Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-10-08
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.

Conducted by the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union.
whenever we vary from the highest
rule of right, just so far we do an
injury to the world. -HaHthorne.
"SpirituOus liquors of all kinds dis
pose the system to feVers and infamma-
tion and half of the diseases which are
said to be caused by warm weather are
produced by the spirits which are
swallowed to lessen the effect"
We would be far better both phys
ically and mentally if we lived pure
lives. Giving cur bodies only healthy
and n,,,tritious food and feed our minds
upon instructive and p.nftable litera-
ture that would make us better mn
and women. We would then be better
prepared to meet the responsibilities
of life and do good to orr fellOwmen.
81 wish some strong bright angel
stood before you now, while you read,
girls, to flash before you as no words
of mine can, the power you possess to
help or hinder the cause of temperance;
to make you feel your responsibility
because yOu are girls in this matter;
to shuider at its weight and to never
cease trying to fulfil it. = When
the time comes that the young man
who now shares his time in your COM
pany and the saloon; who jokes about
Temperance in your presence, and takes
a glass socially now and then, is made
to feel that these things cannot be if
you are to be his companion at party,
ride or church, that good society can
not tolerate. these things in its men,
bers; in short, that this kind of man is
questionable and unpopular, then
alcohol will tremble on Its throne, and
the liquor traffic will hide its cancerOCs
face"
A BUSINESS VIEW OF THE LIQUOR
TRAFFIC.
The Christian at Work in a recent
strong editorial refers TO the fact that
business men are demanding sober
men and total abstainers for their
work, not only on railroads, but in all
other departments of labor. 1t says:
1T is easy to see how the rule as to
strict sobriety may yet be extended to
all departments of the world of labor
When it comes to be generally under
stood that man given to even occa-
siOnal indulgence in drink has the odds |
against him for this reason, in obtain |
ing steady and remunerative work the |
result must be large and increasing
lccessiOns to the ranks OF the anti |
liquor army. From a purely business
point of view, the liquor traffic must
come to be regarded with feelings of
hostility, 1t is a business
hat lives at the expense of every other
business; in the proportion that it
lOurishes they must decline. The
oss comes not only because of the
money turned from the channels Of
honest trade into the tills of the liquor
aloons, but it comes in larger and
more serious way, because of the
and ruin caused by the liquor
Iabit among the bodies and souls Of
nsn; because it develops and pro-
notes idleness, unthrift, shiftlessness,
disease and crime. The
God customer of the saloon is poor
ustomer for every one else. The more
quor he buys, the less he buys of the
ctual necessities of life and the slower !
e is in paying bis honest debts. The .
quor traffic is, in truth, the enemy
OF only of the home, of the church, of
1ciety and of the state, but it is the 1
nemy of every honorable and legiti- 4 4
late business. The time is not dis
mt, we hope, when this truth will be )
by every man engaged in ;
0norable and legitimate business and :
warfare declared all along the line P
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