Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-07-08
Progress of floral Reform.

] qulle cOHltnOH DelleL tndt IN LnlS country
morality is ebbing. On the contrary
there is most substantial ground for the
opinion that the world was never better
than it is today. While in society
in politics and in citizenship the
standard might be higher, the require
ments OF the present are more exacting
than at any former period.
Fifty years ago it was thought to be
real funny for great statesman to APP
pear on the rostrum SO drunk that he
could not stand alone and proceed with
his speech. How long could VIM. b.
Allison or Shelby NJ, Cullom or John
Sherman or Geo. T. Hoar remain in pub
| lie life after an act like this? At the
middle Of the century party leaders at
the national capital openly supported
mistresses and held in contempt the
most sacred family relations. This sort
OF conduct would now be SO obnoxious
as to be intolerable for single moment
after the time when the offender came
within range of popular indignation.
Within the memory of living men it
was q rare thing to find man who did
not drink A christian neighbor and
high grade temperance man told us re-
Gently that he in his early manhood
worked for man so religious that he
would hire no man who shaved on Sun
day, who held family worship twice
daily, and yet he would hardly think of
passing Il drinking place without going
in, and this was not then cons dered a
matter for criticism. Whisky was as
common as water, flowing on all occa-
sions. A writer in the Interior declares
1t safe to say that fifty years ago one
man IN every ten became a drunkard.
The abundance of such testimony within
easy reach ought to be comforting to the
pessmist who insists that whisky is all
the time getting stronger hold upon
the people.
A great deal in the line of temperance
reform has been done by the philanthro-
pic and we'll directed efforts of noble
men and women, and a great deal has
been accomplished in spite of others
who fight for vindication rather than
real reform. Perhaps the most potent
agency in promoting the growth OF per-
s"nal temperance has been the ineLora-
bic demands OF business, of society and
Of politics. The rigid pressure OF com
petition, the demands Of electricity and
steam, the responsibilities involved in
great enterprises will not brook the
companionship of whisky. The railways
are more and more rigidly enforcing
their demands for abstinence among
their employees, They and the public
behind them will not risk their lives and
property with men who fool with drink.
Employers large and small insist upon
soberness a prerequisite of engagement.
Ii it is believed that tipping is no bar
to political advancement investigation
Ill congress and in the legislatures will
be reassuring. Girls are not marrying
drinking men 10 reform them as they
were. They have learned that they can
rot afford 10 rely upon chances SO re-
mote as the reform OF u husband addicted
to drink. Right in this town the saloon
keeper said before he went out of bust |
ness: These Spirit Lake business men
are queer fellows. They speak kindly to
me on the street, but / get no business
from them." Why not? Largely for the
reason that a business man in Il com
munity like this cannot afford to be |
caught rooling with drink. 7
In this latter day a young man soon
comes to the parting of the ways. This
is free country. He may map out Il
of drinking and involving gen.
eral looseness if he is so inclined. There
is no law to hinder or make afraid. but
he is pretty apt to bar himself away
from the most profitable employment,
from the best society and all the ways
which make for peace and prosperity.
These considerations have had a power
full effect in Improving the moral tone of
society during the past twenty-five years
they have erected stone wall which
will rise higher and higher, as lntelli-
gence spreads and reason does it's per
feet work.-Spirit Lake Beacon.
A woman never really knows the
of happiness and content until
she is the mother of healthy, happy
child. The health of the child depends I
on the health of the mother, both before
and after birth. Most all of womans
and particularly the weakness
that most strongly influences the health
Of children, comes from arrangement or
disease Of the organs distinctly feminine
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription will
cure troubles Of this nature. 1t should |
be taken regularly by every woman DUR
ing the entire period of CESSATION. 1t
gives strength to all the organs involved
lessons the pains OF childbirth and in
sures the health of the mother and child.