Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-03-22
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March IIth.
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few years age Temperance was un-
popular; It existed With little or no pub
lie enthusiasm. Here and there bands
Of women net together 10 petition q
iaat and mercifuI God that He would
stay the fearful rum tide. Bat because
Judgment upon this judas tree Of cur
civilization has been delayed. dost thou
think there Is no jastieel Is ID what the
fool hath said in his heart. Toward an
sternal center of right, and Of that only,
has all confusion teen tending; and By
laws older thaa the world, old as the
Makers FIRST plan OF the world. is has
70 arrive there Justice is part OF Ma
ture's oSb laws, and % operates with the
worlds eternal tendencies"
Today there II no question, whether of
morals or economies. agitating the pub
lie mind of more importance than the
treatment Of intempsrance- The desti-
nv Of our nation, aye. OF nations, hangs
breathless upon IL. Today Temperance
u popular; II has rent the vail of the
temple, aud is creeping through every
avenue of thought. Social. religious,
political and educational interests are
uniting upon 10. Trades and professions
are becomiyg identified With il. From
the Atlantic TO the Pacific, from the
Lakes TO the Gulf, an aroused and long
suffering people are responding to the
cry Of progress and reform. Temper
ance, once q protege of the church. is
now the formidable rival of old political
parties, and the States are one by one
forming into line against the black fiag
of dissension and death
First and foremost in the ranks is
rock bound Maine, whose men are tall
est. What does temperance mean in
Maine! IL means no open saloons; il
means thousands of children who never
sav drunkard; 1t means fewer inmates
of poorhoases, Of insane and idiot Asy-
iums, Of jails and penitsntisries; fewer
hEnds stained with brothers blood;
fewer victims for the galIows; better
physical, moral and intellectual dsyel-
opment; greater industries, and thirteen
million dollars saved annually 10 aid in
the upboilding of that noble State.
" Oar breSeriea and distilleries are shut
up, our traffic gene, and" says Joshua
Nye, II defy any one 10 find q single
open bar IN the State" "As Maine
goes 30 goes the Union"
The temperance sentiment of Ohio
was demonstrated in the fall of 'S3 in
one of the most intense and exciting
scenes the home of Garfield ever wit
messed. Men of all political parties, led
on by the w. q. L. u, united in the
struggle for the prohibitory amendment
to the State constitution. which Was TO
place Ohio shoulder to shoulder with the
Pine Tree State. Was ID failorel No!
By $1,000 majority, though manipulated
by fraud until the Just thing lay tram
pied out of sight. but its death was no
victory ever II. No; not though bon
fires blazed from Horth to south, and
bells rang. and editors wrote leading ar
ticles. Ohio fer sufficient reasons will
for while postpone the blow. Then
will she doom thee, spirit of wine,
when no man IL to be found so lost TO
reason, so depIaved, 50 like thyself, that
be will not admit the sentence was de
served"
What is the Temperance sentiment Of
Kansasg Go ask the ex- saloonists of
that state, where Gsv. John p. st. John
endeared himself to all Law abiding,
liberty loving people by the bold stand
be took in the interest of humanity. In
Arkansas and Tennessee no saloon Is
allowed within three miles of school
house. Iowa stands proudly beside
Maine and Kansas. More than half the
coanties in Georgia are prohibition
counties. North and South, divided
upon the question Of slavery, are one
upon the question of temperance.
The Michigan Legislature has recently
taken measures to amend the constitu
ton so rs TO prohibit the liquor traffic.
Texas, the Lone Star State, is taking
hold of this question with the strength
of Hercules.
Temperance is the cry Of the people,
and the voice of the people is the voice
Of God.
Have YOU ever heard of that little
paradise in New Jersey, famous in song
and in story for its beautiful homes and
vines and trees and flowers, its industry
and thrift, its pace and quiet? Ii was
stipulated az the birth of ViReland that
alcohol Should never be sold there. IL
never has been. It's population is Il 900.
Ia - x22l covered the poor fund aud
$95 paid the police. The police force
consists Of one man. He is carpenter
who works at kis trade every day In the
week and attends church oA Sunday.
viueIAnd and Seattle are about the same
size: hox will they comparel
Your little city IL named in honor Of
q chief who ouce hunted in your forests
and gIided in his swift canoe upon your
waters. When you look with disgust
upon his people, who walk your streets
debased, demoralized, with scarcely =
foot OF ground TO call their own, hunted
like the Wild beasts of the forests, driven
on and on 10 the bitter end, remember.
flower OF civilization, nefavored.
fate caressed, that Is was an Indian with
whom prohibition originated. and Who.
when the State authorities refused 10
protect his people seainst the introduc-
ton OF intaxicants. applied 30 the an
thorities as Washington and received a
prohibitory Lac forbidaina the sale Of
strong drink TO the CheFekees. All hen
OF be 10 Little Turtle. the father Of pro
hihition- q
Ii is not alone in our own fair land
that she Temperance baaoon giows- Eu-
rope, Asia and Africa are alive. In Liv-
erpoolths Roman Catholics have opened
free concert rooms as counter astrae-
ton 70 the gin palace.
In Germany there Is al extensive teua-
perAncs movement IN favor Of further
restriction Of the trails In distilled
spiEits-
10 Norway tie Temperance sentiment
is growing rapidly.
The King Of SSeden announces him
self a friend 10 the Temperance move
nent nov a0itatinc bis kingdom.
SwitzeFland h manifessing great zeal.
France 10 anfarling the Temperance
banner, and Italy. led on the Catholic
priests, Is forsshadovtns the golden
age
Totai prohibiiion rules In the Congo
country inst opened up m Afrios, while
q Temperance paper in India proeiaisns
the strong sentiment there. Even In
japan xe dad the Emperor has appoint
ed q oommissiour 10 devise methods 20
suppress the liqaor traffic
Aieohsl 10 impeached. Nations have
impeaehed itl The God Of Nations has
doomed itt
Tempersnce is fast becoEing vital
issue not only in politics bus In education
as well.
Harvard College has recently foanaed
= total abstinence saeiety. In Minnesc-
a. Vermont, MiehiRRn and Neu York
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