The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-12

President Arthur had scarcely warmed
his seat ere deputation from the National
Temperance Society called upon him to
urge and insist that he should follow GUS
tom that it had been the pleasure of Mr..
Hayes TO observe while in the White House,
viz: that no liquors should be used. The
temperance deputation did not even stop
there, but were themselves so Incorporate
in their requirements as to persist that in
his appointments to the civil, military, ma
val and other official positions, he
should have regard to the qucs-
ton of their indulgence in intox-
icating beverages, Nor did they stop even
here They insisted still further that in all
his official recommendations to congress. he
should invariably use his great opportuni-
ties to suppress the terrible drinking usages.
These were among the recommendations
that those christian men and women" told
the president of the United States that nc
should seek to have carried out. As fully
alive as we are to the terrible ills which the
incorporate use of liquor brings upon the
country, which il carries into the domestic
circle, and wherever else il can exert itself,
we can not help considering and do not
hesitate to characterize this action OF the
National temperance Society as intemper-
ately impertinent. Our Catholic citizen,
church communicate, conceives it a sin to cat
meat on Friday; our Jewish citizen thinks ii
wrong to indulge in hog products. lmag-
inc dcputation from the first of these sccts
waiting upon the president andurging him to
ratruu from partaking of a tcnderloin steak
for his breakfast on hangmnn's day ,patc-dc-
| fois-gras, for his dinner, an insisting upon
him in his widowerhood eating nothing but
oysters raw, stowcd, fried or broiled for his
supper before retiring, Imagine then, Just
behind them in long procession, the Jews,
with bible in hand and index finger on the
Mosaic law, demonstrating that il is i'm
proper to indulge in ham and egg, or souse
for his matin meal, pork ragout for his
lunch, pigs feet or spare ribs before going
to his couch. Imagine President Arthur
inquiring ofan applicant for crossroads
postmastership as matter prcoe-
dent to his appointment whether
the gentleman or lady INDUCED In "moun-
tain dew" or Chartrcusc Imagine him
asking of Mr., Evarts, Robertson, Schenck,
Jones and the others, before sending them
to France, Italy or Spain, whether they
were free from the vice of imbibing claret,
champagne or madeira. One ofthc old phi
losophets of the lonian school, Anaxagoras
We believe it was, taught that the soul had
its scat in the stomach. These incorporate
temperance people have gone back in. thor
excuses to that age Of 100 b.
G. This interCcrcuce with the
private life and affairs Of the White House
was of an ntoleranced akin in nature
with that which makes men religious lanat.
les and bipots, political despots and social
"stuck-ups,n and should meet with The re-.
bukc It deserves, The anti-tobacconisS
the anti.smokcrs and chcwcrs, may as APP
propriatcly follow with their petitions and
recommendations and then let the old
maids and the gossips OF the village neigh
borhoods insist with the president that Of
iice.holders should b, tea Irnko's,
and 50 ON adj iniiuitum, There
is no question that always "philip sober is
better than Philip drunk" But Philip may
he us drunk with an extreme ianaticism as
from the nectar of the gods or the
T lees from the still. Tho trouble
is that incorporate ianaticism
is more of u permanent and worse disease
t than the shortcr-lived intoxication that
flows from that enemy that men put into
their mouths to steal away their brains. II
/ A drunken man Is an object ofpity, or dis.
gust or aversion, and II is the sincere, hca t.