The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-07-09
Sons of Temperament Kenosha

MEssRs EDITons.-The subject is being agita
ted in this community. regarding the proprety of
rganzing Division of the Sons of Temperance
in this City hat such an organization may
flourish and bring forth acceptable and enduring
results, needs but the united and hearty co.ope
taion of the friends ofthe cause and all who have
rhe best interests ofthis community at heart
The need of such an order was never more ap.
parent than ii is at the present time. Hardly
day passes but til ere may be seen on streets,
those who have claims to position and respecta
bility 80 nebrated to require assistance to en-.
able them to reach home in safety. At the same
time, we confident that many of these same
persons might be saved and become worthy of the
regards of their fellow men, were there a suitable
fundamentally at hand to rescue them from the
vice of inebriety to which they now slaves.
There are some that have for years been con-
firmed drunkards, who at times have attempted
to reform, but had not the strength to carry out
their good intentions. For few days weeks
as the case might be, they would overcome their
thirst for liquor, and for the time being it would
seem, be different persons from what they were
before they had stopped drinking; but nine cases
out of ten this reform would be only tempora
ry respite from the insatiate fend that is contn
ualy enticng his victims to again crafty their
thirst for the intoxicating glass. And sooner or
later they would be worse off even than they
were before simply because there was no rfuge
where they might go and receive help and eIcour
agement to abide by their good resolutions and
intentions
There is another class of drinkers who do not
imbibe habitually, but who drink from time to
time when requested to do so by their companions
in folly aud they frequently get tight" as it is
sometimes misscalled.
The redemption of this class of humanity from
the growing vice that assails them, and which
brings them to drunkard's grave, is the prinoi
pie aim and design of the order of the Sons CT
Temperance, and well does this order meet that
high object. A young man in Auburn, N. Y. once
said to an officer of Division in that place: 800
take me under your care and protection, or l am
ruined for this world and the world to come" He
felt the need of friendly advice and assistance and
through the medium of the Sons of Temperance
he was saved and became an honored and re.
spected member OF the community.
There is a class of young men growing up in
our midst, who have as yet escaped the many
snares and temptations that surround them. but
VINO can say that they may Always so tscaPe'
without some guiding hand TO watch over their |
course and keep them in the true path of virtue
and sobriety. The Order of the ons of Tenn
perance is that guiding influence which would
shield them from the snares of King Alcohol. a.
Friends of the cause in enosha, let us to the
rescue now is the time ever, when all should
unite in the efforts being made to organize Or
der of the Sons of Temperance her in this City. |
Right at heart to begin with, we can with but
little effort, soon have flourshing organization
force whose aim and object shall be to guide the
young and inexperienced in the paths of temper,
ance, and to bring back the failing and the fallen
to the ways of sobrety and rectitude.
WAsHINGToNIAN.
Kenosha June Doth. 1868.