The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-09-15
STRONG OPINIONS.
Testimony Against Alcohol Given By
Philosophers, Statesmen. Physicians
5. and Warriors.

Abstinence is easy, moderation i'm
possible. DR.. Samuel johnson.
He who knows what is good and
chooses it. who knows what Is bad and
avoids it, is the wise and temperate.
Socrates.
Inever use it; am more afraid of it
than of Yankee bullets. :" StonescalT'
Jackson, on being offered a glass of
brandy-qnd-Water.
i do think that water-drinkers
will upset the world, and turn it around
with q much better face to us when
they have done with it.-Richard Cob
den, N. p. ok M
For thirty years have been Tenn
perance man. and l am too old to
change.-Abraham Lincoln refusing
syine offered him at Cincinnati whem on
his gag to take the reins of Government.
Would all the officers unite in setting
the soldiers an example of total absti-
hence from intoxicating drinks, it
would be equal to an addition of 10000
men 70 the arm.e, Of the United States.
= General Nc Ctellan. . as
Here in the old country, the drink
power is for the present, well-nigh ON
nipotent, gagging the pulpit, and con-
trolling the State to melancholy ex-
tent, while the surging tide Of drink
Generalization is filling the land with
violence and crime.-Hon. Battle Leu
is, Edinburgh, 1876.
Temperance is the habit by which
we abstain from all things that tend to
our destruction; intemperance is the
contrary vice. As for the common
opinion that virtue consistent in medi-
ocrity, and vice in extremes, l see no
ground for it. In gifts it is not the
sum that maketh ,liberality, but the rea-
son. And so in all other vices and vir-
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 pres, mt
state of society. Forbes, NJ d., +.
R. s., Physician to Her Majesty's House
hold. A''
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. My senti.
ments on this subject can not be too
strongly stated. had rather march
at the head of 5000 Temperance m IN,
than at the head of two or three times
that number of topcrs. General Win
field Scott.
l have the satisfaction to remark
that, although the crew suffered some
what from scurvy, they have all re-
tuned, to 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 private expedition.
As for spirituous liquors, they were
doled out to the members of the expe-
dition 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 m arches,
whisky, rum and other alcoholic slim
ulants were regarded as little benefit.
Lieutenant Greely.
1t must stand as an historic truth
III AZ nua hold HIM, aua man n1an rim n,
himself on the rock. of Temperance,
and experimenting 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. Judge
Noah Davis, of Father MaihcW.
Never shall my hand or voice be
lifted against so called Temperance
fanatics. If ever cause justified ia
naticism, the Temperance cause does.
To ME there is nothing more disgust
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. Req. Phillips Brooks.
All this (toil, pestilence and fierce
heat) 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 defacement 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.
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Having the public houses open on
Sunday is 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 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. I. Chamen, a keepe,
of a public house in London s0ho closes
| his 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 a cor
responding depression of power