River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-10-14
Temperance.
Conducted BY THEW. CT. u
Mrs. G. d. Parker, a Miss nenriett

For God and Home and NatiUe Land.
Mrs. G. d. Parker, Miss Henriett
Cameron and Mrs II. l.. Pearce were
elected delegates to the Sth dist. con
ventiOn, to be held at Hudson Oct. u.s.
20 and q.
A returned missionary says: 1.-THE
rum trade is the great curse of West
Africa, far greater obstacle to the
success of our missionaries than any
thing we find in heathenism. They
have few native intoxicants there and
the manufacture of palm wine could
be easily controlled, if it were not for
the importation of rum from Christian
countries. When my husband aud l
returned to Africa ten years ago the
vessel carried four missionaries and
10000 gallons of rum"
No one need fear to take the Voice
from the p. o., as it will be stopped at
the expiration of the SUBSCRIPTION,
and it is not sent to any one unless his
subscription has been paid, by him
self or others, In advance.
The Unions thanks are due to the
authorities who caused the downfall
of the screens from windows and doors
on Sundays. Wouldn't it be well to in
crease the penalty for selling to minors!
We appreciate "steps."
d. r. Locke Nasty, in an article on
Prohibition, in the North American
Review says:
There is not family that they 1.-THE
saloon keeper do not threaten, nor one
that is ontside of their influence. 1t
is this aggressive feature of the trade
which has awakened a demand Tor the
interposition of the law to prohibit
instead of restraining. Heavy taxa :
ton of the traffic has no effect, for the
profits of the business are so great
that no taxation has ever peen reached
that they could not laugh at
1t is the great trouble with the rum
trade that producers die off too soon.
If liquor could be invented that
would grip mankind as whiskey does,
and at the same time leave the victim
strong to earn money the trade would
be better. But as the appetite not
only destroys the power of earning
money but cuts the thread of life
early, new recruits must be made all
the time. II is to the youth of their
localities that saloon-keepers look for
their victims, and they are as sure to
find them as they are permitted to
exist at all. Prohibition in Maine
saves the boys of Maine.
Where prohibition is the boys are
saved No dealer would dare
to sell to boy, much less go out and
hunt for him. And this is exactly what
was aimed at 10y the makers of the law
The confirmed drunkard will have it
any way, and it makes but little diff.
ference whether he has it or not. The
thieves, gamblers and prostitutes will
have it, and it makes but little differ
ence how soon liquor wipes them out,
but the hunt for the boy is at an end.
The law is evade ed to the extent of
finishing up the stock on hand but
the supply of new material is cut off.
When the seller dare not sell to the
youth, the liquor business has a very
short life. This prohibition has done
for Kansas and Iowa as well as for
Maine.
Prohibition is a certainty in this
country and that within few years.
Every civilized nation on the earth is
looking for some cure for the greatest
evil that afllicts earth. The fact that
all countries are trying to regulate
it is an admission that it is an evil
and the centuries have demonstrated
that there is no sense in trying to
regulate an evil. Evils are to be killed
not regulated. The question of to-day
is not whether the individual man
shall have the right to poison himself,
but whether an organization shall
have the right by means of a poison to
demoralize mankind for profits. 1t is
a question that every one is interested
in. 1t is a question whether the law
can be made to restrain the criminal
maker, as well as the criminal.
In short whether the community has
the right to protect its weaker men,
bers against organized Generalization.
That communities have this right is
the assertion of ProhibitiOnists and
who shall say that their position Is
not impregnable.