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Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-04-26

IN reminds me iha, belong to a nigh,
army that Is wsgng continuous war again,
Intoxicating thinks, and the drink uaai,
,. ny wcsfing It be1, testimony 10 The cd
,tniagc' ofto,al abstinence and therefor
confess myself an abslaincr
ST gives me frequent opportunity Of eN
planning aud advocating total abstinenc,
principles.
1T Is an emblem Of peace. purity
and goodwill.
SIt gives courage. confidence, strength and
hope.
OFT helps To strengthen and cneour 70
my weaker brother IN his effort towith,t,nd
temptation to drink
1T shows the poor dunknrd that am hi,
friend and helper.
SIT is blessing 10 mankind, as bv il,
adoption homes arc made happy. BRIGHT and
prosperous.
p Inc movement It represents IS Of God,
and contributes to his glory.
10. 1t speaks words of warning TO those
who are in da' !cr Of CLING, through strong
drink.
III believe Intoxicating drinks are no, only
unnecessary either in health on sickness.
but injurious
is'--The habit Of drinking is the chief ,use
OF all the poverty, wretehcdness, and crime
in our land.
ij'-The traffic in strong drinks ellis our work
houses i1natic asylums and prisns
H. Thousands of my fellow country.mcn fall
into a dnnkard's grave, who nigh, have
been good and use Il members Of society
IS by wearing it am setting an example to
others.
% Because the Church of Christ is robbed of
thousands who, bu, for the drink. might be
her brightest lights and most useinl mem.
hers.
TIT promotes universal bro,herhood and /,
feeling Of kindly help.
d Being Christirn I do it for Jesus sake
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-04-26

To Judge f.om the report OF the Beigian
Association against the abuse OF alcoholic
drinks, Belgium must he terribly drunken
country. Aecosdir. to the statistics which the
society has obtaines each inhnbilani Of KirG
Leopo,ds doninons drinks thirteen l,ers OF
brandy and so7 pin,s Of beer every year.
Hitherto the German has been considered
the typical beerdrinker, but he Is a mere
babe, with so7 pin,s Of beer per annum, com
pared 70 the Belgian, with his soi. In Bel
giuni, there Is one public-house TO every Iony-
ous inhabinis aud the money glnually eNpen.
ded ,n these ddnking- shops am9ant 10 ass %
francs, During the las, forty years there
has becn an enormou, increase IN crime
throughout the county -s ncT 'asc altogether
On, Of pSoponian 10 The augmentation Of 'hs
population. Forty Years ago crimes of violence
ave eyed abou, HOO year no~ they hav,
reached y6.ooor Ia 1870 They acre aoi suei
hes, and 10 ISSo'hey wefcsJj; The English
have hcen hard. hfinl,ing people in their
time, and even now they probably drink nor'
h,an Is good Cor them but il may be donb,el
whether England al her hpiesi eoald have
beaten the Belgian record. Il j. a little odd
IN The face Of these startling dmrcs, thai on
sees 50 lew drunken people m me street, 9
Baigian towns, l.ni iocsigasn when they ar
dunk are lor the most PAT wise enough 4
say indoors. ~. /aasn Ca.stf.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-04-26

IL Johustown, New York, a manufacturing
town Of /, 900 inhabitants, the excise board
have refused TO giant license since May, 1854,
and the Law and Order Society relAari a. a.
low, From May !, 1881, 10 January I, 1883
lsighl monihsl, 80 $40 gallons less II I.eer were
sold than during the same pes'ol Of the year
before. under license. The sales 81 dislillei
liquos Ia the same period were Under license,
,o.sco gaiions no license. i,,oo galpns'
During the same time the Arrears ca dsunken'
mes, ~sie Under license, " per cent. no
license, "a PEI cent. The town criminal es'
pspses wsss under license. ys.s75 no n
csnse. $io7. Number II places where lilao'
sa' opsnl, solil undes license, "a no license
none.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-04-26

