Griggs courier., 1893-07-07
coopERsrowN Y. C. T. I

tary.
Miss May johnson, Treasurer
A prudent man seeth the evil and
hideth himself, but the simple pass OH
and suffer for lt.-Prov. 27:12.
An exchange remarks: can Iowa
man claims sure cure for the tobacco
and liquor habits. About the surcst
cure is to leave the stuff alone" The
man who is brave enough to accept
this last cure, is the prudent man who
takes himself out of the way Of evil and
the harm it would bring upon him. But
how many more follow the other class
who "pass on and suffer for it," and not
themselves alone, but they entail un-
measured suffering upon innocent ones.
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'Last year New York city paid four
million dollars for schooling, seven
million dollars for amusements, and
sixty million dollars for drink" An
other sombre example of the amount
of pure tool-hardiness existing in ra-
tional human nature which is capable
of such grand possibilities. In the scale
of education, pleasure and ruin, this
city places herself in Il very pitiable and
humiliating position. Truly there is
need fol prohibition and total abstain
ers, notwithstanding the ideas of some
to the contrary. The w. c. I. U. and
other temperance societies have work
to dO.
1t seems sort of queer after anticipa.
ting annihilation to find ones self still
intact. Mardell's promising correspon.
dent failed to fulfill his promise which
is the cause of this odd feeling on our
part. According to published instruct
ions We read carefully" with care"
his items of last week, and failed to
find what he gave notice lle would give,
unless his message on the prohibition
fight, answering fully the gentleman
who represents himself rs lady cor
respondent consists in assuring the
said gentleman that he is "a lady in
every sersc of the word" That was
rea: kind, and we timidly acknowledge
the compliment, hardly able to realize,
however, whether 1t was meant for us
or not, sister-Brsther Isaac. Really
things are getting considerably tangled
up. Evidently u radical change comes
over the spirit of ones dreams, when
one week they say they will answer,
and the next they see no reason why
they should say anything more. Happi.
Iy we have hit upon one point of agree.
ment. We don't see why either for two
or three reasons. One is that probably
the question will not be materially ef.
fected by what either of us MAY say
Another is that 1t is not likely that a
very large number read what we do say
Gudging from the number of people
whom we know are Indifferent to read.
ing Our paper, except possibly the
locals), ut any rate we are of the con.
viction that this notable column gets
only glance, if that much, from the
majerity of those into whose hands it
falls. However the correspondents
items may be more interesting. The
last reason-and not the least either
is that woman is always perfectly
satisfied to have the last say. On the
whole we heartily commend the wis
dom of Poor Isaac's decision AS regards
the matter of whether he has been
answered or not. we leave that to the
readers whom we may chance to have.
He did not quote us accurately last
week. What we said was, that "this
is not All attempt, purely, to answer
Bro. 1saac's argument. since he evident
ly does not consider that an answer
which comes from the opposite side ef
the question:" which referred to his
previous admission that what the
writer had saio in this column contain
ed "some reason from her view of the
question" So we do not see where The
Outlook "sec-saws off," If Bro. Isaac
thinks we do, we wonder what he
would call his maneuvre last week-it
looks like square dodge. Let US re-
mark in closing, that in argument, we
hold no i'll will toward opponents be-
cause of their differing in views; we re-
gard that as mark of weakness and
narrowness which We hold ourselves
above.
The OUTLOOK.
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