The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-08-27
OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
REPORTS OF PROGRESS OF THE
BATTLE AGAINST RUM.

The Wine Cup Migbtier Than the
Sword---A Warrior Whom No
Victory Can Satisfy, No Ruin
Satiate.
1t is warrior whom no victory
can satisfy. no ruin satiate. IL pauses
at no Rubicon TO consider, it pitches
no tents at night, goes into no quar-
ters for winter. 1t conquers amid
the burning plains OF the South where
the phalanx of Alexander halted in
mutiny. 1t conquers amid the snow
drifts of the North where the Grand
Army of Napoleon found its winding
sheet. Its monuments are in every
burial ground. Its badges of tri-
umpb are the weeds which mourn
ers wear. It's song OF victory is the
wall that was heard in Ramah IRA
chel crying for her children and weep
ing because they are not"
The sword is mighty, and its
bloody traces reach across time, from
Nineveh to Gravelotte, from Mara
thon to Gettysburg. Yet mightier
Is It's brother, the wine cup. say
brother" and history says broth
er." Castor and Pollux never fought
together in more fraternal harmony.
David and Jonathan never Joined in
more generous rivalry. Hand in hand,
they have come down the centuries,
like vulture and shadow, they have
met and feasted.
Yea; pair of giants, but the
greater is the wine cup. The sword
has scabbard, and is sheathed: has
a conscience, and becomes glutted
with havoc; has pity. and gives quar-
ter to the vanquished. The wine cup
has no scabbard and no conscience;
its appetite is cancer which grows
as you feed it; to pity 1t is deaf; to
suffering it is blind.
The sword is the lieutenant of
death, but the wine cup his captain;
and II ever they come home to him
the wars bringing their trophies,
Doasting OF their achievements, can
imagine that death, their master,
will meet them with garlands and
song, as the maidens of Judea met
saul and David. But as he numbers
the victories of each, his paean will
be; The sword is my Saul, who has
slain his thousands: but the wine Gun
is my David, who has slain his tens
OF thousands. Tom Watson, in the
w OOhAS
The Farmers and Laborer's Portion.
A farmer sold twenty-five bushels
of corn to a distillery for ten dollars.
Out of that corn was made 100 gal
Ions Of whisky, worth SIS; that ten
gallons of whisky is taxed until its
value is raised to $135; at that price
1t is sold to a liquor dealer. 1t is
then shown in advertisements in the
daily papers, displaying man
mounted on bob-tailed horse, wav-
ing the DEVILS colors, and proclaim
ing the DEVILS message, that 1t is
Hunters Old Baltimore Rye" "Old
Lexington Club" "Old Dearborn"
"Old Crow" and many other popular
brands. All bottled in bond" will
cure any disease, secure good health
and prolong life. Selling at one dol
lar quart. This 100 gallons of whis.
ky sold to whisky drinkers for S40O.
The farmers portion was $40, the
laborers', who manufacture the whis.
ky, received as their portion So. Who
got the other 1882? 1t must have
been the devil himself, for one man
who bought of 1t, got drunk and
whipped his wife, was fined $25 and
thirty days in the workhouse. The
care of his family, while he served
time, cost the public $50. And yet
we see a defence set up for 1t in
some newspapers, that wish to enter
family circles as teachers, saying
that to suppress It would be the ruin
of the family and laboring interests
OF the country. The papers that will
show 1t up in its true light are the
sort for the family table.
The farmer that would say that
he was benefited by such a traffic
would sell his veracity for a small
fee.-M. B. X. in the Indiana Far
mer.