The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-02-01
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.


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"You'vE HAD ENoUsH when man
has drank up his farm. his house, bis furni-
iure when hs has ruined his wife. beggared
his children, ahd lost his home when he Is
too disspated to find employment, too worth
less to obtain a situation; when no one can
trust him when credit is gone when the
last cent is spent; when no man 10 willing to
treat him, or give him penny with which be
can obtain drink; when every other resource
has failed, aid life has become curse, and
he stands before the liquor dealers bar aud
begs for drink to quench bis raging thirst
and quiet for an hour the hell of torment that
RACES within him, thep the time has come !;
and as the liquor dealer shovss him out into
the cold aud darkness, he says him, You've
had enough" He may plead, he may expostu.
late but in vain. You've had enough. So
long as he has in his pocket dollar or = dime
he has not I" had slough - but when he has
spent all, and comes for charity to the man
| who has robbed and ruined him. be makes
this stereotyped answer, "You have had
| enongh" While his money lasts he may
drink as he will; but when money is gone
and all is gone, he has had enough" Young
man, entering upon course of dissipation,
you may not know when you have g. bad
enough" When you are a poor, broken
down, penniless wretch, the rumselsr will
give yoh information. He Informs you, 'you
have had enongh," and you eau crawl into
your grave in the Pottcr's Field--.'you have
had enough" Perhaps You will prefer to
determine for yourself when you have, bad
enough aud if you will take the advice of
friend you will say, ~ have had enough
now to last me as long as live; | will drink
no more
"A few years ago no one would have licked
out Arkansas as promising f,cld for temper
alice work, but during the last few months a
large amount Of such work has been efectu-
ally done in that State, and IA great humber
of grog shops have been closed. These re-
suits, peculiarly desirable in State where
every drunkard carried revolver and thought
no pleasure equal to that Of discharging it,
have been accomplished ia great part by the
persistent determination Of women in various
localities that the law should be enforced
which forbids the sale of liquor outside of
towns within three miles Of place of eduea-
ton. They started petitions, crowded into
the court rooms, and eventually heat tho
dealers. Arkansas papers publish. details Of
the Temperance movement lists of the places
where the sale of liquor has been stopped,
and amusing instances Of the confusion and
dismay oaiised among thirsty sotfls. An Os.
ceoa official walked all the way to Hearn's
Landing and waited there an hour for the
Steamboat Coahoma, expecting to get what
be wanted at the bar. But the barkeeper,
having in mind the applicants official posi-
tion suspected that it was device to ensuare
him, and The Osceola man went to bed sober,
much to his wife's surprise and Qualification.
A DRuNKARD AT SIxTEEN.-A brilliant SUI
ject Though sad one) for a temperance leo.
ture is now incareerated in tho Jail in New
Brunswick. The FREEDMAN says: His name
is Patrick Flanagan, and he is only sixteen
years of age. On Saturday afternoon he was
brought to the Jail by Constable Hillman, Of
South Amboy, through commitment from
Justice Hunter, charging him With being an
habitual drunkard." When Flanagan reach
ed the jailors quarters he was nearly crazy
from the effect of the rum which he had i'm
bibsd, and all through the night raved in the
agonies Of delirsum trsmens. His momentary
his glapces were riveted upon gigantic mules
and elephants which patssd before his mental
vision in horribly grotesdne shapes add even
when quieted Into aiful slumbers he was
haunted with the appearance of the aesthetic
Wilde, grown to unheard Of proportions. and
dancing in a garden the walks Of which were
bofderod with immense sunfowers and lilies
Flanagan should be sent to an insbriate
asylum.
LICENSE IN RAHwAY.-Rahway,s Council
has decided for grog shop licenses, but not
without opposition from some of it's mem ber6
The President Of the Council, Mr.. Denike,
left the chair and put in a vigorous protest.
In the course of his remarks he said:
can the members of the Council know the
effects of the general issuing of licenses. The
system has carried more men down to dsbon-
ored graves than any other that could be
named it has caused more evil, more poverty,
more ruin Of families, more rum to character
aud life than all others put together. He
had resided in Railway for twenty five years,
and from tho sale and use Of Intoxicating
drinks he had seen many business men 20
down to ruin and their families crushed, an
many talented young man go dawn to his
grave before he had reached the age of forty
years. The whole traffic WAS wrong, and he
could not vote for that which in his conscience
he knew to be wrong-for license
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