The Republican journal., 1882-01-12
Temperance TOPICS.


4 number ofladies, some of them prom
lnent in fashionable society," have organ
lied secret society called "Guardian
Angels" to warn Congressman and others
who indulge in moderate drinking when
it becomes evident that they are no
longer temperate" in their potations
Good company is to these occasional tip
piers the direct channel of temptation,
but it is not long till they begin to drink
in their rooms or alone at bars. Soon
they indulge in occasional sprees, with
intervening intervals of sobriety, and
then they indulge in incessant drunken
ness. lntoxication is what they crave,
and to secure it they do not content them
selves with brandy or whisky, but they
drink absinthe, tincture of Indian hemp
or opium seeking forgetfulness and hap
py thoughts, to be followed by tremor,
depression and wretched sensation of
exhaustion, often ending in delrum tre-
MEMS When the "Guardian Angels
learn that any one in whom they are in
terested is beginning to walk on this
downward road, two ladies will be desig-
mated to quietly endeavor to reform him
by pleasant remonstrances and social in
huences. They will find some tough
customers, but "where there's q will
there's a way" especially when women
will it. Perley in Boston Journal.
HENRY BERGH ON STRONG DRINK.
Mr. Bergh, who stands at the head of
benevolent men. has this to say Of the
sale and use of Intoxicating drinks: "If
there be a personal devil ia this world he
is here, | think, in the form of rum
Rum, or anything else that steals away
the human senses, is the instigatOr of ALL
in which long catalogue stands conspcu-
ously murder, robbery and wife beating
When once this liquid fire is taken into
the system, the wletched slave of that
demon is ready for anything, and would
hold him who furnished the devilsh poison
equally responsible with the perpetrator
for what ensues. | see no difference be-
tween the man who commits murder and
he who provides the material. Both are
accomplices, and both should suffer alike
Let the laws be administered in that
spirit, and i'll less than six months the
number of rum-shops and distileries
would be diminished one-half at least.
THE USE OF BITTERs.
The New York Times is of the opin-
ion that large number of women of this
country are rendered inebriates by the
use of ''bitters." 1t says they take them
at first innocently, for some real or fan
cied ailment, and so awaken a craving
for them that leads to ruin. The victims
for btters are chiefly women, "for when
men want to drink they find plenty of op-
portunity for doing it openly. They can
ask for whiskey over counter without
exciting a scandal. But woman cannot
walk into bar room and call for Bour-
bon or rye. 1t is for her, therefore. that
the great proportion Of bitters, under all
sorts Of fantastical names, are scattered
broadcast over the land" In a!!aaion to
this statement, the Times testities to the
knowledge of family, high in social po-
sition, where one daughter has died of
delirium tremens, and another has had
an attack of the same disease.
NOTES.
The proprietors of Towns Hotel, Bel
lows Falls, Vt. have been sued under
the personal liability act for S20,00O for
selling liquor to one Peter Good of West
minister, who, it is alleged, died suddenly
in consequence.
In Portland in 1881 about 4. per cent
OF the inhabitants were arrested for
drunkenness. In Boston the percentage
OF arraignments for all crimes was about
81. In 1880 the percentage or arrests for
drunkenness in this city was As. Bos-
ton Journal.
G. w. Lund, druggist at Indepen-
dence, Kansas, has forfeited his bond Of
$1,000, which with fines and costs amount
ed to $1,000, tor selling beer and Whlskey
in defiance of law. He said the law could
not be enforced now he thinks, possibly,
it might be.
John B. Finch of Nebraska and Cover
nor St. John of Kansas have been max
ing temperance speeches at Plattsmouth.
Neb. An evening paper there vilified
Mr.. Finch, and he thereupon went to the
office, thrashed the editor in chief and
the local editor and put the rest of the
staff to flight.
The Sta1nton Valley Virginian notes
the renewed agitation of the temperance
question, and looks confidently for a
very exciting campaign in Virginia be-
fore another legislative election, in which
local option will be the central matter of
discussion. The politicians, it says, will
have to look into the matter, for it is an
aggressive and energetic question The
Richmond Dispatch practically agrees
with the Valley Virginian in this opinion