The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-11
STRONG OPINIONS.


chooses it, who knows what is bad and
avoids it, is the wise and temperate
Socrates.
never use it; | am more afraid of it
than of Yankee bullets. -" StOneaCdW'
Jackson, on being offered glass Of
brandy-dnd-Water.
| do think that water-drinkers
will upset the world, and turn it around
with much better face to US when
they have done with it.-Richard Cob
den, M. p.
For thirty years have been a Tenn
perance man, and | am too old to-
change. abraham Lincoln REFUSING
aOine offered him at Cincinnati whee on
has a0ay to take the reins of Government.
Would all the officers unite in setting
the soldiers an example of total absti-
nence from intoxicating drinks, it
would be equal to an addition of 80, 600
men TO the armies Of the United States.
General Nc CIetlGn.
Here in the old country, the drink
power is for the present, well-nigh om-
nipotent, gagging the pulpit, and cone
trolling the State to melancholy eX-
tent, while the surging tide of drink
decentralization is filling the land with
violence and crime.-Hon. B0ilie Lea0-
! is, EdtRburgh, 1876.
Temperance is the habit by which
we abstain from all things that tend to-
our distinctions; incompetence is the
contrary vice. AS for the common
opinion that virtue consistent in medi-
ocrity, and vice in extremes, | see no,
| Cponn1 fn, ~ In, riffs ~ &c
sum that maketh liberality, but the rea-,
son. And so in all other vices and viz
tues.-HobbeS.
1t is on the plain practical ground of
eXpediency that | advocate the system
of teetotalism; believing it, and indeed
knowing it, to be the only means of,
attaining the habit of Temperance in
the use of strong drinks, among the
great mass of mankind. in the present
state of society.-Joha Forbes, N. d., f.
r. s., Physician to Her MyeSty's House,
| hold.
Drinking and drunkenness among
the rank and file of an army soon be-
come one and the same thing, and
drunkenness destroys subordination,
discipline and efficiency. NY senti-
| IucuuS On lulS SlDJccu Gull uOu uc 700
strongly stated. | had rather march
at the head of 5000 Temperance men,
than at the head of two or three times
that number of topers. -GenerGL Win
,fe5d Scott
| have the satisfaction to remark
that, although the crew suffered some
what from scurvy, they have all re-
TUNED, to a man. in comparative
health, which / attribute in a great
measure to the strictly teetotal princi-
pies on which the expedition was car
ried out, and the consequent harmony
and good conduct of the men through
out William Kennedy, commanding
the Lady Franklin priUate expedition.
AS for spirituous liquors, they were
doled out to the members of the expe-
diton only when some unusual exer-
ton or exposure brought some extra
ordinary fatigue or prostration. AS a
means to fortify the system against
cold, or brace it up for forced marches,
whisky, rum and other alcoholic slim
ulants were regarded as little benefit
l-Lteutenant Greedy.
1t must stand as an historic truth
that one bold, humane man, planting
himself on the rock of Temperance,
and supplementing his priestly power
with Christian charity and love, by his
burning zeal and eloquence awoke all
the emotional nature of his volatile
race, and built up barrier of volun-
tary pledges between them and the
great curse of their country.
Noah Davis, Of Father MatheaO.
Never shall my hand or voice be-
lifted against so called Temperance
fanatics. If ever cause justified IA
naticism the Temperance cause does.
ing or more disheartening to the cause
of humanity, than the selfish, ease-lov-
ing, luxurious man indulging in dissi-
patton and denouncing Temperance
fanaticism.- Phillips Brooks.
All this (toil, pestilence and fierce
heaD could | have borne with deep
Joy, but to see the stretcher brought to
the gates every hour, laden with men
foaming in the mouth, and black in the
face, not with the gore of battle, but
with the horrible DETACHMENT of a foe
more dreadful or deadly than the Rus
sian or the plague-oh, it is terrible.
Danish this deadliest foe of all from
your ranks. -Florence Nightingale,
from the Crinlea.
Having the public houses open on
Sunday is a temptation offered to peo-
pie to drink-too much so. Drunken
ness would diminish if that temptation
were placed out OF their way. Yes,
Sunday is q time when they have
money in their pockets. We know
what the lower class is; they have not
sufficient control to withstand their
own passions, and thereby the money
is spent which they might reserve for
their families. Z. Chamen, a keeper
of q public house in London eOho closes
has house on Sunday.
All our most experienced arctic nav
igators and voyagers have come to this,
unquestionable conclusion that for re-
sisting for any heightened period the
severest cold, there is nothing to be
compared with fat food, and that alco-
holic liquors, so far from being bene-
fetal, are positively injurious. The
operation of alcohol is essentially that,
of stimulus-being followed by cor
responding depression of power.
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