The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-01-26
Temperance Items.

In REPLY 10 addresses of welcome
from various Temperance societies in the
north of England, Bishop Wilberforce,
of Newcastle, said that he was thankful
every day1hat he was total abstainer.
He was better IN health, lighter in head,
and heavier in purse Tor IL.
A sAL0oN-KEEPER In JERSEY CITY
has been arrested for eutfcm children
into his place, making them drunk and
getting away their money. An inaiG-
nant mother, who went there and
found her son, ten years old, insensi-
bic with drink, was elected from the
place, and made charge of assault
and battery. The saloon-keeper was
committed for trial.
In THE RECENT CIRCULAR sent out by
the Executive Committee of the \ alton
al Organization of Liquor Dealers, it is
conceded that "neither separate COM
munities nor single States can success
fully fight the battle against Prohibi-
tom and this fact is used as an evil
dence that "a National Anti-Prohibi-
ton organization has become necessi-
ty." That ought to prove encouraging
news for Temperance workers. SIS. s.
Times.
TEMPERANCE WORK is looming up in
India. Fifteen years ago there was no
Temperance Society IN Calcutta; now
there are several, both for adults and
Juveniles The Brahmo SOmai, the
new religious body in India, takes
strong ground against the use of all in
toXicating liquors. and also against
that of tobacco and opium. There are
one or two Temperance papers, and
some others willingly print Temperance
articles and news.
Mr.. GLADSTONE, in the House OF
|. Commons some months ago, said: 1--WE
suffer more year by year and every
year from intemperance than from war,
pestilence and fam ne combined; those
three great scOurges of the human
family" Charles Buxton. Member Of
Parliament, said: Through intem-
perance there are more than five hun
dred thousand homes in this country
ENGLAND where home happiness is
utterly unknown; and the struggle be-
tween it and the church, the library
and the school is one phase of the war
NEAL Dow, the well-known champion
of prohibition. of the liquor traffic, in a
published letter, says that as the result
"there is no distillery or brewery in
Maine-11Ot one; all have been sup
pressed by the law. Three-fourths of
the territory of the State is now practi-
cally free from the traffic" And the
Portland Ddjiy Press said, lately: "In
a large part of our territory an entire
generation has grown up practically I'M
acquainted with the liquor traffic and
it's effects" Mr.. Dow says; "Maine is
now one of the most prosperous States
in the Union, while formerly the entire
valuation of all its property was spent
every twenty years for strong drink,
making it one of the poorest of the
States!'' s..3. =
TIE MESSAGE of Governor Foster, of
Ohio, cannot but be read W tn deep in
terest. Some of US are not inclined to
adopt the identical measures of relief
which he proposes, but we. accept the
facts presented and admire the fearless
ness with which the Buckeye Governor
reiterates them:
- 1t is humiiiating fact that we have in
Ohio to-day, more than 5000 places where this
unrestrained traffic is carried on, taking the
hard-earaed wages from many thousands Of
our citizens whose families need the money
thus worse than thrown away. This entire
Ifallc, the amount of which in round numD5Is
will probably exceed S10.000,0O0 annually,
much the larger portion of which is profit con-
tributes but iithe of the burden it imposes
upon the public through the crime and pau
perism created by it,
1t might be well to mention here the
somewhat familiar item that Shillito IL
Co.. single dry-goOds firm of Cincin-
natl, pay into the public treasury far,
larger sum of money, as tax on prop
erty and goods, than all the several
thousand saloon-keepers in that city put
together. Chicago Standard.