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curate account, would suggest that our
Dr., if he is "above suspicion" be seat.
ed in the private room with "back
door" and render assistance. He could
literally advertise the remedy" and
help "rub in" the application. Local
institutions are not intended.)
No, no; don't thrust part of your rem
edy upon the helpless woman. Don't
put her to the extra disgrace of "adver-
tising" the fact that her husband is be-
ing "debauched;" she has enough to
bear already. No woman who thinks
anything OF herself or family will take
such step unless in sheer desperation (;
and too often then the only result would
he to make her lot harder to bear This
drop too much" advertisement has too
many turns between the doctors, law
yers and saloon keepers, to induce an
honorable woman to run the gauntlet OF
"biased" opinion and drink evidence.
The writer OF this is tired" Of such
remedies.
There are but few women whose hus-
bands drink but what know that any
liquor at all is too much, and to shift the
burden of the remedy upon her is not
fair to say the least. Ii it, Dr.? She
don't want the stuff. She hates it, Yet
day after day she must witness the neg
lect, the loss Of sympathy, the lack OF
comforts in the home, the weakened
mind and constitution OF her-well, for
her sake we will call him husband. (The
primitive word was "houseband. All
this the direct result OF fostering traffic
and remedy that never pays one cent
on the dollar in true health, wealth or
happiness, but whose gross, and net, re-
turns is pauperism and crime, physical
and mental wrecks.
Now, II it is necessary to substantiate
this by facts and figures, | will guaran-
tee such an array that the DR.. even will
not figure a possible l219 per cent dis
count,
The cry that prohibition is blow at
liberty" is tiresome 1t is much in effect
like the plea heard some years ago, that
"a negro has no rights that white man
is bound to respect" Now, there is a
respectable minority who would like
some liberty also. There is a respectable
minority OF mothers, wives, daughters
and sons that would like the "life, lib
erty and pursuit OF happiness talked Of
in the Declaration OF Rights, yet denied
them by the drink god and his "rem,
edies." There are vast and growing
asylums and prisons overflowing with
imbecile wrecks, and partakers of crime,
who, had not the accursed stuff been
given to them and put to their lips,
would be free men and the nations
pride today. There are tens Of thousands
born annually who ought to have had
the liberty" to be born right, but who
came into this world slaves to their only
inheritance, "a craving appetite for
drink" and weakened mind and con-
stitution to resist it,
Talk about liberty Can the right to
indulge the worst slavery that ever
CALLED the human family be liberty?
Does it curtail liberty to Danish the leper
from society," Will it curtail liberty to
abolish the admitted nuisance" from
all danger Of contagion? Would it be
blow at liberty to remove the most po.
tent factor for evil that the world knows?
A power that controls politics by moving
men to yield up principles for appetite2
A power that controls vast municipal
tiles, where hot-beds of crime flourish
under their fostering care, and where
the foulest deeds are winked at by the
of the lawP The writer does
not pen at random on these matters.
Would it be against liberty to cut off an
article of such vast consumption as to
require hall million to deal out that
which they know de2auches and makes
vagabonds2" Are these such bene-
factors of the race that they must be
built up while they tear dOaCn multi
tudes whom they involve in distress and
ruin? Can it be blow at liberty to turn
the stream of capital employed in "nui-
sance- making" to better use2
Are governments instituted to estab=
lsh "nuisances" and go into partner
ship in the "business?" The character
of the products is a sufficient comment
IN the crying need of such "joint stock
Are governments instituted
o protect only the liberties of the strong
temperance" men in them2 Can it be
hat the Temperance" mans liberties
ire in danger who drinks all the way
rom a gill to half gallon of the stuff
iaily "for his stomach's sake and often I
when every drop of alcohol
AN neither furnish bone, muscle or
1ower, and which leaves a deadly trail {
lpon every nerve and cell of human s
tructureP Can it be liberty to enthrall
he delicate mechanism of the body and ,
ntail posterity in the act? No! The !
Ultimate object of government is to pro.
ect the weak and give them liberty and !
where 1t fails OF this it fails utterly of its |
esign. And since no government is !
tronger in this direction than the !
trongest in it, we cannot look for much
etter things Of this generation; for it
erily resembles nightly in drinking" t
he one before the food, thing the
luthor of Christianity foretold, and q +
esult that many are determined "shall /
ONE to pass" regardless of consequences. C
There is no temperance in the habit
al use of that which causes intemper- |
nee, thing whose every drop contains a
le active principle thereof. Temper e
nee is not q matter Of degrees of Tin a
'xlcation., 1t is not indulging the =
ulsance, but avoiding "even the ap-
earance of evil" Paul did reason of
temperance" and judgment to come, a
ling most men don't do. Felix ''trem- 81
|eo over ms account, as many won't =
., yet asked for a convenient season." T
] many do. !
The writer is willing to grant to the 9
rugs their proper place, but that sphere B
too narrow in all candor to suffer by :
ieir prohibition as a beverage. And
hat more can say of liberty3 Well,
is not liberty to indulge the active a,
rincipfes or practice of slavery-"and
this be treason make the most of it."
Since the DR.. put himself on record as
Tor license and liberty" in order to
EN- opposed ! must subscribe, Yours a
r no license and slavery.
c. A. WYMAN,
Mckinley Club. A
There will be meeting of the Me- OF
lnley club Saturday, Jan. goth, at . :l5 ot oL
M at prathnr'S nfSoa 70 oloot = eys -. ~