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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23
Important Documents.

The decision of the United States
Supreme Court in the Kansas brewery
cases has been published by the Ma
tional Temperance Society in neat
pamphlet form. The dissenting opin.
ion of Justice Field is included. The
decision is one of the most important
Temperance documents ever issued.
The same society publishes a fac-simile
of the infamous hand-bill circulated
among the colored people of Atlanta by
the whisky party during the recent
campaign in that city. A cut is print
ed representing Abraham Lincoln strik-
ing off the shackles from the slave, and
below this is gwen pretended extract
from one of his addresses. warning the
people against prohibition. The Pres
ident is made to say that ga prohibit.
DRY law strikes blow at the very prin.
ciples on which our Government was
founded" There can be no doubt that
this poster turned many votes in favor
of license. But what can be thought
of class of men who could commit
such foul act as this, who could thus
drag the martyred Lincoln from his
grave and put lie between his lips for
the purpose of carrying out their own
vile ends. There is surely no crime too
black for the rum party to commit in
the furtherance of its schemes. The
saloon breeds crime rs naturally as
noisome swamp breeds disease. Theft,
arson. forgery, assault, perjury, Of
lenses against decency, wife-beating
and murder are only part of its
numerous progeny.-M. y Observer
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23

hension is not merely In regard to the
ruin and havoc it will bring to the
drunkard's home; but especially con-
corning its effects upon sober Christ
ians, in debauching their consciences
and confusing their ethics. When l
tell you that there are cities in Ger
many where prostitution is not only
licensed, but made so respectable that
the candidates for the harlot's profess
sion are required to bring a certificate
that they have been confirmed in the
Established church before their permit
can be granted. you can see what the
principle of license leads to. If we
have not yet reached this depth of
shame in our country, we are on the
way to it, when ministers of Christ
are found riding in Tetzel's indul.
gence wagon, and lending their sane
ton to the auctioning off of licenses to
the rum sellers-'high licenses it may
be-which are as respectable as the
confirmation certificates just referred
to, but which lead just as surely to the
lowest hell"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23
WHAT DOCTORS SAY.
Beer "Kills Quicker Than ANY Other
Liquor Fruitful Source Of Many

Beer "Kills Quicker Than Any Other
Liquor Fruitful Source Of Many
Diseases.
In answer to an inquiry by CORE
spondent the Voice says:
Not long ago Mr.. ID. R Locke. of the
Toledo Blade. interviewed ten of the
principal physicians of that notoriohsly
beer-guzzling city This is some of the
testimony:
DR.. S. H. Bergen, of thirty-five
years practice, said: 1T kills quicker
than any other liquor. Pneumonia,
pleurisy, fever, ETC., have first mort
gage on the beer-drinker.
DR.. S. S. Thorne: "In regard to
surgical operations every physician
breads to have any thing to do with
beer-drinkers. 1t is dangerous for d
beer-drinker to even cut his finger"
DR.. NJ H. Parmalee: "Beer is worse
than whisky, the hops contained in the
beer producing congestion of the liver,
dyspepsia and kindred diseases. Habit
ual beer drinkers seem to have no con-
stitutional power to resist disease
DR.. W. T. Ridenour: "Beer-dritk-
ers are very liable to die ofpneumonia,
and when d confirmed beef-drinkef
takes pneumonia he dies
Dr. S. S. Lungren: every part of
the body of confirmed beer-drinker
becomes loaded down with morbid and
poisonous matter, and every part will
soon fall into ruin and decay"
DR.. j. T. Woods: Lager beer, if
used at all, should be used as medi-
cine, as ipecac, quinine, rhubarb and
strychnine."
DR.. c. A. Klrkley: "There is no more
fruitful source of Bright's disease than
beer-drinking. The evil effects are not
confined to the consumers Of the bev=
erage, but are transmitted to their off
SPRING"
Dir C. w. Chapman: 81 regard beer
as harmful as ardent spirits, brandy
and whisky, as it produces fatty de-
generation of the heart, liver and kid
neys."
DR.. G.. A. Collamore: Beer-drink-
ing produces morbid effect upon the
heart, lungs, brain, stomach, liver and
kidneys. The brain is kept in a hyper
emic condition which prevents normal
cerebratioh or the accurate use of the
mental faculties:
DR.. w. II. Mays, superintendent of
the Stockton Ola. Insane Asylum. in
his ninth biennial report to the State
Board of Health, has the following ON
beer-drinking:
Nothing will lower the vital forces
so steadily and surely, nothing will de-
generate the organic tissues SO rapidly
as the use of beer every day, and year
after year. 1t coarsens man in APP
pearance, in morals, in mental fiber,
in physical constitution. 1t is more
productive of brutality, sensualism,
and the lower forms of crime than is
whisky-drlnking. 1t is the beverage OF
the Bill Sykes, of the vulgar rulfian,
the bestial tramp
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23
PROHIBITION NOTES,

