The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

In Great Britain there are $1,000
Temperance organizations, and it is esti-
mated that 5000, 900 persons are total
abstainerS
If intemperance should break out
among horses and cattle, there would
be an extra session of Congress called
in less than three weeks to stay the
evil. But pshaw! its only men that get
drunk. -Goide7s Era.
JOHN B. COUGH being asked the other
day if he noted any improvement in
mankind in the matter OF iDtemperance,
replied: "Why, yes; every way;
things are nothing like so bad as they
were when | was boy, and they are
going to be better yet"
UPON what does the success of the
liquor traffic depend? Upon debased
manhood, wronged womanhood, de-
frauded childhood. 1t holds a mort
gage over every cradle; deed written
in hearts blood over every human
life. Shall mothers know this and be
silent? Shall fathers understand and
be Indifferent y Tribune.
AN intelligent young mechanic stood
mp in Temperance meeting and said:
II have rich treat every night among
my books. / saved my beer money
and spent it in books. They cost me,
with my bookcase, nearly 800. They
furnish enjoyment for my winter even
ings, and have enabled me, by Gods
blessing, TO gain much useful knowl-
edge, such as pots and pipes could not
have given me-"
This sentence is one of Mr.. Glad
stones most recent utterances, and
was made before a Brewers Commission
in London at the time he proposed the
additional tax on beer: Gentlemen, l
can not permit question of mere rev.
enue to be considered alongside of
question of morals; but give me a sober
population. not wasting their earnings
on strong drink, and | will know where
to get revenue"
ALCOHOL not being food, not being
a drink, can not build up the natural
structures of the body; can not supply
water for carrying the different kinds of
food round the body, nor for carrying
the used-up food out of the body, can
not supply warmth, because its actual
effect is to lessen the animal warmth
and put out the vital fire; can not as
suage thirst, but, on the contrary, in
creases thirst.-Dr. B. W. Richardson.
To WHAT depths of shame the indul-
gence of an appetite for whisky will
drag man was strikingly illustrated
in Massachusetts town few days
ago. A drunken father took his babe
to saloon and attempted to sell it for
s., then 50, then S2.5O Failing to get
a buyer, he laid the child on the bar
and said: "Well, look here, nv friend,
take the baby and give me one good,
square drink. ''-IndianapoIis Journal.
In a recent Winthrop Temperance
meeting gentleman made the follow
ing sign ficant statement: sin a neigh
boring town twenty-seven men banded
together to oppose in every possible
way the Washingtonian movement OF
these eleven filed a drunkard's grave;
seven were lost at sea; four, while in
toxicated. drove into an arm of one Of
the lakes in this vicinity one night and
were drowned; two committed suicide;
two were hanged in the South, and one
went to sea and never was heard from"
(Me.) Journal.
A BACKWARD glance over the Legisla-
lures of the past sixteen years will show
the progress of the Temperance senti-
ment The Legislatures of the recon-
struction period, and those following,
consumed a good deal of whisky There
was whisky in the clerks rooms, whis-
ky in the committee rooms, whisky in
the members rooms, whisky eyery-
where. 1t was the rule to drink. The
last night of session sonnet mes degen-
Grated into an orgy. Members would
drink at their desks, and wobble about
over the floor in helpless condition.
Gradually this conduct stopped. For
years past it has been rare thing to
see drunken legislator. The members
reflect the Temperance views of their
constituents, and if they indulge in
social glass keep within the bounds of
propriety. --Atlasata (Ga.) Constitution.