The Press., 1885-08-06
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
Edited for The Press i'll behalf of the Stafford Springs
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Edited for The Press in behalf of the Stafford Springs
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 "Many years ago, and long before the moral sense of society was awakened to the enormous evils of intemperance, Sir Astley Cooper, an undisputed authority in his day, denounced habitual beer drinking as nox- ious to health Referring to his experi- ence in Guys hospital, he declared that the beer-drinkers from the London brew cries, though presenting the appearance of most rugged health, were the most incapa- ble of all classes to resist disease that trlf ing injuries among them were liable to lead to the most serious consequences, and that so prone were they to disease that they would sometimes die from gangrene ill wounds as trifi,ng as the scratch of a pin. .ass
 Beer-drinkers are constant drinkers {; their capacity becomes unlimited. The swilling of the drink becomes regular business it has no arrest or suspension, like whiskey- drinking, to admit of recuper- ation. The old definition of regular beer drinker was true Every morning beer barrel, every night barrel of beer.''
 A temperance reformer of prominence in Washington makes the yellow fever scourge basis for temperance argument. He finds that the total deaths from yellow fever in the United States for the past ten years is only 21 ,O0O. In the same time, according to careful and probably reason able computation, $50, 900 men have died from intemperance, or at the rate of 65, ,OO0 annually. This gentleman proposes to quarantine against whiskey as more de- structlvedestroyer than yellow-jack .-Dar- li,agtoss Southeaner.
 SroP Now.-Why not? If it is best to tcto of 4ha aA Why? Because you are on down grade, and the longer the delay the greater the momentum hence if you ever succeed in stopping, it will be increasingly difficult. 'But why should l stop?" Because you have a habit that is wroug, or at best in- expedient. It may seem to your unwilling scrutiny only an indulgence. Very well, it is an indulgence that roots back into the old life of selfishness and carnality. It is not safe to link your spiritualit in yoke fellowship so questionable. The spiritual mind never breathes the air of true gospel freedom while the shackles of old selfish ness are upon it.
 Therefore, stop now Smoke no more chew no more; drink no more; swear nc more; cheat no more be gluttonous no longer Kill lustfulness. Let the royal spirit of crowned manhood be sovereign over self Stopnow! If you cannot do it unaided, as very probably you Can not, then call on God for help. He loves to help the helpless, and give victory to the oft-times defeated, and deliverance to the captive to-day. Stop now !-,Sel.
 When we hear a man who wishes to be considered on the side of temperance ad- vocating license, we want to ask him how he accounts for the fact that every manu facturer of Intoxicating liquors, every rum seller and almost every drinker is on his side, while every earnest temperance work CT, nearly every temperance organization and almost all decided temperance men are on the other side. The character, aim and purpose of those who are with him and o those who are opposed to him should give him some idea of his real position and tho current into which he is drifting. Jacl Downing said, ''see how the democracy = votes and vote the other way'' It is gen orally pretty safe for temperance man tt see how the liquor interest votes and vot. the other way, for you may be pretty sur, that what they want is what you do no , want