The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-09-10

of their patrons. Cheat
ing, lying and ill humor are seldom
found ina game of billiards, while
the above qualities seem to be the
cardinal virtues of croquet.
The evil of intemperance is drunk
enness. The wants of success of tenn
perance as it is taught to-day is caused
by impracticability. In order to be
a temperance advocate one must be
member of an orthodox church; he
must have no amusement but such |
as he can get at a church sociabies;
he is debared from advocating its
principals if lie belives God made all
men free and equal; he cannot come
into the ranks and fight if he is
not a prohibitionist. Yet some of
these same temperance mcn who talk
so loudly will advocate the election
to the highest office in the giftof the
government of men who are known
to drink to excess, and buy goods or
order work of man who is known
to be drunk n greater part of his
time if the drunkard will only charge
few cents less than his more tenn
perate competitor. What would
have been the result in the great ar
my which fought for the preservation
of the Union had the recruiting Off
Ger asked of each man who came to
enlist. care you Methodist, Pres
byterian, Baptist or lnfdel; or, are
you republican or democrat?" III
it had required either one of those
qualifications to have made that man
a good soldier human slavery would
exist in every state and territory Of
the Union to-day. Temperance men,
be they of what class they may. must
labor together as a great army regard
less of religious belief or social stand
ing or nothing permanent will ever
be accomplished by them. Work,
should be the watchword, not pray
and wait. The active workers should
organize and go into the work with
the knowledge that they have an un-
ldertaking before them that is i'm
mensc in its labors and results. They
should not quibble over little points.
If it is suggested that a ball be gotten
up for the benefit of the cause those
members who do not favor dancing
should simply leave the details of the
work to the members of the temper
ance society who do not object to
such amuseinents, and not hold up
their hands in holy horror and ex-
claim: ''If there is to be any dancing
done, you can count me out of the So
ciety p If the object of the move
ment is to keep men from frequent
ing the saloons, the temperance men
should fit upa saloon where everything
attractive except intoxicating drinks
could be found. We have no doubt
but place of the kind could be made
to pay in Canon City. and if it did
each month to make up the def cheney
One trouble with the modern tenn
perance man is that he does not prac-
tice what he breaches. He will argue
for hours on the advantages of tem-
perance and the same day will give en-
ployment to a professional man or
mechanic who Is a habitual drunk
ard, giving as an excuse that, al
though the temperance man who is in
the same line of business is just as
competent, he has some queer ways
about him that are not liked; thus
giving more importance to the little
whim than to the great cause for
which they claim to be fighting.
| Some of our impractical temperance
men will shudder to hear it suggest
| ed that money could be raised for
the cause by giving dance or the
| atrical entertainment. but is it not
far more honorable and consistent
than the course adapted by some of
| the leaders to collect money for such
purposes from the very men who are
running saloons. Some may claim
that we wish the advocators of tenn
perance to sacrifice everything for
the cause This is nearly the case except
such things as are criminal. If you
expect to fight intemperance success
fully you must fight it as slavery was
fought. You must not receive the
Young man in the ranks of your So
| cial life or home circle who, although
he is known to be a drunkard is such
good company. at the same time slight
ing the honest and sober youth be-
cause he is SO stupid. or give employ
ment to the drinking man in pref
erence to the sober one because the
former is bright and quick while the
latter is little slow. In nearly every
case in Canon City the men who run
saloons are good public spirited citi-
zens who raise their children proper
ly, whose wives attend and contrib.
ute Literally toward the different
churches and in some cases are the
leaders of our most fashionable soci-
ETY.. To reclaim these men the only
practical way is to reduce their Gus
tom tn point that it does not pay
and very soon they will give it up
for different business. The only
hope the temperance men ever have
of accomplishing such result Ia tn