AsAYING for Southern Prohibitionists
to think over: Local Option is too To-
cal and too optional.
AGITATION may be the life of trade,
but it is the death of the liquor trade.
Therefore agitate. Voice.
THERE is more than man to elect,
There is more than party to win,
There's torrent Of evil to check,
There's victory to gain over sim"
The Central Prohibition Committee
of Illinois will hold an immense con-
vention at Springfield on May 10,
after which it expects to put twenty
tents in the field.
THOSE who are clamoring for public
sentiment to be educated before we 60
any further with prhibitory law, in
variably mean that some one else
should do the educating.
The Prohibition students of Williams
College have formed Club with the
following officers: President H. w.
Austin, Jr; vice-president E. d.
Beach; secretary and treasurer, E. S.
Merrill.
The Prohibition party is the only one
that even sings at its meetings that
beautiful hymn "Rescue the Perish
ing" The others. be it said to their
credit have not the efrontery to do it.
They are not engaged IN that business.
"lF the abuse of this Qiquor) traffic
could be prevented, there would follow
an immediate and very large reduc-
ton in the general criminal business
of the city, by which the moral tone
would be raised and taxation would be
lessened. "-Mayor Hewit, Of New
York.
WRITES a Tennessee clergyman, who
is disguised with the old parties: Il
will not stand on whisky barrel or
beer keg in order to reach the ballot
box" About 10000 other clergymen
have made up their minds to the same
thing in the last few months. It is
tidal wave that is coming inn r
Toice.
CONNECTICUT is thoroughly organic
ing for the coming Prohibition cam
paign. Very large and enthusiastic
conventions have been held in Wind
ham, Fairfield, Tolland, Middlesex.
New London, Litchfeld and New Ha-
ven Counties. Each convention re-
vealed strong interest and greatly
strengthened Prohibition party feel
ing. Funds for the campaign were
raised
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23
STRONG DRINK.

When God Says "Woe" No Government
Has a Right To Say "Weal."
The following article, strongly point
ing out the responsibility and duty of
the church in relation to the liquor
question, is taken from the Caristiaa
Herald, of Detroit and written by Rev.
DR. A. j. Gordon, for that paper:
Prohibition is the only salvation. 1
am speaking for the church now. And
l am free to say that unless she is de-
liberately ready to make "A covenant
with death and an agreement with
hell her voice ought to be unanimous
for the prohibition of the manufacture
and sale of strong drink. If that were
her voice, Government and legislators
and Congressman would not be long
in hearing of it and acting ac-
cordingly. 1t should be enough for
the Christian that his Bible says:
"Woe unto him that giveth his
neighbor drink. that puttest thy bottle
to him and makest him drunken For
when God says. Woe no government
has the right to say Veal. If then
we are so far gone in apostacy. that
Nation. and State. and city are found
playing the role of Tetzel. and ped
ding indulgences to those menslayers
and home-destroyers, whether under
the name of high license or low license,
it is certainly time for Luther - be
heard from, in every Christian pulpit
throughout the land. To me it is as
clear as day what the voice of the
church ought to be on this question,
unless she is ready to be left behind in
working Righteousness. and to be OUT
moraled by the moralist, and out-hu-
manized by the humanitarian.
Il tremble to think what half CEN
fury more of legalized license of the
liquor traffic will do for our country, if
it shall be permitted. And my appre-
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23
GIVE 1T A REST:
Why the Devotee of the "Ruddy Bumper"
Is Tired in the Morning.

