The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-05-20
The TEMPERANCE TOPIC.
BUT NOT ExcLuslvELYDRlNKlNe
Errors of Mankind In Excuses OF All
Grades - Moderation the Saving
GraCe--How Reform Can and
Should be Worked Ont,

DALLAS, May l9,-[Editor HERALD, J.
When AlexaD der the Great was kept 10
constant warfare against the various
tribes In the surrounding country, it
was seldom glass of wine found its
way to his mouth-hecause dis intom-
persnce lay not in tho wine cup, but
the battle. But aftor he had conquered
and made subservient to his will !he
then known world, then wine, women
and money we're the next things he be-
came incorporate in, and his career was
ended as he had begun it--in intern
persnce. And in this nineteeuth CEN
fury, men cry out, "Down with rum
sellersp "Away with the wine mskersl"
and paint with thoir vivid imagination,
as though tho skill of an artist had
added to the finishing touches, all the
horrors and ngonies of this world and
write across the face OF their beauti-
fully written srticles, In . bold hand,
"rhe effects of rumw when at tho same
time the author is drawn into a
boU-knot with pain across
tho lower regions OF his bowels, from
o"''Hb wv ihuou T. u'l puuulnB lOr ulus
ner. Ono man il jolly and full OF fun
from drinking Wagsnhhuper beer and
the other man is sick from eating too
much. Both have been intern % ratio.
But the world scorns ~ the man that Ia
| Jolly ahd pitiee tho one that ia sick.
Intemperance is generally applied to
the man who drinks too much, But he
| is not alone-thers Is scarcely a humsn
being that dio, or does now live, who
was not Incorporate, II not Sin drink
ing" then eating, or in business. Many
an enterprisinR and energetic business
man devoted II to l6 hours out OF a to
the interest Of his drawing room and at
last found himself broken in health and
dies while yet many useful and happy
years could have been added 10 his lot,
or it might be the young and beautiful
maiden, just blooming into womanhood,
who INDUCES in picnic, ball or
ride in twilight and contracts a
severe cold and dies with
consumption;" or the noble youth who
mas always walked in the path OF recti-
tude and sobriety, and upon whom the
parents look with joy and pride az lac
advances at college, carrying away with
him honOTS and God bless you from his
professors, and at last finds his early
premature grave from OvorsXertiOns nj
MS OoOks; or IL may Do theJ other mon
"whOm the poet and writers generally
have so much to say about-the poor
man who strives from day TO day, by
the hardest kind OF toll and labor, TO Oh.
tain living for his devoted family, and
who's sober and industrious habts are
known far and wide, yet who dies fro d
intemperanCe" by working too bard OF
exposing himself on the leveo in the
sunbeams Of lbs degrees above zero
Nine-tenths OF the people that are dead
died from intemperanoe. "Mau is in.
temperate"-naturaliy so--If not in one
thing then IN another; "snd il all tho
temperance lecturers aud lodges organ.
lied in this cause" would preach
temperance 10 everything and strive
with the same amount of energy now
displayed against liquor dealers In
nerving tho young men TO useful and
honorable commercial life, and the old
to the building OF more factories and
railroads and prepare a harvest for the
younger generations, as they In their
turn come up, instead of trying TO
hoard and pile up wealth for the young
and inexperienced hands TO throw
away aud destroy the foundation for
useful lives. Then reformer in iutem.
perance can be worked TO the beusfit of
all and the dettimeEt of none. GALE,