Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-06-07
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THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.


By DR.. @. wEEMs PETHRRBRIDGE.
Unquestionably, the greatest cir
repressible conflict Of the times,
considered in all Of it's bearings and
its dire and far-reaching tendencies,
10 the mighty contest that ID being
waged between those, who approve,
encourage and abet the liquor traffic
the legalized dynamite Of modern
civilization, which entrenched a.
it is in the strongholds Of the na-
tional government, 10 fast convert
ing our boosted civilization into O
besotted one, demoralizing and de-
outstanding our youths, debauch-
ing, facilitating and degenerating
our manhood. imbecilitating the
advanced in years, and superinduc-
ing premature decrepitude. And
those who in the fear Of God. with
an humble reliance upon the mercy
of God, and implicit confidence in
the justice of God and with lore for
Humanity, and cherishing q chris.
tian regard for the endearments Of
home, oppose "the deep damnation
of the taking off" annually Of ten
thousands il not hundreds Of thous-
ards of our citizens by the diabolical
death-dealing demon of the distil-
lery, and are striving to prohibit the
traffic which is so baucful to the
nations morality, so detrimental
to the country's best interest in
that it impedes the country's phys
ical, moral and mental development
and progress.
No earnest searcher after truth
can carefully. with an unpreiudiced
mind, study the subject Of prohibi-
ticn--its aim and its purposes and
not be convinced that the cause Of
prohibition is the cause Of God,
Home and Humanity.
As the magnitude Of the benefits
and blessings to be derived from
prohibition grow cut of the enormi-
ty of the evils which are entailed by
the liquor traffic, the greatest
blight upon the growth Of modern
progress and Christian civilization,
let us bring the liquor traffic upon
the tapis and in doing SO let us hear
the verdict of some Of the most
eminent men OF this and other
countries:
DIR. Adam Clark, says: 'Strong
drink is not only the devils way
into man, but o mans way to the
devil"
John G. Holland, says: "Noth-
ing noble is born of the liquor traf-
fic. Whisky fills hundred thous-
and homes with misery, and is
poisoning the blood of the genera
tions. Slavery was never more than
baby compared with this giant
evil.''
Hon. Elijah A. Morse, II. c..
Mess, says: 81 believe the liquor
traffic to be the direct or indirect
cause Of SO per cent. Of the panper.
ism, crime and insanity Of the
country"
Archdeacon +. w. Farrar, says:
1.-THE liquor traffic stands in the
very fore. front Of responsibility for
the alarming amount of lunacy, of
panperism, Of crime"
Hon. Neal Dow, says: "rhe n.
quor traffic degrades and brutifies
the people, condemns hundreds Of
thousands of them to an inexpres-
sible misery, Wretchedness and bit.
ing poverty; to inevitable starvation
OF body, mind and soul"
Judge Quincy, says: every
crime has its origin more or less in
drinking"
Judge Erskine, says: "Ninety
nine cases out Of every hundred are
caused by drinKinr.D
Judge Coleridge, says: "There IL
scarcely crime comes before me
that is not directly or indirectly
caused by strong drink"
Cardinal Manning, says: ssThe
: drink trade which il growing every
year, is our national sin, our nation.
al shame, and il not soon arrested
will be our national rum"
Surely with such testimony from