The sum actually spent for intoNis atng
drinks in the United States is SoSo,ooo. 900
per annum. The sum paid last year ior life
insurance premiums was less then one twelfth
Of this amount. As return ior the $3.50, 900,
900 spen, for liquor, nothing can be counted,
(waiyirg the ,ride consumed lor proper use
except misery, remorsc, unhapplncss, dcsra
dalton and deaih-pal on the wrong side OF The
halrnce sheet. The life insurance companies &c
turn last year to lheis prcmum-payers andheneh
Charles over $50. ooo,ooo More than all o,he
causes combined, liquor is responsible for Jail
poor hoases' inebsiaie asylums and insane ret
reass. Life insurance i building up society II
ali tia, j. good while the liquor traffic !
driving il remorclessly To the bad. Tn
money absorbed by drink woull give twenty
five millions u people over s., 1000 II industrial
insurance apiece. Which Is the better way q
spending The money p Cskits RHe
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-04-26

The liquor dealers OF New York City have
organized for the purpose Of influencing legs
laiion and deiesting the efforts TO compel ,hcig
obedience to existing laws. Al meeting
held recently il MAS stated that there are Hos
liquor-dealers, besides $1,000 persons employ
in the brewing business, in that city, and the
threat was made that these would all be con
solidaied for the purpose Of eleciing mayor
and district attorney Of their way of thinking,
and Showing the excise and other commission
cts that We amount 10 jas, as much a. lheydo.
Said one pf the speaker, "rhcre isn't mons,
enough In New York 10 defeat any big brewer
L We should nominate him for mayor" Thu
Is one Of The mosl impudcnl threats against Law
and order that has ever been made IN the me
lyopolis aud i, should sens 10 rouse public
opinion 20 the necessity Of efficiently backing
the authorities in their struggle with this mon
strous traffic. The men who have organize,
this revolt are by thei, own confession Law
breakers. "rhsre Is probably no hour al thu
days" said one Of them Al the meeting 'eseue'
10, shat w d)at violate the LAW Oscupyin,
ihi. l,od,ioa. they arc sau,Ie'l only 70 tbs con
sisisralion which il given TO criminals.
they desire 10 obtain licenses and 10 hol'
them when obtained. let them obey the Law
II they violate il, they must he punisaed an
a. dissepulahle citizens. at wal with the be'
Interests d the community.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-04-26

There are I4,o-o convict in prison in Eng
land The term" con,c ." implies those serv-
ing sentences OF FIVE yr'rs and upwards, while
those imprisoned for less periods are termed
prisoners. In a recent lecture by Charles
Cooke, before the Young Mems Christian
Assoc qtion in ,ndon, the lecturer narrated
what he had seen in the diftefent prisons
throughout Europe. They were all defective
in this one material pont-that no provision
IS made to separate the hardened criminal
iisom those serving their first sentence, and III
England especially no distinction is shown IT
the classification OF murderers, burglars, hom
Giles and lorgers. In France he had seen on'
poor wretch who had been ten yeras in solitar,
confinement. In England not more than nine
months is given. lie had sought TO fins
ouf the causes which had brought so man!
people into penal seryi'ude, and he had conn
10 the conclu .on tina, the one great aud prin
| cple cause was drunkenness.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-04-26
1rresfs for Drunkenness.

| Inc hgures reported under this head give no
correct result as to the comparative amount of
drunkenness, for many are arrested in Ma,pe
| who elsewhere would not be, or would he
"helped home" by the police. Reports Of
arrests in sixty license cities of other states
average twen'y-seven to every thousand In
the fourteen cities of Maine there were I'm,
seventeen to thousand. In Portland they
were IN the aggregate 1851, or 30 to 10 , of
It's own population. But Portland is the cen.
ire OF population in Cumberland and The
ADJACENT counties aggregating not less than
10000, OF whom those addicted to drinkino
are ACCUSTOMED to go to that city foi the in
au'genee, as appears from the police records. 81,
'ha' the real proportion in Portland is pro.
papY MOI moi, over ten to thousand Deonle In
,er tl,os,3r,,s,, -cossrnor Dinsley concludes
This interesting statistical exhibit OF this state
by citing tue i,''Surs~ -. .i-:--.-:. ,
a letter written less than year ago. Intern
pcrance has steadily decreased in this state
since the first enactment Of the prohibitory
law, until now il can be said with truth that
there is no equal number of people in the
Anglo-Snxon world among whom so small an
amount of intoxicating liquor is consumed, as
among the 100000 inhabitants Of Maine. -
BdneJr Statesman
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-04-26

