The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-09-11
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY THE W. c.. .Iv.

The Union ofthe W. @. T. U. will hold
their weekly meeting on next Monday
rt the NJ, E. Church in the League room
at 8 p. m.
The Christian Herald and signs OF our
time gives an incident which brings out
very strikingly individual responsibility
which reads as follows:
During recent discussion OF the
temperance question gentleman re.
marked that he had right to do as he
choose about signing the pledge. He
could drink in moderation and there
was no need for him to become a total
abstainer, and it was not the concern OF
any one else whether he was one or not.
Among the company was an English,
man who had been manufacturer OF
cutlery in Sheffield. He asked permis-
ion to relate an event bearing on the
question. He said: "When was in
business 1 had drays which went about
the town collecting ingots of steel to be
hammered to the size wanted. On the
principal dray there was man who pro.
fessed great devotion to Inc. He used
to say that if ne saw me in danger he
would willingly lay down his life for my
safety. At that time I was total alb
stainer, but had not signed the pledge.
This drayman was not temperate in his
drinking and l often spoke to him about
his failing, but felt could not ask him
to take the pledge when / myself would
not take it. 1 could only reason with
him, though knew nothing but
pledged total abstenance could do him
any good. To ask man like him to
drink moderately was nonsense. One
day he was coming home with ton OF
steel on his dray. He stopped outside a
saloon into which he went to have a
drink. Coming out, he seized the reins
and told the horse to 60 on, then at
tempted to jump on the side, as is usual
with carriers but he was too drunk to
so, and stepping off the dray he fell on
the street and wheel passed over his
leg. He was taken to the infrmary and
in week was in his grave.
He was victim of drink, and doubly
SO; for not only was it the cause Of his
accident, but he could have recovered
from it if he had not been heavy
drinker. But his system was so satu.
rated with alcohol that inflammation en-
sued, and that killed him.
And all this might have been avoided
if only had been pledged abstainer
for if I had signed and then requested
him to do as had done, my influence
backed by my example would have
caused him to do so. We who are
Christians -hould see that neither
passively or actively. by our commission
or commission we do anything that may
cause our brother to stumble"
The reasonableness of prohibition and
the bondage Of the whisky tyrant ia
clearly brought out to the surprise of the
investigator who questioned women who
sold rum. The following is the event al
related at an evangelistic meeting in one
of the eastern cities:
Gin a town where 20 women helG
liquor licenses deputies went around tt
them asking them how they would vote
on the question of prohibition. To oul
surprise they almost all said they would
vote against the liquor traffic and il
favor Of prohibition. When asked why
they would vote against the trade BY
Which they obtained their livelihood
they replied, 20, that is easily seen. L
there were no liquor shops our hus
bands would bring home their wages
and we wonld have no need to oper
liquor or any other kind Of shops; b,s
one husbands drink away all theis
money, and as we cannot stand by anG
see our children starve we are forced Il
do something;" and one poor womax
said, Eyes, it is bad trade, but you sex
I am too weak to wash or scrub. I car
scarcely do anything, but I can stand
behiud the bar and deal out liquor, and
/ have to do it though 1 know it is a bad
business"
Surely the evils of the drink traffic
are abundantly evident when even those
who are making money by it detest it
and would be glad to see it dead.
What plea can it have that it should
be allowed to exist, and any longer pol
lutte this world with its long train ofvice
and iniquity?
We learn from the National Bulletin
that it has been prophesied that Norway
will be the first country in the world to
have national prohibition, and that al
no distant day, since one-fifth of the
inhabitants are supposed to favor the
temperance movement.
The Chicago Champion, a liquor organ,
says that $1,000 license is a legalized
robbery, but they prefer the high.lieense
system to prohibition. After this decla.
ration, surely, wise man would know
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