Why the Devotee of the "Ruddy Bumper
Is Tired in the Morning.
DR.. B. w. Richardson, of London,
the noted physician, says he was re-
Gently able to convey considerable
amount of conviction to an intelligent
scholar by simple experiment. The
scholar was singing the praises of the
''ruddy BUMPER and saying that he
could not get through the day without
it, when DR.. Richardson said to him:
"Will you feel my pulse as l stand
here?'
He did so.
l said: Count 1t carefully; what
does it say?''
your pulse is scventy-four."
l then sat down in chair, and asked
him to count again. He did so, and
said:
"Your pulse has gone down to sew
enty."
l then lay down on the lounge, and
said:
xviii you take it again?'
He replied: "Why, it is only sixty
four; what very extraordinary
thing"
l then said: "When you lie down
at night, that is the way nature gives
your heart rest. You know nothing
about it, but the beating organ is rest
ing to that extent; and if you reckon
it up it is great deal of rest, because
in lying down the heart is doing ten
strokes less minute. Multiply it by
sixty and it is 600; multiply it by eight
hours, and within fraction it is 1000
strokes different; and as the heart is
throwing six ounces of blood at every
stroke, it makes a difference of 10000
ounces of lifting during the night
When lie down without any alcohol,
that is the rest my heart gets; but
when you take your wine or grog you
do not allow the rest, for the influence
of alcohol is to increase the number of
strokes. and instead of getting the
rest you put on it something like 49,
600 extra strokes, and the result is you
rise up very seedy and unfit for the
next days work till you have little
more of the 'ruddy bumper which you
say is the soul of man here below"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23
TEMPERANCE,
TO A BROKEN WHISKY JUG.

Thou shattered fragments OF polluted clay!
Gods mold accursed by mans most cruel
foe!
Of flery blood that from thee flows away,
Each atom tells a tale of deepest woe.
From out thy mouth hath gurgled sin ana
shame
Sufice to people He'll with vice unspoken;
This DROP that fingers on thy lips, can claim
A mothers yearning heart once to have
broken.
The spoonful, left in this, the smallest piece
OF thy wrecked self, is proud to know it slew
A man, who, fortune-tossed, sought sweet sur
cease
or grief and to its constant temptings few.
The dregs that on thy f1inty bottom lie
Well represent dead hopes and loves Of
those
Who ere they knew thy poison, could descry
Their future lives as fair as opening rose;
But who now crouch, defled. beneath the rot
OF crime-to degradation bound annealed;
BY friends Of other days disdained, forgot,
Without home this side of Potter's Field
The very soil that drinks thy baneful blood,
1t seems would taste not Heavens dew again;
Or, penitently pray the clouds to flood
Away its sin in purifying rain.
Charles s. Blackburn. in ArkansaD 7rareler.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23
Beef Tea Better Than Wine.

A young lad was knocked down by
a team in a London street and taken
to a large hospital. One morning the
doctor examined him, and said:
Nurse, give him two glasses of port
wine daily" And, looking kindly at
the lad, he said: "You will get on
very well. my boy"
The young patient looked up and
replied: please, sir, don't order me
the wine"
"Why not, my boy?"
IF you please. l belong to Band
of Hope"
"Oh," answered the doctor, "do
you? Well. nurse, give him pint of
new milk in the morning and as much
beef-tea as he likes" And. laughing
cheerily, he said to the boy: You
will get ON very well, my lad"
And he got quite well without the
wine.-M W. c. I. u BslletiM
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23

The National Temperance Adrocate
says: ut is authoritatively stated by
those best informed that the Liquor
Dealers Association of this country
has expended within the past year
more than $500. coo 70 defeat cOnstitu-
tional prohibition in Michigan, Texas,
Tennessee and Oregon. and in fight
ing Temperance legislation in the
various States, and especially in re-
versing the verdict of Atlanta"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23
ON THE NEW cAMP.GRouND.