Ex-Governor Long of Massachnsett spoke
III congress, recently on the whisley bill,
and ms speech according to an Eastern
paper) was by all odds the best that has been
delivered on the subject. 1t was his maiden
effort, and 10y it he has won for himself byb
rank among the orators on the Republican
SIDE oil the house. From carerilly prepared
statistics he showed that in the past, wherever
extensions OF the bonded period have been
sfanted, The manufacture of spirits had in
creased beyond consumption by thousands Of
gallons annually, while, when the extension
mad been refused, the production had dc.
creased. an" he said % h, III, - s.--,e
rnptcy would follow, Tint would he a strong
when the same 'ayff a sR Se bill but in 1889,
tension was refused and the predicted evils did
not occur" He thought the parties in interest
should lool, TO private enterprise for the money
they require. II the loan, on which dis,il ers
offer in the bill to pay four per cent interest,
is good one, plenty of capitalists would be
cnxious to take it. If it is a bad one, then the
government should protect itself as soon as pos
IDLE by calling for the $56,ooo,ooo of taxes
almost due. Abiding to the statement made
by the friends of the bill that whisky had paid
into the treasury and maintained the armies of
the Unit d States in time of war, the speaker
said such talk was sham. Whisky had never
paid dollar into the treasury, but the peop c
had paid it, and had paid it in blood, in crime,
in broken hearts and in indescribable suiierings.
1t SIoo, 1000, 900 had gone ito the treasury on
this occount, it had gone in over ne whisky
bridge, the product of an article W, ich he
could only term "the dynamite of civilization
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-04-26

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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-12
POLITICAL moRsELs.


Thirty-six members Of the Idaho Lsgis-
lature are Mormons.
President Arthur's boom in Arkansas is
in the hands Of Powell Clayton.
"The people Of the North" says General
Grant, Fare tired Of the bloody shirt"
Washington looks some like old times.
Grant, Babcock, Mcdonald and the Sylph
are all there.
Thomss K. Beecher, of Elmira, declared
in q recent sermon that he was not sure 1t
was wrong to hire ignorant and frivolous
men to vote right
Samuel j. Tilden last week bought and
presented TO q niece feur-story brown
stone 1000 home, AZ West Twenty-eight
street, New York.
Charley Foster admits that Elmunds is
q great and good man, but he says the
people Of Ohio do not know him. and 1t
would be useless, therefore, to run him for
the Presidency.
The New York World is feeling very
badly over the inactivity of Congress. "FOr
four weary months" Ii says, "the ceaseless
Niagara of slops has aosted scarcely chip
of real business"
II is lovely thing to see the efectionate
closeness with which Kentuckians hang TO-
gether. Governor Murray will prooao =
walk away from his accussers unhsrmeu
now that Speaker Carlisle and Judge Har-
Ian Lave testified to his good character.
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CHEAP READING NATTER.

Il is estimated that ia Philadelphia
alone $4,000 copies of the story papers
are sold every week. This includes the
Illustrated police papers and the boy
weeklies. These papers are very cheap
~ gotten up. The illustrations are
rough and do not cost much, and the
bohemians who furnish the sensational
stories and sketches do not get much
for their work. The average price paid
for story for the weeklies or for the
half dime pamphlets is fifty dollars.
The present demand for sensational
literature has been greatly stimulated
by the cheapness of the stuff. Some
thirty years or so ago poor people could
not afford to buy novels, as they were
in book form, ranging all the way from
81. 50 TO b 80 a volume. To fill q long
felt want the New York Ledger
began to supply serial novels
the rate of twenty q year tOT
three dollars, paid in weekly INSTALL
ments Ofsix cents. This took like wild
t1re and the Ledger soon jumped up to
q circulation of 100000 copies. O:her
story papers sprang up, and all seem to
be doing well. The Seaside, Lakeside,
Brookside, Franklin Square, and dime
and half dime libraries have been very
successful. The cheap reprint Of the
best English novels has taken the bet
ter class of readers away from the story
papers, and those who are left art
mainly Of the class delightiug In the
Observation-Disclosures pirate eowboy-In.
dian-scalper miraculous. eseape-and-to
Discontinued stories; illustrated in the
widest style of the art, and dealing with
life as seen through the beer muddled
vision Of a midnight scribbler. Most o!
this cheap fiction appeals to a certain
class because il is vicious and deals in
purient suggestions. The extent OF
the evil influences of this diabolical
reading matter cannot be over esti-
mated. And ii seems to be an evi
without remedy.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-12
TBE FIRST QUARTER OF THE YEAR
IN BUSINESS CIRCLES.

