Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-05-31

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The regular meeting OF the W.C.TU.
will meet at the residence of Mrs. VIM
Stone SEN. Friday afternoon June LIST
at Soclock
0 thou invisible spirit of wine If we
have no other name by which to call
thee, let us call thee the Devil Shakes
peare.
An old Legend says that the devil
gave hermit the choice Of three great
vices. one Of which was drunkenness.
The hermit chose this as being the least
sinful He became drunk, and COM
mitted the other two.
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Temperance puts wood on the fire,
meal in the barrel, flower in the tub,
money in the purse, contentment in the
house and clothes on the bairns.-Ben-
janin franklin.
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The Supreme court Of Nebraska has
decided that woman may sue and re-
cover money her husband has squan-
dered for liquor.
Mrs. Carse, President of the w. c.
Z. U. Of Chicago and who conceived
the grand idea Of the Temperance tenn
pie. was nominated to fill vacancy in
the Board of Education of Cook county.
Mrs. Carse received five votes, Mr.. Cut
ting her opponent receiving eight votes.
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The antisaloon war that is being
waged in many of the large cities Of the
country is one of the most significant
movements of the times, Boston is the
latest city to take up the cudgels and
she has secured the passage by the
state legislature of measure known
as the limitation license act.
The bin proposes to limit the number
of liquor licenses to one for every 500
inhabitants in Boston, and one for every
/ 1000 inhabitants elsewhere in the state
There are now about 1900 saloons in
the capital city Of the Bay state and the
new law will reduce the number to $50.
/ just why the New England metrop-
oils far famed as a center of literary
and esthetic culture, should require
twice as many drinking places as other
towns in the same state is not readily
apparent to those who are unfamiliar
with the ways of Yankee legislators,
yet the temperance people are said to be
oongratulating themselves upon having
achieved even such limited success as
this.
Chicago, some time ago, set about
cutting down the number of her drink
ing places Philadelphia has reduced hers
in about the same rates as Pittsburg,
and from all parts Of Pennsylvania come
reports OF material reduction in the
number of places where liquors are
sold. In Ohio the Dow law is working
in the same direction, and unde its
local-optIon clause several towns and
villages of considerable size have sue
ceeded in making any sort Of liquor
selling illegal. Even in Cincinnati,
where the traffic has probably met less
opposition than in any large city in the
country, an attempt is now being made
to stop the Sunday sales
Michigan, New Jersy, Delaware, and
several other states have passed most
stringent liquor-laws, which will doubt
less result in diminishing the number of
saloons, and probably, in decreased
consumption of shmulants.
The liquor question seems to be solv-
ing ITSELF, and although as observed in
Pittsburg, the workings of the law bear
particularly hard upon saloon-keepers
for liyilyhood, yet it should be borne
in mind that the aim of temperance
legislation, as Of all other legislation, is
the greatest good of the greatest num-
Der, and that there are plenty of
business opportunities, aside from
liquor selling by which a man can
secure a comfortable living and at the
same time avoid the many annoyances
which seem inseperabe from that oc-
cupation. Pittsburg Dispatch.