The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-03
Temperance Items.

HARRY COURTAINE, not long ago Il
popular American actor, is ragged
beggar in London. Rum ruined him.
Upon what does the success of the
liquor traffic depend? Upon debased'
manhood, wronged womanhood, de-
frauded childhood. 1t holds mortgage
over every cradle; deed written in
hearts blood over every home; a
human hell over every human life.
Shall mothers know this, and keep ST.
lent? Shall fathers understand and
be National W. c. I. u.
Bulletin.
IT is said that the passengers of the
steamer Amsterdam, wrecked off Sable
Island some time since, had to face the
combined perils of whisky and water.
Certain of tie crew and passengers, and
even of the people on shore, obtained
access to the liquor in the ship-stores,
and confusion, misconduct, inhumani-
ty, were the result, occasioning much
suffering among the survivors who
were landed on the island.
The following card was printed in a
recent number of the Nacogdoeches
(Tex.) Star:
Look here, boys; for nine years have
been making perfect beast OF myself; but
right here stop. There is no use trying to
drink all the whisky that Bnd Houston sam
Sapp and others can bring here; we can { do
it. Let's quit right here now, and see If we
can't have more friends, more money ana
more comfort at home. My friends in future
will do me a favor by not asking me TO drink.
as l can not honestly take one drink without
making beast of myself Yours truly
IN. |. MAYATT"
IT is gratifying to see how well the
Temperance agitation is being kept up
in England. 1t is stated that there were
6,126 petitions with more than half a
million signatures sent up TO Parlia-
mer. Ibis year in favor of the Sunday
Closing Bill, and there was not single
petition against the bill. 1t will be re-
membered that Scotland secured Sun
day closing law many years ago, so
that, if the English bill is passed, Sun
day drinking will be largely put a stop
to, throughout Great Britain.
WE have two systems of education in
this country. One hundred and sixty
four thousand public schools educating
for God, and one hundred and seventy
five thousands schools educating for the
devil. For education of our children,
through the public schools to an honest,
sober, Christian manhood and woman
hood, we pay annually about $50, 0OO,-
600. For education through the saloon,
the hot-bed of misery. crime and shame,
we contribute about 81 400, 100000 per
annum. In other words, for every dol
lar that we expend to build up through
our public schools, we invest SIT to
tear down through the saloons.-GOU.
81. John.
Ii life in Russia seems to many a
Russian hardly worth living, says a
London paper, it is not because the
curse of drink presses so heavily upon
the people, as a whole, as is frequently
supposed. Indeed, in the middle and
upper classes, the use of liquor is less
general than in Western nations. The
drunkenness is principally among the
ignorant and degraded city and country
laborers; and among them it is so uni
versal that it brings the sum total of
drink consumed very high, despite the
examples of abstinence already referred
to. Something like ten quarts of brandy
is the rate of consumption of that liquor
for every man, woman and child in the
empire. The proportion, in the. larger
cities, OF drinking saloons to the popu-
lation is about the same as in New York
or Philadelphia-~ope salop1 70 every
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