Brsdstreets' supplement shows tina,
in the quarter of the year that was
closed with the month OF March there
were ), $50 failures, or more than in any
quarter since 1878. This great number
points to 10, 400 business deaths in the
current year. But the record OF fail
ures has bright side a. we'll as dark
side. The failing traders OF the past
quarter had an average liability Of Sll,
76l, rs against an average Of SlS,3i3 In
the first quarter Of 1888. Only fifteen
failures occurred in the quarter with
liabilities exceeding S250,0OO. There
are in other words very few heavy fail
ures, and the list of all failures Is stead
lily declining. No solvent irms are
pushed to the wall, and there are there
fore no signs of commercial panic.
The failures that do take place are
In good part the natural result Of =
lesse ned volume of trade, growing out
ofan economy that has been forced
upop The mass Of the people. A steady
punishment Of expenses has been going
ON in the last two years, with every
res, ect ola like policy throughout the
present. year.
There is really nothing in Brad
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-12
ARrRuR,s WITHDRAWAL.

A scheme is on foot among promt-
nent New York politicians Of the Half
breed variety to induce the President
to withdraw his name from the national
canvass. II comes, Of course, from the
wrong side of the house to prove sue
cessful. Ifanything could induce AR
THUR TO withhold his name nom the
National Convention ii will not be such
arguments as his political enemies are
likely to bring to his consideration.
The persons most prominent In this
forlorn political hope are said to be
Senator MILLER, WHITELAw REID
and Collector ROBERTSON. Their in
fluence with the President on matters
regarding his candidacy Is likely to be
about as great as Mr.. TILDEN, JOHN
KELLY or Mr.. WATTERsON would ex-
ercise. The occasion Of this nots-
BILE undertaking to procure the
Presidents withdrawal originated
in the published interview
with Ex-Governor FOSTER, which gave
rise to general doubts as to the svsila-
bility Of the President on account OF his
unpopularity in Ohio; and within the
last month it Is said that everything
which Half-breed ingenuity could sug-
gest hiss been done to create doubts OF
his availability in his own State. To
this end the impression is sought to be
created that all the Hslf-breed Repub-
licans will refuse to vote for ARTHUR II
he should be nominated. The anhpa-
thies engendered between the Republic
can factions three years ago have been
insidiously and industriously rekindled.
The Half-breed papers, which at that
time did not hesitate to characterize
ARTHUR and CONKLING as accomplices
of GUITEAU, if more guarded in their
language now, are none the less pro-
rounced in their declared opposition to
the President. The New York Express,
however, still clings to the old faith,
al d in a recent issue did not hesitate to
sy:
The Stalwart newspapers Of the
country, whose bosses had not got the
offices they wanted under Garfield,
Joined the stsr-rOuters in denouncing
the President as the destroyer of the
Republican party. 1t was this denun-
eiation-this cry, in which the whole
pack of thieving and Office-hunting
hounds iOined-that turned Guiteau's
head aud made him an assassin. Ii
was this state of things that led him to
say: al am q Stalwart of the Stall
warts" and to add, III have killed Gar
field; Arthur is President, and the Re-
publican party is safe"
It must be confessed that the animus
discerned in these expressions does not
indicate q peaceable solution Of the
Republican difficulty, The attitude
thus assumed is evidently meant to
frighten the President or to Assure him
of implacable hostility. 1t is either a
political job in the interest Of some
other candidate, or war to the knife
and the knife to the hilt.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-12

