The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-07-23
CECIL WING, ELKTON, SATURDAY, JULY 2a 1898.

appetite; if we would believe that the
downfall of prohibition in Cecil county
would build up and elevate Cecil g cher
ished industries; if we could believe the
saloon is moral benefit or a bust ness pro-
moter, then we could believe the argume Mt
Of the Democrat.
The attitude that The Democrat shows to-
toward the temperance people is sarcastic.
1tseems to know all about the speak easiee
the Jug trains, the freight arrivals the tax
rate. 1t wants to reverse the pOpuIar
vote OF four years ago, to corrupt, to de-
base the cherished institutions Of Cecil
county with the return OF the rum power.
There is theory, dream. There will be
temperance majority in Cecil. There is a
theory-a dream in Cecil unknown to the
Democrat.
Paul said to the Philippians: "whatso
ever things are true, whatsoever things are
honest, whatsoever things are pure, what
soever things are lovely, whatsoever things
are of good report, if there be any virtue
and if there be any praise, think on these
things but these ale the things on
which the Democrat has not thought
Why does it try to smash the moral ele-
ment of Cecil county in the defense of the
rum sellers; teaching the youth of Cecil
that the gay and glittering restricted rum
law is superior to the Almighty Creator s
laws of prohibition?
Crush the Prohibition laws and have
rum license; give the grave diggers their
demands; license them to make drunkards
OF Cecil County boys and our daughters to
become the wives of drunken husbands!
Yet the Democrat is exhorting voters to 30
to the ballot box and vote to perpetuate this
condition of things. The people of this
county are not fools. They have experience
on that subject, and want no advice from
rum defenders. We have but few tax
payers who wish the Democrat to preach for
them, nor do they wish to pay their taxes
with blood money. Who pay the taxes?
The drunkards don't 1t hits the sober
man as well as the hard dlinker. Don't
fool yourself by thinking you don't pay
any of that money because you are not
hard drinker. Do not think that a restricted
rum law will regulate or modify good
morals. You have had a test of that false
argument in times past A gentleman
drinker is but gentleman drunkard.
Look not upon the wine when it is red "
ono drunkaId can enter the kingdom of
heaven" "Wine is mocker and strong
drink is raging, and whatsoever is deceived
thereof is not wise "Be not drunken
with wine; it biteth like a serpent and
stingeth like an adder" This class of
scripture texts is suitable for prohibition
1t is truth that the Democrat dare not
deny.
Through ignorance or carelessness the
Democrat misrepresents class OF noble
men and women. No just man or woman
can accept such criticism and admit it to
be just. The Cecil prohibition law is not
failure, nor has it ever been to any great
extent. The great mass of those who
swelled the temperance vote four years ago
are not fools. They are men born of God ::
they are a very gifted class of people.
The editor of the Democrat holds a
more severe rule for Prohibitionists than
for himself and co, operators, who echo his
sentiments, in advocating the monopoly OF
rum selling in Cecil county. Will the Demo-
crat tell us what liquor license has ever
done for Cecil county? Does it make men
chaste, knightly, faithful pure in thought,
beautiful in word, pious in deed? Does it
help men to sustain their parts bravely?
No; it destroys the body and damns the
soul; it lowers manhood; degrades woman
hood; estranges man from the fellowship
OF the angels, from the kinship of God,
and chokes the Christ within the soul.
Dlscord, poverty, crime and sin are the
baneful effects of this curse 1t awakens
the chords of savagery and brutality in
man 1t is the stumbling block of youth,
the wreck of manhood, the despair of old
age. 1t crowds the prisons, popuates the
asylums and poorhouses and fills the I'M
timely grave. 1t silyers prematurely the
hairs of fathers and mothers and breaks
the hearts of women. Show me poverty,
show me crime, show me anguish OF soul
and body and I will show you that three
fourths of it comes either directly or in
directly out of the whisky bottle. Why
need I trace the day by day history of the
time when we had rum dens in Cecil
county; when we had IIells kitchen in the
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