The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-09-17

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this. and then ne will have but half
sketched the picture OF misery to which
| some of the thousands Of widows have
been exposed
To sanction by law such an enemy
TO human health and happiness whose
known tendency is TO produce coughs,
colds, dyspepsia, consumption, dropsy.
rheumatism insanity, fever, apoplexy
and death. besides a host of other evils
| the thought OF which sickens the very
soul. Is an outrage upon humanity, III
the evils resulting from the law sane
tioning the trade in alcohol were per-
mitted to concentrate upon the heads
of legislators themselves, they would
cease to enact laws authorizing the
shamful traffic, and instead of an act
entitled AN Act to Regulate the Sale
OF Whisky" disgracing the statute books
of this Commonwealth, we would
doubtless know II by its appropriate
and real name-"An Act to Regulate
the Loss Of Public Health, the Destruc-
ton OF Public Morals, and the exiting
uishment OF Life"
Go inquire OF your public officers;
examine the records OF your prisons
and courts of Justice; visit your jails
and penitentiaries; gaze for a moment
upon one OF those incarcerated beings,
a victim of Satan's snare; his prop
erty wasted. reputation lost, the wife OF
his youth broken hearted, or likely
consigned to the voiceless tomb, his
children unlettered and in poverty, and
then pronounce upon the benefits Of
an act entitled "An Act to Regulate the
Cal 20 In m In h
OF the State OF Kentucky"
| II the habitual drinking Of whisky Is
wrong. then the law authorizing Il is
wrong and the only probable remedy
10 be sought is TO abolish the license
system altogether.
We take the position that the Sole OF
spurious liquors decreases the wealth
OF any county, town, city, state Or ma
ton The wealth OF a county consists
In the wealth of its citizens. Its only
sources are labor, land and capitalize
last OF these is the product of the two
former Capital is only capable OF en-
ployment in two ways; either to pro-
duce new capital or for purposes Of
qualification, II consumed by the later,
II is called expenditure. while the first
is denominated capital. In other words.
capital In capable OF increase. by de-
crease of expenditure, and OF decrease
by Increase OF expenditure. So 1t is
clear to every one that all who use
whisky as beverage contribute daily
to the poverty Of the Commonwealth.
A man, for example buys quantity OF
whisky and proceeds to get drunk and
remains so as long as 1t lasts. tThis is
what the advocates Of whisky call"per-
sonal Hberty''). The retail man makes
his profit, and the wholesale dealer
does likewise; but the man who buys
and drinks the whisky loses the whole
amount. cost, profit, and the time lost
in buying and drinking IT. The County
and State loses by the injury inflicted
on his capital, mind and body, and the
ruin of his family. His land grows up
in weeds. his children are denied an
education and suffer for food and rail-
ment; ere long his farm is sold for the
taxes, and ruin 10 himself and certain
| loss to the state are the sad conse-
uuences. Isn't this true picture?
But IL is Personal Liberty"
1 All, we have seen the youthful as
we'll as aged member of the bar, whose
| talents were the hope OF the county
and the pride of friends, debased and
ruined by the use of whisky. The ply
| stefan too In his toilsome incipiency to
professional eminence overtaken by
| the destroyer: even ministers OF the
/ Gospel and prists OF all religions have
| descended from their high and holy
/ calling to sacrifice at the shrine OF
Bacchus" and, Keeling around the al
tars OF the living God. have unsettled
the public morals and destroyed the
public confidence in the religion OF the
Bible
Here, then. we have peace, health,
wealth, character, talents, morals,
| friends, wives and children lost; all
lost TO the state and to the world.
| Think OF ii, fellow citizens, and then
declare whether you believe the license
system productive Of the general good
| why, the entire amount paid into our
| treasures by the revenue from whis-
| ky from Noah's time to the present
/ day. would not remunerate single
| family thus wrecked and ruined. But
this is what the whisky people call
| Personal Liberty"
| The testimony of the most able jur-
| lists is in evidence, showing that very
large majority OF all crimes committed
is the result OF habitual intoxication
one tells us that, out OF twenty-five
cases OF murder in his court, twenty
one resulted from the use OF whisky
Another states that, out of twenty
cases of murder tried in his court, al
were caused by the use of whisky Ant
another still, says that, of several hun
dred murders committed in the United
States in one year, nearly all. II no
ALL were caused by the use of whisky
Nearly, II not all, the murders com
mitted in the State of Kentucky in tn
last ten years were caused by the us
of whisky. There has only been on
murder in Pike county within the las
ten years that was not caused directl.
or Indirectly by the use OF whisky,
/ These facts and many others which
, for want OF time. must be omitted. al
go to prove that not only is the expen
diture of the county greatly increases
/ by the sale OF whisky, but very larg
amount of the sickness and distress o
I the community, of every kind, is cause
3 by the use of whisky.
81 incompetence not only unsettles tn
/ physical economy and destroys health
: but it also unhinges the mentality.
. The greatest poets and orators live
3 in an age prior to that in which lux
3 ury and intemperance unhinged tn
. body and unstrung the soul. The his
5 tory OF the race confirms the conclus
3 | ion at which we have now arrived
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