The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-30
TEMPERANCE.

lGMl .ihANOEs
- rlrERAEcr cAnp-xEErINo sxxrcu.
The white mists from the wood,a
Ake tne thin smoke OF sacrifice
From Indian sltars in tho shade
| Wncre once tho red man bowed and prayed.
The soft green mass invites the knees
10 bend In worship, and the trees
Afe their stout arms In listning dir,
ana ieafy lips seom Whispering prayer.
Beneath this roof Of braided bougl,s
Wc may rcnew our sacred vows: ~
For hsre wc see. like fire divine,
The burning bush and tho flaming viuc
| This is tho temple, of the Lord.
Hero nature sings In sweet accord
ncr happy hymn of grateful thanks
from snady groves and grassy bank1.
! As vapors rise toward the sun.
As brooklets to the ocean run,
| As plants spring upward from the sod
Our thoughts here turn to heaven and GoI
The rocks are affairs by tho brook,
And psaims arc writ I'm natures book;
The towering pine, tapering suiro
Ihe radiant birds our ringing choir.
Red blossoms are tho fragrant urns
ana censer cups where incense burns:
Sod is our trust, and He win bless
Our worship In the wilderness.
--9eofUe W.hangaH ~ National Advocate.
THE WHISKY HABIT.
The h'airie Farmer has insisted-does VET
that the true way to diminish the imuod-
eratc drinking OF spirituous and fermentod
liquors is to have it considered degrading for
persons TO 90 seen drinking at public bars,
abolished. 1t will become so as coon as the
syerage mon becomes ashenasd, e be e. seen & SiIn in
educated thereto by tho more sober-mindod'
that can bring this about. Accomplished, It
would reduce the public dram-shop nuisance
one-hah OF once and, finally, do away almost
It would mako Sundays orderly In our great
cities, save money to the homes Of working
men, eliminate nine-tenths Of the criminals
from the country, and carry tho hundreds OF
millions OF dollars now viciously spent in
temperate classes comfortable. It would do
away I'm great measure with strikes aud
other labor troubles, for then the working
men could think not only earnestly, but CO.
tween employers and themselves
IL has been satd that the consumption Of
spirits is yearly decreasing through the onac:-
the decrease and increase in sales to the
people from 1877 to 1887 A digest shows
that, taking the quantities consumed i'm con-
! secutive periods Of three years, tho average
in the three years ending With 1873. FIis iu,
ciudos every man, woman and child in the
country. What presentation! In 1888,
counting hvo individuals as tho average
family, this would give each adult over 81 {
| gallons Of strong whisky yearly.
THE BUILDING OF TEMPERANCE.
Those who began this work lifted the first
turf, prepared the bed In which to lay the
foundation, once spoke John B. Cough.
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By and by they got the foundation above the
| surface. Then commenced another storm Of
persecution. Now we sec the superstructaue,
pillar after pillar, tower otter tower, column
Liberty and Good VIII" Old men gaze upon
it as It grows before them. They will not
1.-Two to 500 1t completed, but they see in faith
the crowning copestone set upon it. Meek
eyed women wSop as it grows in beauty.
howers But we do not see its beauty yet
I because Il is in course Of erection. ScaRold-
ing, ropes, ladders workmen ascending and
descending, mar the beauty of the building.
But, by and by, after the hosts who have Ia
fields waving with golden grain, never again
| to be crushed In the distillery, through vine
yards under trellised vines Of grapes hanging
In & al their purple glory, through orchards
fruit mover again to be turned into that
| which will dcbase to the last distillery and
| destroy IL, to the last stream OF death aud
wipe it out to the last weeping wife and
wipe her tears away, to the last little child
and lift him up to stand where God intended
he should stand, to the last drunkard and
nerve him to burst the burning fetters aud
mako glorious accompaniment to the song
chains; then win the copestone he set upon
it, and the building will stand In Its won
drous beauty before an astonished world.
| ADyANcr or TOT parrurur,v pp,vr,,pv x,e,
A total abstinence journal called La
Feaiite de temperance hns been established
In France. In a recent issue Professor G.
BuDge, who is considered IN authority upon
alcoholic subjects, referring to the advance
OF total abstinence principles, says that when
once established they suffer no arrest by OBJ
stacles but ore continually progressant. He
reviews the prohibition movement in
America, and says that in England there are
50oo, GOO total abstainers; in Norway,
900. He continues: "The society Of the
Blue Cross OF ten years Of age, counts 5000
members, and tho movement COINS from day
to day. They have established the fact that
where the principle Of total abstinence is
once accepted the movement stops for no OBJ
| stocies; 1t continually progresses, until at
.ast 1t secures strong majority In the Gov
ernment and attains It's end-the prevention
by law OF the sale Of alcoholic beverages"
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
The beer garden is tho primary school Of
intomperance.
In Chicago, says O leading brewer, eighty
six per cent. of the saloons arc controlled by
the breweries.
The beer bill Of Chicago last year was $2G, :
800, 900. No wonder that in Chicago there art
complaints of poverty.
In Kansas thero ia but one pauper to every
1858 OF tho population This shows that pro-
hibition prohibits pauperism.
or the seventy-nvo criminals in the prison
at Stockton, Cal, all but one acknowledged
Gtrong drink as the cause Of their SHINING
The membership Of the West Washington
Territory w. c. T. u. has increased NOR,
than forty per cent. during the last season.
A leading worker has said: "Great issues
make great men; but when the sen Of politi
cal issues gots shallow, little fishes only car
Cwim."
What you want is not to shut your ports
but to shut tho doors Of tho saloon; and ther
you may open your ports as wide as yot