The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-07-14

w see it stated that the Modoc
Indians have entirely prohibited the
sale of liquors on their reservation,
and that the name of every man,
woman and child, of sufficient age
among them, is on the temperance
pledge. May it not be, that in
course of time, the people of Michi-
gan will become as civilized as the
Modoc Indian.-The Lever.
The Temperance Cause. Let us
remember that this work is not ours.
Oh if it had not been a good work,
; the mistakes, %follies, f~railties and
sins of its best supporters, would
have killed it long ago. 1t has lived
: through everything, because it had
the elements Of eternal vigor, and
eternal youth in it, and it will live
on, and by and by the victory will
come.-GoUGH.
A great temperance revival is in
progress in Southern Illinois. A
correspondent gives us a brief &C
count of the labors of Mr.. Hoofstit-
tier a reformed inebriate--in Ran
dolph and Jackson counties. Mr..
H. has tested what we have recently
had occasion to note in this vicinity,
the thorough subserviency of most
of the secular newspaper to the liquor
interest IN. Y. Weekly Witness.
81 brought down two distilleries
and a brewery, this trip" said a N.
Y. horse-car driver, the other day,
as. he reached the downtown ter
minus of his route, and hitched his
horses to the other end of his car.
That was a rather coarse way of put
ting it, but we are afraid the driver
twas merely telling a truth in terse
language, as w%orkingmen SO often do.
There are men in the world whose
chief occupation seems to be, to serve
as receptacles for alcohol of one sort
or another. The Bible calls our
bodies, temples Of the Holy Ghost:
it belongs to the choice of the indi-
vidual to say whether he will deserve
that name, or prefer such a title as
the horse-car driver bestowed upon
his passengers as they staggered off,
S. S. Times.
The following, from the editor of
the Hastings Banner has the true
ring:-Some one asked us the other
day why We persisted in making a
personal fight against the saloonists.
Our friend is mistaken. With the
men as individuals and apart from
their business we have no quarrel.
But we do make war upon their
business, because that is a curse to
society and at war with its every
Legitimate interest. We're it in our
power to do a kindness for any one
of the saloonists of Hastings, we GER
tainly would not hesitate because
they were such. But we believe the
liquor traffic to be a mean business.
I'VE believe saloons encourage i'm
morality, vice and crime. We be-
lieve their influence is bad and
damning to both the present and the
rising generation. In the light of
modern science, the drinking habit
stands accused of fostering all that
is degrading, and opposed to all
upward development. 1t is no ex-
cuse to urge that "some one will sell
it, why not ~ Let that some one
be willing to take bread from hungry
families: let that some one put the
first glass before the young mar just
starting out in life; let that some
one feel the weight of guilt and
misery which belongs to the saloon
list, rather than. you. Before the
common sense, science and advanced
morality of those whose opinions
are worth having, the liquor traffic is
A crime and a great crime.