The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-06-17

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pie supposed to be fairly well. IL leads to
degeneration of tissue IL spoils the health,
and IL stops the intellect. Short Of drunken
ness, that is, in those effects of il which stop
snort of drunkenness, | should say, from my
experience, that alcohu, is the most destruct-
i've agent we are aware of in this country
royal
In speaking OF a bill prepared by the Prus-
sian Government and approved by Emperor
William, il it did not originate with him,
Midd'S Criterion, a liquor paper, says it
fears that a general law for the suppression
of inebrietv will he enacted and put in force
in all States OF the German empire before the
year ends. Ever since the Emperor sue
ceeded to the throne he has been collecting
statistics and evidence concerning the effect
of drinking upon the industries, upon health
and morals, and this bill decreeing the with
drawal of saloon licenses and the imposition
of fines for selling TO druudards is the result
of his convictions based upon the facts thus
gathered.
WHY THE PREACHER TooK A DRINK.
The Rev. S. L. Simousen visited sixty sa.
looms in Racine, Wis, distributing tracts and
inviting young men to his church. lna well.
known resort the proprietor asked the rever.
end gentleman if he would not take a drink
before he left. Mr., SimonSen eplie that he
didn't care il he did, aud ordered whisky, A
glass and bottle We're passed to him, when
he filed up the glass, passed ten cents over
the counter, and, pull ing bottle out OF his
pocket, poured the liquor into il. took the
number of the saloon and departed, In sew.
eral other places he repeated the same act,
IL is Surmised that he intends to have liquor
analysed n show the "boyS' what they are
drinking.
AGooD THING ron FARMERS.
The closing of the saloons in Ackley, Iowa
has worked wonders FOR tn. farmers Of that
vicinity. a correspondent OF the ChriStidn
.Adrocdte says; Mine years ago, Ackley,
Iowa, had seventeen saloons, and the banks
and farmers sent S95, 600 to the East an.
nually to pay interest on farm mortgages.
Now be found no saloon or sign OF a saloon,
and q banker told him they had sent only
$4,000 East during the year topay interest on
farm mortgages. Not Il policeman there now,
ana not a pauper III the pOorhOuSe nor a
criminal in the Jail. Poor old poorhousa, it
had TO give up business, and the Jail is full of
cohwebsi Yes, temperance has hurt the jail
and poorhouse in Ackley, Ii has ruined these
Institutions
WHAT SAVINGS WOULD BUY.
Canton, ILL.,, carried ON its antilicence
campaign in very practical fashion. Among
other campaign literature il circulated a
dodger containing this lesson on dimes, dol.
lars, drinks and dinners Here is what You
can get Tor the price of two ten-cant drinks
daliy Tor every working day of one year
81 days; Twelve sacks of flour, 100 pounds
OF graduated sugar, fifty pounds of butter,
ten bushels of potatoes, ten pounds of coffee,
twenty-five cans of fruit, twenty five cans Of
vegetables, fifty dozen eggs, two barrels of
crackers, and "A cash bonus of S4.20. How
m9ny men who work hard spend more than
twenty cents a day on the saloon, ami never
think of the value they are daily wastingg'
10 prove that these figures were no guess
work, there was appended to them the state
ment OF nine leading grOcers of the place
that they were ready to make II contract to
supply the above list Of groceries to any
family for the price of two ten cent drink:
per uav, for a year. Yet license won by
twenty votes. -Uhion SigndL
DRUNKENNESS AND DRUNKARD-MAKING.
A recent feature of proposed new legisla-
ton in Massachusetts provides for the espe-
cial punishment of drunkenness. IL is pro-
posed to punish any one who has been ar
rested twice within twelve months for
drunkenness, and to abolish fines for drunk
ards, and to sentence frequent offenders to
longer terms. We should have compare
lively little faith in the efficacy of such a
statute, though it might possibly accomplish
a minimum OF good. We should have great
er faith in a stringent statute against drunk
ard-making. While the liceIse system con-
tinues and drink-shops are protected in hav-
ing wide open doors with all possible allure
ments for victims Of the drink appetite, it
will be TO q large extent III vain TO put upon
the statute-books laws which shall under
take to prevent these men and women of
weakened will and deteriorated character,
under the infence of strong drink, from
yielding TO the saloon temptations. -NutiOn-
al Temperance Aduocdte.
WHAT THE IRISH BISHOPS SAY.
The bishops of Ireland, in their Pastoral
Letter from the National Synod of May
nootb, say:
with deepest pain, and, after the ex-
ample of the Apostle, weeping, We say that
the abominable vice of intemperance still
continues to work dreadful havoc amongst
our people, marring in their souls the work
or religion, and, in spite of their rare natu.
raj and supernatural virtues, changing many
among them into enemies of the Cross of
Christ; whose end is destruction, whose
god is their belly, and whose glory is their
shame
us it not, dearly beloved, an intolerable
scandal that in the midst of a Catholic ma
ton like ours, there should be found so many
slaves OF intemperance who habitually sacri-
ice to brutal excess in drinking, not only
their reason, but their character. the honor
of their children, their substance, their
health, their life, their souls, and God him
self?
I drunkenness we may refer, as to its
banetul cause, almosta all the crime by which
the country Is ulsgraced, ana much or the
poverty from which it suffers. Drunkenness
has wrecked more homes, once happy, than
ever fell beneath the crowbar in the worst
days of eviction; it has filled more graves,
and made more widows and orphans, than
did the famine; it has broken more hearts,
blighted more hopes, and rent asunder fam
lily ties more ruthlessly than the enforced ex-
lie to which their misery has condemned
emigrants.
Against an evil so widespread and so per-
nicious we implore all who have at heart the
honor of God and the salvation of sou,s TO be
flleL with a holy zeal"
TEMPERANCE NEW AND NOTES.
Hundred Millionaire Rockefeller is a total
abstainer.
1t is proposed TO hold the first convention
of the Worlds Woman's Christian Temper
ance union at Boston next fall on the day
before the opening of the national gather
ing.
TIL Los Angeles w. c. 7. u. have hand
some new headquarters Tor their union.
The building contains offices from which
the union expect TO obtain a source Of reve-
nue..
Numerous Woman's Christian Temperance
nnion training schools will be held this
summer at various assembly grounds and
each will be led by some worker OF exper-
lencs.