The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-03-27
SpasH,odic Temperance.
Archbishor PrrcaII who ie yo,Il,, On,

Archbishop Purcell, who is really oppos-
cd to excess in drinking we suppose it
will be admitted, has written 4 pastoral
letter disaprOying of the crusade of the
Western women as means of counteract-
ing that vice. DIR. J. G.. Holland has
written letter not pastoral disaproving of
the letter of Archbishop Purcell OF tho
latter we only know from DR.. hollands
! reply to ii; but we should say that il was
/ full of human sense as well as of divine
/ learning. 1t Is great pity that the per
SONS who eSpouSe the cause of tenDerauce
In public prints and on public platforms
without particular call should not take the
VajDs to learn something about their sub-
ject-the use of alcohol. They might at
( least learn, what none of them will cOnccde
the possibility of, the obvious fact that it
Is n subject which has two sides Lfr
Parton was one of these champions OF ab-
stinence. and ''bloshed about" in reckless
print about the effects of alcohol until be
was brought to reckoning by Mr.. John
Fiske, and made such frightful example
of by the nero opposition of ascertained
facts to his passionate conjectures that it
is remarkable his footsteps should have
been followed so soon. Here is DR.. UoI
land, however, going on as if no Parton
haG ever been tiayed, with denuucistions
that alcohol Is useless as being innutIitious.
ana that beer is ''an Unmitiedted curse to
''ail who drink to excess or not" Dir
Holland ought to know that there is more F.
than one nation of ''habitual'' beer-dripk- +
ors-the German and the English for two
who can stand at least physical com
paIison with the water drinkers of the
United States, and that there are many
hundreds OF individual laOorers under this
unmitigated curse who are doing in
spite of ii quite as much and quite as Ior,d
purely intellectual as even Dr. Holland. -
No cause, good or bad. can be served bv
talking such nonsense rs this in its bebslf
To us the main mischief of the crusade
of the Western women seems to be that
by the nature of it the good it can do ia
\ real reform of widely pre-
v7Illng wrong is a gradual process. A
sham reform is series of splrtS. Ma
caulay said truly that nothing was more
ridiculous to contemplate than the British
pubic III one of its periodical fits of anorv ]
virtue. The periodical fits OF which This .
'fuSaoe Is one are not amusing to right
minded OniooEer. 1t is notorious we he I
leve, that large percentage of the CON ,
'ertS OF revlYals Is composed Of subseGuent
,ackshGers-a much larger proportion {
nan hoIdS amoung persons converted I'm
more gradual and less sensational vay I
he result must be even more disheagteI- J
ng IN this business of tcmperancc In .
he matter of religion there are continu-
Ag, organized, and Jealous churches to a
Ontirn the converts faith and con,T1eta .
Is colYerton. IN the matter of lem I
er2nce the drunkard is reformed in haste. T,
ut there Is nobody to complete his reSor, n
nation at leisure. Under these cfrrum- :,
auccs 1t would be Unwise to cxpect ,,,rrL E.
ornament result from an emotion in the Y
i1uIe OF lt transient. Somo things can =
done 10y intense and eYancsccrt fol 7 ..
l@, but not others. y great popularun IL
sing may influence the election of a tc
ieSldea, Tor instance; but it is not like s
10 influence the whole lives and charac-
rs OF the uprisers, or else the world
oGId be reformed, according 10 Dir. Car Il
ie suggestion, by tremendous cheers, oi
one. he thing about this present at ci
OK on the iiquoT-sellers which seems 70 re
hHeIy to last longest is the feeling that Ii,
unjust and cOwardIy attempt has been tn
aoe IN the name of temperance and bv
e use OF women to bnlly men out of 4 bus- IL,
eSs IN which they were entitled to pro- tn
cti0u. AS for the liquor buyers. we m,
We little expectation that having been no
formed by such sudden and violent re-,
cans they will stay reformed. In fact y LET
ins!ent and titful attempt to break bad of
o!t Is more likely to confirm it than to tn
aNeh 1t. The young man in Scripture Ia
iyeo away from his house long enougb Ica
get 1t swept and garpished, and wLen sin
returned to 1t 1t is said that the last state as.
that man was worse than the first. We tio
wise the temperance revivalists to non dis
+ the parable.-N. J. World. on