The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-03-26

neither has the surrender of . single saloon
come to our knowledge. Yet withal the Ia.
dies feel encouraged and purpose to continue
their daily visits.
When the crusade commenced in Leaven-
worth The TINES expressed the opinion
that little headvay would be made in the
matter of closing saloons and pouring out the
liquor in the streets, hence We are cot
disappointed with the results Of the first
week. Experience has taught other ten.
perapce advocates that tae evil lie not to be
sradieated BY buying or praying out the "a
loon keepers. The evil il deeper than that,
hence to pluck it out, the temper
ance people must 60 down to the roots which
are firmly imbedded in society. The simple
closing Of few saloons in every city Of the
country would be merely trimming tie
branches for newer and stronger growth of
liquor selling. When the Temperance re-
formers reach the man who drinks whisky
himself, and buys whisky for his compan-
ions, they strike the very root Of intenper-
ance-the "prop that doth sus,aiu the
house."
Over jealous and thoughtless Temperance
people speak OF the cure of iDtemperanoe.
as if it resembled the system Of African ala
very which existed in the South before the
war, and declare that it ought TO be abolished
BY the immediate destruction Of all the sa-
looms in the country. There are Temperance
fanatics right here in Leavenworth who think
Code service would be performed BY apply
ing the torch 10 every brewery and bar room
in the land. The fact is no RI semblance be-
tween human slavery and intemperancs ex-
lists, except as a man becomes the slave of his
own appetite. The slave was held in bondage,
net BY his own will, but BY the will Of his
master. A man Who drinks liquor. in one
sense, exercises his freedom. The law nei-
Their says he shall or shall not drink. If it
said either, slavery would exist, and it would
then be in order to call for its abo-
li,ion. Intemperance is an insidious
disease resulting from indulgence
of appetite. 1t is frequetly hastened along
in its various stages from temperate to in
temperate drinking by false notions of coed
fellowship. Laws prohibiting the scale OF IL
quor do not check it. License laws only
restrain it. 1t remains for pubic agitation
and moral suasion to combat and arrest it.
The women have strnck the right path.
They only need to follow it with discretion
and regard Tor individual liberty. 1t is very
hard sometimes for one to tell where persua-
sion ends, and perecutionl begins. The NO
men while persusdipg men to forego the Gus
oms of visiting the saloons, must substitute
,ther pleasures. Men who work hard all
lay naturally enough seek some kind of re-
:reation in the evening. Ifthey cannot find
t at home they 60 elsewhere in quest of it.
Life is too ehort for the young man Of the
,eriod to GEEK his lonely roost as the shades
twilight gather, hence he saunters into
aloon, plays q game of billiards or cards
Nth his companion and takes drink per-
laps, because false custom make its dis
ourteous to decline. Many married men 60 to
aIoons and play cards because it would shock
ne feminine half of the household if he
hould light the chandeliers Of his own par
Dr., and in company with bis fellows set
own to a card party at home. Intemperance
a. q root here and there in every
Eyer of society. 1t is fostered BY false no
ons OF etiquette. religion and morality. 1t
, deeply planted and derives its nourish-
rent from thousand influences each one
'ifling, but the aggregate powerful. Well
leaning men driven to hard work seek
quor O. . st;mulant. Wealthy men and
'omen drink champagne because it is
ehionable. Poor men drink cheap whisky
drown the remembrance of misfortune, ,
lille others resort to it as q counter-ir.
tent to domestic infelicity. 1t is Eot
'orth while to enumerate all the reasons
Z drinking or recite the miseries resulting
ON excessive indulgence of intoxicating
averages, because they are already we'll I
noWn.
We have cenvictions;on this subject and {
hat is more We do not hesitate to express
lem even if our co-laborers In the cause of
importance differ from Us. We are con-
need that men who make . living for
lemselves and families by manufacturing
I'd selling wine, whisky and beer will not
rrender their property without tangible
The chances are too
umerous that their wives and children
ould be compelled 10 hunger and perish
fore ether employment could be found.
be spectacle of family appealing for bread
ID fuel aod receiving Sunday school tract
too common in this age, for man TO VOL
,tarily throw bis household gods' on the
old charities" Of the world.
The temperance movement as now conduc- q
by tie women incites inquiry into the
use Of i.;rmperance. Itsets men to think
z and talking, and brings them to reali. I
ton of the dangers which confront society. il
this respect it is highly beneficial. Again n
il paving the way to a higher sphere Of :
,msnhocd. 1t is another ster in the direc-
N of universal suffrage, and in this regard t
IN enterprise OF great moment"