The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03
STRONG OPINIONS.

nOlNNsN Vt tisiOtNOs
Testimony Against Alcohol Given by
Philosophers, Statesmen. Physicians
and Warriors.
Abstinence is easy, moderation inn
possible. DR.. Samuel johnson.
Inever use it; am more afraid of it
than of Yankee bullets, Stonewalr'
Jackson, on being offered glass of
brandy-and-lcater
/ do think that Water-drinkers
will upset the world, and turn it around
with much better face to us when
they have done with it.-Richdrd Cob
den, IL. P.
Woe to the crown of pride, to the
drunkards of Ephriam, whose glorious
beauty Is faded flower, which are Of
the head of the fat valleys of them that
are overcome with wine-Bible.
For thirty years l have been a Tenn
perance man, and 1 am too old to
change.-AbrahGnl Lincoln refusing
a0lale offered han. at Cincinnati seheR OD
his a0ay to take the reinS Of Government.
Would all the officers unite in setting
the soldiers an example of total absti-'
nence from intoxicating drinks, it
would be equal to an addition of $4,000
men to the armies OF the United States.
'-General Nc ClellGn.
Here in the old country, the drink
power is for the present, well-nigh ON
hipotent, gagging the pulpit, and con-
trolling the State to melancholy eX-
tent, while the surging tide of drink
Generalization is filing the land with
violence and crime. Battle Leo
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 me6i-
ocrity, and vice in extremes, | see no
ground for it. In gifts it is not the
sum that maketh hberality. 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 th only means of
attaining the habit of Temperance in
the use of strong drinks, among the
great mass, of mankind. in the present
state of society.-J0hn Forbes, M. d., T.
r. s., Physician to Her Majesty House
| hold.
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 m5n,
than at the head of two or three times
that number of topers. General VIM
field Scott
have the satisfaction to remark
that although the crew suffered some-
what from scurvy, they have all re-
TUNED, to q man, in comparative
health, which l 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 pri0ate 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 marches,i
whisky, rum and other alcoholic slim
ulants were regarded as little benefit.
-Lieattendnt Greely
1t must stand as an historic truth
that one bold, humane man, planting
himself on the rock of Temperance,
and supplementing 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.-Jadge
Noah DaUiS, Of Father MatheaO.
Never shall my hand or voice be
lifted against so called Temperance
fanatics. If ever cause justified fa-
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 tho
face, not with the gore of battle, but
with the horrible DETACHMENT 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,
from the Crimea.
Having the public houses open on
Sunday is a 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 a time when they have
money in their pockets. We know
what the lower class is; they have not
sufficient control 10 withstand their
own passions, and thereby the money
is spent which they might reserve for
their families.-R. z. CtGme1s, q keeper
of public house IN London a0kO closes
has house on Sa71ddy.
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-
hoiic liquors, so far from being bene-
fetal, are positively injurious. The
operation of alcohol is essentially that
of stimulus-being followed by cor
responding depression of power
When eXhilaration is produced there is
corresponding depression.--D. W. r.
Carpenter.
1t 1.-THE liquor trafficl begets reckless
ness, carelessness and utter Indifference
to and disregard of the rights, the in
terests and the happiness of others. 1t
invites, encourages and necessarily de-
velopes all that is base, degrading and
dangerous in man, and destructive of
good government, good order and COM
mon decency. 1t is nursery for the
development and growth of those