Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-11-20
A COLUMN OF CLIPPINGS.

know how TO pc moderate. ooih'
son, ID. ID.
Every man who becomes q drunkard
becomes SO in trying to be moderate
drinker and failing. John b. Cough.
/ In the presence of the American saloon
the American home is like shorn lamb
| to which no wind is tempered. francs
! +. Willard.
| All the labor expended in producing
strong drink is utterly unproductive. 1t
adds nothing to the wealth of the commu-
nity.-Adam Smith.
It cannot be denied that all the drunk
enness in the land is produced by what Is
called the temperate use OF ardent spirits
Rev. Wilbur Fiske
! No form of alcoholic drink Is capable OF
either warming, strengthening, nourish-
/ ing or sustaining the life of any human
being S. Davis, NJ d.
Let every laborer know this fact: That
! ut least one full hours toll OF each days
labor is his tax for the support OF the dram
shops of America. Rev. J. III. Sherman
| In the whole English language / can
| find no word that strikes more terror to
my soul than the one word rum.-T.
V. Powderly, Grand Master Workman,
knights of Labor
The trend of scientific research, there
! FORE up to the present moment Is more
and more against assigning any definite
| food value direct or incidental, to alcohol.
Ezra NJ. Hunt, NJ. ID.
OF the myriads who have gone down to
drunkards' graves not one ever purposely
sought his miserable fate or failed to find
1t through the trapdoor of moderate drink
ing.-William Lloyd Garrison.
We are of opinion that very large
portion of human misery, including pow
! crty, disease and crime, is induced by the
use of alcoholic or fermented liquors as
| beverages. DIR. w. f. Chambers, +. X. ).
One of the reasons why labor organiza.
lions have failed in the past is because the
leaders didn't have tho manhood to de-
nounce liquor as cursc.-T. V. Powder
", Grand Master Workman Knights of
Labor.
Alcohol is nowhere to be found in any
product of nature; was never created by
God, but Is essentially an artificial thing
prepared by man through the destructive
process of mentation.-Henry Munroe,
NJ. d.
I have built many houses for moderate
drinking workingmen on condition that
they would become tetotalers, and they
have afterward paid for them with the
money and extra strength gained there
by.-P. T. Barnum.
Alcohol is neither food nor medicine.
1t does not supply but diminishes vital
force. 1t weakens the nerves, deadens the
sensibilities and lessons the power OF the
system to resist disease or to recover from
its effects.-R. Green, M. d.
If it were not for tho saloons, do you
know, think that seven -tenths of the
workingmen would have their own homes
instead of paying rent. Rum Is at the
bottom Of the whole trouble.-P. NJ. Ar
thur, Chief of Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers.
The time is coming when the question
of moderate drinking will be relegated to
the department of medical science and by
giene. If these with increased light and
knowledge, pronounce against the use OF
intoxicating liquors, they will be Danish
ed to the drug store, the laboratory or the
mandatory A. Livermorc.
The banishmont of alcohol would not
deprive us of single one of the indispen'
sable agents which modern civilization
demands Neither would chemical science
be retarded by its loss. In no instance OF
disease in any form is it a medicine which
might not be dispensed with and Other
agents substituted. r. Nichols, NJ d.
Many a workingman possessed free
hold cottage purchased by the money which
he had absolutely saved by keeping out
side the public house. Such men are dou
bly, men from their position of independ
ence, to say nothing of the improved
condition of their homes and the comfort
of their wives and families. -Samuel Nor
ley, NJ. z.
As for spirituous liquors, they were dolce
out to the members of the expedition only
when some unusual exertion or exposure
brought some extraordinary fatigue OF
prostration. AS means to fortify the sys
tenn against cold or brace it up for forced
marches, whisky, rum and other alcoholic
stimulants were regarded as of little bene
fit.-Lieutenant Greedy.
will simply take the proper expendi
ture of money in connection with the prin
ciples of total abstinence, and I think
can prove conclusively that If there was
no rum made, sold or drunk in this coun
try there would not be a man out of work
there would not be any poverty, far les'
crime, and this great republic would be
country worth living in.-Daniel Walford
The temperance question is part OF TIT
labor question. The complaint of the la
, boring man that he fails to receive fail
share of tho wealth he helps to create Il
undoubtedly true, and when his scantI
earnings are diminished by the wastes O
intoxicants and tobacco restitution anG
wretchedness are certain to overwheln
both himself and family.-Mary A. Liv
ermore.
After succession of unfavOrable sea
sons in the greater portion of the Unltet
Kingdom the produce of the land ha
during the present year, been for the mos
part abundant, and trade is moderated!
active. The growth of the revenue, how
ever, is sensibly retarded by cause which
must by itself be contemplated with salts
faction. refer to the diminution in tn
receipts of the exchequer from the dutie
ON intoxicating liquors. Speech
1888
A man may be considered by his friend
and neighbors as well as by himself t.
be a sober and temperate man; he ma.
say quite truthfully that he never wa
tipsy in the whole course of his life, yet j
is quite possible that such man may di
of disease caused by the alcohol he ha
taken and by no other cause whatever
! This is one Of the most dreadful evils
alcohol-that it kills insidiously, as If
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