New-York tribune., 1895-02-01
THE UNDERLYING PRINCIPLE.

rprr TEMPERANCE PRINCIPLES APPLIED ~
LIQUOR SELLING on SUNDAY.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
sir. Apropos OF much senseless tax ana apS"i"
action on the part of women ana mhlS'e's !" w
Mayors office the following comes IKE .he 'o'.
Of n trumpet with uncertain sound' iio'" '"'
Bishop OF New-York:
THE total abstinence movement Is paseu upon
an idea essentially ascetic. Asceticism' on '"e
u.ho,o has changed the forms OF evil--t has not
regulated nor restrained. much less extrpateh
them 49,, ,.t,-
Nor has prohibition. The power oi '"H w."
sion is a startling disclosure or the lhcaP"'"' ~
the average mind seriously to think or accui"'e,y
TO remember The story of crime. since the WI ~
began is the story of human wilfulness success
fully breaking over merely external resuai"'S'
The Church Temperance Society says TWO thins'
to every man and woman to whom II speaks
First you are a free being; you must cnooss; . ",.
the plane OF your own responsibility Sou ou,nuinc
stand; do so. In the matter OF your arl,Nans @
usages II may easily be that an hereditaIy ap
petit. carry ndiscretons, an eniecp,'I ~
So total abstinence Will be wise rule Tor you,
But remember. the measure OF Your InJrs
not the measure Of anothers Strength 'u"s"
AGAIN. YOU are part Of human society II
you allow yourself liberty. do not iofgnt @ on o,
you must exercise II with two people ehbor mc' 1 o'
And finally do not forset that true Temper,
ance Reform must forever rest upon thaI S,no W1Cn
pof
ar. not one. one implies merely a change IN III IN ,
tu,ing substances or forces. The other Implies
the Introduction OF new force, ana ina, ne" oIiS
is the one that came in It's fulness on the DAY VI
Pentecost. 49,, - ...ho- .,,osa oeco
IL 10 guide and teach your fellows!
Is not this a truth for the pulpit always anu
Everywhere!
These things being so. We ask in all serioushess'
e. ~ any more wicked to sell beer for two hours at
norninp or at noon on Sundays (sel 1t not to be
drunk on premlses than II Is TO sell milk Nearly
A., ~, Germans In this city drink beer They drink
:, r,st As Yankees drink water or milk. II II not
,,ick.d for these Germans 20 drink beer temper
a,elv and the vast majority OF them. We behe'''
do drink beer temperately. The Mayor OF New
yo-k is the Mayor OF these Germans as much as
t. is the Mayor OF the Methodist minister's VINO
,.rt ir,.muerately revil.d him. forgetting tnht
..revl.rs a. well a. drunkarls. cannot ihhri' '''
Kingdom OF God. , ,.., ,,,, i,a-
.,..ton AMI leads TO ruin the minds that are not
s,rong | plead fOr real Temperance" IN IN" orls
t,,i secu-. OF tho worl. which refers 10 MOI
.'r,,e .auable lust mind and disposition. "A hlinl
"a itsncsitlon too sadly missing among men VINO
',. as leaders OF religious thought and teachers
- morals Tn. manner and action "i Mayor
sfr,ne since nrst he assumed One" are Wost c"u-
,,.na,hlc II the poor man cannot "gaily put
49,. h..r -. any hours of the Lords Day In this
,,y ,b.p let us Ae Just and positively FORBID ciupS
,nI hotels TO furnish anything stronger ,lah
Ginger al. on ,ha. day. Let wisdom anu nod"ld
lion prevail and In all things let proieSs..iIy ttW'
i. IN - men b- temperate NN'Il' N'' =
N,n-NOrk. Jan. -. 49,