: All were marked so as to be erecoenized
By Tuesday, four hundred and ten OF these
bills had been deposited I'm the banks of the
city by tho barkeepers.
whether or not the world would be vastly
benefited by the total and final banshment
from 1t of all intoxicating drinks, seems to
me not now an opeu question. Three-fourths
of mankind confess tho affirmative with their
tongues; and l believe all the rest acknowl-