The Republican journal., 1884-08-14
Short Temperance Talks
EY MISS &. ;. BURNETT.
SnME OF IIIE MLSLAkES WE MA


SOME or TIE MIsI..KEs WE MAKE.
BY q, in this ar.ivlr | mean the temper
ance workers, not All Of them, am glad to say
First there is Il large class of men who may be
termed middle men; men who are not in the
advanced rank of temperance workers. yet
who are above the whisky ring and hate it.
We make GREAT mistake III as>a.ng this body
of men Il, careless OF the public Wc;d. some of
rs anathematize the man who will talk for
temperance, hut will not vote the prohibition
ticket, aS a hypOcritc, thereby losing Il good
worker. Some of us will throw suspicion on a
tota ahStaincr who does not feel it his duty to
sign the pledge, forever alternating him by our
misconceptions Some of us accuse those ladies
who cannot find time to attend all our meet
them they withdraw altogether. In short
some Of u> draw an exceedingly small circle
and call upon all temperance people to come
inside of il. or be claS>ed with the friends OF
whisky. But we don't all do it. We want 10
di~arm criticism by inviting to be fri ndIy. We
want to make our platform broad enough for
ali enemies of intemperance to stand upon. Let
y
trust too much to our organizations and do not
make enough individual effort We are in too
much of 4 hurry. We want results immediate
ly, forgetting it is Gods work and that we are
only workers. God is the motive power: to
Him we appeal Let lis carry ON this enter
prise in the spirit of chat good old reformer.
Nehemiah, who PRAYED while he worked.
W hlle building the walls of The city, he says
1--WE made prayer unto God and set a watch .
Human means are necessary. God will not
perform 4 miracle to do what we can do our
selves. Another mistake we make is in re-
moving the responsibility from the drunkard.
We lay the blame upon the seller, while the
fact is the drunkard is himself criminal, and
deserves not only rensure but punishment.
The fact that man is tempted i, no excuse for
dong wrong. lntemperance i, the one great
sin of our times aud surely the drnker is one
of The parties involved in the sin. Again. we
make mistake in not enforcing the laws we
have, while endeayoring to secure prohibition.
We all know that if liquors were not sold to
minors, nor drunkard,, nor ON SUNDAYS, we
would not have one saloon where now we have
I'VE. Inc business Oh >tlllng 10 gOOu temper
ance people would not be very profitable. Our
boys are ruined before they are of legal age to
purchase liquor, yet parents sit quietly down
while their sons nightly visit these haunts, be-
cause they dread to expose them by bringing
them before the law. 1t is mistake to allow
one class to live in open violation of law while
others must obey. Yes, we do make mistakes,
bat through them all Goo Is leading us to sure
and speedy victory. Union Signal
There is a falling oil in custom receipts this
year of Sl9,22- ,505.
Cholera is reported at st. Petersburg and
! other places in Russia.
It is reported at Shanghai that France and
China have made treaty of peace.
The Maori King will return to New Zealand
by way of New York and San Francisco.
The investigation of the charges preferred
against the Life Saving Service show them to
be false. The service is pronounced efficient.
A gap of about 360 miles yet remains to be
built ere the Mexican National road will be
complete from Laredo, Tex. to the City of
Mexico.
The Montreal lumber exports to South Amer
| lea amount this season to 100000 feet, about
1000 900 feet in excess of the exports to the
same date last year.
1t is understood that the officer in charge of
the fortiiications in Boston lIarbor recommends
an expenditure of 100000 to put them in u re-
spectacle condition