The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-01-13
Northern Pacific Farmer
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Temperate Temperance.

Temperate Temperance.
70 the Editors of the n. +. Farmer.
The letter of Viola Cole, in your
recent issue. reminds me that in
commenting on our tendency to novel
delnsion. l did not mention the tee
total crusaders; the most noisy and
aggressive Of all those factions, ever
since contingency of the late war
destroyed the Abolition hobby.
Lincoln's proclamation which freed
the negros, ruined the abolition busi-
ness for ever. and it's disbanded lead
ers fell into the increasing army Of
crusaders. These fanatics expected
some contingency to arise from a war
upon saloons, that would satisfy the
appetite of man kind for wine and
it's substitutes. What is there in our
people, or institution, that makes us
take such roundabout and expensive
ways Of correcting abuses? Other
civilized nations can emancipate their
slaves without wasting such rivers of
blood, and millions Of treasure. and
making so many desolate homes and
ruined fortunes, and no other nation
ever made such mischievous con-
fusion of the temperance problem.
Wei have all heard the accusations
brought against the saloon~keepers,
hy the crusaders. from Neal Dow to
Mrs. Pres. Hayes and Viola Cole; but
very few have heard the accusa-
tions brought against these crusaders
hy the temperate temperance people.
Now that a reaction has fairly set
in, and a person may tell the truth
without being called a rummy, L pro-
pose to bring some Of these to the
notice of your readers. At the new
temperance movement just begun in
Boston, Gov. Long presided, and said:
''This meeting recognizes the peril
from the rapid growth of intemper-
:,nce; the failure Of all the former
methods Of suppressig it, and the
need Of combining temperate people,
totalists and drunkards in some prac-
tical method of suppressing it's evils"
Judge Aldricll said: "A new gene
ration has sprang up since the many
unsuccessful attempts to stop drink.
ing by legislation, and the old meth
ods cannot be again tried with effect.
The young men have seen them fail.
Prohibition was to cure all, yet in
Maine intoxication is more frequent
than where liquors are comparatively
free. An Augusta clergyman has
just compiled statistics, which show
that seven -eights of all the arrests in
that city for ii years, have been for
drunkenness, under the most strin-
gent liquor laws in the world. The
pledges, and Washingtonians have
been equally futile, and broken pledges
are Il moral damage, and weaken the
will-power. Violent orators, too,
disgust thoughtful men. They will
not believe that drinking q glass of
wine is u sin, for they know it is not.
but Il temperate discussion of the
problem all men give heed.'''
DR.. Garcelon, the last Governor of
Maine, is an abstainer, and said:
1.-The Maine lav; is a failure rs to pre-
venting intoxication, and the facts
cannot be longer ignored. I have
seen more drunken men in the streets
Of Lewiston in one day, than ever
saw in New York; our daily papers
tell this. Iwent to Il southern city
last year as i delegate to medical
association. Liquor was sold there
freely, yet did not see man under
it's influence, and had my eyes about
for that very purpose. Now the first
man 1 saw at lewiston, on my return.
was so drunk he could not stand. An
occasional drunken man would not
prove the law Intellectual, but when