The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1890-07-04
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
Edited by Albany W, O. Il. U


The Lord Mayor, OF London, recently
entertained thirty-seven total abstinence
mayors from as many different cities In
England.
More than fifty Nebraska editors and
publishers have agreed TO sell space In
their regular news aud editorial columns
TO be filled with known falsehoods and
perverted statistics In favor Of the liquor
traffic.
II may seems strange, but IL is never
theless true, that alcohol regularly APP
piled TO the thrifty farmers stomach viii
remove the boards from the fence, let the
cattle into his crops, kill his fruit trees,
mortgage his farm and SOW his fields with
wild.oats and thiatles. IL will take the
paint off his buildings, break tho glass
out Of them and fill them with rags. II
will take the gloss from hia clothes and
the polish from his manners, aubduo his
reason, arouse his passions, bring sorrow
and disgrace upon his family aud topple
him into drunkard's grave. II win do
this 10 the artisan and capitalist, the ma
tron and malden,as well as 10 the farmer /;
for in its deadly onmity 10 the human
race, alcohol is no respector Of PERSONS
st Louis Christian Advocate.
The published minutes Of the non-pnr-
tisan w CT u gives the names Of 2GS
delegates present NJ their recent so-called
| National Convention. OF these 22A were
from Ohio, and Of those from Ohio 100
were from Cleveland, leaving ~ from out
side the boundaries OF the Buckeye state,
Of whom lb were from Pennsylvania,
making the total from nil other states o.
~. This IL significant indication oI thc
size Of the movement.
TIN National temperance soriety celc
brated its twenty.iifth anniversary May
18th, In New York City. "The review o
the twenty-five years Of work." says tht
National Temperance Advocate, "as givei
In part IN the annual report and IN th'
anniversary addresses, Is such rs IL
friends, and NIL opponents Ot the use q
intoxicanis aud oi the liquor traffic. ma,
well rejoice in. From the smallest be
: ginnings in the way oi creating temper
aBee literature. II has In the quarter of
century grown To the proportions Of
great publishing house, with over eight
cen hundred different publications upo
J its catalogue. Its missionary work j
Z many spheres, but notably among th
colorcd people Of the South, In Congress
and for the promotion of temperance edit
cation, scientific, economic aud otherwise
I, has been an important factor of our nj
= tional progress. The society enters upo
the new era Of the next quarter Of Gel
+. tury with most hopeful and oheerin
!, outlook. Happily through the help
generous friends, II IL freed from the bu
den OF debt, and its accumulated asse
Of the past twenty-five years have muc
e more than their large money value
!, their relation to the future work Of Il
society. II has funded moral capt.
. which no other kindred organization
Ct fully represents, and which only yea
{. and experience, under Gods guidan
"a could supply. That VIC stand upon Il
, Threshold Of greater national chang
>" than We have yet seen, greater chang
for good, il becoming more and more n
ne parent 10 the eye which can discern Il
, signs Of the times"