The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-02
PROGRESS OF TEMPERANCE.

PROGRESS OF TEMPERANCE.
Our "kin beyond the sen" arc ex-
tractiug whit comfort they may from
the annaal budget which shows among other
things that England is spending less on intox-
icating drinks as the years 60 on, and this I'm
spite of two conditions which ordinarily lead
to an increase--a distinct revival of trade and
an increase I'm population. In a recent speech
Mr.. .Goschen adduced evidence clearly showing
q STEADY growth Of national temperance
which old men all testify to be taking place,
but which young men, who only see what
enormous quantities of alcohol still go down
human tbroats in one form or another find
IL hard to believe"
DisregariiDg the pessimistic reasons as
signed by some of its contemporaries, tho
London Lancet sees i'm this fact proof of the
general increased temperance of the commu-
nifty, based largely on an intelligent percep-
ton OF its advantages and on acceptance of
the constant teaching OF medical men that
the conventional moderation Of past times
las been n real excess, productive OF much
! physical inconvenience and disease which
| may be easily avoided.
II this argument be well founded it may
reconcile the temperance advocates to the
| defeat of prohibition in Massachusetts, and
the results of the 1900 600 which 1t is said is to
be expended in Pennsylvania for the samo
purpose. Chicago NeWs.
POINTS FOR PROHIBITION.
The damage wrought to the physical health
| OF its citizens whereby they become unable
so become charge to society as paupers, or
! as inmates OF insane asylums or hospitals Is
| damage wrought to the State. The State
not only loses through the diminished pro-
posed upon it in maintaining amshouses and
asyluIns. What the State loses through in
| capacity to labor caused by the drink habit,
which is chiefly caused and fostered by the
| saloons, cannot easily be estimated, but the
cost of maintaining the victims of the drink
habit in almshouses and asylums, has often
been calculated.
Senator Blair says, on the basis of careful
| Investigation of statistics, that from two
thirds to four-f -ffths of the inmates of our poor
! houses are sent there by strong drink IT,.
State Board of Health of Massachusetts, mnc,e
an inquiry, the results Of which are given in
| their sixth report as to the proportion Of in
| mates in the almshouses Of the cities and
towns who were there by reason of strong
drink. In some cities the proportion ran as
high as 30 per cent The overseers of the
poor, according to the fifth report Of the
, Massachusetts, State Board Of Charities esti-
mated that the proportion of paupers who
| are drunkards ranges from one-tenth in some
localities to nine-tenths in others.-Inde-
pendent.
MEDICAL TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION.
The medical aspect Of the temperance ques-
tlcn is phase of the subject of temperance
which has not been given the prominence it
| deserves in this country.
In Great Britain there has existed for sew
eral years Medical Temperance Association
which publishes n quarterly magazine called
the Medical Temperance Journal.
Many of the most eminent physicians OH
both sides of the Atlantic abstain from the
use of alcohol both for themselves and pa
tients.
DR.. NJ S. Davis. of Chicago President of
the recent International Medical Congress-
says: II have prescribed no form of alco-
holic drink, ferinented or distilled, for inter
nal use In the treatment Of disease for forty
years, and find no need for any"
| DIR. DowSontt founder and Medical Direc-
tor of the International Medical ,ti6rter of a
! Snsia.y, PROPOSES the formation Of ali Ameri-
can Medical Temperance Association, to be-
composed of physi"ians in good standing of
physicians throughout this country and
Canada to send their names to him as willing
70 become members of such an association
tie desires the following points: L, name; 2,
,ollege and date Of graduation; 3, how Ion"
persoual abStinence; !. how long in practices
without aid Of alcohol.
1T WORKED WELL:
After tho late fire in Seattle prohibitions,
rclgned for several days Most of the dives
and saloons were burned and the mayor pro-
ni"ocd the rest from reopening. Thousands
V, ie,lonade stands sprung up and many
men began to appreciate temperance drinks.
new beverage, strawberry lemonade, had n
great sale and was pronounced by MANY.
even drinkers, to be better than beer Tenn
porary Prohi6ition worked well that q,
Petition was signed by more than a thousand
leading citizens, asking that all the saloons i'm
| .he CITY be Kept closed for three mouths in
the interests of rapid rebuilding
THE sALooN-EEEPER's IDEA OF LIBERTY.
They have in New York harbor q statute
oI lloerty-American liberty, and a grand
conception 1t is. But what would il be if
aodeled according to tho idea of the advo-
cato OF the liquor traffic? A reeling red
eyed, SOLDERING, debauched man, and at bis
iee1 woman crouched, with her hands mn
nIted TO the man who has been brutaIized by
,,rnt, nr1n, ou' VINO is her natural and sanctified
protector, her brow bleeding from blows in
uicted by his hands. That is the idea of
nnerty as conceived by the men who advo-
cate the salo"n.-Senator Coiquitt.
| TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Where twelve men made beer in the Wal
run brewery, Lawrence, Kan, 100 persons
nre now busy making shoes.