Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-07-03
VOICES OF WISDOM.
What Has Been said on the Liquor Evil b.
Great Men.

oreat wen.
Far from me be the gift of Bacchus-
pernicious, infaming wine, that weak
ems both body and mind. Homer of
Greece, 900 b. G.
The man who drinks intoxicating liq-
uor pulls up his own root, even in this
world. Dig up thirst by the roots, that
the tempter may not crush you again
and again, as the stream crushes the
weeds. .-Buddha Sakya. Hindoo, born
627 B. c.
Thou shalt not drink wine or any
thing that may intoxicate. Buddhist
| Commandment.
Bodily enjoyment depends ON health
and health depends on temperance. -
| Thales of Greece, $40 B. G.
Strength of mind depends upon sobri-
ETY., for this keeps reason unclouded by
passion. .-Pythagoras of Greece, $50
B. G.
While the intemperate man infiicts
evil upon his friends, he brings far more
evil upon himself. Not only to ruin his
family, bat also to bring ruin on his
own body, and soul, is the greatest wrong
| that any man can commit. SOCRATES,
469 B. c.
1t is good neither to eat flesh nor to
drink wine nor anything whereby thy
brother stumbleth or is made weak. -
Paul the Apostle, 90 A. d.
Look not upon the wine when it is
red, for at last it biteth like a serpent
and stingeth like an adder king Solo,
mon, 1915 B. G.
Temperance is a tree which has con-
tentment for it's root and peace for its
fruit.-Arabian Maxim.
Nothing is so great a friend to the
mind of man as abstinence. 1t strength
ems the memory, clears the apprehen-
sion and sharpens the Judgment and,
in a word, gives reason it's full scope of
acting.-Dr. South.
The liquor traffic is the gigantic crime
of crimes - Senator Morrill,, United
States Senate.
Every days experience tends more
and more to confirm me in my opinion
that the temperance cause lies at the
foundation of all social and political re-
form. Richard Cobden.
This is no party, no sectarian ques-
ton, and l am convinced that there is
no cause more likely to elevate the peO-
pie in every respect, whether as regards
religious or political opinions or as re-
CARDS literary and moral culture, than
this great question of temperance. -
Earl Russell.
Total abstinence has been found to be
all auxiliary to the promotion of Chris
tianity and to the conversion of sinners.
Thomas Clarkson.
If it is a small sacrifice to discontinue
the Use of wine, do it for the sake OF
others. If it is a great sacrifice, do it
for your own sake. Samuel J. May
Beer is brntalizing, wine impressions,
whisky infuriates, but ultimately un-
mans. Alcoholic drinks, combined with
flesh and fat diet, totally subjugate the
moral nature unless their influence be
counteracted by violent exercise. DR..
Book, Leipsic
The alcohol is the one evil genius,
whether in wine or ale or whisky, and
is killing the race of men. DR.. Willard
Parker.
The rum trade makes men mad, and
under the influence of rum men will as
sault their neighbors, starve and beat
their wives and children, commit theft,
arson and murder. We ask men of ev-
cry shade of politics, of every creed il
religion, to Join with us in our earnest
efforts to stop the liquor traffic and sea-
up the dramshops. Hon. z. c. Pitman,
Judge of the Supreme Court of Massa
chusetts