Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1891-05-08
Flying Paragraphs fo1
the Temperance
Column.

The devil will never be much discour-
ageed as long as he can find II moderate
NV
When man begins temperance
speech by calling whisky "ardent
spirits" look out for dry tlmc.-Ram's
Horn.
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Josh Billings says, "Cider may be a
good temperance drink, but can get
so drunk on it that can't tell one of
the ten commandments from bi-law
of a basebawl klub"
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If you are Il friend of prohibition,
you have about rs much need to get
down off the fence just now and help
enforce the law, as you had to vote
that way, when the question was be,
fore the people.
Nv
Hon. Henry Wilson. while vice-presi-
dent of the United, and just before he
died, said: ''All other issues before
the American people dwindle INTO in
significance compared to the issues in
the temperance question"
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A MOTTO FOR BOTH OLD AND YOUNG.
am only one, butL am one. | can
not do everything, but l can do some
thing. What / can do, ought to do,
und what | ought to do, by the grace OF
God l will do.
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"When / want q drink, / take IT,
Hugh o. Pentecost. He would be IL
fool to take it when he didn't want il.
And as for takeing it when he does want
it, IL donkey can do that But 1T takes
q man to refuse a drink when he wants
it.-R. j. Burdctte.
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No prohibitionist can complain of
the law he has in North Dakota, to
work under. Now let's UP and have it
enforced. Ten men with grit and
principal, banded together, can make
prohibition practically prohibit right
hero.
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No matter how paralytically incbria-
ted man may be when picked up by the
st. LOUIS police, they always extract
from him his name and address "by
pinching the sinew that runs on the in
side of the knee" 1t is better recipe
than that of clubbing the solcs of a
PROSTATE citizens shoes.-Albany Ar
gus.
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Why hasn't this township consta.
blee He will find good average sbusi-
ness weekly arresting drunks, ifhe isn't
blind. If he enjoys excitement he can
bag some big game once in while
or perhaps twice in a while. We don't
believe in making flesh of the country
fellow who gets drunk once in q while
and fish of the town chap who get
DRINK regularly.
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John e. Wooley is hard at workno
the ;inc of practical temperance. He
thus outlines his plan: II want farm
where l can take lost men who want
another chance and give them rest
no lnebriate asylum, no institution
just my home." The necessary funds
for this enterprise have been guaran-
teed, and Crest Island" will be reality
in few months. 1t is proposed to hold
a large temperance meeting there July
Is to %, to. be followed by similar
gatherings every summer. The farm
will be located in the southern part of
Minnesota, the men will be provided
with work, wholesome food and good
company, and Mr.. Wooley and his
friends expect that much good will be
accomplished in this way.-Union Sig
nal.
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Beginning to Wash it's
Hands.
The Treasury department has made a
changein theform of stamp to be issued
to retail liquor dealers that will be
pleasing to temperance people in all
states that have prohibitory liquor
law, and also in cities and counties.
that have a ':local option" law. Across
the face of every stamp issue by the in
ternal revenue bureau to liquor dealers,
after July 1st., will be the following
conspicuously printed: ''This stamp
is simply a receipt for a tax due the
government and does not exempt the
holder from any penalty or punish
ment provided for by the law of any
state for earring on the said business
within such state. and does not author
ize the commencement nor the contin-
uancs of such business contary to the
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