The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-11
Temperance Items.

OVER FIVE THOUSAND PERSONS IN CHI
cago have joined the new Temperance
organization, the League of the Cross,
and have taken the pledge under the di-
rection of Father Hayes, S. j.
A WHISKY SELLER at Whitehall, n. Y,
is in bad mess. He has been found
guilty of selling liquor illegally to four
hundred and fifty-seyen persons, and
has been sentenced to pay fine of nine
thousand dollars and stay in jail until it
is paid.
A GOOD SUGGESTION comes to us, viz:
that every town where saloons are IL
censed pay prosecuting attorney to sue
saloon-keepers for all damages. The
Christian inhabitants of any town can
combine to secure such prosecutor, so
that the work may be effectually done,
whether the wives and children are able
to do it or not Union sigma. ,
The SHOCKING SUICIDE of Edward
Jump, well-knOwn caricaturist, who
killed himself recently in the office of
John B. Jeffery, startled the cOmmu-
nifty. The cause assigned for the rash
deed was whisky, and is another warn
ing against that terrible demon at whose
doors nine-tenths of the crimes of the
land can be laid Chicago Neaos.
THE Observer quotes John Stuart
Mill as saying that ''the liberty of the
individual ends, however profitable to
himself, when it becomes ruinous or IA
tai to another Apply this sound prin-
ciple and it teaches us plainly that all
pursuits which are injurious to our
neighbors must be abandoned, or be
wrongfully pursued. - Chicago Stan
ddrd.
Mr.. FRANCIS MURPHY, the Temper
ance worker, mas written to New Or
leans that he will visit that city upon
his return to the United States. He says
of the Temperance "cause abroad:
8. The work in England has gone on
apace until the Queen has said: We'll
done!' Millions of the people have
signed the pledge, reducing the revenue
92,500,000, and the postmaster found it
in the savings of the people in pure
gold"
IT IS A CURIOUS and suggestive feat
ure Of the pending fundamental debate
over the question of limiting or wholly
suppressing the liquor traffic, that while
nearly every vigorous protest against
prohibition comes from iguor-sellers or
their advocates, these same protests are
almost invariably based on the alleged
wrong which prohibition inficts upon
actual or possible liquor drinkers. And
wherever violent or criminal resistance
is made to the enforcement of restrict
i've laws, it is noticeably made by liquor
sellers and their employees, and not by
liquor consumers as such, nor by the
general body of citizens. -E1change.
Ii THERE is ONE THING awoman may
be excused for doing, it seems that she
may be excused for trying to get the
dram shops closed, for dram shops have
wrought woe among women. Wives,
mothers, daughters, they are the chief
sufferers. A woman has small chance
when a husband, son, father, comes
home drunk, and begins to play the
brute and the devil among the women
folks of his house. Theirs is the beat
ing, the kicking, the starving, the
shame and the heart-breaking anguish.
We men. considering how little we nave
done, might excuse women Tor Trying
to do little to save themselves ana
their little ones from the deso9atlons q
strong drink, Hayaooq,