Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1893-09-08

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people generally 60 in tho direction
they look. If they look upward they
are moving higher. If they continually
see the lower and baser things of life,
they are travelling in that direction"
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An ordinance was recently brought
before the city council OF Chicago to
permit music IN saloons. 1t Is crafty.
ing to know that the council had taken
even so much of :, stand against the
saloons as this, and to be hoped tina. it
will not undo this step toward impair
ing the attractiveness OF the saloon.
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A decision of Attorney General O!ney
says there ''can be no extension of time
ON revenue taxes due from whiskcy
dealers"
| But small portion of the whlskcy
| trusts products Of Illinois, have been
released from pond, owing to the cur
rency famine and the fact that the Ii.
consc law is very strict III this respect.
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The Christian Endeavor Societies of
Illinois have set in motion temperance
campaign. Mr. John G. Woolley has
engaged to labor in the movement for II
year. He Is to remain but one night in
each place he visits delivering in every
town and city of the state his famous
lecture Inalienable Rights" Illinois
will certainly fee. the thrill of might y
impulse forward in this line of work,
conducted by the combined powers of
this matchless worker and orator and
the cousecratsd strength and youth of
tins grand body of young manhood and
womanhood. 1t sounds another death.
knell to the drink traffic. Every state
has Its own band of noble youth, such
as this, who are yet to join this temper
anoe army, whose forces are constantly
increasing.
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"People who hope are generally peo.
pie who help"
The Scientific American is an emin.
ent authority with no suspicion of
'fauaticism" attaching to it, neverthe.
less in Il recent number it atfirms that
"beer drinking in this country produces
the lowest kind Of inebriety, closely Ill.
lied to criminal insanity. The most
dangerous class of rht1ians in our cities
are beer drinkers"
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Corkscrews haYe sunk more than
cork jackets have saved.-John Plew.
man.
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Some reasons for the suppression oi
drunkenness:
Look ut the victim, a reeling, blank
faced apology of himself, prey to nc.
cident. mangled at the bottem of pits
or on railroad tracks, frozen where
sober men meet no peril. at last wrest.
ling on i. sick bed with the "devils of
the brain-mania, delirium, DEATH"
See his family in terror of his drunk
en- rage, often struck down and even
murdered by the hand that should min
lister to and protect them. Its effects
are no less disastrous in public life than
in the family. 1t is not confined to
town and county limits but covers the
entire country, despoilhg labor, filling
prisons. hospitals and aims houses,
consuming taxes, impoverishing fami-
lies, breaking up homes, sending thou.
sands to untimely graves. What posi-
BILE right can drunkenness claim for It's
existence: In taking away the God
given rights of men, it violates the
very constitution of the state. Courts
of justice, prisons and asylums declare
indisputably that it destroys liberty,
and not alone liberty, but it destroys
property. 1t engulfs alike the wages
of labor, the savings of economy. aid
the accumulation of wealth. Shall il
be allowed that society has not the
divine right to protect itself against
that which scatters such ruin and de.
vastation in its wake.
The OUTLOOK.
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