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PROPRIETOR. j
VOL. XIX.
Temperance Column.
The National Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union.
With its thirty-eight State ami
nine Territorial Unions, is the larg
est Society ever composed exclusive
ly of women, and conducted entirely
by them. The number of local
Unions is a.x>ut 5,090, with a mem
bership of about 100,090, and a large
number of juvenile organizations.—
The Society is the lineal desceudent
of the great Temperance Crusade of
187,3-4, and is composed of Christian
women, whose object is to educate
public sentiment to the standard of
total abstinence, train die young,
save the inebriate, and secure the le
gal prohibition and complete banish
ment of the liquor traffic. Women
who desire to aid the Temperance
cause should join the W. C. T. U.
For information, address Mrs. C. B.
Buell, National Headquarters, 10
East 14th St., New York.
EXPENDITURE FOR DRINK
The following diagram, from the
Interior, is a comparison of the an-
mud expenditure in the United
States for intoxicating liquors,
with various other of the largest
items of expenditure. It is based
on the census of 1880, and other
reliable authorities.
Scale: Each tliree-fourtlis of
au inch represents an expenditure
of 8100,000,000. We are in
debted to the Christian Union for
the measurements and statistics.
The liquor bill represents the cash
paid for it by consumers, and is
in our opinion, not an exaggera
tion of facts. We consider it
just about the actual amount. —
Comments upon a showing so ap
palling would only weaken the
power of truth.
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3—ag3Miarnßß?mii*iui*iiMmujiLiijLuijj.M.iUC>ni.ux.'iiiji)t‘'iNMpat. $303,000,000.
faasssEEfi otton Goods, 8210,000,000.
■ ■wlinntj and Shoes, $195,000,000.
and Molasses, $155,000,000.
Education, $85,000,000.
fißßSaChristian Missions, Home and Foreign, $5,500,000.
INTEMPERANCE.
I am one of those who have hoped
that the dreadful ovil of intemper
ance might be checked aud finally
abolished by legislative action. I
still believe in the right and duty of
tli* community to protect itself by
le.gal enactment, whenever there is a
public sentiment strong enough to
enforce the prohibition of the sale of
intoxicating liquors as a beverage. —
But recent events, especially the re
sults of the late elections, have con
vinced me that a great work of mor
al suasion and personal example must
be done before law can be made avail
able. The popular mind must be
educated up to a higher level; the
precepts of Christian morality must
find a more general acceptance in
practice, aud a nobler manhood and
womauhood developed, which shall
hold sensual appetite under the stern
control of reason, conscience and du
ty. In this way ouly can the way be
prepared for efficient legislation.
I despair of seeing any direct assis
tance from political parties to the
cause of temperauee, but the great
majority of the individuals compos
ing these parties have a moral sense
which may be awakened into action
by the precept and example of the
pelf—sacrificing men and women who
have so nobly devoted themselves to
the work. Knowing how much has
been accomplished already, I can not
doubt of ultimate complete success.
Sixty years ago no voice was raise*
against the sale and free uso of in
toxicating liquors. All classes drank
without apparent scruple. A large
per cent, of New England farms
were mortgaged to rumselling groce
ries. Now as a rule, our farmers are
strictly temperate, and there is a pub
lic sentiment everywhere which
makes liquor selling and drinking
disreputable. There is then no cause
of discouragement; on the contrary
the friends of temperance have abun
dant reason to thank God and take
courage. —John O. Whittier, Boston,
Mass.
J 1 IMIEhL AN EOUS.
A PiGTIIHE BY A NORTHERN ARTIST.
THE NEGRO AT HOME.
Two great problems will occupy
the minds of this nation, at no dis
tant day. The first will be that
of Mormonism and how to get rid of
it. The second will be termed :
“The negro; How shall we manage
him ?”
That the negro has got to be man
aged will surprise some people—that
class at the North who has never set
foot south of the Ohio river, and
who fondly imagine that the colored
man of the North is a true sample
of the race in this country. There
is as much difference between tiie
blacks North and South of the Ohio
river as there is between Chinamen
and Indians. A negro loafer is a
rare case at the North, even in our
cities. He feels that he must work
or go ragged and hungry. The ne
gro loafer at the South can be met
with at every corner. The only
feeling he has is to escape work. He
can probably beg his old clothes and
enough food to keep him from starv
ing. If he can’t, then lookout for
liis theivish fingers. A Northern ne
gro’s statement is hardly ever ques
tioned. A Southern negro will tell
three lies to one truth. When we
make a verbal bargain with a North
ern negro we rely upon him to carry
out his part of the contract. A
Southern planter may take a negro
before a J ustice of the Peace and
swear him, and then oblige him to
make his mark to an agreement
drawn up in legal form to labor for
for so long a time at so much per
month, and the negro will jump that
contract whenever he pleases w ithout
the slightest regard to honor. Nine
teen out of twenty will lie and steal
from the very men to whom they
are the most indebted.
