The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-06-12

that particular mixing OF drink with religion, but
we can learn the lesson OF compromise from those
| old miselonariep TIL J said five cannot get what
we want lei us get what we can. Temperance re.
formers oHght to say the same. For ours civ ~ we
can shun all Intoxicating liquors; but othera win
drink let MS help make their drink az harmless as
poss;hla-Temperance asks US as private indiyid-
uas to be total abstlna men; bat 1t asks us as
citizens in our public acts 70 do simply the best
titled liquors. even thoEgh we do it by ceasing to
oppose the wines ard beers. t8 IF9 34'
But after all such work in the temperance cause
Is only superncia the root of the evil lies back in
the bodies, minds and souls OF men. The physical
weakness that begets craving for stimnfne the
mental weakness. that dses not iuek forward to re-
suits and the M0ral weakness that does not care
for reeu these are what the truest reform with
work. You do much for many q man when you
you put some yiGor in his body, thought in his
brain, or feeling in his heart, which will keep him
away from rHM. Sound diet, aud healthy Irving
schools ana churches ard literature, all in the
temperance interest. Every private man or woman
whose words are true and life IL pure is workn p
for temperance in the divinest OF all ways, We
want temperance in all things.
And you as temperance association Ourh. to
be at work. You ought to consider and discuss
temperance measures, aud work 20 have the hesr
to work without fear for the execution Of the laws
and have no sympathy with the cowardy business
o. letting the laws be violated under the very eyes
OF the ofncers Ii laws cannot be kept, then have
them repealed and others made that can be kept
But you ought to make your work broader a.A
deeper than war against liquor. Tho farmer
said he got his pig into the pen easiest by stand-
ing in the door with club and trying to
keep him out. Efforts to drfVs men on:
of saloons win operate in the same way ; can
not you do something TO drnto them away from
saloons. Your proposed evening entertainments
Will be good as lar az they go. But cannot there
he some more constant attraction? A large reading
room richly supplied with papers and magaz az
OF all sorts, where mechanics and Others can
spend please mt hour In the evening-would be a
k0''d work fora temperance society. Still better
for the temperance cause perhaps world be gym
Oasium and large hal for amueements of all kinds
where young men can meet for pleasure Such en-
terprlses OF course take money, bat you Ought TO
give money and get it given. "A general said the
secret OF the great success OF the Methodist church
was tnat whenever two members coms together
they took up collection. Giving is the aecret Of
growing. And ifyou give your energies to the
best temperaeee work, others will give YOU help
And il you make the work broad, not m erely mega
tive against drnnkards and dram shops, but posi-
tive for the good of the community, you will fnd
men who hough perhaps not total abstinance men.
VIII help you literally and heartily. AT any rate
let us all in public and private, work everywhere
and always Tor that sound culture of body, mind
and soul, which makes the whole man healthy,
and hence temperate.