The Republican journal., 1883-07-19

| tlnd alcohol to be an agent that gives no
strength; that reduces the tone of blood VESSELS
and the heart; that reduces the nervous power:
that builds up no tissues; can be of no use to
me or any animal as substance of food. pr.
W. b. Richardson.
Drink is one of the worst Snares in our unb-
c schools. Boys often exercise the utmost in
geuulty to Smuggle drink into the school prem
lses without the knowledge Of the teachers, and
form during their school days the habit of
drinking that bighs their after-litc
1t doesn't pay to hang one citizen because
another citizen sells him liquor. 1t doesn't liav
to have one citizen III the lunatic asylum be
cause another citizen sold him liquor 1t doesn't
pay to have one citizen in the county Jail. be-
cause another sells him liquor. 1t doesn't pay
TO nave nifty Worklngmcn ragged, to have one
drinkShop-ke dressed in broadcnth and
flush of money.
Who has the most political influence, a minis
ter or Saloon-kccpcr-a merchant or Il salo0n-
Keeper = manufacturer or Il SaloOn-kcrptr:
OF course, the SalOOn-kecper. Why? Because
he sells that which will legally buy votes and
brlbe voters. Who ever heard of man being
arrested for bribery when he purchased votes
with whskey? Who believes that it is not the
most potent method now in use? But it is lc-
gal. Christian Secretary.
A craving for excitement il an appetite, is
what drives many men and women to drink.
1T Is IN American characteristic, bred it may hc
OF the hurry and rush of our social atmosphere,
pressing upon race not vet quite accllmat1d.
Women are moi beyond the social craze, As the
luncll-countcrs and contcctoncrs VIII testify,
or sill more fearfully, the opium statistics,
which sometimes ill Us with horror; while the
boys, with their poisoned cigarettes and their
pool for drinks are hurrying along into the
same vortex.
That must be false rule requiring virtue.
ttn ,nI i'm
women, while men may 90 on to any length al-
most. and society wink at their faults. Whit
ever degradeS Il woman also uegrades man.
Take some of the vices and habits of the day.
man smokes filthy cigar and carries about
half an ounce of tobacco in his cheek. and yet
expects his wife to preserve clean mouth and
sweet breath. Again, 4 young man starts ONT
to spend the evening with his adOred Avelina.
Should he find her not at home, buI in the
ncighboring saloon, however gentee it might
be, that would be his last visit. In his cstimp-
tion she would have sunk below his level, and
yet the same young man himself is a daily vi>i-
tor to that same saloon, and engages in all its
bacchanalian revelry, indulging his swiniSh ap-
petite without thought of improperly or harm.
Selected.
The need of temperance work among the
coored people of the South was the topic Of the
National temperance society's meeting. in New
York recently; William f. Dodge presided.
The Rev. MIR. Hood, coored graduate of Linz
coin university, said that the use of intoxicating
drinks was never considered serious otfense
among the colored people of the South The
Christian people there did not think it wrong.
The jug went along with the market basket,
and flask was often even carried to church.
The colored people could see no harm in whiS-
ky, and considered its use the legitimate eXer
else of freedom, and any attempt to check it, an
infringement on their rights. As vet there was
no organized temperance work in the South.
The native white people took little interest in
it. The colored people have lately emerged
from slavery and are now forming their char
acter, and they should not be wrecked by in
temperance. Justice Noah Davis said that
more than three-tfths of the crimes involving
personal violence were directly traceable to
the use of intoxicating drinks. In the days of
slavery drunkenness was prohibited among the
slaves, while INDUCED in by the masters. The
slaves thus learned to consider it privilege of
freedom and at the present time they regard
any attempt to represS the liquor traffic as d
step backward. This feeling caused them to
vote in mass against prohibition in South Car
olina.