The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-22
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
Edited by the Wonan's Christian Temper
ance Union.
OFFICERS OF THE UNION.

OFFICERS OF THE UNION.
At the meeting of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union, on Wednesday
afternoon, The following officers were
elected to serve the ensuing year:
President-Mrs.L Lizzie Lambert.
LIST Vice President-Mrs. Perry.
I'd 4" Mrs. Mary Titus.
Sd g Mrs. Julia Powell
4th Sc 8" Mrs Eliza Preston
9TH " " Mrs. John Roberts.
Treasurer-Mrs. DR.. Hayhurst.
Secretary-Mrs. M. G. Hunt.
Committee on Literature-Mrs. Julia
! Powell, Mrs. Heston Smith, Mrs. Dilks.
Committee on Capital and Labor-Mrs.
Amelia Smith, Mrs. Harrison Sntphin.
Committee on Temperance Column
Mrs. NJ. G. Hunt Mrs. Perry.
Advisory Committee--M Robbins, Mr..
Datus Reed, Mr.. A. w. Preston, Mr..
Isaiah Smith, DIR. Hayhurst, Mr.. G. Lam
bert, Mr.. Amos Smith, Mr.. G. Arnett.
The regular devotional and business
meeting of the W. c. T. u, will be held
every Wednesday afternoon, at half-past
three, in their room over Mr.. Thatcher's
place of BUSINESS, Church street. Also
Gospel Temperance Meeting. every Sun
day afternoon, at quarter to four.
A Band of Hope was organized on Mon
day afternoon of last week. There were
ninety children present. The object is to
instruct the youth in the principles Of
Gospel temperance.
Mr.. Barney, the Gospel temperance
worker, will hold a series of meetings, in
the hall of the w. c. t. T., commencing
Saturday evening, April 25th, quarter of
eight o clock. All are invited.
Some good people, who on most other
topics, seem to be sane aud intelligent,
tells us that the way to suppress intern
perance, is to license the liquor traffic.
Why, we have been doing that for two
hundred years, and the evil only grows
upon us. But they say, put higher
price on license, and now we hear sane
and intelligent men appealing for "High
License" as the all availing antidote for
drunkenness.
First let us look at the principle in
yolved. Ifthe Liquor traffic is an evil, and
never have heard anything to the con-
trary, can licensing it make it good? A
license issued by the government may
make it legal to poison man with al
cohol, but does that make it right to
poison him Some say that by raising
the price of license, say two or three
times the present figures, we would great
ly diminish the number of saloons, that
this would be great gain to the cause
of temperance; that as we cannot imme-
diately close up all the saloons, it would
be good thing to close up half of them,
ON the principle that "half loaf is better
than no bread But we reply that that
depends upon what the bread is made of.
The poisoned half may do as much mis-
chief as the whole. A distinguished
clergyman of Brooklyn, speaking on this
subject said, suppose tremendous tor
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half the railroad bridge. The other hall
of the bridge stands. It is about mid.
night, aud the express train is coming
| freighted with men, women and children
/ The Waterman stands there with his
lantern. He sees the bridge sound at
his end, aud lie waves the lantern "All is
WE'LL" and at forty miles an hour the
train sweeps on, and having passed the
first half of the bridge, crash, crash, and
two hundred souls are hurled into eterni
ty Is half bridge better than nc
bridge? Better have no bridge at ALL
| believe that the license system il
wrong, both in theory and practice; thai
the price of the license don't alter the
character of the thing licensed. High.
! priced whisky and high-priced saloon,
will lead a man down the pathway oil
destruction, just as rapidly as will the
! lowest saloon of the city.
go further, believe the gilded saloon
with all it's fine attractions, mirrored
walls, crystal cnandeiiefS ana iuxurfoue
drapery, is far more dangerous than the
saloons of a lower type. II is where the
enticements are the greatest, that the
young men are drawn in. They don't &c
irst to the places of lowest resort. Vice
is never so dangerous, as when it is gilded
The great question now is, what can we
do towards wiping out this great sin,
towards lifting the cloud of shame and
SORROW, which hovers over the land and IL
crushing out all light and life and glad.
ness, in so many homes.
The church, and the schools, and the
press, and various other instrumentalities,
are doing much, and still we find our.
selves confronted by an evil, whose mag.
nitude seems never to diminish.
If every Christian home in this city
were illumined by the light Of consist
ent example, the church would be q unit
and force, which would make sho RI
work with tho rum power.
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