The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-01-01
Some Noteworthy Faeta.

Rev. Daniel Dorchester D. d. is a
recognized authority on religious and
social stStistics-so says the Chicago
Advance. In recent contribution he
gives some facts concerning tenn.
perance work which will surprise
many. There is general impression
that the agitation Of the temperance
question has been so marked by ex-
cesses, and SO retarded by fanaticism,
30 called, that its real progress has
been slight. Snch men as Howard
Crosby who can take u "calm view,"
make the impression wherever they
get a hearing, That moderation, not
total abstinence is what in needed.
AL such people viii do to consider
these facts set forth by Dorchester.
In the first place the earliest TEN
perance societies in this country
were moderation societies; they took
the ''calm view." perhaps it was all
they could take at that time. In
1913 the first temperance society had
this clause in its provisions tor MEN,
beEshlp. mo person shall be i'll.
toxicated under penalty Of fifty
cents" The National Society organ.
lied 1913 was organized, as it was
declared, to discountenancc the too
free use of ardent spirits. Prof.
Calvin Stowe once mentioned Tenn
perance Society in name, before 1925,
the pledge of which "bound every
member who should get drunk TO
treat the rest all around" This was
one of the early calm We've Of the
temperance question. But In 1925
the American Temperance Society
was organized on the basis OF total
abstinence from distilled spirits.
That was great step forward, and
still it was allowable for its members
TO drink wine, cider and beer, the
very thing which DR.. Crosby and the
Century Magazine are advocating
now. 1t was soon noticed that men
who had discarded distilled spirits,
relapsed into intemperence through
using fsrmented liquors. In 1886
the National Temperance Convention
at Saratoga adopted the principle Of
total abstinence from alcoholic IlQuOr
40 q beverage, and in 1870 the Wash
lngton movement lifted the same
principle into prominence. Fifty
years ago, the consumption Of dis
titled and malt liquors In N. England.
10 well ~ in other parts or the y.
States, WIS much greater per capita
then it ID ut present. In 1898 the
Boston Recorder says, ''as q destroy.
ing angel it (intemperance) lifts its
pale form and ghastly look in our
towns, villages and settlements. and
then that 100000 gallons liquor
are poured down the throats of TO-.
600 900 Of people annually. That 10
seven and half gallons to every In.
habltant, besides cider and other
beverages. In those good old days
an iionored and respectable citizen OF
Bonn.. put into his cellar in the
autumn thirty barrels Of cider. and
q barrel each OF brandy and gin.
This for the use Of one family. and
sometimes It was thought a second
barrel Of brandy necessary to carry
them through the year. The Stats.
tics show that sixty years ago. dive
gallons per capita of clear liquor
were annually consumed. according
to the government record. or course
the aggregate of liquor consumed 10
much larger now, Ms also the cost Of
the same, than sixty years ago, but
the population now is FIVE times what
IL then was. The fact 10 The total
abstinence movement has awakened
q moral sentiment In the nation on
the subject Of liquor, which was
never known before. The Womens
Crusade Of ten years ago, was Us
wild rs the going forth Of Deborah
from beneath ths palm tree. aud