The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-31
W.C.T.U. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. l.. HOBBS


The Review Oh hcNic"o i"' "A
her gave considerable space TO tne +
Prohibition movement, ana WINE ),
we dissent from some OF the con II
illusions reached, we are glad 10 C
give our readers the views OF so wise |
and practical social reformer a. II
DIR. Albert Shaw, the able editor o' I
that invaluable magazine. h
.sThe scientific historian VINO \
shall attempt to recount the true (
story of the temperance movement
in the nineteenth century will nave II
n large task on his hands, ana one
which will be anything but dull ana
monotonous. At the very moment
when the temperance cause naS
seemed to flag at one place 1t has
inevitably famed up somewhere
!. else-generally in the midst OF the
supposed strongholds OF the oppo..
nents. In the Northern states ~
used to be considered that the SCUM
was almost hopelessly given over TO
the Incorporate use OF strong drinks
and that temperance legislation be,
low Mason and Dixon's line would
he AN impossibility. Yet almost
every phase of the temperance
:. movement is quite as hourlshlng IN
the South as in any part OF tne
=. North; and when Prohibition rags
!, in Iowa we have the spectacle OF
south Carolina sturdily experiment
.. ;no with the new and hopeful idea
: that elimination Of the element o.
ly. private profit from the liquor ousll \
Y ness can accomplish better practical
results than the attempt to aooiisi
u the traffic altogether.
THE FRENCH LIQUOR MoNoroLh.
md "Apain, for long time we nav
~. been urged to accept the view tina
III. in France, where wine drinking
supposed to be universal, there
no temptation to use strong peVei
aces and the whole situation
onite the one to be desired and IN
y. hated Yet the best leaders
French opinion and policy thin
. nothing of the sort. So dire ha'
civil become the evils OF intemPeiaa,
y Of from the use of brandy, absintl
uare and various strong beverages, IN
the administration has decided
favor Of government monopoly,
" all alcoholic drinks stronger th'
h. light wines and beers. The Cover
ment bill has been greatly alter,
in it's passage through the leglsll
tive chambers, but France has q
cided to take the entering, sic
$ and which will make the manuiac''
Bank. and wholesale supply OF strong
- ouors a government monopoly an
, agous to the tobacco monopoly.
T" would not be surprising II, ir'
NJ this beginning, France might oy
grees proceed to the estaolishm Y
Of system Of retail control al
A. the pattern OF the scandinavian
/, and law Il is not a little significant
1884 Indicating the drift OF Europ'
I'm on;nion. that nearly every consl
IL mons member of the present rre'
- Cabinet is total abstainer not Q
p from the use Of stronger arm
= hut also from the use OF wine.
BELGIUM AROUSED.
"The government of Belgium
81 been taking even greater ln'e
q than that Of France in the grow
. evils Of intemperance and IN .
ram dangers that accrue to society
- the liquor business as privately
Block. Quoted. A royal investigating 8
ANA mission of the highest prest,lg
,ended now at work in Belgium gathe
list on testimony and preparing =, 3
which is expected to deal radi'
with the whole subject: E'
,,stae where in Europe the fact is De De'
ing recognized that liquor selll; IN;
not only an unbecomlng pusl'
le Ir%s, rus but one that is socially ana Po
man a. ''in in ally dangerous-requirlng new
the pur. rigid regulation or else 'o'al
uslness, :a, u.s. preston.