The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-01-31

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moderate drinker. Many life assurance c
societies divide their clients into two !
sections-total abstainerS and moderate {
drinkers-and often find that they must
pay bonus or premium OF 49, 20 and Is
per cent to the former, so much less is
their average mortality than that OF
the latter. Athletic clubs agree with
life assurance societies in reverence
for total abstinence.
Thirty-nine of the forty-fOur states
of the American union have now made
Scientific Temperance Instruction of
the young mandatory. This instruction,
wherever approved textbooks are
used. is keyed up to the level of total
abstinence. Among the writer's ofsu
approved textbooks are such men as
Sir BENJAMIN Richardson. Of London,
and Prof. Newall Martin, of the Chair
of Biology, in Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity. Baltimore, Fellow of the Royal
Society. All the schools under the care
of the national government, including
ouuCdUlOIldI III oIi WIN WIZ
tories the naval school at Annapolis
and the military at West Point, are
: under laws for compulsory Scientific
Temperance Instruction. Read your
Appletons Annual Cyclopedia for 1892,
and YOU will find in that non-partisan
publication adequate honor placed up
on this movement and its leader, Mrs,
Hunt. of Boston. 1t is too late for city
7 clubs, or even the resident of Harvard
v University, to sneer at total abstinence
% Total abstinence is a closed issue in
adequately enlightened circles.
But it has always been admitted that
prohibition by the state logically fol
lows general acceptance of the policy
of total abstinence by the individual
E.. ".
Political prohibition has had grea
hindrances. but also strategic triumphs
Prohibition is hindered, IN the trs
place, by the necessary isolation OF 1t
beginnings, and the contaglon OF ui
reformed, is like attempting to extn
DdJO UIllSUlcS llOllI OllO AoA LII "AAAio
VS. neighbors all allow thistles to grow
ad and their seed to float on every wine
re- Even if the farms Of a whole state, or
est cluster of states, were to agree TO extl
es. pate noxious weeds, they would tin
zee difficulty in doing so as long as tt
bv national highways through those stat
in allowed these weeds to grow at Il
re- rOadsides.
in There is a sense in which adequa
in nrohibition in states is hindered by Il
,tal neglect of it by the nation. TO
ese wholly successful, prohibition of t
non Iiouor traffic. like that of the sIa
the trade. needs to he not only state
ion national, but also International
for the states around the n Orth Sea enter
He in 1887, into an agreement to PROM
age. the sale of Intoxicating liquors to s.
,llot men in their ports. Among the part
He to this memorable compact were FL
ious land, France, Denmark, Belgium
ner- Holland What has been done for p
cure hibition all around the North
in ought to be done for it all around
5 for world.
He Prohibition in the United States
, are been hindered by the diversion OF
re- as tention from the temperance ret(
was by our necessary preoccupatlon IN
lican of the greatest civil wars known to
alton whole tide of recorded time.
ring 1t has been hindered by an imme
,is]a- influx of unassimilated immigratlo
1t has been hindered by the pheno
gram nal growth of great cities.
ctica- 1t has been hindered by the motor
seen. sovereignty of the saloon in ave-
total municipal politics.
itical 1t has heen hindered by the timi'
nten- trickery and treachery of fifth
pro- politicians, anxious not to offend
injury whisky vote
cable. 1t has been hindered by the ap
and somnolence of church mem
watch Four millions of Protestants and a
ieties million of Catholics in the u
ations States are at once church members
fe has voters. Most Protestant churches
lonu exclude rum-sellers from church I