The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-06-20
Temperance.

apostle OF temperance, who has labOred
in our city. during the past few weeks,
closed several days since, and he has
departed for other fields Of usefulness.
But the good that he has done will live
after him! The seed that he has sown
will produce u harvest. How abundant |
that harvest will be depends partly on
the harmonious and effective work to be |
done by the leaders in the organization
he formed while here, but still more
largely on the moral strength and firm
ness of the men who renowned the hab-
its that were dragging them down to
ruin, and the men and boys who solemn
ly pledged themselves never to contract
those habits-to avoid the beginnings
of evil.
In5emperance is vice Of such hideous
mien-an evil Of such enormous magni-
tude that any legitimate efforts to over
throw it must command the approval of
all thinking men. Temperance is vir.
tue which confers so many moral and
material benefits upon society that any
legitimate means of building it up and
preserving it will be encouraged by all
who delight in the well-being of man.
kind.
When measures for the suppression
of intemperance are brought into the
fields Of politics and legislation they
necessarily involve direct interference
with the liquor traffic and thereby en-
counter the opposition, not only Of those
who are engaged in that traffic, but of
many others who regard it as legal
and legitimate business. But when the
advocates of temperance, standing on
the platform Of disinterested re gard for
the welfare Of fellow men, rely on APP
peals to their higher and better nature,
to their self respect, their love of home
and family, and through these appeals
build up Il solid and permanent reforma-
ton in the hearts and lives of inebriates,
as well as inculcate firm principles in
young men not yet attainted with VIC
ious habits,-th en- their work must en-
list the sympathy and admiration of all
except the basest slaves of passion or
self.interest. : ""s #..': 49,: -
The labors Of the Jealous advocate of
reform who has just closed his mission
here, and Of his efficient co.workers,
have been'offthe kind last described.
While some may criticise his methods,
as Il mere matter of taste, none can i'm
Epeac h his motives, or question the ben.
efcial results of his work. He has come
in at an opportune time to supplement
among our Protestant population, the
glorious work accomplished during the
last few years by Bishop Ireland among
his paris hioners. An impetus in favor
OF temperance has been given, which if
kept up and carried on by the hundreds
of workers, Catholic and Protestant,
now enrolled in the various societies,
will soon give our city an enviable repu-
tation for sobriety, and will soon be
| plainly visible in the improved pecuni-
airy circumstances Of our people. :"
! We publish elsewhere the constitution
and by laws of the Temperance Reform
Club, organized by Mr.. Doutney. Its
declaration of principles will be found
unobjectionable, and its rules we'll cal
culated to carry out the objects of it's
; institution. So long as these principles
are adhered TO, and these rules carried
out, it will be an instrument CT good
and command the sympathy and support
Of the community. The reformed men
in its ranks will receive every encour-
agement in their hard struggles with
the terrible power of u destructive pas
sion. The young men should be made
to feel that the noble aspirations they
cherish toward life of sobriety are a
| passport to the respect and confidence
Of our best citizens. .Ts .-. "a.
While our temperance organizations,
as now strengthened and invigorated,
will be benefcient agents in the city Sc
: long as they limit themselves to lie iti.
! mate objects, the temptation will be
, constantly before them to go outside
their province. Here is the danger to
? be avoided, and one which will demand
: the exercise Of all their wisdom. On
this point we cannot do better than
quote On extract from last Sundays
sermon by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher;
: with which We will conclude for the
present ~ ..f 4a. sss. q,4 &,
4 1.-The temperance question has many
f aspects. Certainly no more zeal il
, needed to make success sure. Broader
: wisdom and charity in it's advocates are
needed They should not be vindictiyt