Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-04-10
NO. A..
A THINKING COLUMN.
Opinions of Great Minds on the Liquor
Question.

| DramshoA5 may be compared to Pan
dora's boxes.-John Adams in 17S1.
The liquor traffic is a storm center in
finance ASH politics.-A. 6. Haygood, ID. ID.
The more work have to do, the more
have resorted to the pump and the teapot
Richard Golden.
Women only can make wine drinking
questionable and heal the nation Of its
curse-J. u. Holland.
o thou invisible spirit of wine, II thou
hast no name to be known by, let us call
thee devil.-Shakespeare.
The use of wine must inevitably be STEP
ping stone to that of stronger drinks and to
intemperance.-J. G. Holbrook, ID. ID.
The very existence of the distillery is the
perpetual production of sin in opposition to
the gospel.-George B. Cheever, ID. ID.
Wine will make Christian reel just as
soon as a reprobate or blasphemer If he
drinks enough of it.-T. L. Cuyler, ID. d.
You can no more run ginmill without
using up boys than you can run sawmill
without using up logs.-Rev. c. ii. Mead.
Wine takes away reason, engenders in
sanity, leads to thousands of crimes and
imposes such an enormous expense on ma
tions.-Pliny.
In my time have drunk more than was
good for me, but when / have business to
do there Is nothing like water and the dumb
bells.-Tom Sayers
In my interview with the king of the
| French, he stated expressly that the drunk
| enness of France was occasioued by wine
Hon. f. c. Delavan.
TIE liquor traffic stands in the very fore
| front of responsibility for the alarming
amount of lunacy, of pauperism, of crime.
-Archdeacon F. w. Farrar.
The drink trade, which is growing every
| year, is our national sin, our national
shame, and if not soon arrested will be our
national ruin.-Cardinal Manning.
| i (wine) produces most of the bad effects
of ardent spirits, as misused in our coun-
try, and is perhaps more insidious.-
Greenough, the Sculptor, of Florence. q.
There is never the body of a man, how
strong ant stout soever, if it be troubled and
infamed, but will take more harm and Of
| fense by wine being poured into it.-Plu-
tarch.
| OF all things known to mortals wine is
the most powerful and effectual for excit-
ing and infaming the passions of man
| kind, being common fuel to them all
Lord Bacon.
The use of wine is quite superfiuous to
man. 1t is constantly followed by the ex-
penditure of power. The drinker draws
bill on his health which must always be re-
newed.-Baron Liebig.
Light wines-nothing SO treacherous.
| They inflame the brain like fire while melt
! ing on the palate like ice All inhabitants
of light wine countries are quarrelsome.-
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton.
The people drink their cheap wines here
| (Switzerland) to drunkenness. Cheap wine
is not the cure for intemperance. The peo-
pie here are just as Incorporate as they are
in America-J. G. Holland.
hold to the utter abandonment of the
use as beverage of distilled and fermented
liquors of every sort, especially of wines,
whether having much or little alcohol in
them.-Eliphalet Mott, d. d.
The sluices of the grogshop are fed from
the wine glasses in the parlor, and there is
lineal descent from the gentleman who
hiccoughs at his elegant dinner table to
the sot who makes bed of the gutter.-E.
H. Chaplin, d. d.
The drinking habit runs through every
phase Of society. have seen more people
drunk here than ever saw in Boston for
the same length of time.-Hon. James NJ.
Usher, Commissioner to the Worlds Expo
sition in Paris in 1867.
The struggle of the school, the library
and the church, all united against the beer
house and gin palace, is but one develop
ment of the war between heaven and hell.
Charles Buxton, NJ. p, at One Time Eng
lands Greatest Brewer.
Work on, pray on, be courageous and
faithful, for the hour is nearer than ye
dream of or hope for when a victorious day
will gloriously burst upon us, and the boys
will be saved-thank God, the boys will be
saved!-Nellie H. Bradley.
| have not seen a day for 90 years that
have not been ready for business. Now, at
the age of 81, after the fatigues of the day
rise from bed refreshed by sleep. l have
not to take three or four horns of brandy 10
prepare for business-CharlesJ Jewett, NJ. u.
Temperance puts Goals ON the fire, meal
in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the
purse credit in the country, contentment
in the house, clothes on the children, vigor
| in the body, intelligence in the brain and
spirit In the whole constitution.-Benja-
| min Franklin.
No man can deny that the traffic in in
! toxicating drinks is an infinite mischief to
the nation and brings misery to the peo-
PIE, anu tLae tue eutlTe suppression ol Jndt
traffic would be an infinite advantage to
the nation and an incalculable blessing to
the people.--Hon. Neal Dow.
Wine drinking is the mother of all mis-
chief, the root of crimes, the spring of
vices, the whirlwind of the brain, the over
throw of the sense, the tempest of tho
tongue, the ruin of the body, the shame of
life, the stain of honesty and the plague
and corruption of the soul.-St Augustine.
The more examine and travel over the
length and breadth of England, the more
see the absolute and indispensable necessi-
ty of temperance organizations. am sat-
isfied that unless they existed we should be
immersed in such an ocean of immortality.
violence and sin as would make this coun-
try uninhabitable.-Lord Shaftesbury.
If could destroy tomorrow the desire for
strong drink in the people of England,
what changes should we seel We should
see our taxes reduced by millions sterling.
We should see our jails and workhouses
empty. We should see more lives saved in
| 10 months than are consumed in a century
of bitter and savage war.-Joseph Cham
berlain.
Temperance-that virtue without pride.
and fortune without envy; that best guar
dian of youth and support of old age; the
precept Of reason as well as Of religion; the
universal medicine of life that clears the
head and cleanses the blood and strength