The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-16
Temperance Reading.
MANY WAYS OF WORKING FOR
TEMPERANCE.

haps have been overlooked if the broad
er channels had not been closed All
will admit that woman is the true edu-
Gator OF the human race. The first law
maker provided by nature for the child
is the mother And for the first ten
years our power is absolute. Let us
then lay broad and firm foundation
of strong Temperance principle cement
ed with a mothers love and consecrated
with a mothers prayers, on which our
sons shall build character that will be
a power for good as they grow to man.
hood and become the future lawmakers
of our Nation. ''First, get our children
right on this subject; let them grow up
with an utter aversion to strong drink. .
Teach them to shun tobacco, liquor and
/ cards, the three great evils from which
springs all manner of crime. Teach
them that rum is fiend, and show them
the wreck and ruin it works. Lead
your little ones through the narrow,
dark alleys where broken-hearted moth
ers and children testify to the manner
by which the liquor seller makes his
money.
Teach your daughters to despise the
gewgaws and rum-bought wealth. I'm
press upon their minds that behind all
that are the shivering forms and fut-
tering rags of numberlesS children who
are worse than orphans. Never cease to
take text for a Temperance talk
around your firesides from every crime
or misdemeanor proceeding from the
sale or use of strong drink which comes
nndor tho nntian of obi
Training the boys Alright is the sheet
anchor of the Temperance cause. 1t is
purifying the stream at the fountain.
Let not our young men grow up ac-
customed to see men of dissolute hab-
its and impure lives honored as citizens
with public offices of great trust. Hold
out to them all warnings and all coun-
sci lest they bring our gray hairs down
in sorrow to the grave.
And when we have done all this in
the domestic circle, is there nc other
work waiting for our hands? Can we
not help to rescue the perishing, es-
pecially among the Incorporate Of our
own seXp Hearts that have become
hardened by strong drink and evil as
sociations have sometimes yielded to
the power of sympathy and kindly
words fifty spoken. Let no opportunity
pass unimproved to act the part of the
good Samaritan in their time of sick
ness and distress. 1t opens new feel
ings, develops a new nature, and brings
the wretched outcast into the family of
man. Show them by our acts that our
earnest desire is to do them good Do
we not sometimes forget that our Di-
vine Master not only healed but actual
| ly laid His hands upon those whom He
sought to save? Throw the broad man
| JIe OF cnarlty over their failings; we
know not to what temptations they may
have been exposed. Perhaps if we had
been surrounded by the same circum-
stances, we, too. might have stumbled
and fallen. Remember that Just in the
measure that we labor unselishly for
the good of others will we be blessed
and strengthened.
" l For count this thought to be grapdly true,
| THAT noble deed is a step toward God,
Lifting the soul from the common sod
TO purer air and q broader view"
A man who has been an habitual
drunkard for years has been in my hus-
bands employ under pledge that he
would keep sober, and, upon the
strength Of his employment and good
resolutions, had bought comfortable
home for his wife and children, the
conditions being if he should fail in
paying a certain small amount each
month through his own neglect the
| home should revert to its former own
er. With all this incentive to sober
ness, once and again has this man fall
en-, and after getting sober has wept like
a child and begged to be tried just
once more. Upon inquiry, find that
this man had q drunken father and q
| drunken mother, and that his mother
died while drunk. When child he
was fed on the accurSed stuff with a
spoon from his fathers glass. Oh, how
ought we who have been shielded all
our lives from all such contamination,
who have been hedged in with Temper
that are struggling through life, carry
ing burdens that we know nothing of.
How can we, the women of the w. C.
L. u, win such men from their cups,
and not only win them, but hold them
in the right wayP [ believed speak the
sentiment of every one of our noble
| band when / say that we are ready an
eager to do anything within the sphere
| OF Christian women to save the drunk
ard to his family and the world. We
must not sit with folded hands lament
ing our inability to do great things in
| this cause. If only one talent has been
| given us, we will not be accountable for.
| ten.
Let us do with our might what our
hands find to do; always looking to the
never-failing source of wisdom and
strength. Prayer moves the arm that
moves the world. Let us then, in the
language of great Temperance work.
| er: Pray, as if all depended upon God;
and work, as if all depended upon our
selves. !" If we can not legislate. we
can agitate. We can educate, and we
must consecrate. We may have but
little to do but that, but that little,
when faithfully done, may have an in
| huence for good. 1t will cheer the
hearts of other earnest workers for the
right, and, in some degree, perhaps, dis
courage and weaken the power of the
enemy. Intemperance is the great
curse of our age. a crime beside which
the sin of slavery pales and sinks almost
out of sight. And when we remember
the National punishment that God Wis
tied upon this people for the great Ma
tional sin of slavery, have we not rea-
son to fear that if this Nation does not
rise up in its might and say this shall
not be, that again God viii lay His
hand so heavily upon us that we will
make haste as of old to put this evil far
from us?
1t is not thankless task in which we
are engaged. As I was selling tickets
for Mrs. Fixen's lecture last week
called upon the wife of drunkard.
With tears in her eyes she said: Buy
a ticket? yes. lean not go.to the lecture,
my husband would curse and beat me if
| did, but | am so thankful for what has
been accomplished in this town that |
wish had the money to buy ten" Tell
the Temperance workers to not be dis
.couraged Every drunkard's wife in
this community is praying for your sue
cess. We are few in numbers. but,
{. From feeble things in faith begun,