The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-08-27
WHAT THEY THINK OF 1T.
Strong Testimony Against Alcohol by
Competent witnesses.

Strong Testimony Against Alcohol by
Competent Witnesses.
Men who drink whisky are sure to
go to the wall sooner or later on the
street. l always win when have
whisky for my cOmpetitor.-Hc1ry
ClesoS, the banker.
Fhe evils of brandy and soda in India
need only to be remembered to prove
how pernicious is the suicidal habit of
indulgence in drinking alcoholic liquors
in hot climates. Henry N. Stanly.
To make or sell ardent spirits for
common use is as wicked as to make
and sell poiSons for the same purpose.
The blood of murdered souls will be
required at the makers and dealers
hands.-Judge DGgge1.
l am utterly unable to understand
how It is possible for any man, with
any sense of decency, or any apprecia-
ton of manhood, or any sentiment of
honor, or any one having any hopes or
aspirations for respectable social, or
moral standing in the community, or
having any regard for the confidence
and respect of his fellow men, can
reconcile himself to the idea of becom-
ing a common vender of intoxicating
liquors Judge John Martin, Kansas.
The liquor traffic seizes the ma
chinery, the enginery of legislation,
and by it creates q moral phenomenon
of perpetual motion which nature
denies to physics; for it licenses and
empowers itself to beget in. endless
rounds, the wrongs, vices and crimes,
which society is organized to prevent
And worst of all for our country, il
encoils parties like the serpents of Lao
coon, and brushes in its folds the spirit
of patriotism and virtue. Judge Noah
DaViS. &
For the pitiful' sum dime he 1.-THE
owner of a groggery] furnished the
poison which made the deceased fool
and this trembling culprit a demonI
How paltry a sum for two human lives!
This traffic is tolerated by law, and
therefore the vendor has committed an
act not recognized by earthly tribunals;
but in sight of Him who is unerring in
wisdom, he who deliberately furnishes
the Intoxicating draught which in
flames men into violence and anger
and bloodshed, is particeps criminis in
the deed.-JWdge johnson, California,
in passing sentence Of death apon a
criminal.
During a term of seven years as
prosecuting lawyer in the Federal
service at New York City, 1 seldom,
during those seven years, knew case
of criminal violation of law by violence
and force of arms that was not either
conceived or committed or aggravated
by the use of intoxicating liquor. /
have been present when the chairman of
the board that examines jails and poor.
houses and asylums of New York went
through those places; and l know it is
the simple testimony of thoughtful,
truthful people that liquor, in some
form or other, is responsible for three
fourths of the pauperism of the State
of New York teUGrt l.: WOodford.
The Sabbath is emphatically ''the
poor mans day." 1t is the best con-
servator of home, the guardian of the
public morals, and the only guaranty
in this busy day and world of some duo
attention to the cultivation of that
spiritual nature in man, which gives
life and force even to his work among
material things. But the liquor traffic
and the Sabbath are in natural enmity.
1t is no chance association which leads
to the cry: ''Down with the Sunday
laws and the liquor laws in so many
parts of the country. The traffic wants
the day. 1t wants the Saturday night
wages. 1t wants opportunity and the
temptation to drink on the day of rest.
1t has the day in Europe; it coyets it in
America. 1t will have it, unless the
political power of the traffic be broken.
-Jttdge Robert c. Pitnaan, Massa-
chuSettS.
The worst effect of all. and that
which ought to. make every man, who
has the least sense of his privileges
tremblc, is that these houses are become
in many places the nurseries of our
legislators. An artful man may, by
gaining little sway among the rabble
of town, multiply taverns and dram
shops, and thereby secure the votes of
tayerner and retailer and of all; and
the multiplication of taver1s will make
many, who may be induced by flip and
rum to vote for any man whatever,
think it would be well worth the atten-
ton of our Legislature to confine the
number and retrieve the character of
licensed houses, lest that impiety and
profanencss, that abandoned intemper-
ance and prodigality, that impudence
and brawling temper, which these
abominable nurseries daily propagate,
should arrive at last to a degree oil
strength that even the Legislature will
not be able to control.--oJohn adams,
I76I.