The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-02-16
NOTES BY THE WAY.

AT the Portland, Me-, Liquor Agency
there is list of four hundred names.
all of parties who have been black
listed at the agency.
Col. DAWES, of the Bengal artillery,
says: My experience is that nearly
all the crime affecting our European
troops in India has originated in the
use of spirituous liquors"
THE WESLEYAN temperance commit
tee has sent to Mr. Gladstone and other
members of the English cabinet resolu-
tons in favor of the introduction dur
ing next session of some effective meas
ures for the control OF the drink ira ffic.
SWITZERLAND is not drinking more
liquor this year than last, and has not
les for three years past There the
government controls the sale of liquor
and the profits are divided among the
cantons. A third goes toward remedy
ing the effects of alcohol
THOSE who have worked among both
classes say that white barbarian is
more hopeless than black one. As re-
CARDS morals, some African tribes, like
the Zulus and Maoris, are ahead of
certain classes in European countries;
at least they do not get drunk until
taught or forced by so-called civilized
nations
ITALY's annual production, in round
numbers, is 697, 900, 900 gallons of wine,
while France and Spain yield each COS.
600, 600 gallons. Spain'is the chief ex-
porter, getting about el2, 900, 900 for the
200, 900, 900 gallons which she sells
abroad. France gets about the same
sum for her $4,000, 900 gallons, while
Italy gets only e., SOC, 900 for the -, 600,
600 gallons annually exported
READING of the good old times" will
sometimes cure pessimistic views of the
temperance question of to-day. About
1889 prominent Massachusetts divine
gave as his reason for joining the tenn
perance movement that among his
brethren in the ministry he knew forty
four who drank so much as to affect
their brains, and he had assisted four
of them to bed on occasions like ordina-
tons.
| GREAT BRITAIN and Ireland brew
more beer every year than the German
empire. The production of the world
! is estimated at over 80, 000, 900, 900 gal.
Ions per annum. In 1891 Great Britain
produced I,5Oo, 900, 600 gallons. Great
Britain spends on an average 20 shil-
lings for drink for every half crown i,
gives for religion. Ireland, in 1890,
spent about Ell 600, 900 on drink; its to
tai rental did not come to more thar
80, 900, 900 sterling.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES wrote thu
! about wine in the white house while he
was president: The abstinence from
Intoxicating drinks in the white house,
both in public and privately while Mrs.
| Hayes and myself were its occupants, is
without precedent and has never since
/ been followed Neither of us ever re-
GREETED the course adopted. Every such
/ step when first taken OF course meets
with opposition and criticism. 1t can
not hereafter be claimed by fair-minded
and well-informed people that liquor as
! a beverage is Il necessity in the eXecu
/ tive mansion"
! WHAT are IL" underlying causes o.
I intemperance? l. An inherited appe-
tite for strong drink, which when un-
controlled develops into an insatiab bic
( mania for intoxicants. 2. The use OF
! food that is too stimulating, and an in.
diligence in tobacco, which demoralizef
( the physical system and is likely to be.
/ get abnormal desires. 8. The social
drinking custom of society, especially
( among the better classes 4. This
vretched condition OF the lower classes,
} and the baroness of their homes and
/ lives, which drives them to the saloon
Cor pleasurable exc;sene2t-Mary A.
/ Liyermore.