, 1875-06-04

satisfactory MS ho haa been during his two
terms.
TEMPERANCE FA17ATlUrsM.
Tho National Temperance Convention, at
present in session IN this city, has virtually
closed its proceedings by tho adoption Of
plntfor1n Of resolutions. In looking over tho
details Of ita sessions, it is impossible to a1-
rive ut any other conclusion than TINT many
Of its members wero nnrrow-mintled md
ahort-sightod Eigots, and tlat they have
accomplished nothing which ia ut oil practical
in it's nat.tro, or which commonds itself as
| measure OF reform. After all their talking
mud resolving, they find 10 remedy for intcns-
reranco except In politics. The political
| campaign and cocrcivo legislation arc tho
weapons will. which thoy propose to keep
| people from drinking, as If these weapons
Ind not been usod for tho last half f-contrry
| without any rcsu1ts. Tho whole sentiment of
the Convention ia cryatallizod in tho political
| Ilea. No attempt is to bo made to regulate
intemrorance or to punish the Incorporate.
Politics, with its machinery Of legislation,
tho courts, aud the constabulary, is to do tho
work. Mems appotitos aro to be legislntcl
ont Of existence by statute. You shall not
drink Is to be the Aat with which intem-
pernnco ia to bo checked. 4 atallower,
cruler, or moro fanatioAl notion mover boforo
Hoizol upon mon aud women presumed to
| 1tave common senso.
Thoro arc ways OF dealing with ovils which
never eee1n to have occurred to these people,
or, II they did, wore thrust aside ns unworthy
OF regard. Tho Church Is Il mighty engino
of Effectiveness in Its warfare with evil, but
it nccompfighes it, results outside OF tho do
n,ain Of politics, Of statocraft, and Of COM
pulsion. It works through tho agencisa of
combined efforts Of congregations, Of mis-
sionnry societies, Of young mems as-
sociations, of personal appeal from tho
pulpit, and Of mornl exhortation, and it
works with power anl dircctuesa which
have mover yet boon exoe1led. The force Of
1nora1 appeal and oxhortation, however, is
secuted by these temperance families. They
do not even appeal to tho Church to nid them.
Thia they cannot do, for In this country
Church md State arc distinct, and moral OIL
peal md Chriatian influence havo no sym
pathy with compulsory legislation and pro-
cesses Of courts. They do not even call
upon tho courts to punish intomperunco,
although the laws aro elfeotivo In tue ru,,is1-
ment Of nil other crimca and Of crimes grow
ing out OF tho uso Of Intoxicating liquors.
They havo no other idea Of politicA than
as an absolutely coerciye measure for tho
control Of the appetite. With this logisla.
!ion thcy propose to say to a man 10 shall
not drink to tell tho doctora they shall not
nse alcohol III their medicines or in tho siclc
soosn; to aay to tho pasieut he shall not
llnvo alcoholic medicines, even though lie
tius for the want Of thcm,-wl.Ich Is Like
tho philosophy OF the advanced thinker whc
thought 1t better to let a 1nan starve than te
E,iyo him bread and 1naku him pauper; tt
notify tho Church it shnll not uso vino al
tile communion-table /; to dcuste to the Al
mighty In reference to His sacra.nensal or
dinances to tell the sa!oou-1oepsr 10 shal
not sell.
In Ill this farrago Of coezoiye nonsense
there iB not ono practical measure suggested
No discrimination IL ,usale between tho te,n
perate aud intempelA alto uno Of liquors
Whore one man uBes u 1uor to oxcosa and got
drunk, ten mon use it in moderation md l.eo
= sober; but the pol,tlce& machinery which tles
: temperance fanatics would employ Is nlean
to apply to Ill alikc,,-to tho ,nnn who Gu
control Lis appetite aud uso wine as Il.
apostles and tho p ltriarchs used 1t, aud 10 til
t mai, who il q beaa'A Iuothor worls, haudfr
Of so.callea temp trance sefo1mers propose
:, place the Whole cosamunity under tho baz
. aud To say to every man, without reference
bis opinions or his habit Of life, you shall NJ