West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-01-10
WEST VIRGINIA FREEMAN.
Prohibition Notes.

NEW ORk.--l he ITOIllDlGlOu
party of New York, encouraged by
its 10000 votes cast at the recent
election, has now begun a canvass
of the State to secure 100000 votes
"next time" Their campaign this
year cost only SLIGO, but they are
raising fund of s25, ZOO for future
use. The progress Of the party
during the past two years is indi-
Gated by the vote in 1881, when
only 4, 445 prohibition ballots were
cast.-Sig1ai.
THE GREAT TRIBUNE SPEAKS
What ought to be done about the
liquor traffic is not to be decided
hastily or without due regard for
the rights of all classes of citizens,
But the time has gone by in this
country when serious discussion
of question that involves such q
vast expense to the Nation can be
prevented by bullying, intolerance,
insolence or ridicule. This very
practical people, having begun to
think about the matter in earnest,
perceives that it is much too i'm
portant to be put aside at the die
iation of saloon-keepers. 1t is GER
tain that the entire savings of the
people and all additions to their
wealth are not twice as much as
the sum expended for liquor and
because of the abuse of liquor.--N
Y, Tribune.
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND MOVE
MENT.-The Church of England
Temperance society is booming in
Canada. There was in the diocese
Of Toronto temperance sermon
and temperance meeting in every
Episcopal Church on the two first
Sundays of December. Although
some of the Reverend speakers
made some very silly talk to the
effect that now they are going to
lift the temperance cause out of
the slough of defamation up to
the rock of reason and sound judg-
ment, they we'll come all right
when they learn little more about
it. The cause will suffer somewhat
in dignity from their injudicious
handling until they learn good
deal in the school Of temperance
reform. And one of the first things
for them to learn is that neither
the gospel nor the temperance re-
form can receive any honor from
any accession Of new recruits that
may be led to enter its fold, by COM
promise measures. -ReScue
SOUND DocTRlNE.-Said the late
j. G. Holland, the we'll and widely
known author of Titcomb's letters,
etc, etc:
Il neither drunk wine nor give
it to my guests. Strong drink is
the curse of the country and the
age. Sixty thousand men in Amer
lea every year lie down in the grave
of drunkard. Drink has murder
ed my best friends, and ] hate it.
1t burdens me with taxes, and |
denounce it as a nuisance, on which
every honest man should put his
heel. [ do not ask you to put your
heel on the drunkard, but to make
the spirit Of your guild so strict
and pure that no man Of your num-
Der viii dare to trif1e with your
opinion and sentiments on the sub
iect." And an author of far wider
repute has said: at is good" not to
"drink wine" or anything "where-
by thy brother stumbleth, or is Of
Tended, or is made weak" -Signal
WAR VS.. WHIsKY.-It might be
well if our Statesmen would consid-
er the recent statement of the Lon
don Econemist, as follows:
at estimated the cost of all the
great wars of the world for twenty
five years, from 1852 to 1877, includ-
ing the Franco-German war and
our own civil war at something
over S12,O0O,O00,O0O The cost of
intoxants in the United States for
the same period is more than $751;
600 100000, or SO, 000,O00,00O more
than all the wars of the world,
Is acres Of level land, in good