The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-23
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.



The Regular Sunday afternoon Gospel
Temperance Meetings In Thatcher's Hall,
win be discontinued until further notice.
The Band of Hope will take vaca-
tion during the months of June, July and
August. Timely notice Of re organiza-
ton will be given.
Throw out your light; teach the peo-
pie to feel that they are the law makers.
Show all the friends Of temperance the
folly of sending drinking men to our leg
islative halls. and then sending them petit
tions to save the community from the
ruinous effects of their own practice.
| wish some of our great statesmen
would walk through our great towns, and
would 60 from house to house with some
of the devoted clergymen who know the
condition of the people. wish they
would come and hear the biographies of
intense misery which arc to be found un-
der the humblest roofs; and when they
Lave learned these things, and found that
they are all to be traced up to one black
fountain-intoxicating drink-I believe
they would lay aside their political Ques-
lions aud conflicts and take in hand that
which touches the very root of the life
and morals Of the people
What are we about How 10 II that men
who profess to be statesmen can waste
their time and the time of the Legislature
before they take this subject Ia hand
Cardinal Naming.
The above may be true of England, but 1t
10 not true Of New Jersey. Our great
statesmen" under circu instances like the
above, would only ''smile" and ''smile. !"
Do the work Of moral suasion; lift men
up from the gutter; and then depend up
on 1t, there will be no man more earnest
than you in an effort to make the streets
safe for the men whom you have rescued.
No man who has q Christian heart, who
has wept and prayed over the victim OF
intemperance, aud has succeeded 10 ele-
waiting him into the image of God--no
man trembles more than that man when
he sends him forth to his daily work to
run the gauntlet OF the legalixed grog-
shops that lie 10 his path. No matter
what that mans theory may have been
when he started, he comes back from the
work OF bepevolence indignant at the
civilization which allows the weak to be
tempted back to destruction. Let every
man follow moral suason to the end, not
with mouth and word only, but with the
heart and hand, and will risk his feeling
upon this subject OF legal snasion. Judge
Robert o. Pitmda.
Look at the spectacle In this Last
quarter of the nineteenth century, under
a Christian civilization, We have gigan-
tic syndicate for the promotion OF alco-
holism. 1t consists of the brewers, dis
tillers and dealers to the number of 202,
262, united by common interest and by
formal organization. This syndicate CON-
mands An immense capital, Invested 10
breweries, distilleries and dram-shops, al
together constituting an enormous ma
chinery for the manufacture, salo and
supply Of poisoned drinks. The results
are that somewhere from SO, 600 to $4,000
citizens are murdered every year.-Na.
s.0adl Prohibition Committee.
Liquor dealers MS q rule are careful
drinkers. They know too well the char
acter j. the poisons they sell.
II the following be true of the families
of liquor dealers what must be the un-
written record of tho families of their
victims.
A record for ilfty-four years of publicly
known results OF intemperance 10 the
families of one hundred liquor dealers
who had resided on Young ST., In and
north Of tha city Of Toronto, Ontario:
Number of ruined drunkards. ei4
Loss of property once owned 10
real estate. ....s......$ $685.. 800