Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-24
Temper Column.
'.No license and total abstinence.
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FOR VOTERS FOR LICENSE. WHETHER HIGH
OR Low, TO READ. II.
WANTED-YoUR BOYS! !
The saloon must have boys orsit must
shut up shop. Can't you furnish It one?
1t is 4 great factory, and unless II Can
get 100000 boys from each generation.
for raw material some Of these factories
must close up. and the operatives must
be thrown on cold world, and the pub
lie reveaue will dwindle, Wanted
2, OOO, coo boys" ia the notice. One fam
lily out of every FIVE must contribute a
boy to keep the supply Will you help?
Which of your boys Will it be? The
Minotaur of Crete had to have a trieme
full OF far maid lens each year. but the
minotaur OF America demands city full
Of boys each year. Are You fatherY
Have you given your share to keep up
the supply for this great public institu-
kindly elects pubic Officials for for you ta
Have you contributed boy? II not,
some other family has had to give more
than its share. Are you selfshly voting
to keep the saloon open to grind up the
boys. and then doing nothing to keep up
the supply Exchange.
LINCOLN. NEB, Sept. 10-The annual
convention of the Interstate Temper
ance Union. representing the non. parti.
san Prohibition elements of North and
South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas and Ne
braska. met in this city yesterday and
closed very important and successful
meeting last night.
From an earnest, telling speech by
Judge Horton, Chief Justice of the SUI
preme court of Kansas delivered before
this convention, we make the following
extracts:
Il know that some men look upon the
temperance cause as bigotry, narrow
asceticism. or vulgar sentimentality; fit
only for little minds and weak women
and weaker men. On the contrary, it Is
second tosno reform of this age, and for
this reason: Every race has its peculiar
temptation and every cline its specific
tempted to one form of sensuality; the
colder or temperate regions, and our
blood, find their peculiar temptation in
The stimulus of drink and food. Men of
our day frequently seek to relieve them.
selves from the oyer-weariness of con.
slant and exacting toll by glass of
beer, or a drink of wine, or q dram of
whisky.
Our laws rest, not on bayonets, as in
Europe, but on the will, Ahe intelligence
and the hearts of free people. To
adopt the words of Lincoln, This is a
government of the people. by the people
and for the peoples hence the grand i'm
portance of Embedding in every social
and political society. not only the need
of universal intelligence and OF general
education, but also the necessity of teach
ing, cultivating and adopting habits of
sobriety.
lat the battle of the Pyramids. Ma
poleon, to impress his men with the
greatness of the contest in which they
were engaged, and to cheer his soldiers
on. babe his troop remember that forty
centuries of the past looked down from
their heights upon their deeds in arms.
know not how many centuries which
now he hid in Ahe invisible depths of the
future, may look back to the happy re-
suits of this contest for temperance
reform, with praise and gratitude"
NOT A RUB-A-DUB AGITATION.
The Judge compared the present agi-
tation for the overthrow of the liquor
traffic with the early years of the anti
slavery agitation, and referred to the
fact that freedom from slavery was
brought about by the crystalllzation of
public opinion against the barbarism of
the lash, by organizations and gatherings
such as these. He called attention to
the fact that the agitation for the over
throw of slavery was sneered at, derlded
and reviled, and was called, even by a
great statesman OF that day, rub a. dub
agitation" 1t was denounced as being
| fanatical in its character, unconstitu
tional in it's tendencies, and dlsturber
of the politics and of the peace of the
country. But the agitation went on
until it swept before it everything and
revolutionized the constitution and
statutes of the entire nation.
In a country like ours, public opinion
is supreme, and the laws keep pace with
that public opinion and represent the
sentiment of the people.
The speaker referred to the wonderful
increase in public opinion in favor Of
restraining and abolishing the liquor
traffic. This traffic is now everywhere
conceded to be the great vice of the age.
THE FOUNTAIN OF CRIME AND THE SOURCE
OF GREAT TAXATION.
It destroys health and ruins the family;
it widows the wife and orphans the
child; it makes imbeciles of the most in.
tellectual; it dishonors and disgraces the
| virtuous; it builds the jails, the prisons,
the poor-houses and the scaffolds. and it
furnishes to each it's unhappy victims.
| A prominent scientist has said, Alec
hol is the blood of the gambler, the in
spiration of the burglar. the stimulus of
the highwayman and the support of the
midnight incendiary. 1t suggests the
lie and countenances the liar; cOndones
the thief and esteems the blasphemer. I,
violates obligation, reverences fraud,
turns love to hate, scorns virtue and
innocence. It. incites the father to
butcher his helpless offspring, and the
child to sharpen the fratricidal Ak. Al