The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-17

This explains why Lne sIea1 "'<Jo1A''
Of all pledged abstainers back'sllde'
md drink more greedily after each
AS proof, I quote from
r. S. Arthur's "Curse and Cure
'.During the Moody and Sankey re-
yivals, over 200 drunken men were
reclaimed and converted, their souls
made whittier than snow. Alas Tor
the sebuel! Not more than or . OF
these can be found in the ranks OF
sober men," After John B. Cough
had preached and practiced absti'
nence for years, he tested the value
of that cure, and nearly drank him.
self to death as the consequence. In
his last lecture on leaving England,
John said: ''He had abstained tor
IS years, and now felt the appetite for
spirit as strong as it was at any time
in his life" Experience proves that
abstinence is continual struggle
against nature, and those few who
persist in maintaining it, like Cough
and Neal Dow, are kept sober but not
cured. Abstinence can no more re-
move the appetite for spirit from
these men, than it has removed it
from Sitting Bull. or the king of the
Cannibal Islands. But diet OF
vinous food or of free spirit intelli.
gently mingled with crude food, will
make either or all of these abstainers
a. temperate as General Grant or
Queen Victoria. The rapid deca-
dence of the New England race which
everywhere accompanies their absti-
nence delusion, is too much to pay
for the few Dows, Murphys, and
Coughs, who succeed in maintaining
that life long struggle. To show
how this struggle fills our cutters
with drunkards, I quote from Prof.
Fowler's "Science of Life" where
he says: "a parental couple asked
me how to prevent their four year
old son from becoming gutter
drunkard! The mother said: BE.
fore he was born l longed for wine,
and asked my husband to get me
some, but he refused, saying we had
joined the pledge, and it would dis
grace both us and the cause. I tried
many schemes in vain, and went to
my brothers who kept wine, and got
glass filled, but was compelled, af-
ter having it to my lips to set it down
untasted; and this boy is ravinous for
wine, for which he teases twenty
times a day. Fowler answered.: By
giving your son all the pure native
wine he can drink-as had your long.
ing been supplied your son would not
have SO longed-and SO by satisfying
that longing in him while he is yet
under your control, you will surfeit
him and save him; otherwise, when
he is older he will die . drunkard.
This is the only salvation" The
longing thus produced in parents for
spirit or its elements, is transmitted
to their children in an aggravated de-
gree, and is
THE STRONGEST OF ALL THE PRED1S-
POSED CAUSES OF 1NrEAPERANCE.
have probably done more to advance
temperance, than w. S. H., and Viola
Cole together, and have carefully oh.
served every phase Of the movement
for half a century. Then, spirits
were free and pure, used in every
house and given every guest, and
Americans were as temprate, healthy,
and prolific as the best Christian na.
tions. Now, spirit food is taxed, pro-
hibited and poisoned; driven from the
family table to public saloons and
private closets, while the quantity
is rapidly increasing, the
excise paid last year being thirteen
and three.fourths millions of dollars
greater than ever before. The guz.
zling of this enormous quantity of
poisoned liquor, with the intervening
spasms of drugs and abstinence, are
rapidly destroying the constitution
and character of this whole race.
Old and reliable physicians toll us
that dypsomanin has been Increased
four fold, and delirium tremens ten
fold by this reform. Instead Of fur