The Press., 1885-05-14
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
Edited for The Press in behalf of the Stafford Springs
 w. 10. n. U.


 Congregationalist Many years ago, when Mir. and Mrs. s. o. Hall, the famous writers, visited Ireland, bright boy of- fered to be their guide. Returning home, MT. Hall took a.hask from his pocket and offered some whiskey to the lad. As he refused, MT. Hall, to test him, offered him twenty-five cents, then sixty, then dollar, and then five; but the boy, though his jacket was ragged, remained firm, and pulling temperance medal from his pock- ct said : "For all your money your honor is worth would not break my pledge" The medal had been given him by a father on his dying bed, who used to be drunk ard, but had become sober man through the total abstinence movement. MT. Hall threw the flask into the lake beside which they stood, and they both were ever after devoted teetotalers, working with, voice and pen. The firmness of boy brought two noble workers into the ranks.
 Germany is becoming alarmed, as we'll she may be, on account of the rapid pro- gress and terrible rayages of intemper- ance among the people. The government realizing that something must be done to arrest the overfiowing scourge, is seeking by some means to restrain the sale of liquor
 
 that such action is contemplated, but that it has been so long delayed. The ehid- eous plague" of drunkenness must be, ar- rested, or it will ruin the nation. Of the crimes committed in Prussia during the last five years, forty-one per cent. were committed under the influence of liquor, and it is estimated that half of the pauper- ism is attributed to the same cause,
 The Philadelphia Call confesses that it does not know just what ought to be done with the liquor traffic. But it entertaihs uO doubt of the criminality and villany of the business. It says 1: g "It is well known that saloons are the breeding places of crime. They are conducted in almost con- tinual defiance of law. Even when prop erly conducted the dissipation they engen- der leads to poverty and crime, the ex- pense of which falls on the city. It is wrong in every view"
 In Rome, Georgia, the people are de- termined to suppress the grog-shop. All the clergyman preached temperance ser mons on 8 recent Sunday, and & mass meeting of thee citizens on January 18th resolved to institute a vigorous campaign until every saloon is closed
 America pays whiskey dealers more than she pays the laboring classes. Drink costs three times as much as we pay for clothes, fourteen times as much as we pay for pub- lie schools, and eighteen times as much as we give the poor.
 Registered Distillery" so read the sign in Kentucky. Registered Yes, in that remembrance book in which is recorded the folly of men who expect to prosper in doing that which they know brings ruin to their fellow-men.
 "A striking contrast, showing the effect on municipal expenditure of the sale of in- toxicating liquors, is made by comparing the expenditure of two towns not far from equal in population--Vineland in New Jersey, where the sale, of liquors is actual ly as we'll as legally prohibited, and Yonk- CTS in New York, which has 145 licensed drinking places and seventy shops where liquor is sold contrary to law. Vineland has about 12, 900 inhabitants and Yonkers less than 15.0O0. Yonkers spends on its polio, $37, ,OO0, and the police duties of Vineland are performed by one constable at the annual expense of seventy-five dol lars. Yonkers has a police judge with & salary of $4, 900, and a clerk. who is paid $500; Vineland has -no police court and netd ds none. The panpers of Yonkers cost the town $12. GOO; Vineland has a core spending expense of $400. Altogether these articles cost Yonkers $53, GOO; in Vineland $475. Making proportionate all lowance for the difference in population, the government of Yonkers, as far as these expenses are concerned, costs more than ninety times as much as Vineland."