We're tenting tonight on the new camp
ground:
Give US . song to cheer
Our earnest hearts; song for homo
And friends we love SO dear.
Many are the hearts that are hopeful tonight,
Praying for this woe to cease;
MANY are the hearts looking to the right,
To bring the dawn of peace;
Eenting tonight, tenting tonight,
Tenting on the new camp ground.
We were tenting OF late on the old camp
ground,
Enduring all the wrong,
To loved ones and home in this free land,
Thinking not it would be long.
But we're tired Of deceit on the old camp
ground;
Many are the dead and gone
OF the brave and true whom the arch-fend
Rum,
Had held in bondage long.
So we're fighting to-day for our new camp
ground;
Many are falling near,
Thro' the power OF this curse, while some arc
dead,
Many are in tears.
Many are the hearts that are weary tonight
Longing for this woe to cease;
Many are the hearts looking to the right,
To bring their sure release.
Dying tonight, dying tonight,
Dying on tie old camp-ground.
" Y Iaice
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23

PROF. BUNGE, of the University Of
Basic, Switzerland. and four of his stu.
dents have signed the total abstinence
pledge. A number of persons have
been induced to take the pledge by
reading his PAMPHLET: 1.-The Alcohol
Question.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23

sion after you nave ODt alned IL, ana so
unsatisfactory even if you keep it. The
whisk of lady's fan may blow it out.
The growl Of one bear or the believing of
one bull on Wall street may scatter it.
knew a highly moral man, useful in
the church and possess0f Of q bright
home. He had a useful and prosperous
business, but his wife lid not think it
genteel enough. There were odors about
the business and sometimes they would
adhere to his garments when he returned
at night. She insisted on his doing some
thing more elegant, although he was
qualified for no business except that in
which he was engaged. To please her he
changed his business, and, in order to get
on faster, aban doned church attendance,
saying after he had made a certain num-
bar of hundreds OF thousands of dollars
he would return to the church and its serv.
ices. Where is that family to-day
Obliterated. Although succeed ing in bust.
ness for which he was qualified, he under
took q style of merchandise for which be
had no qualification, and soon went into
bankruptcy. His new style Of business
put him into evil association. He lost his
morals as we'll as his money. He broke
up not only his own home, but broke up
ano Their mans home, and from being a
kind, pure. generous. moral man as any
Of you who sit here to-day, has become Z
homeless, penniless libertine. His wife's
ambition for . more genteel business de.
stroyed him and disgracsd her, and
blighted their only child.
But suppose now there be in our homes,
as, thank God, there are in hundreds Of
homes here represented. on the wifely
throne one who says not only by her
words, but moro powerfully by her &C.
lions:
"My husband, our destinies are united;
let % see where industry, honesty. COM
mon sense and faith in God will put rs.
am with You in all your enterprises. ]
can not be with you in person a. you 60
TO your daily business, but will be with
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23


temple is done. You will stand in the
everlasting rest and see your husband
come in, and see your children come in, "
thew have not preceded you. Glorifisd
Christian wife! Pick up any crown you
choose from of the Kings footstool and
wear it: it was promised you long ago,
and with it cover up all the scars of your
earthly conflict
Sixtee en- miles from st. Petersburg, Rus.
sia, was one of the royal palaces, and
there one night Catherine, the Empress,
entertained Prince Henry. 1t was severe
winter and deep snow, and the Empress
and the Prince rode in a magnificence Of
sleigh and robe and canopy never sur.
passed, followed by two thousand sleighs
laden with the first people OF Russia, the
whole length Of the distance Illuminated
by lamps and dazzling temples built for
that one night, and limitations Of
mosques and Egyptian pyramids;
and people of all nations in all
styles Of costume standing on platforms
along the way and watching the blazs Of
the pyrotechnics. At the palace the lux
uries of kingdoms were gathered and
spread. and at the tables the guests had
but to touch the center of a plate, and by
magical machinery it dropped and an.
other plate came up loaded with still
richer viands. Bat all that scene Oh
the long ago shall be eclipsed by
the greater splendors that will be
gathered at the banquet made by the
Heavenly King for those consecrated
women who came in out OF the winter
and snowy chill Of their earthly existence
into the warm and iIlumined palaces OF
| Heaven. With the King himself and all
the potentates, yourself robed and
crowned, you will sit at table compared
with which all the feasts at Kenilwortn
and st. Cloud and the Alhambra were .
beggar's crust. And the platter OF one
royal satisfaction touched at the center
shall disappear, only to make room t~
the coming of some richer and grandss
reRalemenk
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-10

