The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-22
A MISTAKE.

dcuye.-Ne1u YorE IT10nne.
AMsTAKE.
The belief in the facility Of that 'controT
is the principal mistake of the compromise
sophists. A man Of strong will power, who
has contracted the stimulant habit late in
life, may manage to keep his appetite in
check, under favorable circumstances, though
any unforeseen veXation may tempt him to
''drown his misery' in the Lethe of his tip
pie; and, at all events, his fight against the
power of such temptations will make bis life
a ceaseless pull against the stream OF per-
verted instincts. Younger and more emo
tional persons, on the other hand, will sooner
or later surrender themselves to the current
of that stream Their power of resistance de-
creases as the insidious appetite grows, and
before long the ''goo,d familiar spirit" Of
their harmless stimulsut" assumes the sway
of relentless despot- t-Holce.
LIFE INSURANCE AND LAGEE-BEER.
Rev. Father Cleary, Of Wisconsin, Presi
dent of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America, in an address in Philadelphia
said:
"Now the statement I am about to make
will be new to great many i'll this large all.
dience. come from the State of Wisconsin.
live in the suburbs Of the great city OF Nil.
waukce, where the best lager-beer is brewed
that is brewed in America. They tell us that
this lager-beer is especially good for mans
tealth, that it conduces TO longevity, and Is
health-giving and inspiriting liquid. Now,
the Northwestern Life Insurance Company
Of Milwaukee, that was established i'll Mil.
waukee about thirty years ago, all OF whose
directors are, think, wealthy men IN the city
of Milwaukee and in the State Of Wisconsin,
having lived neighbors to this large beer
business, they have watched its growth and
its influence OH the consumers; and what con-
clusion has the Northwestern Life Insurance
Company come to? Knowing all about the
healthfulness of lager-beer, it has come tc
the conclusion that for the protection of its
own business, it can no longer grant Life In
slrance policy to lager-beer brewer, to hn
clerk, to his book-keeper, or to any man EN-
ployed in lager-beer brewery. Why? Be
cause they say: Our statistics show that oul
business has been injured by the shortened
lives of men who drink lager-beer. In my
opinion there is no stronger argument thai
this against indulging in lager-5eer or any
alcoholic stimulant. If the life insurance
companies, familiar with this subject, have
come to this conclusion, what must not Sensi
BILE men conclude who have regard FOL
strength and length of days.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
In New Zealand no married woman can
legally keep a saloon.
The natives of Damascus call drunken men
victims of ''The English Disease"
An Eastern whisky trust has been formed,
10 cooperate with the Western trust to force
up prices.
The New York Pioneer says that 20: 600
tickets at 81 each were sold for the annual re.
ception of tho Wine. liquor and Beer Dealers
Association of New York city.
Of all our industrial classes, says Neal DOW,
one man i'll twenty is untitled by the lquor
traffic for steady and continuous work; un-
fitted, indeed, for anJ work at ALL
TWENTY-FIVE State Legislatures besides the
National Government, have made scIentlilc
temperance a compulsory school study LII
their respective States and Territories.
Walter Thomas Mills says: The closing of
the Civil War turned out Of employment more
men, q dozen to one, than will the obstruction
Of tine saloon. The saloon is an enterprise de
voted to the destruction OF me 4, ana properly
and like the Civil War, it will be an occasion
for rejoicing when its dcvaStationS snall
cease. no matter how many men should lose
a place in IFS work ot ruin.
A temperance speaker in Evanston recently
sail that one sin-curscd town Ill LIMOS mas
3OO3 inhabitants. SOD children of school age,
thirty saloons, ard not one ProtcStanC or
Catholic church spirc. The forces OF evil III
this town pay 5000 a year for the privilege
of running souls while the Christian church
sends one young man to pFearh fore ,ne "oS'ee
Nore than two-thirtls OF the present popula-
ton of the United States are now under tenn
nIrauce education laws. Accepting the adj
mitted estimate that the entire present school
uopulation OF this country is 1S,000,000, two
thirds would be u, QUO, O00 children for whom
law has provided the education in favor Of
total abstinence that results from learning
the nature and effects OF alcoholic drinks and
othe- narcotics.