Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-12

all things helpful and total abstinenc'
from all things harmful.
tits stated that Miss Helen Gould
offers no wine at dinner.
Speaking Of the liquor traffic, thu
London Times discloses that, III VI
do not finish this evil it will finish US,
and Supreme Justice Davis says thai
40 per cent Of the crime in this coun-
try comes from intemperance. 1 have
clasped the hand of many a poor fellow
through prison bars, who has cried to
me, God knows it was drink that
brought me here"
Attorney General Hancock, of New
York, has decided that habitual drunk
ards must be shut up.
A band Of crusaders led by the Rev.
Dr. J. G. Breckenridge Presbyterian.
the Rev. Up. Patterson, Methodist
and Harry Maxwell, Evangelist, are
doing effective work at Bourbon, Ind.
.The Japanese have a pretty custom
of letting loose a flock of birds when
they launch a vessel. 1t hoped that
advancement In civilization will not
lead them to substitute for their own
usage, the foolish custom of spilling
liquor over q ship In christening IT,
Chicago Record.
Virginia has a law fol bidding the
sale Of intoxicating liquors to the
students in the state unworthy, "and all
other institutions of learning"
Ann Arbor boarding house mis-
tresses have been discussing a purpose
to prohibit smoking in rooms rented
to students.
THE PRESENT CONFLICT.
Who are fighting? That is the first
question when you see two men trying
to pound each other. Who are the
parties to this great fight? They are
on one side every lover of humanity,
the church and God; on the other side
the liquor traffic, hell and the devil.
1t Is indeed a great fight. What is it
about: That is the next question
when you see a battle. 1t is for and
against our children, our homes, our
church, our ~Sabbaths, our republic
Rev. J.. P. Calhoun, Presbyterian,
Pittsburg, Pa.
ABoYCoTT OH YALE.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Ihe ninth an |
nual convention of the Young Women's
Christian Temperance union of New
Jersey vas concluded to-day in Jersey |
City. At the conclusion of the season
a series of resolutions was adopted.
The anti-cigarette bill now before
congress was endorsed. One resolutionrI
was as follows:
Resolved, That in view of the dis
closure of the sale of liquor to students
in sixty-six saloons within two blocks
of Yale campus, we, the Young VOL
mems Christian Temperance union of
New Jersey, in convention assembled,
will do all in our power to influence our
brothers and the young men of u ac-
Quaintance who are contemplating al
course to select ONE other In.
where they may be surrounded
a more healthy moral atmospheric
Ind will be subjected to fewer tempta-
ions.
1t is due Librarian Young of the
Congressional Library, Washington, ID.
J., to emphasize the fact that it was
superintendent Greene who was re-
ipvnsible for the permission to the
to serve wine and beer in the
and who now claims that it
all a misunderstanding. The Ma
,ional w. @. 7. U. received a note from
Mr.. Young in answer to their protest,
n which he takes strong ground
anything of the kind, and in
reply TO the committee who waited up
IN him in regard to the matter, he
said: II was out CT the city when the
was first discussed. My only
of it came from the Presi-
lent, who transmitted me a statement
re had received from the ladies of your
organization somewhere about Decem-
Der Goth. In reply l want to say that
would very much deplore the sale OF
anything like beer, or wine, or whisky ]
n the building, and as far as | know, !
nothing of the sort is sold here now. Ill
would not think Tor a moment of hav- !
ng anything of that sort in the Con- !
yressional Library, for | think the sup
preston of the liquor traffic Is to be Z
he great battle of the next century. III
IAN assure you that no intoxicating |
liquors are now on sale anywhere about {
he building"