The mirror., 1895-01-17

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large spark of that fire was divine
gift to Neal Dow's soul. This has
made his life for nearly century
purifying force in American civiliZa-
tion. Whether as mayor, legislator,
general or civilian, he has always been |
a reformer, at once unselfish and un-
fiinching.
Every temperance blade should have
a hilt, and every temperance hllt should
have blade. The Maine prohibitory
law, as framed and executed by Neal
Dow, was sword with both blade and
hilt His principles of total abstinence
and prohibition give that blade double
edge, and make it invincible. He has
fought good fight, he has kept the
faith, and even at ninety years of age
he has not finished his course.
In the rising tide of temperance agi-
tation in modern days, the wave of
Prohibition has a most strategic po-
sition. All the waves that rise behind
1t urge it on. All the waves that rise
before it are urged on by it. 1t COM
mands the sea. There is, no doubt,
from time to time recession of minor
billows and eddies, but as the hOrologe
of time strikes the advancing, fateful
years, the central tide of the temper
ance reform continually rises.
1850. John Wesley denounces liquor
sellers as living in houses stained with
blood, and driving mon to perdition
like sheep.
1885. DR.. Rush, in cooperation with
Franklin and Putnam, assails the
drinking customs of his day in the
name of science.
1910. Lyman Beecher launches the
thunderbolts of the church against in
temperance.
1926. Justin Edwards, in the Ameri-
can Society for the Promotion Of
Temperance, lifts the educated senti-
ment of the land to adherence of the
liquor traffic, and of the drinking GUS
toms of society.
1888. Massachusetts adopts the fam
Gus law forbidding the sale, at any one
time, of any less quantity than fifteen
gallons.
1910. The Washingtonian movement
commences, and John Cough becomes,
on both sides of the sea, the foremost
advocate of total abstinence.
1851. Conserving the whole moral
and political force of the previous
movements, the Maine Law arrives,
with Neal-Dow as it's originator and
champion.
1869. The National Prohibition
Party, known until 1884 as the Prohibi-
ton Reform Party, is founded. With
Neal Dow, John p St. John, General
Fisk, Miss Willard, Mrs. Livermore
Samuel Dickie, DR.. Miner, and scores
of other heroic leaders, and with TIE
} Voice and other temperance journals as
: assistants, it has conducted many
admirable campaigns, and extended
greatly the temperance education OF
. the people and increased the politica
strength of the temperance vote.
) 1874. The Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union is organized, and under
, the leadership of Frances Willard, ant
} later of Lady Henry Somerset ant
, their cO-laborers, achieves a career OF
f varied benefcence unmatched among
organizations of its class in the whole
t tide of time.
} 1883. The Supreme Court of th'
5 United States decides, in the Kansas
: cases, that prohibition of the liquo
traffic Is constitutional.
r 1893. Scientific Temperance Instruc
: tion is made mandatory in the school
6: of thirty eight American states and al
i, the territories. Mrs. Mary H. Hunt
: leader of this movement, receives fiv
D highest awards at the Worlds Fair fo
Q her work as National Superintendent
: of Scientific Temperance Instruction il
f the Woman's Christian Temperate
Union, and for temperance text book
s adapted to the new law.
: 1894. Colorado grants to wome1
: equal suffrage, and woman's ballot i
|, everywhere dreaded by the saloon q