streets table tha. Is alarming, land there
Is nothing in the general situation that
Is very distressing. Some gold Is going
TO Europe, but the amounts not large.
Liverpool Is not yet willing to take our
surplus wheat and corn even at the re-
duced prices. On the other hand, all
tie crops are promising, especially
winter wheat In the Northwest. A
great crop Of wheat will undoubtedly
be made, and perhaps large corn crop.
II Europe does not want our corn 1t
viii be turned into meats, for which
there Is an unlimited demand. The
world Is rarely overstoeked with meats,
and II we have great crops this year we
win be able TO supply all Europe with
al 1t may need.
The outlook Is good for healthy al
though quiet condition Of business.
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In Kentucky the young idea is taught

IN Kentucky the young idea is taught
to shoot rather too early. The twelve
year-old son of the Encouragement
has just settled q personal difficulty
With another young blade of bluegrass
by emptyiDg two loads Of bird shot
from 3 gun into his opponents head.
When he grows up he will probably be
more ambitious and refuse to go gun
ming for any smaller game than judges
of the Supreme Court.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-12

THE internal revenue taxes of this
country are collected by 5,2s4 Office
holders, at an annual cost OF S5,11S, 7S5.
The first duty Of each Of these office
holders is to run with the Republican
machine and vote the Republican
ticket, and the people are compelled to
pay him nearly q thousand dollars 8
year for the service. ,fhis is 9 great
country, and 1t costs 8 great deal Of
money to get it saved by the Rspubli-
can party once in four years.
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DIED.

YOCKLER--On Thursday morning, April
10, 1854. at 3 o'clock, ELIZABETH, wife OF W m
j. Vockler, aged 80 years, y months ana 10
days.
Funeral from the ;esidence OF John z.
Truschel, No. ll6 Fourteenth street, Saturday
afternoon, at O'Clock. Friends Of the fam
lily are invited. lnterment at NJ. Calvary
cemetery.
LYLE.-Friday, April II, 1881, at 3 O'CLOCK
n m AT his residence Rev. J. q. LYLE.
Fuaeral from the second Presbyterian
Church, Monday morning, 1t .: o O'Clock. In.
,erment at ST. Clairsville. Friends are in
yittd.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-12

HE Courier-JOurnal admits that
Democratic harmony is the thing, but
wants to know how it can be secured.
By following the advice Of such men as
Mr.. TILDEN. Mr.. TILDEN declares it
is bad policy to make the tariff an IS
sue in the campaign this year when
Democratic hands are tied by Repub-
lican Senate and President.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-12
ITO ALL WHOM 1T NAY CONCERN:

" ALL "oO-" Al 'nNAN NO-
The M atter Of holding q Democratic Con-
grsssional Convention for the purpose OF Sc
Iecting delegates TO attend the Chicago Con-
yeRtIon on July 5, lsS4, having been submit
ed to the Congressional Executive Commit
ee, and large majority OF said committee
having decided that they deem IL most ex'
pedient and for the best interest of the party
TO hold . convention at Charleston In con-
nection with the state convention on the 18th
day OF April, lSSI, the Democrats Of the eoun-
ties composing the First Congressional Dis
riot are requested tOSend delegates TO Il hairless
ION at the meeting OF the sta Convention
April I6 1854, for the purpose OF selecting two
elegatss to represent this Congressional
District in the Democratic convention, to be
held IN Chicago July 8, 1851
WILLIAM E. LIVELY,
Chairman Dem. Con. Ex. Com,
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The Duty ola Delegate.
Barbour JefcrS0nidil

A delegates duty is trust 1t can only
be used properly, when used to express the
will of the voter as manifested by popular
sentiment. A delegate who allows himself
to be elected to defeat or elect man Is q
political cerruptionist.
What is the sentiment OF the people?
That is what delegate should ask himself.
That should determine his conduct The
popular will will be expressed in one form
or another. 1t is wiser to have 1t expressed
in convention than at the polls. All good
men will perceive this, appreciate II and
act upon it.
Let the people be heard.