Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-22

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ton ofthe home and all the ranks 9
life dependent thereon, then the concer1
ofthe good is aroused and the deepes
interest follows the discussion of tn
measures OF relief and their enforce
ment.
To-day Great Britain, arid all it
~orld-wide enterprise its policies affect
Ing humanity wherever the sun shines
b struggling in its Parliament with tn,
question of Local Option, which is til,
form prohibition there assumes. Tn,
fact that Gladstone, Cardinal Manning
Canon Farrar, Spurgeon, and great name,
In Church and State are concentratin.
their voices on the side oflocal restraint:
on the drink traffic, while immense lio
nor associations all over the kingdom are
being formed to stem the rising tide o.
til perance agitation and action, shout
i-2 now, as Of old, cur craft is in danger
proves how profound is the noveme nj
against a business whose every outcome
is isery and crime. There is no part
of the civilized globe where this aoita-
ton has not penetrated, and where the
inevitable sorrow and despair attendant
upon the dram-shop, has not awakened
solicitude.
In Belgium the frightful incrc.l f
the evil results of the drinking habits of
t people is thus spoken of in CID sta
tistic7 by the correspondent of the Lon
con Times, under date of February 25th.
"The drink statistics of Belgium have
G certain amount Of interest. The popu-
latien of the kingdom, amounting now
to about $500, 900, consumes annually al
&C hello liquors to the value of 100000
0OOf., which is 66 per cent. more than 80
years ago. Compared with 40 years ago,
tho number of the insane has increased
by l04 per cent, of suicides by 80 per
cent, and of condemned criminals BY
135 per cent. In 1850 the number Of
places where alcoholic liquors were re-
tailed was So 900; it is now 10000. Al
though the Belgians are reputed to carry
their liquor well, it is generally felt that
measures to oppose the evil effects of
drink are urgently required"
One can well believe this last state
ment.
Beyond doubt there is one accord
arousing good people everywhere on the
imperative need of a strong hand to be
placed on business destructive to all
nen hold dear, or religion cherishes, or
god morals nculcate.
l. our own land Temperance agitation
IL ring higher and hi CHER. Its voice
net only sounds in the pulpit, on the
rostrum, in the lecture hall, but at the
Preside, anong the golden harvest field,
tho busy sh~ -, and even in the clc- cts
of mere politici- it has awakened ech-
oes prophetic Of its advancing sway.
Men have sought to ignore it's claims,
others have struggled to Ititie its cries,
and SOM have affected to believe it a
nidsurnmer-night's dream, the product
Of fanatical frenzy, that the corning day
would dissipate as shadows fly frc m the
light. Win atten pit! All these
shut their eyes to history, to
the operations OF the human mind, to
The memorable law of cause and effect.
They reason thus because they desire it
10 to be. But never in the world has a
custom once assailed by the enlightened
conscience of men as frau ht with
leadly peril to organized society, as
naleticent to the home, an enemy of
!ood order, an unceasing foe of human
been able to withstand the
ne forces of love, justice and self-protec-
ion always confederated against it.
At the last virtue must triumph, order
Use above the chaos of passion and
leath, and goodness, truth, benevolence,
,ut under their feet whatever mars and
Iefaces the image and Likeness of God
N earth.
The cry of fanaticism no longer shakes
aen's nerves or deters them from their
Cardinal Manning said, in
ubstance, at Glasgow few years ago, on
his temperance question-and l wish |
lis words on this great subject could |
each the entire religious order of which |
q is 30 distinguished an adherent-the |
ry of fanatic hurts no one, while the
orrors of drinking habits reveal a world .
f crime, poverty and suffering which ali .
There is just one way for the advocates
f the dram-shops to met their opponents
the men who are determined to de-
troy the business-and that is to reverse
ne universal verdict on their occupation
nd prove that evil is good, darkness is
ght, and wrong is right.
There 10 steady flow Of evidence es-
beyond even q suggestion, the
onstant, unvarying, ceaseless, baleful
ssults of drinking habits and customs.
very aspect of the dram-shop business
ruin to the State, to the family,
} the individual. Mr.. Gladstone uses
lese remarkable words: "The drink
affic produces greater misery than the
evils of war, pestllence and
mine"
The effect Of prohibitory laws is to put
as far away and out of sight
possible. Of the right of government
} do this, Of it's duty to protectits people
ven from their own desires in this mat
r, to stand between the terrible thirst
lat drives them onward, and it's gratifi-
ltion, no one can doubt In kindness
e put the weak minded or derange1
AN into pleasant yet safe confinement
ntil reason asserts its rule. In like
ndness we remove from the man
ore or less uncomfortable love of drink
le means of satiating his depraved ap- ;