Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-03-14

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first state corrupts the life blood and under
mines the health and morals, but they must
adulterate it with sickening drugs and pols-
onous compounds, so that one gallon Of the
original fluid make several gallons of bot
tied death that is almost sure of its victim
at any distance, thus reaping large profits
from little investments, besides cheating
their customers and fastening the unfortun-
ate soul that has become addicted to the use
of ardent spirits, whose craving appetite,
growing with every draught he takes, OBJ
tains the mastery and draes him headlong
to utter wretchedness. This fact of itself is
sufficient to condemn the traffic of liquor
dealing in the minds of the people of every
community. Hence the necessity of intro
ducing these reforms for strength of pur-
pose and unity Of action to check and de-
feat if possible the sad inroads to health and
morals that this accused traffic is constant
ly making, and to create an asylum for the
oppressed, a protection for the weak whose
strange and acquired appetite they are no
longer able to subdue.
The morning glory must needs have
something to Irvine upon. 1t will not Irvine
upon a shadow. Human nature must also
have something to Irvine upon-somethmg
solid to rely upon. The convert to chris
tianity feels safer and stronger within the
pales of a church, bouyed up by pious min
istrations and the Jealous solicitudes of his
pastor, he has something solid to rely on
something in which he has a right to expect
encouragement. assistance and protection
OH his way to Zion. The army of a nation
would be but all ungovernable rabble but
for military discipline and a leader from
whom to look for commands and to rely on
for subsistence and directions in times OF
peril. So it is with the unfortunate inebri-
ate who has become too weak from his w
VIII to resist the fatal cup by uniting with
these temperance reforms, rely upon them
for cousel, for strength, for temperance as
sociationS and IL hope of a complete reforma.
ton around the affairs of temperance.
! That intemperance has a demoralizing ten
f dency is beyond contradiction. Those ofsu'
WHO have tried the experiment can safely
!: youch for its c~orroding effects. There il
nothing truly ennobling in the continued
5 use of malt beverages, even 1T used in mod
i Grafton. It does not augment our mora
worth, prolong our lives, or exalt our posi-
ton i'm society, but begets an appetite which
l. too often becomes uncomfortable, and lead
If to habits and indnlgences which if we'll pur
n sued may reach the dignity of crimes. III
'e time spent in senselcss folly over the flown,
b bowl can be more profitably devoted to &C
S curing knowledge and understanding. an
the exhaustion OF physical force at each re
1t Deated debauch when the nerves are ul
II naturally stimulated only tends to shorte
N fife. Eyer glass of liquor taken by habitu;
lie drinkers only tends to hasten their declin
De and render their reformation more uncel
20 tain. for when once the system is contain
st mated with the noxious impurities OF alec
1t hole poisons it requires but little feeding t
II: keep alive and increase the flame until
- brings the victim to ruin. The mind ais
lg partakeS of the disease of the body. If I'll
system is filled with iiii1amable and destnt
I'd tive matter the mind eannot certainly be
" a healthy and prosperous condition, and
lie not in a healthy condition the mind can NJ
IS. improve. and as the SYSTEM becomes mo-
ar and more infected and diseased, so does t!
ii mind become weaker and. less active AZ
10 less able to discern the pitfalls Of dang
ey and to restrain a feverish appetite. Whe
no the body is simulated and oyerheated fro
be unnatural causes the mind is diverted fro
en- its legitimate sphere and can not obtain til