The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-09-01

-MRs ADA BITTENBENDER, OF Lin ,olp,
Neb., is Superintendent OF Legislation
and Petition, of the Women's National
Christian Temperance Union. She is now
in Washington in the interests of that es.
pecial work. From the report made by
Hon. a. W. Blair, from the Committee
on Education and Labor, to the United
States Senate, we make the following ex-
tracts from her argument, sub nitted to
the committee on behalf of the Union.
''The main argument used against
State prohibitory legislation is that pro-
hibition does not prohibit. By this cry,
necessarily kept up, advocates of the
saloon system hope longer to stave off
consideration of the truth, SO we'll known
to you, gentlemen Of the committee, that
complete legislation prohibiting the nefa-
rious traffic has never been enacted in
this country. and never will be until leg
islation takes the form of controlling it
from the point of manufacture, or place
OF entering our nations domain to the
mouth OF consumers, and that this can
not be until the national branch Of this
complex government, instead of recog-
nizng alcoholic beverages as lawful COM
merce, and instead OF giving them protec.
ton and license under its internal revs.
nue. laws shall have united with State
branches in legislating for their destruc.
ton.
Rather than as cause for doubling
the method, to us it is simply marvellous
that under the antsgonism of the Nation
al Government, the so-called prohibition
States have succeeded in suppressing
the internal traffic''in intoxicants to the
extent they have. The only obitacle
found in the wsy of entire success, is this
national antagonism. This it is which
furnishes the means for the willy tempter
to beguile, and the victims, already on
the downward road to drunkards' graves,
to obtain the liquid fire and send
them on to the fatal ending-this it is
which begets the lying and other i'm
moral conduct in connection with sur
reptitiously obtaining this demon of the
cup. Not prohibition, but the anti-pro-
hibitory Nation al Government, the parti-
ceps crinainis with King Alcohol, must
answer the charge for making possible
such immortality"
g. e. MEREDITH, in writing of the
sources OF Mr.. Arm bids Power in the
Church Review, after speaking of the
difference between him and Carlyle, or
Ruskin, or TennysoD or Browning, says:
in all Mat shew Arnold's writings there
was nothing equal to the writer. How
few pages it took to know himI And
once that was done what joy he wac.
The charm did not depend upon his be-
ing indisputab!y right in all his judg-
ments, in all applications of his methods
of thought; it continued in the face of
the certainty that this he was not. Nor
was it only result of the keen intellect
ual pleasure, the exhilaration produced
by the cleaTnsss Of his thought and style.
1t came from something more personal
than this. 1t added to our admiration of
the poetry and criticism with their high
ideal and aim, q sense of pride and tri-
umph, as though they were the works Of
some one who belonged to us individu.
ally" Another proof this of the immense
value of the personal power in any work
to be done. A proof that, to do any real
effective work in the world, man must
be greater than his work. The achieve
ment, whatever it is, must be born of the
man, not the man bolstered by the
achievement. There is a wide and sor-
rowful difference between the failure of
the endesvor while the man remains stout
as ever, and the failure of the man, while
some endeavor Of his life lasts, as a mon
ument Of what he might have been. Per-
sonal character is the only real achieve
ment after all.
Mn. BOWLING has resigned the pas
torate of the Baptist church at Cleveland, |
o., which he has held now for eleven |
years. His letter Of resignation is a man
ly avowal of principle. He says, The |
only tribunal of appeal which know in !