The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-12

neglect.
His babes, who once crowded around for
protection,
And sat gayly prattling for Joy on his
knee,
Familiar with blows in tho place or caress-
Away from their father instinctively fec.
Ah, the whitening curso--the ruin appalling
Which alcohol wrcaks on suffering
world
Let the peoples rebuke. like hot thunder
Shower fierce On tho tiend till from earth
be be hurled.
A rKRRrBLE INDICTMENT.
In every province in every county, in every
great city OF the United Kingdom, it has been
stated from the seat of justice again and again
that, but for drunkenness there would be in
England onetenth Of the existing crime. It
ts getting q hideous commonplace Of judges:
Only ten days ago Lord Coleridge said at
Durham that but for drink we might shut up
nine-tenths of our jails Last week was
brought up before Mr.. Justice Manisty, at
Manchester. a wretched creature In mans
semblance who, as though he were worse
than a natural brute beast made to be taken
and destroyed, had brutally kicked his wife
the gallows, said: you have been found
guilty Of the crime of wilful murder, your
victim being your own wife. You are a sad,
in drink, which has brought you to this fear
full condition. IL Is only owing to Gods
mercy that this has not brought many, many
more into similar case I am afraid that II
this vice continues to be iudulged in as it now
is many more will stand in q like position
to you. Oh that we could by administering
the law, put an end to itp All, he might
well say thatl But dare you blink at such
testimonyf Do you think that they say such
things rssh,ys And L yoa -.;a not ,::ssi. 70
the reiterated warnings Of the judges i'm their
ermine, will you listen to tho noble-hearted
missionaries who tell us what drink costs to
the glory OF England In the execration of her
name over whole continents, and the ruin of
her efforts among whole populationsf Could
summon the Maories OF New Zealand, once
SO healthy that you might smite a man with
broad-axe and In few days he would be
well, now, In the Language of high govern
ment official. "almost as bad as the English,
polluted and contaminated by their drink"-
what would they sayp IL could summon
the Indians Of North America, once not un-
happy, now degraded, maddened, extermi.
would they sayf They have said that
because Of 1t they spit at tho name
Of Christian. IL we ask the Mohammedans,
what do they sayf Is there a Christian In
England with conscience SO dead, with
heart so rough, with cheek so brazen, as not
to blush when he hears that, IL they see one
CT their number drunk they have been heard
to say: "He has left Mahomet and gone to
sayf They have said by the lips of their
eloquent representative Keshub Chunder
Sen, that all the splendid benefits of our Eng
lish rule In India have been nullified and
use of beer and brandy; that the wailing of
widows rends the air of India with curses
against the British Government for having
introduced this thing. And again, from tho
Southern Sea the voice Of yet another mis-
work, help-help to dethrone this demon OF
intemperance, our reproof before the heather,
the blight OF our infant churches" And oh,
sirs, when. you hear such things, are we
Motive, the sons Of free, proud, glorious
England-are we not, to our burning in
fanny, what one has called u.s. the drunken
Helots Of the world.-Canon Fdrrar.
iSrELLIoENT TESTIMONY.
William Sunday. the baseball player, said
In a recent speech at Pittsburg: INV occupa-
ton for the past few years has carried me
over large portion Of the United States.
have been close observer, and have no
ticed that in communities where the sale Of
liquor is prohibited, either by State laws or
local option, there is the greatest prosperity,
the greatest happiness and the nearest equali-
ty among the people. There are some people
ment for temperance Why this is so is q
mystery to me. There are men coming in here
to talk for prohibition who come from States
where It has been tried. They havelived under
have lived In Iowa under license and under
prohibition, and say OF my own knowledge
that Iowa was never more prosperous than
sho is to-day. What has done thata Prohibi-
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
:. uanfss. the United states makes more than
1900 funerals Of juebriates every day.
No one In Jamaica drinks Jamaica rum
Americana who have seen it made allege that
common dishwater Is royal drink compared
to il.
"hfen drink from habit" says DIR. McCosh.
"If could get twenty liquor drinkers to
stop and turn to buttermilk or ginger ale for
o month, they would form a new habit. Not
one whisky drinker In City likes the taste of
the stuff
| Under sswhlsky liberty" In Shelby County,
Tenn, one out or every 374 citizens makes
the most of life In tho State prison. Under
! prohibition In Union County not single con-
! vict out of 10, 260 citizens peers out from the
: prison bars,
, The acknowledgement New York are making
an effort to introduce the system of com
i partments In their establishments, with place.
i where women can enter for drink and
J where men and women can drink together
The newspapers are already pointing out thst
( this will be one Of the most baleful results OF
! "free rum.n -NSf u -.
II drink to make mo work. said a young
man TO an old gray-headed man Of 20. Eyes,
! he replied, 'ftw will Thought Just so. have
buried two boys In drunarkd's graves. am
/ an old man and feeble. I have spent com
% psis me soworR when hem % should have Is rest. % Yea
drtpkahdie make you work, young man.
4 At the convention Of tho Women's Home
and Forelgn Missionary Bociety, at Balti
/ more, the kev. David A. Day, one of the 30
4 ciety's missiongriessn Lbsria, said: 81 sal
can ports and Hw lknded, on q single Sab
/ bath, from two large steafners about so OO(