The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-18
:. TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

LET every laborer know this fact.
That at least one full hours toll Of
each days labor is his tax for the sup.
port of the dram shops of America
ReU j. Fl. Sherman. u
The mar who growls at mis- wife's
silly notion in spending her spare time
in making a .crazy-quilt should be
! more sensible than to spend his own
/ time in beer saloon matching pieces
of dotted bone in domino playing
Fail RiUer AdUaasce. +;
AN exchange argues that distilling
alcohol can not be SO very bad, since
it has been the custom of all nations
from the earliest recorded time. The
writer has a good case, but while he
was about it he should have said good
word for sin, which dates back to the
first MANN 7. Independent.
REV. T. De WITT TAI.MAGE, in a
recent sermon on newspapers, is re-
ported as saying: "The reporter is ex-
posed to irregular habits and scores of
other things, and he flies to strong
drink for relief. This is what made
Horace Greeley such a strong Temper
ance man. He told me in my own
house: i have seen so many newspa-
per men fall that | can hardly bear to
look at liquor. !" 376a hi
THERE is one dreadful evil over
spreading the whole land which makes
havoc of our working men-the evil
of incompetence. Unless you make
distinct and positive efforts against
it you will be neglecting an evil which
is eating out the very heart of society,
destroying domestic life among our
working classes, and perhaps doing
greater injury than any other cause
that could be named in this age
Lord archbishop of Caater6urg
DR.. ABBOTT, of the Massachusetts,
State Board of Health, says: "There
have been reported in that State during
the past forty years just seventy-five
deaths from hydrophobia." Now if
some of the red-nosed people who have
been so excited over hydrophobia win
gather the statistics of the number of
people killed by whisky in Massachu-
sets in the past forty years, it would
be interesting to try the case of mad
dogs VS.. whisky, and see which is the
greater enemy of mankind Chicago
Inter Ocean.
EHE Lici11g Church says: 1.-THE Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia has
published in his diocese the decisions
of the recent Plenary Council of Balt:-
more in regard to the sale of liquors
on Sunday. He has announced that
all Roman Catholics under his iurisdic-
ton must either abstain from selling
intoxicants on Sunday or leave the
church. Should they disregard this in
junction the priests will refuse to grant
them dissolution, and thus deprive them
of the sacraments. The Archbishop
stated that the decree had been affirmed
by the Vatican, and would be enforced
all over the United States. We shall
hope to hear of its publication in Chi
cago soon,
IHAVE just spent six months in a
country place of Switzerland. where
the people do nothing but work in the
vineyards; where wine is cheap and
pure, and far more the beverage of the
laboring class than water. Here more
intoxication was obvious than in any
other place it was ever my lot to live
in. On holidays and festal occasions
you might suppose all the male popula-
ton drunk, SO great is the number in
this degraded and beastly condition.
Intelligent Germans inform me that
this is the great social evil of theiz
country, a place where wine, if NOT
very cheap, is never adulterated, and
where great quantities of it are drunk.
--lsev. E. 5. Lacy, of Saa francisco.