The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15
Temperance Items

RED used on railroad signifies dam
ger, and means STOP" So it does on
mans nose.
ABOUT three hundred employees at
the New York Post-office are members
of the Temperance societies of that
city.
FOREST GROVE, one of the oldest
towns in Oregon, has never had a sa-
loon, and there are none within three
miles.
IT is a mean man who will contribute
to the purchase of sealskin sacque for
the saloon-keeper's wife, and allow his
wife to wear thin calico and a faded
shawl.
A PRISONER in the Maine State
Prison, who was offered drink on the
night of fire in the prison, preached q
good Temperance lecture when he said:
mo, sir, that is what brought me
here. and l have had enough. "
Rev. PHILLIPS Brooks saws that if
to-day we could sweep intemperance
out of the country we would wipe out
almost all of the poverty in the land.
There would hardly be enough left to
give healthy exercise to the charitable
impulses.
THE ADVERTISEMENT of the Woman's
Temperance Home in New York City
says: "This institution is founded for
ladies of responsibility who have be-
come addicted to the use of alcoholic
liquors or narcotics" This will give
some idea of the alarming growth of
drunkenness among the women of the
United States.
THE religious press of the country is
practically unit in its attitude toward
drunkenness and drunkard making.
Back of these religious newspapers are
millions of voting men and praying
women. Back of them is the God Of
justice and mercy This means that
the great curse will be abolished.
Nashville Christian AdU0cdtc.
If DRINKING is respectable why do
men always deny or apologize for drink
ing? and why do young men so try to
conceal it from their friends, and es-
pecially their sweethearts? If it is
respectable, why do saloon-keepers set
up screens to hide their customers from
those passing their door? III it is re-
spectacle, why not have the drinking
stands on the corner, like fruit stands?
No one is ashamed to stop at a fruit
stand and buy an orange, an apple or
banana, but when a man who is not too
far gone in loss of self-respect is pass
ing the saloon and wants to stop in, he
will first halt and look around to see if
any one is watching, and then dart in
as if shot from gun. Then see him
as he sneaks off, splitting cotton as he
goes. Does he not look as if he had
been in the wrong pen and was
ashamed of it?-SGn Francisco Rescue.
A SYSTEMATIC educational campaign,
whose main features is the distribution
of Temperance literature, has been in
augurated by the Boston w. G. T. u.
Its plan is worthy of consideration in
other large cities. Determining to
reach every voter in the city with good
Temperance literature during the COM
ing year, the plan is to have commit
tee of five-gentlemen and ladies-as-
signed to every precinct in the city, the
chairman of which shall be a member
of the w. G. T. u. This committee is
provided with list of the voters of its
precinct, and these names are divided
among the committee; SO that each
member is responsible for reaching,
either by mail or personally, about one
hundred individuals. The committees
are then furnished with full supply Of
wide range of Temperance literature.
No better plan has, to our knowledge
been adopted Union Signal.