The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-05-04
Temperance Notes.

Fifteen thousands persons at Hartford
Connecticut. have the pledge by MI
Murphy. the younger, and his wife.
south Carolina tries Il modification OF
the Gothenburg system, the profits OF
sales by license, in excess of six per
cent, going To the state. Coy. llilman
is buying liquors for the state.
Mrs. Foster is to be located in the
Isabella hotel during ten weeks of the
summer while ia attendance upon the
exposition and the many congresses in
which She i ~ much interested. and be-
fore several of which she speaks.
The idea of Church saloons" started
by Rev. Dr. Rainsford, an English Epis-
eopalian In New York. is opposed by
ministers OF all denominations. They
see no advantage in plain, old fashioned
drunkenness over any other variety.
In Massachusetts, there were 52,s 1
arrests tor drunkenness in lS90-an in
crease in five years of oNrr Is per cent,
No Wonder 20 many OF her towns arr
voting no license. No wonder the pot
house politicians It's senator Benton
once called them-are arrayiug them
selves for the political party which re-
sist> prohibition.
The United States Internal Revenue
returns show that in ten years the sale
of cigarettes ran up from G,39O, 9s3 To
2,S77, 799. 400. And they are, il anything.
even more poisonous now than at first,
Why, since this thing has assumed such
immense national proportion, ought 1t
not to be checked by national law:
The poorer the district the more
IL. :. l.,
Becr-saloons and bar-rooms appear to
flourish more especially in the poorest
/ neighborhood> in our large cities. The
families that send the pail regularly for
beer, are generally the families without
home comforts.rF. ID. Clun, NJ. ID.
1t comes directly from Washington.
and from those who have no interest in
Mr.. Cleveland or in error on the subject
that mo man incapacitatcd by drinking
shall be appointed" \ leading official
of the Treasury" is cited as one whose
Office and hotel apartments are gin
rooms. and 'who is rarely, if ever So
bcr.'
Police Superintendent Byrnes, of
New York, has closed up all the pool
rooms. and SAYS that he will keep them
closed "whether the courts hold the Of
Tenders or not" The Independent says
II Let the police do their duty against
disordcrly houses and Sunday liquor sell
ling a. faithfully, and we shall see n
wonderful change in the moral aspects
of our city.
How many pledge cards for the world
fair exhibit will our unions have sent to
Mrs. Ingraham by April 30th? Let
riy hntr ia a.
work of securing. names and dimes give
it, and so roll up thousands of signatures
for the Iowa part of the total abstinence
pledge work. A little thought and in
dustry will make record we shall be
proud of.
4 Massachusetts Supreme Judge says:
'It is no chance association which leads
to the cry; Down with the Sunday
laws and the liquor laws The traffic
wants the day It wants the Saturday
night wages: it wants the opportunity
to drink on the day of rest and the
temptation; it has the day in Europe
it covets it in America. 1t will have it
unless the political lower of the traffic
is broken
1t is stated that out of 80 900 children
in England examined by doctors, more
than thirty per cent. were suffering from
physical or mental defects, largely at
tributable, either directly, or indirectly
TO the drinking habits of their parents.
Who shall say the temperance reform Is
not of vital Importance to the children:
Aud is it to be wondered at that the W.
c. +. L. has department of lleredity?
Drunkenness and other vices have
gone into the Marshall Islands, in the
South Pacific, with the German occupa-
patton, and now the Governor threatens
to expel the American missionaries, who
have been the chief hindcran sc to selling
liquors to the natives. They have now
eleven Mission churches, seven native
preachers, fourteen other preachers and
teachers, and four semnarics of different
grades ora messenger.