Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-12
W. G. T. U. NOTES.
Everything is not in tho tom
perance reform, but tho temperance
reform should be in eyerythiug.'r

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Everything is not in tho tom
perance reform, but tho temperance
reform should be in everything -
4 one-sided movement makes ono
sided advocates. Virtues, like hounds,
hunt in packa. Total abstinencu ip
not the crucial virtue in lifo that ex-
cuses financial crookeduess, defamation
Of character, or habits OF impurity.
The fact that one's father was, and
light in the total abstinence galaxy,
does not give ono IA vantage ground
for high handed behavior toward those
who have rot been trained to tho
special virtue that fOrms the central
idea of tho temperance movement. We
have known persons WIN. beGausa they
mad ''never touched drop Of liquor,
set themselves up az IL they belonged
10 II royal line, but whose tongues were
as biting as alcohol itself, aud whose
nRrrowness had no competitor, snye a
straight line. An all round movement
can only he carried forward by all rounu
advocates; scientific age requires the
study Of every subject in its cor.
relations. 1t WIS once supposed that
| light, heat and electricity were wholly
separate entities; IT is now believed
and practically proved, that they are
hut different modes OF motion, Stand
ing in the valley, We look up and think
we see an isolated mountain; climbing
| to its top, we sec that 1t ia hut one
member of range Of mountains,
many of them of well-nigh equal aiti-
| tude.
We as White Ribboners know that
alcohol acts upon the nerves as the soft
pedal acts upon the wires OF the piano I;
it deatlens them so that they think
cold is not cold, heat is not heat,
trouble is not trouble. But this
deadening effect is delusion during
which the law Of periobicity binds men
with it's pitilsss chain; one day they
have the drink, the gambling, the
tobacco habit; the next day it bias
them.
The only place in the world in which
u man under sentence Of death can So
cure substitute for money, iH China
and the man agreeing to act as that
substitute distributes the money ho ID
to receive among his relatives, calls
for his opium pipe. and goes his way
out of the world. Tho power Of mar
cotics over tho human brain has in this
fact it's strongest and most deplorable
illustration.
The human brain. with its fair, deli.
cato mystical filaments, in Gud's night.
blooming oereus, ita white radiance
forever enclosed aud shut away from
sight, within the close crypt of the
skull, but exhaling its fragrance IN
poetry, and revealing its deep, pure
heart in science, philosophy, religion.
Tho man who says, g. eau carry
more liquor than any other drinker in
the town and yet keep level head, y
gives by that claim an inventory oil
goods already badl, damaged. Fol
since alcuhol is pre- eminently hrair
poison, men OF most brain grow dizzy
first, and IIottentuts stand steady
longest, while genius shriyols under
drink like a snow wreath In the sun.
As civilization becomes complex thu
brain acquires more convolutions tt
} the square inch, and its delicate
Tissues are torn more ruthlesslly by tn,
coarse intruder, alcohol. From d.
World White Ribboners. BY FranceI
Il. Willard.
| gu puhui pSthS oHNu't Wv
human body is at its best when it il
free from alcohol This being true
the fact that the Turkish troops, wnt
are total ahstainers, stood the vicis
, STUDIES of war and recovered from thei
wounds with remarkable rapidity wa
: to be expected. In peuce or war tn
man is more man without aluoho
. than with it. fle is sounder in bod
anu mind, to say nothing about tn
moral gain which comes to the all
! stainer-The Voice.
A writer IN the German Army Jour
nal calls attention to the seriously un
satisfactory physical condition of tn
, army reserve. attributiug it to OK
cessive drinking. Another writer be
!, lieves that the whole future of th
German nation depeuds upon th
solution of tho drink question. (Ger
! many is not tho only nation 30 de
pendent One iiTtoenth of all the cul
! tivated land in Germany is devoted t
|. the production of materials for tn
making of alcoholic liquor. Christian