The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-16
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
BY TIE W. c. 7. .,


BY THE W. c. 7. U.
The Regular Sunday afternoon Gospel
Temperance Meetings in Thatcher's Hall,
will be discontinued until further notice.
The Band of Hope will take vaca-
ton during the months of June, July and
August. Timely notice of re organiza.
ton will be given.
By the recent presence with us of the
Ith Regiment, are minds were naturally
turned toward the soldier life. We also
think it wise to go into the whiskey bust
ness from military point of view. Major
General Dix in general order in 1862,
81;
Drunkenness is the bane of the mill
tary profession Nine-tenths of
all crimes ard offenses for which officers
and soldiers are brought to trial are the
fruits of this degradation and ungentle-
manly vice; and the commanding General
earnestly appeals to the officers under his
comm aud, in the name of the honorable
profession of arms, which it is their duty
to preserve frem all taint, and in the
maine of the distracted country in whose
service they are imperiling their lives, to
Danish from their encampments and
quarters all intoxicating liquors, which
add no vigor either to their mental or
physical powers, and which are certain
source of decentralization, and often of in
delible disgrace.
Would all the officers unite in setting
the soldiers an example of total abstinence
from Intoxicating drinks, it would be
equal to an addition of so, 600 men to the
armies of the United States General
| Ne Cielldn.
Drinking and drunkenness among the
rank and file of an army, soon become
one and the same thing, and drunkenness
destroys subordination, discipline and eff
iieieacy. My sentiments on this subject
cannot be too strongly stated
had rather march at the head of 5000
temperance men, than at the head of two
or three times that many topers. Gen
| Winfield Scott.
Sir Charles Napier TO British regi-
mcnt in India, said; Let mo give bit of
| advice--that is, don't drink If you drink,
| you're done for. You will either be in
valided or die l know there are somo
who will drink in spite of tho devil and
their oflicers--but such men will soon be
in hospital and very few that go in, in
this country, ever como out again.
All this (toil, pestilencc and fierce heat)
could have borne with deep joy, but TO
see the stretcher brought to the gates
every hour, laden with men foamng in
the mouth, and black in the face, not with
the gore of battle, but with tho horrible
DETACHMENT of q foe more dreadful or
deadly than the Russian or the plague
oh, it is terrible Danish this
deadliest foe of all from your ranks
Florence Nightingale from The Crimea
We give below with the date of organ.
ization list of all temperance societies
based upon total abstinence from all in
toxicants:
American Temperance Union. -. 1896
WashinRtouian ...................l S40
sous oil Temperance. ...............1S4 2
Temple of Honor. .1S45
Cadets of Temperance. 1916
Order of Good Samaritans. ......... 1S47
Order OF Good Templars. ......... 1851
National Temperance Society 49,. 1896
Catholic Total Abstinence Union. -. 1879
Woman OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 1874
Some of these are still doing noble
work for God and truth, probably none
more so than the youngest of them, the
w. q. 7. u, whore branches are reach
ing out in every direction and whose in
fluence is widening.
The politics of the country is corrupt
ed and degraded by the influence of the
dram-shop. Depraved oilers meet day
after day, and the saloon becomes POI
htioal clubhouse. Liquor Dealers AS
sociations' dot the land, all politically
bent on securing privileges for their bust
ness. 1t has been estimated that every
saloon controls an average of ten votes.
Whatever the number may be, it is i'm
meDse in the aggregate, and constitutes
the "Pretorian Guard OF our time ready
to sell the government to the highest bid
der.--Natioaal Prohibition Committee.
The liquor traffic seizes the machinery,
the enginery of legislation, aud by it
creates moral phenomenon of perpetual
motion which nature denies to physics;
Tor it licenses and empowers itself 10 be-
get in endless rounds, the wrongs, vices
and crimes, which society is organized to
prevent. And worst of all for our coun.
| try, it encoils parties like serpents of
LAGOON, and brushes in its folds the
| spirit of patriotism and virtue. Judge
Noah Davis.
Unless powerful political party out
laws the liquor traffic, there is reason to
fear that municipal misrule may imporil
republican institutions in all tho larger
American cities, and in the states under
jsthe control of such cities, and become so
virulent as to be incapable of being put
down at last only by military force
IL is for Americans who believe In gov
eminent Of the people, for tho people,
and by tho people, to see that such gov
eminent is made SO wise aud strong az not
10 perish from the earth. There is grow
ing up in the liquor traffic power that
already has its clutches upon our throats;
and loss of time in organizing national
reform, may be the loss forever of an OPP
portunity to save our nation from being
wrecked by municipal misrulc. Joseph
Cook.
80 say all good temperance people to.
day.
We have in every city ruled by the Sd
loon, a plain usurpation of legislative
power on the one side, and corresponding
W plain failure in executive duty on the
other. To this degree is law set at def
ance and government subyertcd. Languor
creeps into the attitude of justice, and in
difference and indecision into her action
W. II an oppressive government
shall ever return to US, it will be born
and grow out of the lawlessness of the
saloon. A certain measure of this law
lessness will call for this very correction
Tho relation of the individual TO law 10
the community may be put in various
ways. The will of any one man means
tyranny; the will OF every man means
anarchy; the rule of all men IN righteous
ness means liberty .-John Bascom.
The greatest antagonist to the temper