The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-02

The Band of Hope hold their regular
meeting every Monday afternoon, at $3.50,
in the W. c. T. U. Rooms. All children
are invited to join the Band.
Rev. Mr.. Woolston addressed the meet
ing of the w. C. T. u, last Sunday af-
ternoon. He traced the boy. pure and
true, who left his quiet country home for
the city and gradually but surely travelled
the downward path until he filled a
drunkard's grave, and asked the question
so often asked Where lies the RESPONSE
bility? First, rum; second, the man who
sells it, to a very large degree land here
the speaker added that he would make
the dealers responsible for all damage
done through The liquor which they sold);
third, the man who distills it; fourth,
the farmer who takes his grain and APP
piles to the distillery; fifth, the Excise
Board who grant him a license. We
would like 10 add to these five sixth,
which VIC consider fully equal to any of
the above, namely: The citizen, who by
his vote, placed in power an Excise
Board favorable to license.
The speaker went on to say that if any
thing is to be done, 1t must be by hard
earnest work. It will be n long difficult
struggle, not to be decided in q day nor
perhaps in a lifetime, Words are good,
but we need works.
DIR. Hayhurst, Chairman of the meet.
ing, spoke of those deeds committed by
men under the influence of liquor, for
which there is no compensation. Can
money bring back again, or compensate
for, the father, brother or son, on whose
strong arm dear ones leaned. Many a
poor widow sits to day in her sorrow.
Many poor children suffer for food and
clothing, the result of rum. The world is
full of sorrow and misery, for which
money cannot compensate.
The Prohibitionists of this State met in
Newark, on Thursday and Friday of last
week, as a State Convention and nomin-
atod Gen. Clinton B. Fiske for Governor,
and from the popularity of the man and
the business of tho cause, and its increas-
ing popularity, he will doubtless receive
large vote,
The Prohibitionists of New Jersey are
in earnest this year, and there will be no
switching them off ON to side tracks. Sue.
cess to them.
Messrs. Gershom Lambert and Isaac
Clevenger, were present rs delegates from
this city.
While We as nation spend five and
one. half dollars for Missions, fifteen dol
lars for clergymen salaries and seventy
nine dollars for schools, we spend nine
hundred and forty four dollars for whis-
key and beer. Over nine times as much
for the last as for all the others combined.
All true advancement in this or any
other nation must come through educa.
ton and religion. The greatest factor in
all the elements opposing our advance
ment is whiskey. Ii we advance under
all of this opposition where would be our
limit were we free from this awful draw
back?
Many speak of beer MS harmless
drink. We give below the opinions of
some whose business necessitates close
and careful discrimination in this matter,
whose ideas are not merely theoretical but
some OF them at lest have made it a
business study. Insurance men are be-
coming more and more ayerse to insuring
the lives of either whiskey or beer
drinkers
We believe that the hereditary evils of
beer drinking exceed those proceeding
from ardent spirits: First, because the
habit is constant and without paroxysmal
Interruptions which admit of some re-
cuperation; second, because beer drink
ing is practiced by both sexes moro gen
orally than the spirit drinking; aud third,
because the animalizing tendency of the
habit is more uniformly developed, thus
authorizing the presumption that the vi
cious results are more generally trans
mitted -Pacifc Medical Journal, in.
dorsed by the Home Life ms. 90.
protest against the notion so preva-
lent and so industriously urged, that beer
is harmless, and desirable substitute for
the more concentrated liquors. What
beer may be, and what it may do in other
All III. 4
from observation. That in this country
and climate, its use is an evil only less
than the use of whiskey, IL less on the
whole, and that it's effect is only longer
delayed, not so Immediately and obvious
ly bad, its incidents not so repulsive, but
destructive In the end, have seen abun-
dant proof. -CoL Greene, President Conn.
Mutual Life ms. Go.
OF all intoxicating drinks ii beerl is
the most animalizing. 1t dulls the intel
lectua and moral, and feeds the sensual
and beastly nature. Beyond all other
drinks, it qualities for deliberate aud un-
provoked crimes. In this respect it is
much worse than distilled liquors. A
whiskey- drinker will commit murder only
under the direct excitement of liquor--a
beer drinker is capable of doing it in cold
blood. Long observation has assured us
that a large proportion of murders, de-
liberately planned and executed without
passion or malice, with no more motive
than the acquisition of property or
money, often of triiling value, are per-
petrated by beer. drinkers. Pacific Medt-
cal Journal, Endorsed By Home Life IN
suyance Go.
Beer stupefes and besots. -Bismarh.
We can prove with mathematical cor
tainty that az much flour as can lie on the
point of table knife is more nutritious
than eight quarts of the best Bavarian
beer; that person who is able to CON
sumo that amount of beer, obtains from
it in whole year, in the most favorable
case, exactly the amount of nutritive con-
sttuent which is contained in five
pound loaf, or in three pounds of flesh
Baron LieJig.
Judging from my observation, lager
beer is quite as likely to generate murder
and crime as the stronger liquors. The
l.,, To li,t.