Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-04-24
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Drunkards beget runkards.-Plutarch.
The gigantic crime of crimes. Hon. Lot
NJ. Morrill,
Water drinking is the best regimen for
a soldier.-Henry Iayelocl.
Drunken women bring forth children like
unto hemselves-Aristotle.
The children of drunkards are in larger
proportion more idiotic than others.-A.
Mitchell, NJ. d.
Drunkenness is a crime, and, more than
that, drunkenness Is criminal disease
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr
Drunkenness is caused by drinking. If
the effect is bad, the cause must also be
bad.-Rev. d. c. Babcock
The testimony of physicians is uniform
and unequivocal. They pronounce alcohol
a poison. Bishop Horatio Potter
/ say that our drinking system is nothing
less in its present form than national
crime.-Archdeaco F. W. Farrar.
Among the evil institutions that threaten
the integrity and safety Of a state the liquor
traffic stands eminent.-Joh Bright
The greatest obstacle to the development
and progress of the people of this country
is the drink traffic.-Sr Wilfrid Lawson.
Alcoholism strikes man not only in his
own person, but also in his descendants
DR.. Lanier, French Medical Physiological
Society.
The slave trade has been to Africa great
evil, but the evils of the rum trade are far
worse.-Rev. James Johnson, Missionary
In Africa.
The drunkard not only Injuries and en-
feebles his own nervous system, but entails
mental disease upon his family-W A. T.
Browne, NJ. G..
find l can go through bodily and mental
exercise much better when l abstain from
alcoholic liquors.-Sr Ramsden Sladen,
Physician General of Madras.
/ do think that the use of spirits in cold
weather is generally prejudicial. Ispeak
from my own eXperience,-Dr Hooker, I'm
der Command of Sir James Ross.
Experience has taught the Russian mill
tary authorities that spirit is inimical to
the strength and power of endurance of the
Russian soldier.-Professor James Miller.
The Hudson's Bay company have for
many years entirely excluded spirits from
they have exclusive control.-W. B. Carpen-
ter, NJ. d.
We begin to see that we can live even in
west Africa without the aid of alcoholic
drinks. Since l have abstained Ihave found
my health much better than before.-Dr.
]. +. Schon.
dread the arrival of an American ship,
for though she may have more missionaries
In her cabin she brings in her hold the
death waters of damnation.-Rev. John
Williams, Pacific Islands.
When we consider the liquor crime from
a moral standpoint, when we try it's char
acter and fruits by the light of philanthropy
or of revelation, its condemnation is sure
and final. Ellen Foster.
The truth is, it (alcohoD is poison, not
food, shortens the life of the user about so
per cent and entails upon the children
diseased system, manifested in the body
and mind.-Willard Parker, NJ. d.
"Why should l arrest him, since by get
ting drunk he supports the government"
This was the answer native policeman re-
turned to missionary who had complained
about drunken, disorderly native In
dian Witness, Calcutta.
Dhi eAop Oil ioNNlo u Jul COuEll1 anu ltS
homes would strike hands in a movement
to lift this one great reform out of partisan
politics, and by a union of forces advance
us as people to the conquest of the Ameri-
can saloon-Clinton b. Fisk
1t is remarkable that all the diseases arts
ing from drinking spirituous or fermented
liquors are liable to become hereditary, even
to the third generation, increasing, if the
ha Al,
extinct.-Dr. Erasmus Darwin.
tell you candidly that unless something
is done soon the rum traffic will wipe out
the population of Africa The huge crime
now being perpetrated Oh this country in
the name of commerce is terrible. God
help ns!-Rev. ID. A. Day, Africa.