The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-03-09

Troops Of furies march in the druukard',
triumph.
II got along well after | knocked Oh two
hundred quarts of ale year, " said an English
laborer.
Let IL hot be said that any evil exists IN our
midst, the power Of which Is greater than the
people, ST. john.
! 1t does not pay to have fifty working. men
ragged, in order that one saloon keeper may
dress in broadcloth and be flush Of money.
Kumsellers cannot afford to quit selling to
minors. because they know that their old Gus.
toners will soon be dead, and they must be
recruiting new army.
To prevent corrupt practices at elections,
the British Government has forbidden COM
mittec-rooms TO be opened on premises where
| liquor is licensed to be sold.
The London Temperance Hospital, in the
past eighty months of its existence, has treat
ed about nine hundred in patients and eight
thousand ous-patents entirely without the use
of alcohol, even In the medicine.
When Christians pray to God against the
liquor crime, and refuse to employ the means
which He has placed in their hands for Its re-
moyal. how can they expect any answer to
their prayers but indignation aud wrath9
! The Iowa Central Railroad have the follow
ing conspicuous sign posted in their cars,
which ought to be on many other roads, viz !.
Every tobacco chewing gentleman will have
the gallantry to keep the ladies' coach clean
by riding in the forward car while chewing"
If all the alcoholic liquor in the world could
be tapped, and let flow and disappear, think
the world would be much tho better. think
better. The spirits would be more regular.
Life would be heightened. / can come to no
other conclusion.-Dr. BENZ. Ward Richard
son.
The reasons so many are in the business
(liquor business), aud are willing to go into
it, are just these The money they make,
nv stte'S WIN WY wv thC tiNti0 tuuuSnb anu
brains it takes to carry ON the business, and
the power, both personal and political, they
WELD over their customers. Christian Adpo.
cate.
Temperance literature Is travelling with new
strength. Its textbooks are coming to school
to teach, and the Sunday School now gives
sssqniaI 4 am aara moo ;.s.s .....--.,
Now that temperance has come to God God
is helping temperance nightly. The outlook
is Observation-Disclosures.
1t is strange that In the educated nineteenth
century, when the world is agluw with reveal
ed religion and enlightened Christianity, that
SO great crime as licensing men to ruin their
fellows should be tolerated by the people, and
even sustained by the decisions OF learned
Judges whose insignia of office is purity of the
er,nine Hon. a. B. Richmond.
In the address Of the committee appointed
by the Jacksonville Conference of the M. e.
Church, South, at its recent session, occurs
the following, which every true lover of hu-
manly win endorse "The presence Of a
bar-room in a community is an unmitigated
evil. In the eyes Of the good 1t cannot pos
sess one redeeming feature. It Is the rendez-
vous of the worst elements of society. 1t is a
school Of vice. 1t tempts the weak. 1t leads
astray the young. 1t makes men waste time
and money. Hpreoents reformation IN many
ioho desire to get free from habits Of intemper-
ancc." We emphasize the last sentence.
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SIGNs OF THE TIMEs.-Rumsellers becom-
ing ashamed of their business is one of the
''signs Of the times " that must prove encour.
aging to those engaged In fighting King Alco-
hol, whose business and pleasure 1t is to man.
acle and destroy so MANY OF the human race.
1t Is stated that the liquor dealers of New
York and Brooklyn do not give their occupa-
tions when elected TO the legislature, as for
merly. Seven mcmbers elected in New York
are liquor dealers, yet only one of tliein gives
that as his occupation, while four elected IL
Brooklyn who pass themselves off as " clerks y
and merchants are grog- shop keepers
Both cities elect eleven of that class, but such
has been the change In public sentiment tha
they do not give their occupation as formerly
1t is to be hoped that a still greater change
win before long take place when constituen-
cies will be ashamed to have rumsellers repre-
senting and legislating for them in any wa!
whatever. When that time comes, 1t viii
prove much easier matter for legislation II
be enacted, looking toward the abolition o
the vested right" to poison and kill th
subjects of the state.
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A COMPLIMENTARY CALL.-There 10
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