The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-09

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men cured by the new remedy were be-
yond the reach OF moral There
are men who seem dead to all moral in
huences, whom no expostulation can
check, no exhortatlon win, no wisdom
make wise; who can only be reached by the
body, by pouring something down their
throats, or by the moo shot," But
these men are exceptionsa There is a
vast amount OF moral humanity. There
are millions OF young men who do have
moralsusceptilitIes consciences. spiritual
qualities, wisdom, whose nature responds
to healthful influences and teaching, and
who live sobber, useful, prosperous
lives. The men who have been wrecked
and saved would do well to think over
the list OF neighbors and friends and ac-
quaintances who never needed any saw
ing and note just what these men haye
believed all their. live IN regard to tenn
perance and religion.
These men who have been restorted to
sobrity bv the gold cure should be specl-
allYslow to array themselves against pro-
hibition. ortheir first admissions that
they had lost their will power. If SO,
their very imbecility made some form Of
prohibition necessary. In such q case
either the men or the whiskey must be
shut up. Emperor William, according to
his proposed measures against drunk
enness, thinks it should be the man, and
in part the whisky. The temperance
sentiment OF this country deals more
leniently with the man, and proposes to
prohibit the rumseller. If anything the
prohibltionists have shown these men
who cannot or will not controltheir APP
petltes, rather too muce kindness.
Again, the reformed drunkards ought
to know that the saloons had much to
do with their downfall. Certainly hi
chloride of gold does not produce such
oblivion OF the past that they cannot re-
member how they went IN and out OF the
doors OF the saloon until it had swa-
lowed up their substance, their occopat-
ion and their manhood. And they ought
to know what a vast amount OF corrup-
ton, CRIME and wretchedness connects
itself with the ljduor traffic which is I'm.
touched by the cure injected into the
reeking body Of the drunkard. IT must
be plain also that a few asylums like
that at Dwight are a poor offset to the
appalling number OF soloons. According
the statistics furnished by the Nationa,
Census, Illinois has one retail liquordeal
to every 275 Of it's inhabitantss, New
York one to 1877, California one tonlnety-
one, Montana one to sixty, the Other
great States ranging u little above OF be.
low Illinois. The corrupting anddestruct.
i've power Of such an army OF rumsellers
cannot be estimated in figures. 1t is q
blight and a curse that demands some
other and greater remedy than the mere
treatment OF the nerve centers OF a few
drunkards, however effective that may
be in each individual case.
But the advocates of temperance must
also be reasonable. Nothing but hu1t
from charging that the gold cure it
doomed in the interests Of political part
les. Such q charge is too far-fetched to be
worth the breath that 1T takes to MAX,
it. 1t is u%ndignlfied and uncharltable
and the only thing it can do is to furnifl
the sub writer's a good pretext for di
recting their fire at agood cause. Th'
temperance movement is backed by al
appalling listof real reasons FORTS exist
ence without resortingto doubtful &C
Observation-Disclosures. b