The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-08
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Did 1 call this house the second?
No; it is the same house. Rum trans
formed it. Rum embruted the man.
Rum sold the shawl. Rum tore up
the carpets. Rum desolated the
hearth. Rum changed that paradise
into hell.
1 sketch two men that you know
very well. The first graduated from
one of our literary institutions. His
father, mother, brothers and sisters
were present to see him graduate.
They heard the applauding thunders
that greeted his speech. They saw
the degree conferred and the diploma
given. He never looked SO well. Ev-
erybody said, What a noble brow!
What u fine eye! What graceful
manners! What brilliant prospects!"
ALI the world opens before him, and
cries, "Hurrah! hurrah!"
Man the second: Lies in the sta
ton house. The doctor has Just been
sent for to bind up the gashes re-
ceived in fight. His hair is matted,
and makes him look like wilk beast
His lip is bloody and cut. Who is
this battered and bruised wretch that
was picked up by the police, and
carried in drunk, and foul and bleed
ing? Did l call him man the second ?
He is man the first. Rum transformed
him. Rum destroyed his prospects.
Rum disappointed parental expecta-
ton. Rum withered those garlands
of commencement day. Rum cut his
lip. Rum dashed out his manhood.
Rum! accursed RUM!
Fl,
The question is, Who will hunt him
down, and how shall we shoot him
answer, first, by getting our child
ren right on this subject. Let them
grow up with an utter aversion to
strong drink. Take care how you
administer it even as medicine. If
you find that they have natural love
for it, as some have, put in a glass of
it some horrid stuff, and make it
utterly nauseous. Teach them, as
faithfully as you do the Bible, that
rum is a fend. Take them to the
aims house, and show them the wreck
and ruin it works. Walk with them
into the homes that have been
scourged by it.
Again: We will battle this evil by
voting only for sober men. How
many men are theie who can raise
above the feelings of partisanship,
and demand that our officials shall
be sober men?
1 maintain that The question of
sobriety is higher than the question
| of availability; and that, however
eminent mans services may be, if
he have habits of intoxication, he is
unfit for any Office in the gift of a
Christian people. Our laws will be
no better than the men who make
them. Spend few days at Harris
burg, or Albany, OF Washington, and
you will find out why, upon these
subjects, it is impossible to get right
eous enactments.
Again: We will war against this
evil by organized societies. The friends
of the rum traffic have banded to-
| gether; annually issue their circulars
| raise fabulous sums of money to ad-
vance their interests; and, by grips,
passwords, signs and stratagems, set
at defiance public morals. Let us
confront them with organizations
Just as secret, and, if need be, with
grips and pass words, and signs, main
tain our position. There is no need
that our philanthopic societies tell all
their plans. ]. am in favor of all law
full strategy in the, carrying on of this
conflict 4*wish to God we could lay
under the wine casks train which,
once ignited, would shake the earth
with the explosion of this monstrous
iniquityl- -.
Agsin: We will try the power of
thebledge. There are thousands of
men wh4haYe been saved by putting
theHs .naheSfo such document. I
know It is laughed at; but there are
some men who, having once promised
q thing, do it. 'Some have broken
the pledge Yes; they were liars
But al;men are not liars. do not
to make Such signature; but I dSsay DO Say
that it would be the salvation Of
many of you. The glorious work oi
Theobald Mathew can never be esti
mated. At his hand four millions ot
people took the pledge, and multi
tudes in Ireland, England, Scotland
and America, have kept it till this day
The pledge signed to thousands
has been the proclamation of eman
cipation.
Again: We expect great thirgs
from inebriate asylums. They have
already done q glorious work.
think we are coming at last to treat
inebriation as it ought to be treated
namely, as an awful disease, self in
ficted, to be sure, but nevertheless @
disease, once fastened upon man.
sermons won't cure him; temperance
lectures will not eradicate it.; religious
tracts will not remove it; the gospel
OF Christ will not arrest it. Once un
der the power of this awful thirst
the man is bound to go on; and, if the
foaming glass were on tie other side
Of perdition, he would wade through
the fires of hell to get it. A young
man in prison had such strong thirst
for intoxicating liquors that he cut of
his hand at the wrist, called for a