Freedom and the ballot, coming
together, upset the slave. Asa
slave he worked and obeyed certain
rules and regulations, because lie
feared the penalty. Left to do his
own planning, he has no head.
Left to carry out his own ideas, he
makes lying, deceiving and trickery
take the place of work. Asa farm
laborer, no oue can be sure whether
he will stay a day or a month. The
very best of them will quit work
whenever the whim seizes. Satur
day is a holiday, in which he must
go to town and spend his last cent,
no matter how the crops are situated.
In the North the virtue of the av
erage black •woman is unquestioned.
In the South not one in a thousand
is credited with it. Asa race they
do not know the meaning of the
term. A colored preacher at Au
gusta who was soliciting subscrip
tions to rebuild a country church
swept away by a cyclone, told me
that almost every man in his congre
gation felt at liberty to desert his
wife and children and marry again,
whenever he so willed. He had
unchurched dozens of them for having
two, three and four wives.
Southern men have seen a change
in the negro year by year. He has
no ambition —no industry. Year by
year, ft is becoming more difficult to
handle'him as a laborer. He is de
serting the country for the towns.
He is ungrateful and trifling. For
the benefit of Northern philanthro
pists, I should like to say that the
race has improved. In one way it
has. More of them can read and
write, but this ve-y improvement has
worked them an injury. The color
ed man who can read a newspaper
or write a letter will not do a stroke
of work if he starves as the penalty.
He is above it, and looking for an
office. Ninety-eight out of 100
live like dogs and worse. Right on
the plantation, where they work, they
will steal the owner blind.
As for schools, the money is equal
ly divided, and they are given every
chance, but the father whose bov can
earn him two bits a day will not send
him to school for an nour. Fducate
a colored girl and she puts on airs,
refuses to work, and runs off to some
city to live a fast life. Replace the
negro labor of the South with white
men and her crops would double;
but, the negro keeps the white labor
Devoted to the Cause of Truth and Justice, and the Interests of the People.
GREENESBORO’, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1884.
away. He won’t work and he won’i
get out.
The people of the South have
borne from the black man what no
other people would endure. They
pass over his impudence, find excuses
for his laziness, and sympathize with
him when he comes before the law.
They pay all his taxes, burden them
selves with his schooling, stand for
his doctor bills, and feel far more
kindness for him than any of us in
the North. And yet there must he
a change. The agriculture of the
South must drift backwards, the ne
gro must get out, or there must be
some better way of controlling him.
Our Northern farmers rout out their
hired help at daybreak, and push ’em
for all they are worth. The negro
c:ui not be routed out. He can not
be ; u lied. If 85,000 worth of oats
were n danger h would r >t quicken
his pa \ nor give up his trip to
town Bind yourself to give him
81,009 month, and he will jump
his con tract the same as if the figures
were 812. And he is not only a na
tural tyrant, but brutally cruel. He
will knock his mule down with a
club, where a white man would not
speak out sharply. He will pound
his wife as if she were a log, and 1
have frequently seen white men in
terfere to prevent them from crip
pling their children.
We all want the negro to improve.
He has become a part and portion of
our country, our politics and ballads.
But let us not deceive ourselves. lie
is a far worse problem than the sav
age Indian of the plains. The lat
ter can force with the bayonet; the
former can only be punished as a
law breaker, and he laughs at the
penalty.—p‘M Quad,” in Detroit
Free Press J
MORMON SHARP’S WOOING,
A Style of Courtship That in Utah is
Thought Romantic.
The courtships of the saints are
not always romantic affairs. Dr.
Sharp, of this city, has four wives,
and if he lias good luck he will have
•irL&ilMkE hiifhre lons' dVn-Jruj
last few weeks he had a courtship
on hand which has given him great
trouble. He employed a girl named
Mary White as a servant in one of
his families. Mary was a fresh,
plump, rosy-cheeked young Mormon.
