The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-01-27
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
By THE W. c. T. U.

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
By THE W. C. t. U.
Gospel Temperance Meetings 10 Thatch-
er's Hall, every Sunday, at $3.50 p. NJ.
Come and see us.
The Sunday afternoon meeting of the
W. G. T. u, was presided over by Mr..
Datis Reed, who with Rev. Mr.. Woolston
conducted the opening services.
After responsive service and singing,
Mr.. Amos Smith was introduced. His
remarks were founded upon the thought,
Treasures of wickedness profit moth
ing'-Proverbs 10, 2. He related an IN
stance in which former pastor of one
the city churches returned contribution
presented by a saloon keeper with the re-
mark, II want no money got by selling
whiskey." The whiskey and beer bust
ness works no good to Church street, as
the rents Of adjacent properties are lower
ed, in fact stigma rests upon the whole
street. No one has right TO thus dam
age his neighbours property. He spoke
of whiskey's death record and referred to
its recent additions. No permanent good
to the city can come from license money
as Councils who would grant licenses
would be very likely to indulge in other
unwise legislation, which would more
than balance any good possible. Heholds
the government responsible for its share
in the iniquity Each gallon of whiskey
or beer made, in that so much food ma
terial is destroyed, enhances by so much
The cost of living. In this view of the
matter every one is interested In the pro-
hibition of the traffic. A western speaker
on asking "What will you do with all
your corn If we stop making whiskey ?"
was answered, .We'll raise more beef
and pork and less hell" In conclusion
he urged the necessity of radical change
in the law of evidence.
DR.. Hayhurst and Rev. DIR. Larson
also briefly addressed the meeting.
Every dime spent in the saloons leaves
Just SO much less to be spent in other
channels of trade. When will our BUSH
ness men understand this and act accord
ingly?
Senator Frye, of Maine, in recent dis
cussion in the United States Senate, de-
c.ared himself to be teetotaler and a
Prohibtionist, and hoped the day would
come when "every state and every county,
and every town and every village in the
United States had Prohibition enforced
in it. He said that no great reform in
the history of the world, ever made such
strides forward as the temperance reform,
in the last twenty years.
If the extra flesh and color induced by
beer drinking are really conducive to
health and long life, why is it that all
reliable Life Insurance Companies re-
fuse to accept all such risks. Do they
Read the following from the Southeast,
Qiquor paper.) of Jan. 0:
None Of the old companies have lately
accepted risks on the lives of saloon-keep-
ers, bar-tenders, wholesale liquor dealers
or brewers, as class, and some have even
attempted to throw off and kick out of
their list of assured, those connected
with their trades, whom they accepted
some years ago-even where they have
kept their policies paid up ever since.
Who would suppose that our insurance
companies were such bigoted fanaticss
"Woe unto him that buildeth his house
by unrighteousness and his chambers by
wrong
"Woe unto him that giyeth his neigh.
Dor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him
and makest him drunken"
Look sharply my Christian friend that
not even indirectly this woe may fall on
you.
DIR. w. B. Richardson, the well-known
scientist, estimates that the use of intoxi.
cants costs this country over 800, 900 lives
each year, or nearly 900 lives every day.
Probably more than one of Lambert
vile's promising school boys will ex-
change the cigarette for the grave in less
than three years. Appearances plainly
indicate this.
Who says the millennium is not CON-
ing? Read the following from the Louis
cilgc Commercial
"The Mercer County Democratic Com
mittee, In calling a primary election to
nominate candidates for county offices,
unanimously adopted the following reso-
! luton:
REsoLvED, 9th, That no candidate
| who himself uses money or whiskey to aid
In securing his nomination, or who know
| ingly permits the use of money or whis-
key, or anything of value on his behalf by
| friends or others, can receive the official
sanction of this committee as the nominee
of the party. It Is further resolved, That
on satisfactory proof being produced be-
| fore this committee that any candidate
| has violated the above order, such candi-
date, il having the highest number OF
votes at the primary, shall be rejected by
this committee, and the person receiving
| the next highest number Of votes who
does not also violate this provision, shall
be declared the nominee OF the party. All
charges Of the violation of this resolution
to be preferred against candidates must
be presented to the committee on the
Wednesday following the primary cleo
tion.'
Allow us to commend this idea to the
Democrats of old Hunterdon.
The question of temperance education
is not dead, even though 1t was SO coldly
laid out by our legislature last winter.