The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-06
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

A TEMPERANCE guild was organized
IN a barber-shop among young men
waiting to be shaved, in Troy, N. Y,
by Rev. Father Dolan. He induced
twenty-five to sign the pledge, and the
organization was formed Immediately.
MAINE has passed law preventing
persons from soliciting trade for liquors.
in the State. Drunkards will be i'm
prisoned from five to thirty days for
first ot1ense, and from ten to ninety for
second onense. The Legislature has
passed 4 law prohibiting newspapers
from advertising liquors.
HE BAR-ROOM AS BANK.-You
deposit your money and lose it. Your
time-and lose it. Your character
and lose it Your manly independence.
and lose it, Your self-control-and
lose it. Your home comfort-and lose
it. Your children's happiness-and
lose it. Your soul-and lose it.
A LONDON Temperance manifesto to.
workmen contains the following: In
manufacturing one hundred dollars
worth of liquor two dollars goes to
labor. In manufacturing one hundred
dollars worth of boots and shoes,
twenty-five dollars goes to labor. The
money turned over by one distillery en-
ploying one hundred and fifty men
would, if employed in more useful
ways give work to fifteen thousand men.
lNrOXICATIoN seems to be specially
expensive luxury in Madagascar. An
English newspaper states that the
Madagascar Government imposes on
any person found drunk in the district
OF lmerina a fine of seven oxen and
seven dollars; and the introduction of
any quantity of rum into the district is
punishable with fine of five oxen and
five dollars sums, of course, made.
much larger relatively through the
poverty of the people.
IT is an apparent mistake to suppose
that the liquor business ever pays for
itself, so far as society at large is con-
cerned Boston, for instance, receives
annually half a million dollars in IL
cense fees from liquor-dealers; but it
pays out for police, criminal court,
almshouse and hospital expenditures,
81, 324, 500 (Which last sum is, of course,
in large, very large part, expended for
the restraint of criminals and support of
paupers, rendered such by the liquor
habit In every city where licenses are
issued, the proportion is similar. S. S.
Times.
In connection with the International
Exhibition to be held in Antwerp, Bel
GUM, this year. arrangements are being
made for the holding of an Internation-
al Temperance Convention there. The
National Temperance Adr0cdtc of New
York expresses the hope that as many
American travellers abroad as can will
attend this Temperance gathering,
which will assemble some time in Sep
tember-the exact date being not vet
fixed. The Adr0cGlc adds: Temper
ance counsel and testimony from Amer.
leans is most welcome and helpful to
the struggling friends of Temperance on
the Continent
l HATE the rum traffic. 1t burned
my father to death after squandering
his property as u rumSeller. Trouble
then came through sickness and power
ty, and we children were thrust into
the poor-house, and father and mother
into the asylum. Who ever knew the
Rum Devil to stop until it had finished
a man and landed him in hell, unless
he came in contact with some of Gods
agents and was saved? My father was
burned with his last bottle, the candle
falling against his clothing while full
of this accused poison; and he was
burned until the flesh dropped from the
bones while he was yet alive; and
mother was full of the same rum at the
time. All, what scene there WAS in
the morning. The only hope
l now have of my mother is TO send
her to brother in Kansas, where rum
is not SO free. The Voice.