The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.
Intemperance Responsible for the Ruin OF
the NOblest Hearts and Intellects in
Ancient as Wen as in Modern Times.

Intemperance Responsible for the Ruin of
the NOblest Hearts and InteIlects in
Ancient as Well as in Modern Times.
In the course # his able address at
the great Temperance reception, given
him by the National Temperance So
ciety and the Church Temperance So
ciety, Archdeacon Farrar said:
From the disgraceful day of the pa
triarch in his tent the use of intoxicants
had been responsible for the ruin of the
noblest hearts and intellects.
Again, the Archdeacon could refer
his hearers to many standard works of
English history, in no way written with
the remoteSt intent of htnefiting the
Temperance cause, in which the most
unanswerable truths stood forth to
trumpet the necessity of a Temperance
reform. He would ask them to read
Mr. Trevelyan's brilliant life of Charles
James Fox, and they would learn how
nearly all the public men of that day
were afflicted with the gout-the con-
sequence of much dissipation. He
would commend to them Sir John
Hays and Mr.. Kinglake's histories, the
former of which told how battles were
lost in India because of drunkenness,
and the latter Of which declared that
the British soldiers in the Crimea were
as brave as lions though gentle as
women, when they did not degrade
themselves by drinking He would re-
mind them how Lecky, in his ''Histo-
~ of European Morals had singled
out the year 1924 as one prolific of
calamity to England, because in that
year the gin manufacture was begun.
He would ask them to ponder over that
passage of Shakespeare:
40 thou invisible spirit of wine! If thou
hast no name to be known by, let us call thee
devil"
and over that of Millions:
"Who knows not Gree,
The daughter of the sun! Whose charmed
Whoever tasted lost his upright shape,
And downward fell into groyelling swine"
From such writers us John Morley
and Thomas Carlyle he could quote
passages which, if any Temperance adj
vocatc should use them, we would be
charged with the employment of pecu-
liarly censurable Incorporate language.
The day had gone by when the Tenn
perance advocates could be resisted by
their opponents with any other argu-
ments but those afforded by the con
spiracy of silence and the enginerv of
contempt, As for the conspiracy of
silence, the Temperance advocates did
not intend to allow that to hurt the adj
vance of the reform, for they intended
to speak, and in that intent their spirit
was akin to Hotspur's. As for the
enginery of contempt, it was perfectly
powerless against the proof that science,
history, the cause of humanity and good
sense adduce. The British House of
Commons was no doubt the least sus-
ceptible of all bodies to the passion for
reform and the least likely to be swept
by sudden gusts of enthusiasm. On
only two occasions had he ever wit
messed it thrilled by deep emotion.
One of these occasions was four years
ago, on the 18th of March, he believed,
when Mr.. Gladstone, standing by his
table as Prime Minister, made use of
words which had caused the coolest to
SILVER.
1T has been said that greater calamitics are
! inflicted on mankind by incompetence than
by the three great historical scourgcS-war,
pest lence aud famine. This is true for us,
and it Is the measure for our dlscrcdit and
! disgrace"
These words were not original with
Mr., Gladstone they had been uttered
! b" a very able member of Parliament
Mr.. Charles Buxton, himself brewer.
But >lr Gladstone had given them the
weight Of his sanction.
The Archdcacon, in a splendid pero-
alton, recitcd the terrible evils wrought
by war, pestilence and famine, and
asked hoy was it that a vice perfectly
prevcntable, which outdid them all
combined, should be allowed to stalk
among us. He appealed eloquontly to
the humane feelings of his hearers,
saying that it was pity, above every
thing else, which had led him to de-
vote his energies to the Temperance
cause. Many were weary and dis