News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-30
temperance Notes.
Conducted by the w. c. T. U.

DR.. do Lewis, whose death occur
red recently, will be known in history
as the originator of the Woman's
Crusade of 1873, out of which grew
the w. G. I. u, which to-day has a
membership of 100000.
The prohibtory law of Rhode
Island went into effect July 1st, and
the arrests for that month were less
than one-half what they were the
same month in number of preced-
ing years.
Mr.. William Green, President of
the Help-one-another Temperance So
ciety, in England, has destroyed the
contents of his wine-cellar, valued at
$4,000.
A Temperance regiment" Of 1900
men is being enrolled in New York
City upon purely military basis,
with total abstinence as necessary
qualification.
c. R. Brayton, Esq, chief of the
State police of Rhode Island, has en-
tered heartily upon his duties of en-
forcement of the Prohibitory law in
that State, and prohibition prohibits"
since the 1st of July.
The working classes pay at least
$500, 100000 year for drink, and
then complain of ''hard times" and
''strike" for more money-to go to
the saloon keepers. The following
advice of the Raila0ay Age is as good
for other workingmen as for railway
employees: 1--WE urge all railway en-
ployes in the land to strike-against
rum. Whiskey is an infinitely great
er evil to them than long hours o
poor pay. Vastly more money i
squandered in strong drink than any
advance in wages can Offset. lntem :
perance, not capital, is the great OPP
pressor of labor. Let the Knights of
Labor, and all other labor organiza-
tons, inaugurate a determined strike
against strong drink, and the great
est evil of the age and of the world
may be overthrow.
DANGER OF THE FIRST DRINK.-You
are thinking like silly idiots when you
say there is no danger in the cup. l
know from the blood of five genera
tons of cider drinking ancestors in
my veins the danger there is in this
thing. There is not q scent of liquor
that is not pleasant to me, that would
not be precious drop on my tongue.
Look at me. Do l look like q man
easy to be overcome by temptation
Do you know my life? Go back and
learn it, and see what suffered, and
yet | say to you, with this background
of evidence [ declare to you, as !
value my manhood and my standing
and my soul, [ would not dare to
drink for three weeks a glass OF
liquor a day. That chasm yawns al
your feet, at my feet. Those who
say there is no danger in the first
glass of liquor do not recognize the
perils of hereditary weakness. W
FL. III. Murray.
SAVE THE CHILDREN.-Forty years
ago in Edwards County, H., an ole
Cumberland Presbyterian minister
went into every school district in tina
county and taught the boys and girl:
temperance, and pledged them to tota
abstinence and for prohibition. Ed
wards County at that time was a grea
drinking place, and its case seemed
almost a hopeless one. But this hum
BILE and faithful soul saw a work to bc
F done and he did it, though he was
doubtless called fool, fanatic anc
crank. Ten years went by and those
children he taught and pledged were
grown up, and 10! behold 1t was
temperance army that said to thu
saloon " Col" and go it had to, anC
for nearly thirty years that count.
has been rid Of that abominable bosom
of destruction. Edwards county has
been blessed her taxes are light, he
paupers are few She has sent bu
one man to the penitentiary in twenty
five years, and he got liquor in anothe
2 county that caused him to commit tn
crime. Dear friends, do you go t.
: work with the children, if you can Sc
no other work to do, and, as in Ed
wards County so in Effingham County
the children shall drive the saloon out
; Drunkards we can seldom reform, bu
we can save the children and stop tn
making of drunkards out of them, ant
: in few years we shall find them on
1 test soldiers in the warfare for temper
ance, for God and home and Nativ
;, Land. So to work, to work at once
Let no precious time be wasted
| Pioneer.