Her father was a saint with two
wives. Mary was the daughter of
wife No. 1. Wife No. 2. was gay
and giddy, and when Dr. Sharp car
ried Mary back and forth between
her father’s home and the place of
her service, he saw her and bewitch
ed her, as White said. After a while
Sharp enticed wife No. 2 away from
her husband, and then White got an
idea that the doctor had bewitched him
also. Another saint came along
who was in the soothsaying business,
and he told White that he had some
thing that was good for him, but
it would cost money. The price was
agreed upon. White bought the
charm, worked it, aud the evil spirit
of Sharp was exorcised. Just as
White was beginning to feel at case
once more, Sharp drove up with Ma
ry and asked permission to make her
Mrs. Sharp No. 3. To this the old
people objected, for they believed lie
was possessed of a devil, and they
thought he did not support his other
I wives any too well. When they
gave Sharp Ahe reasons for their re
j fusal he wa; furious, and lie took an
oath in their presence that he would
have Mary.
In the course of time lie convinced
the old man that it had been ordaln
!ed from all time that Mary should
become his wife ; but the old lady
said that the doctor had hoodooed
her husband once more, and she re
fused to assent to the uuion. Then
Sharp had a vision or two which he
related to Mrs. White. She was
still inexorable. Two or three days
later he had a revelation that it
would be very acceptable to the Lord
to have Mary become his wife. It
had no effect on her mother. Then
Sharp dreamed dreams of mighty im
port every night, heard tremendous
rumblings in the skies, saw a great
light, and read many commands
written on tho fleeting clouds, all to
the effect that Mary was his and his
only. The old lady’s teeth were set
tight.
Taking anew tack, the doctor
then threatened to summon Mrs.
White before the high council. She
told him the Sanhedrim of the Saints
had no terrors for her. Then he ap
pealed to the bishop of that ward,
and finding him dull of comprehen
sion, he went before the council with
his grcivance. Here he found sym
! pathetic listeners. The old bishop
| was promptly removed and anew
| one who believes in marrying off the
■ young women, was appointed. Sharp
|is on good terms with the new eccle
siastic, and considers himself as good
las married already. Mary is now at
school at Provo, and Sharp has gone
after her. Toe n v Bishop : s wrest
ling with her flj other, who now sees
the futility of further resistance, and
, who will in a few davs, it is under
stood, formally consent to the union.
In Mormon society this is considered
a very romantic courtship. All Mor
j mon love stories begin and end some
. thing like the above.
Since the reopening of live crusade
against the mormons the elders of the
Church have decided that the saints
must be urged to adopt more gener
ally the polygamous relation. Many
good Mormons have never indulge]
in that feature of the faith, but with
the powers that he it is considered of
vital importance. At the last meet
ing of the priesthood the women
were sent home alone, and after they
had disappeared the saints not in po
lygamy were asked to retire. When
they had gone, Canon and others of
the chief priests announced that the
time had come when Mormonism
must put on a bold front and prac
tice all that it preached. The priest
and others in authority who had hut
one wife must give way to better
men who had two, six or ten wives.
Men who did not live up to their re
ligion were unworthy of portions un
dsr it. This sentiment was assented
to with rapturous applause by all
present. The weeding out .of the
half-hearted saints will begin at
once. This action has been brewing
for a long time. A good many very
faithful Mormons, deterred by pov
erty, respect for the feeling of their
first wives, and by fear of Govern
ment precautions, have not “lived up
to their religion” in the past. All
such will be tolerated hereafter, but
they cannot hope to rise to places of
honor in the church.
Most of the big polygamists, of
course, are old men. One young fel
low, named liudger Clawson, a son
of Bishop Clawson, now about twgp
ty-one years of age, inspired by the
belief of the elders that polygamy
should bo more general, has already
two wives, and is looking around for
more. Two years, ago lie married
Florence A. Din woody, aud one year
later he was joined to Lydia Spen
cer. Both are young women, brought
up under the teachings of Mumonisra,
aud both are seemingly very much
attached to their young lord. The
conduct of this voting W 8.,.,. :., tak
ing two wives-, aimuu betore ne nm
out of school, so worked upon the
Gentiles and the Federal officials
here that they determined to make
an example of him, if possible. Step
by step they proceeded on his trail,
gathering the needful evidence, un
til only the testimony of his second
wife was wanting. This cost them
many a chase and numerous long vi
gils. As soon as young Clawson and
his brides discovered that the officers
were after them, they broke up
housekeeping and the young women
went into retirement. Several times
the officers got on their track, but at
the last moment lost it. Finally, by
a clever ruse, they were caught in
the back yard of a dwelling house,
where they had been hiding and the
writ was served on them. They
were taken at once before the grand
jury, and they freely admitted all the
facts in the case. When the indict
ment was returned, Clawson was ar
rested and held in 83,000 bail. It is
believed that he can be convicted,
and that he will be some years older
before lie gets a chance to take a
third wife. The prompt action tak
en in his case lias been a damp
ener on the ardent spirits of many
other youthful Mormons who were
contemplating poligamy. —New York
Sun.
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