Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-01
THE OPEN COURT.
An Array Of Witnesses That Cannot BE Met
by the Enemy.

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Stupefies and besots.-Bismarck
Drunkenness is nothing else but volun-
| tary madness.-Seneea.
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whis-
tle.-Benjamin Franklin.
That pure alcohol is poison is an admitted
fact.-Eliphalet Mott, ID. ID.
Drink is the fruitful source of crime and
pauperism.-Father Mathew.
Touch not a dram. 1t is liquid fire. It Is
slow but sure poison.-John Wesley.
Drink, the only terrible enemy whom
England has to fear.-Prnce Leopold.
Choose rather to punish your appetites
than be punished by them.-Epictetus.
No other poison kills as quick. if enough
is taken at once.-B. w. Richardson, NJ ID.
Impossible to relieve poverty until we
get rid of the curse Of drink.-Lord Shaftes-
bury.
l expect to my dying day to fight the
drink with every lawful weapon.-John B.
Cough.
The best savings bank for a young mans
money Is total abstinence pledge.-T. l..
Cuyler, d. d.
The pledge which ask of you and others
to take does not enslave-it makes free
Father Mathew.
Drink battles us, confounds us, shames
us and mocks us at every point. The pub
lie house holds it's triumphant course
London Times
Adrunken man is like drowned man, a
fool and madman. One draft above heat
makes him fool, the second MAIDS him.
and third browns him.-Shakespeare.
Poverty and misery, crimes and infamy,
diseases and death, are all the natural and
usual consequences of the intemperate use
of ardent spirits.-Benj jamin Rush, NJ. d.
Alcoholic drinks are poisons in the same
sense as are opium, arsenic. chloroform,
ETC., and should be sold only under the
same laws as these poisons.-N. S. Davis,
NJ. d.
Alcohol is not only poison, with special
affinity for the brain, but it is poison with
1ishhook barb-it can only go in; it cannot
be pulled out without tearing the flesh
Joseph Cook.
The most determined evil which aff1icts
the clerical force and the officers of the gov
ernment is the habit of using intoxicating
| liquor. - Hon. l.. NJ. Morrill, in United
States Senate.
Garry home a temperance pledge with
your name signed to it, and it may cause
as much Joy there as was felt in the ark
when the dove returned with the olive
branch.-Edward Carswell.
A healthy nature never Graves intoxicat-
ing drinks The habit of indulging in them
is eating out the lives of multitudes of 9TH
| erwise worthy and most desirable citizens.
Henry Ward Beecher, ID. D.
The experience of lifetime has demon
strated that drunkenness is curse. 1t is
the cause of more poverty than anything
else that can be named.-T. V. Powderly,
Grand Master Workman of Knights of La
Dor.
| Strong driuk-by whatever name the de-
mon is styled, in whatever way it presents
itself-this prevents our success. Remove
| this one obstacle, and our cause will be on
ward, and our labors will be blessed.-John
Bright.
The poisonous breath of alcohol passes
over the home-it is the passage of death.
AlcohoPs hellish work goes beyond the
drunkards home. There is physical and
moral contagion other homes are smitten,
and alcohol lifts up its scepter within their
| inclosure.-Bishop John Ireland.
| Drink is the parent of crime. 1t would
not be too much to say that if all drinking
| of fermented liquors could be done away
crime of every kind would fall to fourth
| of its present amount, and the whole tone.
| of moral feeling in the lower orders mightz
be indefinitely raised. - Charles Buxton
NJ. P.
The pledge has a work to do for God-$,
work in lifting up the thoughts and ener-'
gies of men from their groveling in the
mire of drunkenness to u point where they
can take hold of the truth as it is in Christ
1t is only as the power of the gospel of
Christ works in the pledge that we make
use of it.-Mrs. S. NJ. I. Henry.
Alcohol is poison. 1t is so regarded by
the best writers and teachers on toxicology
Like arsenic, corrosive sublimate and prus-
sic acid, when introduced into the system it
is capable of destroying life without acting
mechanically, and it induces general dis
ease as we'll marked as fever. smallpox or
lead poison.-Willard Parker, NJ D.
All manner Of drunkenness should be
banished from the commonwealth. What
more foul and common sin among us than
drunkenness, and who can be ignorant that,
if the importation and the use of all strong
drink were forbid, it would both clean rid
the possibility of committing that odious
vice, and men might afterward live happily
and BEAUTIFULLY without the use Of those in
toxicating hquorss-John Milton, 1914