Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-03-25
The. Liquor People. and the
Temperate Habits of the
Jews 0nd Ayniish.

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The most perplexing question that
ccnffohts the liquor men is the
women. movement against the traffic.
They have looked ct all its phrases
carefully, with The object Of discovering
a plase through which they might assail
j. and break it up. Thus far every at
temp. IN that direction has resulted in
complete failure. When the move
meat va. first heIaIded in tie Eastern
and Middle States, liquor men, and men
who loved their Schnaps, said the West
ern women in the movement we're fanat-
icsl, crazy, and bad but reliable IN
formation from Western States pro-
nounced the women engaged in the
work in the West most respectable and
worthy of confidence so that effort a;
prejudicing has been complete fall
ure Since these first days and first
announcements of the movement a.! of
the Northern States have become af-
fected to greater or less degree BY
ladies prayers. Even siaid Pennsyl-
wanna has been remarkably moved, not,
it is tue, BY public demonstration, as
By ladies in the West, but by syste-
matte petitions to the Throne of Grace,
in churches and in halls and in other
stated places for prayer Their power
has been felt IN the Legislature TO 3
degree never tefore experienced. The
Legislature had been largely petitioned
BY liquor meu to repeal the present
local option Law, and the liquor ring
Legislators w,re not slow to announce
to the public that the present local op-
ton law would be repealed. But a
change has cone o7er their spirits
Women's prayers have wrought the
change. The lew VII remain upon the
statute books.
New fields are sought in which to un-
earth arguments with which to confront
the ladies' movement, SO as to divert
them from their purpose The latest
argument brought into use is the Jew
ish people. Their ways of living, their
use of liquor, and the dignity OF jew
ish maidens and matrons are brought
forward to the public gaze, and We are
asked to look upon Jewish life as a
proper example of the true dignity of
womankiRd, and how liquor can be used
among men and women without iutom-
perance. The liquor people are going
loug way for their arguments when
they bring up the Jews to sustain them
in the liquor traffic. Possibly the next
thing We will hear from these new
friends Of the Jews will be that it is
time to quit eating pork, such as ham,
sausage, &c. Bat the fact is, when ycu
get down 10 practice, to enter upon the
habits Of Jewish life, none Of the peo-
PIE who are parading to tho public gaze
the temperance Of the Jews and the
dignity Of the Jewish women as just
the kind of temperance aud dignity for
our people to follow, could be induced
to touch it.
But why 60 to the Jews for an Illus
tration? We have as striking az Illus
tration Of temperate habits among the
American people as is to be found among
the Jewish people. Among Aymish
people temperate habits are enforced
by rigid discipline; no drunkards
are permitted in their sect; no men are
allowed to become public paupers /;
none are permitted to become poor, in
the strict sense of the term none are
permitted to lead an idle life. How
would it suit the advocates of the liquor
traffic to join the Jews or the Aymish
/. would be glorious change if they
rould do so. That would be a perma-
aent end of intemperance. IL the
churches outside of the Jewish and
Aymish denominations we're as correct
ly disciplined as they are, the liquor
traffic would be stifed by the force Of
moral example. If these United States
we're peopled with thirty millions of
Jews or Aylnish, such a traffic as the
liquor traffic, as it exists among US now,
could not exist twenty-four hours. They
would no more tolerate it thar they
would the idolatry of the South Sea
Islanders. The advocates Of liquor
must search elsewhere for arguments to
sustain their traffic.