The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-01
TEMPERANCE FACTS.

The path to poverty may not in every
instance lie through the saloon, but GER
tain it is that the path to prosperity does
not lie in that direction. The path to
prosperity lies over the saloon, not
through it.
GEN. EATON United States Commits
sioner of Education, states that 80 per
cent of the crime Of this country results
from intemperance, and that So per cent.
of our depraved youth are born of
drunken, depraved parents.
A WRITER in the Leeds, England,
Times, says: at is calculated that the
people of Leeds spend at least one mil
lion sterling per annum on intoxicating
liquors, half of which belongs to the
working classes
glass of whisky contains in about
equal proportion the distilled spirits of
profanity, Sabbath breaking, lying, dis
honesty. drunkenness. RIGHTEOUSNESS,
fraud, robbery, murder and suicide.
Then touch not, taste not, handle not.
DR.. B. w. RICHARDSON states that in
5000 cases treated at the London Tenn
perance hospital the death rate was only
6.3 per cent, a rate which is on par with
if not lower than that Of any other hos
pital. He also said that in the seventeen
cases in which alcohol had been admins
tered at the hospital he did not believe
it had done bit of good and that he
never prescribed it himself.
The Scottish Temperance League has
been in existence for half century. 1t
began with membership of ten, but it
is now powerful organization. The
League from the first has placed it's chief
dependence on moral suasion. While
sympathizing with all the efforts made
to promote temperance legislation. it
has made its main aim to persuade men
tot give over their evil habits.
A WRITER, in discussing the question
of drinking and total abstinence from a
practical business point Of view says:
Life insurance companies find the
moderate drinker more dangerous risk
and his mortality greater, hence refuse
to insure him at moderate rates, or at
all. Mercantile agencies find that bust
ness conducted by moderate drinkers is
more precarious and followed by
4ar nf oil -
such firms low as to responsibility"
THE Governor of st. Petersburg is
teaching temperance by a new method.
Under general order he issues "per-
emptory notice. that any and all persons
found upon the street in disorderly or
intoxicated condition shall have their
names and addresses printed on large
posters and publicly displayed at certain
points in the city, and in addition be
printed in the official journal. On one
of these lists of 1877 names all classes in
society are found represented, nearly
one-half of them being women. In exc
cutting this order General VAIL is mex
orable. No privileged persons are ex-
empted from this punishment. What
the ultimate effect will be cannot be
foreseen, but the immediate results
show some new additions to temperance
societies and the privately abjuring of
the vodka"
THE Observer says: 1.-The saloon has
nothing to commend it. It's social fea-
ture is cheat and delusion. 1t is a
curse and nothing but curse. 1t is in
imical to our best interests. 1t wars
against the home and the community
1t blights and curses all who follow it as
a means of living, all who patronize it as
a pleasure resort, and all who frequent
it for the qualification Of tastes which it
created and developed. 1t deserves no
recognition from the order-loving and
the man loving. 1t should be hated,
despised and spurned by all who feel its
demoralizing effects. The State should
declare it foe to good citizenship. The
church should anathematize it. We
would have better politics, safer homes,
purer civilization. more orderly society,
and more frequent revivals OF religion il
it was buried beyond the power of resur-