Griggs courier., 1892-12-02

WEEKLY MOTTO:
"Silence is better than truth if W
speak without charity"
ONCE again the Thanksgiving da.
made its happy annual visit, leaving
behind the glow of its beneficent intl,-
ence, which eariches and ennobles the
life of the nation; for it is aday freight
ed with good cheer, inspiring the heart
to kind deeds in grateful acknowledg
ment of the blessings of life. Though
manv seemt to exhaust their gratitude.
or their power of expressing it, at thu
table, SO that they are unable to atten,
the public service which accompanies
the day. 1t IS the one day for excel
lence when "Uncle SAM throws aside
his dignity and sobriety and '.gets full
My-don't he get full! What untold
things the unoffending buttons endure
However, these indispensable adjuncts
of civilization and the unfortunate des.
peptic suffers the only i'll effects of this
kind of plethora, while the subject may
have the feeling that he can '4gobble a
whole gobbler" himself, yet he insists
upon bis multitudlnous relatives filling
up with him. instead of getting full
away from home and coming home on
ly to '.lick" his wife; (Which a small
boy discovered was the reason that
whiskey was called "lick'er.'D. Un-
doubtedly the striking contrast is du.
to the kind of "fillin" used, for who
could fail to be filed with good will
and patriotism. when charged TO
repletion with the bird that so heroical-
ly and numerously dies-fo his country
on each Thanksgiving day. Who does
not feel at such time that they are
a .,rodidgious parenthesis Of that big.
heartedness that makes the whole
world akin, and pledges itself to many
acts of bcnevolence. It's cause for
gratituds that the spirit of>Thanksgiv-
ing Day is one that cheers and gladdens
many lives and enriches and preserves
the family life of our beloved land.
The delight of two young men who
had made wager that they could pre-
vail upon a clergymen to drink with
them until intoxicated, was eclipsed by
their surprise at the way in which he
Kept his promise to them that he
"would drink like beast, (which he
did by taking simply water. and that
only IN q moderate quantity, saying,
that "a beast not only drinks water but
knows when to stop drinking"
THIS choice bit of Leiled down states
manship. so we'll seasoned with patriot.
ism and philanthrophy will undoubtedly
be relished every true citizen, voter OF
nOn.voters.
every law that affords general pro-
lection to life and property, cuts off a
little of our individual liberty. The
law is made powerful for good in pro-
portion as we each contribute our bit
of se]f-denial willingly."-From editor
al III Rural New Yorker.
The Literary Disgest quotes from
the New York Voice, (Proh), Sept 8,
the following:
The violation of personal liberty
which the cholera has caused has been
such as should arouse wrathful protest
from every liquor.dealer's convention.
Not only have the passengers on three
infected. steamers been compelled to
take sanitary baths and to have their
baggage fumigated SO thoroughly as to
spoil entirely much of it, but they have
been made prisoners, confined on the
ships, threatened with instant death if
they tried to escape, and forbidden to
see even their nearest relatives. We
take it for granted that the liquor.
dealers will resent this as \ violation OF
''person liberty" A brewer of Eng.
land once admitted that drink had in
flicted on the human race, not only
greater ills than cholora has inflicted,
not only evils greater than all pesti.
lencss combined have inflicted, but
greater ills than war, pesti-
lence and famine combined. Mr..
Gladstone endorses the declaration,
and has repeated it publicly. We pre-.
sumo, therefore, that the liquor-dealera
will maintain their consistency and re.
sent the present invasion of personal
liberty since they have steadily resent.
ed mHch milder form of invasion in
the case Of an eyil so much greater;
and we live in hope that President Of
the United States may yet rise to the
occasion and issue proclamation, not
only against cholera, but against the
drink pestilence ss we'll, instead of
gnoring the latter in all public utter.
ances, and appointing to office those