The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-04-26
Ap1tatel Agitatel Agltate!

One word to brother Zwanzig in refer
ence To the Christian Sabbath and then to
business" for like Nehemiah at the
building of the walls of Jerusalem, we
cannot "come down to dispute with infi-
dels in regard to "Our Sabbath day Suf-
flee it to say we have IA day set apart by
custom and law, human and divine, in
which to rest, worship God and do good.
If it does good to drink beer in IA beer gar,
den and dance and revel on Sunday, then
we have lost the argument and the Ger
mans are ahead 80, Brother Pussy,
believe TO have shown you that no law can
prevent you from settling your bills with
90 cents on the dollar on Sunday, &c
Brother Zwanzig we pay 100 cents on the
dollar on all our bills But it your Gus
toners will settle with you for that even
on Sunday they may do well, AS editors,
merchants and bankers after "bust up"
usually settle" ut % cents to 10 cents on
he dollar and people think themselves
happy 10 ret that, sometimes. But Ger
mans and Dutch will Zwanzig please state
the exact dtterence) that are. settling in
America, must know that they must con,
form to our customs in regard to the
Sabbath day and in some other respects.
We must be n sober, law-abiding people,
The EVILS OF INTEMPERANCE in our fair
and highly favored land were early discov-
cred In 1913 "The Massachusetts Society
for the suppression of intemperance" was
formed, February 9Th. On January 10TH
1896 Rev. DIR. Justin Edwards met few
gentlemen in the vestry of the Park street
church, Boston, to consider the question,
"What can he done TO boniM Intemperdace
from tie United StHes" CA big question
indeed, but little btgger one now They
met again on the 18th and completed the
organization of the American Society for
the Suppression of Intemperance." DIR.
Edwards took the ground that alcohol was
II poison and literature il was tmD.orM, to-
use IL as beverage" Wonderful for that
day. He claimed further that the furnish
Ing il to he so used was IAN immoral act, v
(The wonderful saint And further-mi
rblie dictu-that the lac that protected the
sale of it aS beverage, was an "iHmOr0l
law"
This Society did etfectual work until
1896, when the American Temperance
Union took its place. But people would
get drunk on lizard cider So the tenn
perance people discoursed that ".iicohoi
is not product of distillation but of fer,
mentdtioa." And that fomented and dis
titled liquors do not differ in kind, rs in
toxicants, but only in their per centage of
the intoNicant alcohol. Then they en-
larged their borders 81 rs To exclude "all
intoxicating beverages" Christ used IN
ttrmeHted wine, which has no alcohol in il
Hence people of to-day nearly all unite
with the General Conference of the NJ. f..
church in the declaration that both sci
ence and human experience unite with the
Holy Scriptures in condemning all alec
holic beverages rs being neither useful nor
safe"
The first National Temperance Conyen.
ton was held in Philadelphia in May 1888.
1t was composed of 400 delegates from 81
states. II declared i'm trumpet tones that
the MANUFACTURE, safe, and use OF intoNicat-
Ing drink, is an IMMORTALITY" This WAS
the first of . conventions of like character
held there in 1899 and 1882 You see the
cause progresses by slow but sure process.
The mills of the gods grind slow, but
they grind almighty tine" That's what's
the matter" Messrs. editors and careful
readers Of the FRRE TRADER,
MORE STATISTICS
Second National Convention was held at
Springs in Angus, 1885, II COW
cred the whole ground total abstinence)
and put the american Temperance