Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-11-02
TEMPERANCE,

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not pour the rum into the gutter 7 II u
destined 10 the gutter At last Why not
pour II there at once, and not wait 10
strain II through q man aud spoil the
slniner Ia tho work.
la Halle has q justice Of the psaee
who is also q saloon keeper A very
convenient combination, Tic can NIL
EN- up until they drop all their money
aud arc too full Tor utierahee, then Wy
them and send them to jail without ihe
community being annoyed
Organized church temperance work
is destined, under God, to DO tbs mighty
agency for the pulling down the strong
holds Of our great national sin, AZ
strong drink Is the greatest obstacle IL
the pathway Of Christian progress, 40 d
the Christian church, fully aroused and
equipped, the mightlest iofee for IA
overthrow and removal,
There is q fine OF $40 iOr every one IN
Chicago who throws q banana peel upon
the sidewalk 10 irip some nnWary Pc
desiriani bnt II ID legitimate to admin'
lister doses that make fifty thousand legs
unsteady, aud every day dumps scores
Of bodies in helpless imbe,dlity into
cutters, and madiehs the hrain and
nerves the arm for nightly murders, IN
other words, the law eyes the gimlet'
holes and lets the bung'holes run under
full pressure,-Ch Chicago Inter- Ocean,
| deliberately declare, says O London
writer In the Chicago Herald, that In
five weeks and half IN this kingdom !
have seen ~ many women under tho III
auence Of liquor IN l have seen men
under like influence within the proceed
ing three years. Nor do these women
drink beer alone they, az q rule, drink
whisky, ! have, In scores aud aeores OF
instances, seen little children, late At
night, at the saloon door, crying for
mother TO 40 home. On In our own land
wives plead for their husbands, At tho
very threshold OF nearly oil tho grand
ruins Of palaces and abbeys aud castles,
beer and whisky beg TO be swallowed,
They say you can smell pothing In q
drugstore, The very atmosphere OF her
majesty's kingdom IL blend OF all the
liquors that blight her majesty subjects
and fill her treasury.
Hon. Henry Wilson once said In my
hearing I'm my judgment, thoro Il
but one way Ia which the great result Of
temperance can DO reached, The church
must take up the matter" Outside or
gahiza,ions have done great good; but
when the church becomes really in ear
most We shall SEQ marvellous work,
She hardly realizes yet how tho traffic
walks hand In hand with Sabbath desc
Grafton; how conscience gets NO be-
numbed through liquor that the users OF
strong drink care little for the house Of
God; how inndtliiy and skopticism
grow rank among young men in beer
room conversation how tho poverty
which drink engonders leaves no means
for proper clothits for the Sabbath or
for church expenses,
Every intelligent Irishman knows that
whisky is tho greatest enomy OF his
countrymcn, whether at home or railroad
II is love of strong drink that impover.
ishes them, prevents their mental and
moial development, and thus keeps
them in state OF subsection from which
they can never emerge until they free
themselves from the thraldom OF the ap.
petite that so easily besets them. We
have often wondered that speakers
who address great bodies OF Irishmen
on political and other subjects, do not
oftcner touch on temperance as on i'm
portant factor in all important reforms,
and we are glad to notice at this time
that Catholic priest assures his coun-
trymen that giving up their whisky is
one way by which they may help make
Ireland free. As for our own country
men, We may say rs much-that total
abstinence from anything that can intox-
cate, is one way-and very important
one-by which we may kep our coun-
try Free Exchange.
On tho last Monday in October, 1912,
3S years ago, I signed the temperance
pledge under the Washingtonian move.
ment. Many of you remember that
s movement IL WIS WoTdA buhsioH entlIe'
ly, pure kindness to the victim Of drink.
In 1874 I began to see, although the
Neutrality-suspicious. at that time were de-
cidedly opposed to anything like legal
enactment, and they never dreamed Of
entire prohibition-I began to see that
something more was necessary. We
stood all along by the rapids, and we
had built a bridge across the rapids, and
men were standing there and picking up
these poor victims and passing them to
their friends, who bound up their
wounds, comforted them, and took them
up the stream; but We noticed that the
same men came down again, and that
they kept us busy in picking them up
and binding up their wounds. Wewent
up the stream and found men enticing
and coaxing and pushing them in the
stream, and so we began to see that
something must be done to stop that.
From that day / became not exactly
prohibitionist, but what was called a
legal-suasion man love for the victim,
but law for the rumseller. I have advo-
Gated that policy ever since, and intend
to do 81 -,IOb, T. TOu1L