The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-04-09
Temperance LeEjslaIion During
the Past Winter.

Maine, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon,
Wisconsin and Alabama have passed
laws making the study of Phy siology
and Hygeine, with special reference to
the effects of alcohol and narcotics up
Oh the human system, mandatory in
the public schools, while i'll several
other States similar bills are pending
Fourteen States have endorsed the
gospel of prevention, 10y throwing the
safeguards of knowledge around their
children and youth.
Oregon and Alabama have passed
local option laws. West Virginia lack
ei one vote to submit prohibitory
constitutional amendment, while the
-alne measure has passed one branch
Of The Legislature ih Michigan, Dah O.
iaii and TeHn-ssee. and both branch :
in Ores OH aud Texas. so that il viii
come befur.' the people for ratification
at their next election.
Kau>ss ha- %. aui-tI.led her prehib
itnrv law TO M he t more effective.
aud the reeeL Supr-me Court ds ci>ion
in Iowa gives that state 8 chance TO
prove the efficiency OF her temperance
enactments.
The Temperance reform is gathering
momentum with each passing year.
For number OF NeAr- it has b., II
customary to pay lor thirty or forty
newspapers out OF the contingent fHnd d
for use at the White House. 1t has
likewise been the practice tn have Il
clelk at a salary of 81 500 q year 10
scan those papers and clip out and
paste in = scrap. book the sweet thin. $
that were said about the administra
ton. President Cleveland has bounced
tbs scrap hook editor, and given notice
that the practice rs 10 newspaper sub
scriptiOns must be stopped. He pro
poses to subscribe for such papers a,
he desires and pay for them out of his
own pocket.
The Spirit Against Oppression.
There is one feature of the present
complications not very encouraging to
those who look upon themselves as the
representatives of civilization and con
stituted authority in the pending
quarrels.
England in the Eegdsn finds her
we'll trained troops beaten by savage
semi-nude Arabs, who fight to kill
without any particular rules or disci
pline.
France in Tonquin finds the Black
Flags, vino have been regarded 10y hcl
as an armed rabble, easily. scattered,
driving back her best troops and kill
ing or wounding her most experienced
generals.
Canada in the Northwest Territory
sees lot of rebel half. breeds scatter
ing the local Government fsrces and
threatening a regular war.
Russia in Asia is deferred from per.
sisting in a policy of aggression not
from fear of the British but from dread
of the a fghans,
Perhaps the secrei of all this is Il
be found in the fact that the tribes O
the Soudan, the Black Flags of Ton
quin, the Half Breeds in Canada and
the Afghans of Asia are all fighting
on their own ground and for what
they regard rs their own rights.
The English are invaders in the
Soudan, the PrencI gre Invaders in
Anam, Canada has withheld their
rights from the Northwest half breeds,
and Russia is invading Afghan terri.
tory.
Does it not look as if the people all
over the world were beginning t. un-
derstand that they have rights which
even crowned heads and great powers
are bound TO re0pect? Isit not possi-
BILE that this feeling will increase and
strengthen under the influence OF
British defeats in the SOudan, Frenct
| defeats in Tonquin, Canadian troubles
in the Northwest and Russian discom-
hIiture in Asia 81 World.