The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-07-21
GENERAL GlEANlNGS.

FIFTEEN THOUSAND children are mum.
bered in the membership of the Nor
wegian Total Abstinence society.
MEN talk about the liquor question.
The greatest question for the laborinq
men of to-day is the liquor question.
Solve that and it will help to solve all
others.
The Virginia legislature has passed a
law prohibiting the sale of liquor in
the vicinity of camp meetings, or other
religious services held in the open air,
under heavy penalty.
THE breweries of New York use
about one and one-half million gallons
of water day, which they get from
the city at mere nominal price.
They mix it with little alcohol and q
few other ingredients. call it beer and
sell it at three and five cents a glass.
The million and half gallons will
bring them about million dollars a
day.
II HAVE made one thousand dol
lars the last three MONTHS said q
prosperous liquor. seller to a group OF
men standing near his saloon. "You
have made more than that" quietly re.
marked a listener. ''What is that?':
was the quick response. ''You have
made wretched homes. women and
children poor, sick and weary of life.
You have made my two sons drunkards.
You have made their mother a broken.
hearted woman. Oh, you have made
much more than l can reckon, but
you'll get the full account some dayr
In each county in England there is a
lord called lord lieutenant, designated
by the queen. He appoints the magis-
trates. and all the petty suits are tried
by them and the magistrate throws up
what he will. He is often a squire or a
clergyman who drinks, and who some
times has buildings rented to men who
sell drinks, and it is in his interest to
saddle liquor on the community. He
has entire control of licenses. This is
the British method. Yhe magistrates
could absolutely prevent the legalizing
of the sale of liquor; but they have
never done so unless in instances so ex-
ceptional as not to be known to the
public.
THE men who have been broken
down, in any way, have usually said of
the destroyer beforehand: 1T will not
hurt me-" They have said this of over.
work, of exposure, of disease, of moral
evil, of pollution, of strong drink, of
opium, of evil companionship, of devia-
ton from strict integrity. They have
foil SotS hi
bleaching on the sands. Any soul is
safe who walks, trustfully and obe-
diently, with Christ, fearing sin in any
mode and any measure. Any soul is in
danger who underestimate the power
of sinful habit and thinks that in his
own strength he is free from harm and
death.-Herald and Presbytcr.
ONE-F1FrIErH of Germany's cult
waited land is devoted to the liquor traf,
tic, which is making it a question of beer
or bread for the poorer classes of that
country. The drink question is thus
becoming an important one in the pollt-
ical economy of Germany. Professor
Schneider, of Berlin, an able political
economist, thus writes:-"Among our
working people the conditions of
domestic life, of education, of pros
perity, of progress. or degradation are
all dependent on the proportion of in.
come which flows down the fathers
throat. The whole condition of our
lower and middle classes-one may,
even without exaggeration, say the fu-
ture of our Acknowledgements on this
unestion IF r. is trua that half O,,r
paupers become so through drink, it
gives us some estimate of the costly
burden which we tolerate. No other
of our vices: bears comparison with
this"