The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

IHE zone more drink has made q
hundred thousand drunkards Detroit
Free Press.
'HELL GATE BREWERY" is the
suggestive name printed in huge letters
on the side of one of the largest beer
manufactures in New York City. Even
signs sometimes tell a great truth.-M
Y. Observer.
THE ''wet ticket that is what they
call the whisky ticket in Georgia. 1t
is good name for it; the "wet ticket"
wet with the tears of broken-hearted
women and drunkards' children
Christian Adrocate.
IT looks as though there could be but
little doubt as to the ultimate accept
ance of prohibition in Canada. So far
during this year Lennox and Adding
ton, Lanark, Bronze, Guelph, Kent and
Carleton counties have added their
voices to the long roll of constituencies
which have spoken in its favor. Bit
by bit in this manner will at length do
the work. Canadian Baptist.
THE Scientific Temperance Education
law of Maine goes into effect on July
4. 1t will be the children's Indepen-
dence Day. The w. G. T. U. of Maine,
were exceedingly fortunate during this
successful campaign in having the aid
of the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction and so secured just such
law, with just such provisions as will
best serve the interests of Temperance
in the schools. Union Signal.
The first woman's benefit society un-
der teetotal auspices ever organized is
known in London as the Independent
Total Abstinence Sisters of Progress.
1t has not been over progressive, how
ever, during the twenty-four years of
its existence, having but $1,000 to its
credit in bank at present. 1t begins,
however, to show tokens of advance,
and branches are to be formed outside
the metropolis Union Signal.
IDAHO put IN its w. c. T. U. Plea for
more scientific Temperance instruction
in the schools, and received, not ga
stone" for its cry, but "half loaf"
Instead of enacting the law, the Legis-
lature inserted the word Temperance"
in that section of the School law which
enumerates the principles to be i'm
pressed by public education. So we go
swinging on toward the day when the
school-house shall cradle the Temper
ance reform. i Union sigma.
PROF. A. B. PALMER, in Vide Quake,
discussing the action of alcohol upon
the lungs, declares there are no Stats
tics no recorded observations and
comparison of numbers of cases which
afford the slightest indication that the
use of alcohol in any form or quantity
prevents consumption. 1t grows more
and more difficult to find really unas-
sailable excuses for liquor drinking.
The consumption-cure theory has had a
long service, and now that it has been
annihilated it will be hard for the topers
to devise one as useful.
A WRITER in the Pail Mall Gazette
says that 'intemperance is exceedingly
common among the Russians, and that
the great number of holidays contribute
much to this state of affairs. The peo-
pie become frightfully drunk, and re-
main so until their money is entirely
exhausted. They have custom there
called Pominki-a remembrance service
forty days after persons death. Once
year they visit family graves. This is
often accompanied by debauchery. And
our own holidays are extending in the
same direction. We saw more men
drunk on the street last Christmas day
and evening than we have seen all the
rest of the year.
A PROMINENT citizen of Iowa, visiting
Chicago last week, reports the marvel
Gus change already wrought in that
State and the spirit of the liquor-deal-
ers in rebellion against the State, by the
recent Supreme Court decision. Among
other successes of prohibition he in
stanced the city of Cedar Rapids where
there is not single open saloon, and
where detective employed by the Law
Enforcing League could not find
single drop of liquor on sale within the
corporate limits The draft upon pub
lie and private benevolence has never
been so infnitesimal as during the past
season. which also marks the extinc-
ton of the municipal liquor traffic
Union Signal.
TEMPERANCE work by the young and
among the young has recently received
a strong impetus in Wisconsin. The
Sunday-school workers of that State
have perfected a plan for organizing
the Wisconsin Sunday-school children
into wisconsin Temperance Army"
the schools of each township forming q
regiment and those of each county di-
vision. A gentleman interested in tho
movement is said to have offered cost-
ly silk banner to that county which shall
have enrolled the largest per cent. of
its children in this total abstinence be-
fore June 1. The Wisconsin Sunday
school leaders at the fionona Lake Park
Assembly last summer urged the inn
portance of putting more emphasis
upon Temperance instruction in the re-
igious training Of she young.-s-S s.
Times.