The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13
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has set aside . portion Of the Western
North Carolina hospital for the care.
and treatment Of inebriates.
MAlNE's new liquor law nowin force
is the most severe one which that Gel
ebrated prohibition state has ever en-
acted. Experience has shown that in
dealing with the liquor traffic gentle
ness is wasted. Il IS p NJ ~
! The saloon is . very profitable bust.
ness-to the undertaken. 1t is true he
does not get much for burying the VIC.
Tins Of the liquor traffic, but he does
q Wholesale business and charges
what the traffic will bear" -Western
Rural.
JUDGE JAMES j. KLBRETH, of tho
court of common sessions of New York
city, says: my own Judgment, based
upon my experiences at the bar, is that
excessive drinking and the use of
liquor in some form or other, either d.
rectly or indirectly. is the cause of
ninety per cent. of the crime, poverty
and misery Of the community
ALCOHOL has not any microbe; but
the grand total Of its mortality will
exceed the combined effect of all the
bacteria that have ever passed the mi
croscopic field or developed in the cul-
ture-tubo of the bacteriologist The
subject is now, however. beginning to
receive some of the attention it de-
serves.--Popular Science Monthly.
1.-THE one chief reason for my be.
coming an abstainer, "says Archdeacon
Farrar, twas because saw on all sides
the waste, the ruin, the misery, the
degradation, the disease, the wretched-
ness of homes, the destruction of hu-
man bodies, the human faculties, and
human souls; the national disgrace and
calamity, the cruel determination or
debasement of the weaker races of
mankind in our colonies and depend
encies, which are caused BY drink"
In Darkest Africa" the darkest of
all the shadows is that caused by the
sale of intoxicants to the untutored ma
tives. Either license. or light taxation,
as the only restraint upon greedy
liquor traders, means in effect whole
sale ruin for the natives. Prohibition
alone will bc adequate for their pres
ervation. The -Fifty-first congress
ought not to adjourn without provid-
ing by appropriate legislation for the
prohibition of American expectation of
Intoxicating liquors to Africa~-Na-
tional Temperance Advocate.
FINLAND appears to be the most
CARDS temperance legislation. Local
option is an old established reform,
which country districts have so far de-
rived benefit from that they are free
of drink shops altogether. The tenn
perance societies appear to great adj
vantage, when their methods of pro-
viding well-stocked libraries, properly
lighted reading rooms and comfortable
and enticing coffee houses for those
they desire to wean from the public
house are compared with some others
in different lands.
A LADY who kept record of the
wife murders perpetrated by drunken
husbands, which have been reported in
the daily papers for q year, says that
three Thousand and four cases have O -
CURED during that time. Now let some
one tell us how many sons, daughters,
brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers and
neighbors have been murdered by
drunken men. Then let us find out
how many broken limbs and heads and
fortunes and hearts have resulted from
the use of strong drink. When one be-
gins to estimate the aggregate of mis-
chief wrought by rum, he is puzzled to
comprehend the Indifference of the peo-
pie to the presence of such mighty en-
CINE of destruction. Many are pro-
foundly stirred on this subject, but few
are fully awake to the peril that be.
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