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

And sat Gayly pratting for Joy on his
knee,
Familiar with blows in tho place or caress-
ing,
Away from their father instinctively fico.
Ah; the withering curso-the ruin appalling
Which alcohol wTcaks q suffering
Lot the peoples rebuke. like hot thunder
bolts falling,
Shower fierce OH tho tiend till from Garth
be be hurled.
A TERRIBLE INDICTMENT.
In every province, in every county, in every
great city of the United Kingdom, IL has been
stated from the seat of justice again and again
that, but for drunkenness there would be in
England done-tenth Of the existing crime. 1t
is getting 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 ManSty, at
Manchester. 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
TO death; and the Judge, I'm sentencing him to
the gallows, said: You have been found
guilty Of the crime of wilful murder, your
victim being your own wife. You are n sad,
sad instance of the consequences of indulSing
in drink, which has brought you to this fear
full condition. 1t is only owing to Gods
mercy that this has not brought many, many
more into similar case. am afraid that il
this vice continues to be iudulged in as it now
is many more will stand in like position
to you. Oh that we could by administering
the law, put an end to itw All, ne might
well say that! But dare you blink at such
testimony? Do you think that they sag such
things rashlyr And if you will not listen to
the reiterated warnings Of the judges in their
ermine, will you listen to the 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 populations? Could
i summon the Manries of New Zealand, once
80 healthy that you might smite n man with
4 broad-aXe and in n few days he would be
well, now, in the language of u high govern
ncnt official. almost as bad us the English
polluted and contaminated by their drink'-
what would they say? If l could summon
the Indians of North America, once not un-
happy, now degraded, maddened, eXtermi-
mattel by our accursed tire-water,, what
because of it they spit at the name
of Christian III we ask the Mohammedans,
what do they say? Is there Christian in
England with conscience so dead, with
heart so rough, with cheek so brazen. as not
to blush when he hears that if they see one
Cf their number drunk they have been heard
to say: He has left Mahomet and gone to
Jesus" Ii we ask tho HindooS, what do they
say2 They have said by the lips of their
eloquent representative, keshnb Chunder
Sen, that all the splendid benefits of our Eng
liSh rule i'm India have been nullitiell and
counterbalanced by our teaching them the
use of beer and brandy; that the wailing of
widows rcnds the air of India with curses
against the British Government for having
introduced this thing. Aud again, from the
southern Sea, the voice or yet another ms
sionary says TO us: III you love missions,
"oih' heip-heiP W uethLohc e'iis dehon oi
,h., hi;o,ht Of onr ;nrppnt ,h,,rohasn - Al ~
sirs, when you hear such things, are we
E,'oI,nJ ar, ,,,n nat t OH, h,,,,n;rr a.; -,
fa,Sv what one has cn,le1 ms tho drunlcn
MeI0t. oe tho xyorIJ T,non Enrru,.
iNiELii'ENr TESTIMONY.
William Sunday the baseball player said
In Il recent speech ut PittSburg: my occupa-
ti"n for the past few years has carried me
over large portion of the United States.
M M,i'NS nren close observer, ana nave no
-; ma. III :,, mner. 'ne sure Oh
iI inI, - P o'.ip.ti, ', ei'''.I oy ,,'"le itwS OF
,,;,, y, wy = = ,i.'' .
S''n'e'I "PP',eS" CIV ,ri '''' he'i csI cduali-
y h'liohS 'uc PeoPre: ihcre arc s"ne people
VIZ Mno az t { STOW 10 see 1llo VHtue oi Inls move
,.". io i''P'nnil,o' T, NY .hls 10 ;" Is
To- Talk for nrohibition who come from StatnU
where il has brrn tried They havcjivnd undor
il and iikn: Is NOT Tint nroof of its v;rtr.,
IbnyeHvcI in Iowa ,,nder IicenSo and mnJor
prnLihition. and | saw of NV own knowInJrs
fha, Iowa was never mora nrosncrous H.
She is To-day, What has done thnt2 Prohih;'
zion"
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
nuuri,, the United states makes more than
l"OOfunerals OF incbrlatcs every day.
No one in Jamaica drinks Jamaica rum
Americans who have seen it made allccc that
common dishwater is n royaI drink conlpared
to it.
u,,,,, ,-;,,L from, ho,,;, n,. AtcCo,h
.,f n,,,,,h GO, ,,,",,'u ,in,nr IL ,r;nr,. ~ tn
IN t,' g. huttnr,,;,i,i o'. I ,',.
a'up ponth n thav wnmI fnrn, , ~ 80 6,h;t Nnt
one whisky 3rinkcr in tiftv likes the tost,. Of