The Press., 1885-09-17
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
Edited for The Press in behalf of the Stafford Springs
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Edited for The Press in behalf of the Stafford Springs
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 We do not regulate gambling we prohibit it. We do not regulate" pira- cy we prohibit it. We do not regulate murder and theft and highway robbers we prohibit them. Why endeavor to regulate" rum, the cause, and prohibit the result. We chop off the branches, but cultivate the ot.-Homae. Guard.
 Prohibition does not prohibit! cry some of the enemies of our cause but the fact that there is not now left in the state of Maine single distillery or wine factory, when previous to the prohibitory enact ment there were several in Portland, run ming night and day, would seem to indi- cate that 1t does prohibit. The failure of liquor dealers in Kansas who themselves ascribe the cause of their failure to the prohibitory law shows that it does prohib- it. The determined efforts of the liquor interest against it, their readiness to dis card all political affinities and to spend money freely to defeat it, indicates that it does prohibit. A fair comparison of any hibition and the other under license, af- lords convincing proof of the wisdom of prohibition and the folly of license. Give us prohibition.
 About the ugliest, sourest, meanest drunkard on the globe, is the cider drunk ard. He does not need to visit saloons, his saloon is down cellar and he drinks and guzzles and scolds and swears until he makes his home a hell, and life a burden to all around him.
 There are some who object to drinking rum or brandy, but who think there is no l. 1..sx, H. 1-- .Ls hs.-.. and intoxicating principle in cider, wine, brandy, gin, rum, lager beer and all these other intoxicants, is the some it is alco- hol, and alcohol is the same poisonous and deadly agent wherever it is found. Distil the alcohol out of cider, wine, beer or brandy, and what is left would be simply dishwater. No man would drink cider if the alcohol was taken ont u.. .r "But sweet cider does not do any hurt, ;" says one. No; and a man puts barrel of saOeet cider into his cellar; he drinks glass of 1t, and 1t is sweet he takes an other glass, and that is sweeter 1; he keeps drinking and drinking until the barrel is empty, and the last glass is the sweetest of all, and then he is ready to tap a new barrel. You can no more tell when sweet cider becomes sOar, than you can tell when a boy becomes man, or when pig be- comes hog.
 The man who commences with sweet cider is likely to proceed to sour cider, and finish off with rum, gin, brandy, whiskey and all the catalogue of alcoholic poisons which ruin mankind and desolate the world. Boys, let cider alone !-1he Sdteguard.
 LICENSED. Licensed to make the strong man weak;
 Licensed to lay the wise man low, Licensed @ wifes fond heart to break, And make her children's tears to flow.
 Licensed to do the neighbor harm; Licensed to kindle hate and strife; | Licensed to nerve the robbers arm;
 Licensed to whet the murderers knife
 Licensed thy neighbors purse to drain,
 And rob him of his very last
 Licensed to heat his feverish brain,
 Till madness crowns the work at last.
 Licensed, where peace and quiet dwell,
 To bring disease and want and woe;
 Licensed to make this world hell,
 And fit a man for hell below.