Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-22
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W1pNEspAY EVENING. AUG. "a. 1889.


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An editorial in the September Century
discusses "The Temperance Outlook
with tho following conclusions "That
the Temperance question should be made
political question il most desirable. No
country with respect to its highest welfare.
and Temperance laws enacted. But tenn
perance must be temperance. It must be
q sensible and practical scheme that sensi.
ble3and practical men will support which
shall bring about the desired reformation.
1t must be . scheme which the great
majority of moral men will rec
ognize to be sound in its logic
and even in its justice. Any
thing else than this may, under pressure of
an excitement, achieve temporary sue
cess, but only this will be . permanent
cure of the rampant abomination. The
liquor men are now moro defiant ard more
numerous, in proportion to the population,
than in any former period. They work
their criminal mills openly in the face of
all, and We zee tho streams of vice and
crime pouring forth from these sources to
lay waste tho community and overwhelm
tho dikes which philanthropy has erected.
The courts, the police and the pub
lie officers generally, seeing the
bold mien of these disturbers of the
peace, find it easier for their weak
natures to humor them and to connive a,
their wicked works than 10 oppose them.
The great majority of the community are
thus oppressed and tyrannized over by
this minority, who laugh at law and
hound the defenders of the law. The only
end of this enorm;ty will be in the union of
the majority, and this can never be effected
by extreme measures or fapatical pronun-
ciamentos. Discrimination between liq-
uors that are hurtful and those that are
(in moderate use), healthful discrimina
tion between modes of drinking, Is treat
ing and drinking at meals dis.
elimination between places for drinking
only and places for lunch or dinner dis.
elimination between drinking on the
premises where the liquor is sold and
drinking it at home discrimination be-
tween day and night in the sale--these
and other like Determinations are to be
made in place of the sweeping demands of
the ultra men if q union of temperance
forces is to be oonsummated. Without
this union the evil must 60 on propagat
ing itself daily, anil on the so called
temperance leaders must rest the blame.
LUCY u6V0 COuSGltuCoU al uurC3SOEaOl6
shibboleth. When they abandon that the
enemy will be conquered, unless mean
while the enemy shall have conquered all
the ground and made our land moral
desert. Admirable laws. exactly suited
to diminish the curse aud destroy the
political power of the rum interests, have
been introduced into the Now York Leg.
islature, and would have been enacted but
for the solid vote against them of the So
called temperance members. directed by
their "tsmp,ranoe' constituency at home.
This class of reformers will have their
zeal intensified by the action of Kan as
and Iowa, and they may carry few more
of the states. Would to God their success
were really success, that the rum interest
were stricken to the heart by it /! But not
until the reaction takes place, ana these
men are convinced of their error and are
ready to build on truth aud not on i'm
pulse, can We expect that union of II
good elements which will finally dig the
grave of rum and bury him beyond all
resurrection"
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