The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-11-28
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.

Inebriety-PrescrlheW Whisky For Babies
What kind of good cheer
Do you find in your beer
I'd like you when sober to say?
Is it the fun OF destroying.
| Disabling, annoSing,
OF hitting and Hauling,
OF punching ana mauling
Whoever may come In your way!
Is that; the good cheer =.
To be found in your Oeor'
| What sort of gdod cheer .
Is there hid in the beer. -.
Since lawmakers gife it place?
| We Ought to enquire ...'
While watching the buyer!
What comfort ess clothing! e.
What faces off loathing! :, =.
What lawlessness, ,lshame and disgs zee!
Is this the good cheer : .
Measured out 'Eith the beer?, :. -
There should BE good cheer =, -
Hid away in The beer ~
To have lit. demanded t'like, bread." "
But bread nefer makes you r.
A loafer, nor takes you ...i- -. - 1
|. From health aid from, toiling,
While morals ire spelling :. J
And vacuums filling your head,
Maybe sellers II beer.G - . :''h.iF
Get the most tf the, cheer, -
All, me! It is hueer ~ Z .
That we lay oH for beer -.
Bright silver and gsld by the ton! i,
Oh grain that Is wasted! !
r Oh grief that ahasted! II -
! Oh, little ones crying,
.~S Az Il hoDao &hof Iro J,,;nrt 1888, -
Oh. the good and the braye ones undone!
Each bubble Of. Beer
~. Should be; recl1oned tear e
Jessie MacGregor, in temperance Banner.
- women Drift fb Wine. T
British women are 9dritting toYard gen.
ana figures developed at ff;ie RECENT meet
ing of the Charity orgaaiI ItioHs Society of
London. S$f2: ~ B,E -,
, Not content Swith2 this disclosure, DR..
Haywood Smith. the well knswn special
list on womar's diseases, 3lsArsed that ine-
briefly was more rabid and JnerGasing with
greater irapidity among theSrich and we'll
toldo women than among the lower strata
of society! ~ ,S T. s; !. 5if n -.
In an: interview; wv with L the Chicago Rec.
ord's London correspondent DR.. Haywood
Smith said: sI get my knowledge, of the
facts from every day contact with, wom-
ems ills. Drunkenness has not yet
reached the, aristocracy, but in the So
called upper classes it is, epidemic"
DR.. Smith added. that the medical pro.
fession was, s,:not. altogether. Hameless. He
accused his fellow practitioners of need
lessly prescribing wine and whisky to
/ many TSmen patients and he. declared
that even babies in arms: were not i'm.
\ miine. from alcoholic medicine:
rSiD DR.. Holmes, director of the Church Of
England Temperance Society's police court
\ mission, said at the meeting that the ine-
/ briates act ought. to be amended so as to
\ give neglected husbands a release from
|. drunken wives, He claimed that more
homes were. wrecked in London through
drunkenness of wives and mothers than
through the excesses, of incorporate men. =
Statistics that. we're introduced showed
in the London couTt of drunkenness dur.
ing the year 1899, of&khich number 4l45
were habitual drunkard
DR.. Brooks. a. mennh the Fhham
School Board, urges Il hrporation of
temperance study in IONS public
school, curriculum. ~
n Sanity q g.. ...-
Rev join r. Hill. |esbyterian Ban.
:.ner, takes the follow incident from
New York paper, az dds a suggestive
comment:
q g6allnsn bnce being taken
owe He asked an at
jteriod ew when an idiot
was 'const - sufficiently restored
to sanity TO be dlsgl ged. .',-..
=" Oh said the attendant, it is easily
managed. We take them into yard
where there are several troughs. We turn
on the taps aud give the idiots buckets
ito bail out the water and empty the
troughs., Many of them keep bailing away
while the. tap keeps running, but them
that isn't idiots stops the taps" =
This little story, though by no means q
new one, may have proven amusing to.the
readers, az l all will agree that the asylum
should not discharge an inmate who failed
upon this funny test. 81 b..
But are all the people in asylums for
the insane or .imbecile who ''keep bailing
away" hoping to empty the trough with,
out stopping the inflow? Is not this pre-
cisely what we do when through, our state
and municipal governments we make des-
'perate struggles for the abatement of the.
floods of crime and pauperism. and yet
neglect to close the saloon, which is the;
acknowledged source of tthe greater part
of those awful streams? , gfl,i.