The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-18
Temperance Department.
The World Moves on.
EDITED BY THE W. C. T. Z.

the Catholic Total Abstinence Society, i'll
Philadelphia the Sunday following the n.
W. c. I. U. Convention. In his invita-
tion he says: 1t is not mere local meet
| ing, it is a convention of the strongest and
most influential union connected with the
lC. T. A. u 1t will be new departure i'll
many respects Al [ n anxious that our
members, our representative men and
women, should hear the views of your or
ganization that they may compare them
with those of their own" The union of
which Mr. Campbell is president enrolls
| L 600 members.
In the report of the Cor. See. of the n.
w c. T. U. we find the following as to the
department oflegisIature: ''ln ne depart
ment of legislature success has been
phenomenal considering the terrible set
back the cause is said to have received.
Three states, Oregon, Tennessee and Rhode
Island. this year voted to submit to the
people prohibitory constitutional amend
ment. New Hampshire passed the follow
Ing:, An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Cigar
ettes or tobacco in any of its forms.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in general court convened:
Section l. NJ person shall, knowingly
sell any cigarettes or tobacco in any of its
forms, to any minor under sixteen years Of
age:
Sec , If any person shall violate the
provisions of this Act, he shall be liable to
a fine of twenty doll us f1r each and every
such olfense-such penalty or fine to go to
the county treasurer for the county wherein
the violation Of this Act occurs
A similar law was passed by the legisla-
ture of Nebraska through the influence of
the w. c. L. U. Last year New Jersey
passed a law which covers nearly the
ground New Hampshire also at the last
session of the legislature enacted "a law
against the sale of peruicious literature.
The ...u. work Dt this department is
the fact that nineteen states have upon their
temperance rstru ctiGu in the public schools,
thirteen having been gained this year. Not
all these in ev-ry re pect what the w.
Z. T. U. desires, but al and any serve as
All entering wed3e anl foundation for
future effort The very fact of the enactment
of any law re garding the teaching of tempe
ance is a straw showing which way the wind
of public sentiment is blowing. Another
good thought we Gull from the same report,
| '.remperance is, in some of these institu
cions. (speaking of some of the higher in
stitutinns of learning) made test of charac
ter and general good department, and in
some it is tau 5ht i'll its scientific aspect;
out so far IS my observation goes our young
men who graduate at these institutions,
While coming out with very decided views
reg riding free -".de or ctIon, kno"
absolutely nothing regarding the relation of
| Jne liquor tr slfic to either | consider this
"a weak point in our of = "tlon In
the hi cher institutions of learning. Ii there
are two great questions bef1re Am, rican
people to-day, one is the tar If question and
the other is the prohibition of the lieu
traffic. The first has always been the stock
In trade ,i the two great parties when there
was no other issue of Importance between
them T" my mind h taritf qu-stion is so
intimately connected with temperance ques-
tiom'thaJ i'll r II and insep-
erable. The w.oate of the liquor traffic IS a
part of the great problem of tariff. The
oasis of all trade .i,.s in the fact that \ has
an arti.!e 3 .rants ad B has an article
which A wants, but at the same time does
this not contemplate the TACT that both
those articles must h IA themselves, Il
recognized value? The shoes which A has
he is willing to give for the potatoes which
B has and vice yersa, Int does it not logical
Ily low that each article i'll the transaction
mas a value of is own? How is this when
Iapplied to the transaction which is carried
on over the bars of our thousands of liquor
saloons? And right at this point should not
.,ur boys be instructed? | have this far
failed to find a tire tie on political economy
which touches this int. We teach onr
poys in the pubic schools the nature and
effect of alcohol on the hum1n system, but
netween the term when public school
rppear at the ballot box to express tEeil
will and act for the hest interest of the com
nunity, they have been ft in worse thar
neathen darkness as reg the question o
The day and its relation to commercial inter
ests, except perhaps so far as they have beer
able to reason that because the individual is
Effected. the ,ss az proportionally great
err, but as to the great national waste ant
to all business interests, and to the tariff, ht
lis in blssful ignorance and Is likely to re
main so. l wou.l ike to see the w. c. L
u set on foot movement to supply thu
missing link It will be done by somebody
because it must be done You and I, dea
sisters, have not forgotten the many lee
, Il lures delivered to US in days gone by Oh
the necessity of being welfprepared for tn
duties which We're sure to come to US a
Ihonsekeepers We were told over and owe
:, again that
q I'VE can live without music, and live with
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