The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-10-31


Mrs. aEshN e. sSRs
Some one has said, "The temper
ance work is the most important work
on earth, unless it is the rearing of
our children" Are there any read
ers of this paper who are ready to say
nay to these words? The temperance
question is vital one. It is ques-
ton which must be settled soon and
settled right, or this country will be
buried in deluge of ruin.
An item has been going the rounds
of the press that whiskey is manu-
featured out of old rags. We see no.
thing remarkable about this. Every
one knows that nearly all the old rags
in the country are manufactured out
of whiskey, and there is no apparent
reason, comments the New York OBJ
server, why the process should not be
reversed-from whiskey to rags and
from rags to whiskey. What beauti-
full business it is!
Michael Davitt, the Irish National
list, who we believe does not claim to
be moral reformer, says: "There is
something absolutely hideous and re-
voting in the disgusting can't of this
whiskey ring about their particular
industry-an industry in which
fortunes go to the maker and bare
subsistence wage to the worker, and
bare living to the waiter, who has to
retail the precious product that fills
our lunatic asylums with hapless VIC
Tins, our jails with criminals, cur
streets with unfortunates, and tens of
thousands of homes with squalor,
want and misery"
The United States has on an average
one church to every 439 of population,
and one saloon to every 278 of popula-
ton. The figures given as to church
es are based on the census for 1890.
The saloon statistics are based on the
report of the internal revenue for '93
and '94, giving the number of liquor
permits of all kinds issued by the
government for one year. The aver
age in each State is specified. The
worst showing on the list is Nevada.
It has one church to every 1,l16
population, and one saloon to every "a
population. The District Of Columbia
is nearly as bad. The southern States
make by far the most favorable show
ing in this comparison.
The national legislative body of
Iceland in recent session, enacted a
law making a study of the evil effects
Of alcohol upon the body compulsory
in all the schools receiving money
from the government. Every school
in Iceland except one receives some
money from the State, so the
law will apply virtually to all children
in the country. The governor, who is
in office for life, says that he will see
that the law is carried out. Our text
books are translated into their Ian
guage and used in their schools.
More text books and documents have lately
been sent to France, also, in response to
orders to be incorporated into system
| of scientific temperance instruction in the
| schools there. Not alone isolated refOrmers
but prominent physicians, well-known or
| CARNATIONS, and government officials are
| urging the matter of teaching the children
| of 1.-The land of the vine,'' the dangerous
character of alcoholic drinks There is a
strong pOwor moving in other countries
than our own, to save the next generation
| from the alcoholic thralldom of the past.
The American nation must look well to her
laurels if she will win in the lists of reform
ers.
Denmark, too, is favorably considering a
law for compulsory temperance education.
|
into line, the wide spread awaking of the
total abstinence sentiment in England. Lady
Somerset hopes that term will become pre-
valent as temperance is hereo and a COM
pulsory educational temperance law In all
but two states of the union; with the fear
less, Incorporating stand taken against
the saloon by the Christian Endeavorers all
over the land, and the denunciations OF Ep-
worth Leaguers and churches of nearly all
denominations, sure the pessimist even,
must grow optomistic and be constrained to
admit !" he world do move"-tOward purity.
"While down in the southwestern
part of the state some time ago." says
Mr.. w. Chalmers, editor Of the Chico
(Cal.) Enterprise, II had an attack OF
dysentery. Having heard Of Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea