Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-02-04
ESSAY ON TEMPERANCE


all.absorbing and important question
from time to time, it ia with cha
grin and remorse that We watch tn,
unclaimed Demon rcvel in luxury anC
elegance, destroying the many brigh
and intelligent youth that grace thil
broad land of freedom and plenty anC
with what complacency the majority
of our populacc look upon it 1t i!
this complacency, and the unheeding
careless, easy manner in which oul
people look upon this demon, that
causes our laws for the regulation Of
selling Intoxicating liquor to be SC
often trampled down. We may say
that we might almost as well have nc
laws at all to govern this abominable
trafic, as TO have laws and have them
violated right in the face Of good
society. We say society must be pro
tected and enact laws to punish those
guilty of trespass, larceny and murder
Watch, if you please, the impression
a case of murder makes upon society,
and what CALLING influences the gossip
of such case has upon the children,
the youth and the middle-aged. Being
carried from tongue to tongue, and
proclaimed through hundreds Of fami-
lies, and acting as anti.natael influences
to yet unborn generations. Now,
right here let me say, that it is not the
influence the drunkard, the tippler OF
the moderate drinkcr hasupon persons
Immediately surrounding or cotempo.
rary with him, but the influence
upon yet unborn generations. The
actions Of the drunkard are looked
upon with the most whitening contempt
by sound, sober, meditative individuals;
and his vulgar and proiane language is
abhorred in the bitterest manner yet
the Influences do not stop here, but are
carried on through succeeding genera
tions until the starting point is lost TO
view unless some preventive is furnish
ed to unroot and drive out the rudi-
ments of drunkenness when they are
in flexible condition. Now, what this
preventive is or may be, is what has
been agitating the minds OF the people
for SC many years. Although many
have been tried and some may be said
TO have done an immense amount OF
good, yet they have not completely
put an end to what they have been
striving to accomplish. Temperance
societies have had their rise, progress
and fall almost ever since the beginning
of the history of our country. Each
and all Of them have done their work
and passed away, and are known only
as. history of the Temperance move
ment. We need not hero enumerate
the many Temperance Societies that
have been in progress, but all who are
acquainted with the temperance
movement can call TO mind the much
good that has been done and the many
souls that have been saved through
their instrumentallty and when any
movement is laboring in q Justand nee
essary cause, we say God-speed. Yet
anti,temperance people would say,
why not have The hquor traiilc en-
entirely eradicated py TINS lime you
have been laoorIng SO long we say,
"Your Honor, we have q double al
tagonist to deal with. The rum seller,
who is striving to get rich from his
nefarious avocation and the otiiee-hold-
err whose palms are itching Tor the
revenue derived from that source.
Yet in the very face OF or enemy, we
have had somevery good laws enacted.
But there is something to be done
beside enacting laws. That process
has been tried, with much good, yet
we think, there is more etleotual way
of working in this matter. The case
hardened drunkard cannot be reached,
to totally secure him from his terrible
path norca the drlnk.and-let,it'alone
individual be persuaded 10 leave off
entirely, and temperance, in all its
varied forms, is to instruct the children
at home, IN the school room, and in
the Sabbath school. Too much atten-
ton is manifested in doctrinal creeds
in the Sabbath schools and home, and
not enough to the eiiectoi riotoushving
and intemperanco. Aohild instructed
in purely temperate habits VIII rarely,
II ever, indulge IN the use oil intoxl'
eating beverages. Let the mothers
dictates be law; let her have sole con
troll OF the training of the children,
and there will not be so many drunk.
ards. We know when man commits
some great crime, and is about to be
punished, lac invariably saws, Hif he
had paid attention to the advice of his
mother, ne would not be suffering the
punishment of the law" Where is
the mother who would not prescribe
strict observance TO the rules of Tenn.
perance to her son, and entire prohibi.
tion 10 the rum seller7 MANY fond
heart has been withered and made
sad by seeing her sterner partner
go out to spend his evenings with
some associates at a club room,
bar room, or wherever they should
congreeate. He who has pledged his
love and affections TO her as a comfort
and a proleet,onl Conscience and I'm.
manity cannot endure such violations
of tho filial affections, nor can man
kind afford il without being duly re.
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pense II is tho example set to the
younger members OF the family. II
the father cannot entertain himself at
home, he cannot expect his children
to find anything sufficient to entertain
them. As childs mind enlarges and
and expands, It yearns Tor intellectual
nourishment, and If this is not to be
iouhu a. nome ~ ,i1",tny duan'..' ~, ~
hazards and bar rooms offer very en-
ticing induoements TO supplant tne un'
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