The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-11-08
Whlskey Law Breakers.

Frequent VlOldtlOuS VI Tue law dooul lo"b
are reported. A band Of the lowest class
are making it weekly practice 10 get wits
key and get drunk. Where and from whom
they get it should be ascertained, and for
such purpose the Law and Order League
was organized. On last Sunday afternoon lot
ofyoung men were perched on the sidewalk
tween town and Haines' mill, holding a
drunken revel The druggists are frequent
ly approached with forged prescriptions, il
is reported, calling for whiskey. The parties
who exhibit such prescriptions should at
once be arrested, and this nefarious business
investigated. The laws and the officers Of
The law of this whole country are almost en-
tirey under control of the whiskey interest
There is scarcely an Office in the country,
municipal, state or FEEDER al, that is not fill
ed by sympathizer Of the whiskey traffic,
and it is made an imperative necessity to
have the law enforced by private associa-
tions, although this is an extra judicial
mode of proceeding. The whiskey trade
wants no law. 1t is an anarchist and out.
law, and has managed to fill nearly all the
Offices in the country with its creatures.
The President of the United States, the
Senators of the United States, the Congress
men in the lower House, the Governors OF
States, the members of Legislatures, the
judges on the bench, jurymen in the box
sherifs, constables and bailiffs of the various
courts throughout the entire country are
very largely active friends of. sympathizers
with, or winkers at, the violations by the
whiskey power of the laws, and private cit
liens must stand together TO enforce the
law against the liquor power when it is
violated, or it will remain dead letter
and this condition Of affairs will remain SO
until the men who are earnest to have law
sustained vote out the sympathizers and &C
tive partisans Of the liquor power, and vote
into Office, and support and uphold them
while in office, men who as officers will en-.
fore the laws against the liquor anarchists
and outlaws. To this condition we must
come, or liquor will stamp out the nation as
it has stamped out ancient nations, from the
dawn of history down.
Every nation the sun has shown on, that
has risen and passed away, has first reached
high state of civilization and refinement
and then commenced its decadence through
debauchery and drunkenness. The frs
glimpse we have in history of the deviltry
of alcohol is Noah's drunken spree, which
created schism in the family that was never
healed. Then Belshazzer, ruler of the
wealthiest and most highly civilized nation
in the earth at that time, when the enemy
was beleag CURING his capital city, in place
being out on the lines among his soldiers
looking after the safety of his kingdom, il
having drunken carouse with his chic
officers and lot of scarlet women. Th'
enemy bride the defenders, TIE gates arr
opened and the great empire is no more.
Alexander the Great, when he had con
quered the world, in trying to out drinI
some of the old buns about his court, will
copper lined stomachs, fell under the tabl'
to rise no more and the Masadonian's En-
pire passed away in pandemonium of Ii
ceniiousness, drunkenness and crime.
Rome in the reign of Augustus was a
the pinnacle of her civilization and culture
From that her history is downward til
oblivion blotted her out as nation. TIL
reign of drunkenness, corruption and in
fanny began among her great men previous
to the fall of the republic, and never let NJ
till the empire was blotted out.
France 10 day is in her decadence will
her boosted light wines which lead up tC
brandy and absinthe. The German nations
are debauched with beer. The throne anC
aristocracy Of England are propped by thu
plumber of other nations and her own PEG.
pie. Eighty millions drawn from Indi;
and one hundred and twenty-four million.
from the labor of her own people by an ex-
else tax on alcohol, assists her aristocratit
and royal families to rob labor still further
Alcohol has ALWAYS been the prop as wei
as the ruin of overriding and ruling classes
in monarchical nations.
No people could be kept in bondage to a
favored class composed of their own blood
who were perfectly sober. 1t is the policy
and safety of the royal and governing class
es of Europe to brutalize TO a degree the
masses. But the crime reacts and in the
end the alcoholic poison disease carries all
high and low 10 a common ruin. The dead
nations Of antiquity, whose ruins serving as
grave stones tell of their once existence
have been slain by that common enemy.
Every glimpse the light of history gives OF
their great men fuds them drunk on the eve
oftheir fall. If the learned and great OF
those nations were dobauched by alcohol it
is certain that the ignorant, lower classes
were slaves to the same vices with poverty
and brutality thrown in.
The civilization of the Ninteenth century
with its grandeur, luxury and culture is
facing the same devil of death. Science
for the first time in history is fighting on
the side of life and humanity against this
demon of DEATH The learned and leaders
of society are dividing for and against the
monster. The vote caster and wage Garner
aye almost to man on the side of their en-
envy. The men who direct government,
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