ANTHOLOGY AGENTS. f'r Min. Needles
w -ana-yc Cprse:s Exclusive territory given.
ST. L,u.> Corset co., 80. Louis, 40. II
Name tbs lQNeg.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-10

Grand Thing for Agents. Bit P]lFifS
Used by everyone sells at Sight New STYLE
Pocket ana Household Tools Send IS cents 70
samples OF stamp for circular
c. a, ROYCE, Springfield, Mass.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-26

A WASHINGTON dispatch says the Senate
committee has agreed to report favorably the
claim Of William McGarrahan to certain min
ing property in California, and the House
committee will probably make similar re-
port. "'The McGarrahan claim" has figured
In Congress for more than quarter OF a CEN
fury. Its name is familiar to everybody, and
the claimant himself is very widely known in
political circles Billy McGarrahan, as he is
called, has been familiar figure in Washing
ton for more than twenty years His claim
covers large body of mining land embracing
the New Idria quicksilver mines and other
property OF great value, which he claims to
own by virtue of an early Mexican grant, or
something Of that kind. 1t has been recog-
nized and favorably reported by several
committees of both houses of Congress, but
has never passed. McGarrahan has been the
most persistent lobbyist ever known in Wash
ington, and one of the most adroit. For
quarter of century his claim has been
his hobby, and he has brought to its pros
ecution wonderful degree of perseverance,
tact, shrewdness and skill. Years ago he had
money and used to spend it lavishly in wining
and dining members of Congress and others
whose friendship he desired. When his per-
sonal resources failed he stocked his claim
and was able to raise considerable money in
that way. Latterly he has been in pretty
hard lines and it has sometimes been a mys-
terry how he lived and kept up appearances,
for he is always well dressed and has the air
of gentleman. Though shrewd diplo-
matist and politician, McGarrahan is no parti-
Republicans and Democrats are alike to
him, his sole object being to make friends for
his claim. The proposition now is to refer
it to the Court of Claims for adjudication, the
report of that tribunal to be final If Billy
wins his case he can hardly expect to enjoy
his wealth long for he is getting well along
in wears.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-26
in years.

RICHARD V. TREvELLICK, of Detroit, who
has been visiting the mountain regions of the
West and Northwest in the interests of the
Knights of Labor, makes a point that is
worthy of attention. This is that the govern
ment should retain control Of mountain
streams on which the farmers and settlers liz
many localities depend for irrigating their
lands MIR. Trevellick says he found hun
dreds Of thousands of acres of the richest
lands depending upon irrigation for their pro-
duction. These great interior basins of val
uable land are surrounded by high mountain
peaks the tops of many of them perpetually
crowned with snow. These snow-clad noun
tains produce hundreds of beautiful streams,
that flow down to the valleys below, and
must be used for irrigation by the farmers
come almost a barren waste. In almost every
case these streams are controlled by corpora
tions, and their waters sold to farmers and
gardeners at such an enormous price that the
farmer and gardener must remain poor, no
matter how productive the soil or how hard
they may work. Justice to the American
people, and more especially to the farmer and
gardener, demands that these streams be pur-
chased and controlled by the federal gov
eminent in the interest of the whole people,
1t is great mistake for the government to
permit the control of these water supplies to
pass out of its hands. Eventually they will
become immensely valuable, and if controlled
by corporations or individuals will be made
the basis of extortion and tyranny that ought
not to be tolerated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-26

IT is now reported that Mr.. John M. West
colt, of Richmond, gentleman of ample
means and enterprise has purchased a con-
trolling interest in the Broad Ripple Natural
gas Company, and will at once add to its
capital, making it half-million dollars, and
proceed vigorously with the work of piping
the city and supplying gas. The present
company, it is known, has but limited
supply, and did not propose to do more, for
the present at least, than to supply restricted
portion of the city. Mr. Westcott with his
money and plans, will be warmly welcomed
The Broad Ripple company is the pioneer
company. It first came into the city, and
first began the actual work of supply. 1t is
to be hoped it will be able to add to it's gas
territory and wells at once, so that it can
afford to our manufacturers and people
copious supply of gas. We want the gas, no
matter by whom it is furnished, and Mr..
Westcott will find the people of Indianapolis
full of a warm welcome to him if he comes
with Immediate determination to do some
thing.