Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-10
THE GREAT b.
SOME STARTLING FACTS ~oOU1
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.

fntcmperance is Decreasing. Declares tht
Atlanta Journal-The Business worlt
Has No Place For the Man whs
Drinks.
The fresh young man who feels
obliged to carry a bottle with him to al
places where he thinks he will not be of
fered something "to wet his whistle" il
rapidly passing away. The business worlG
has no place for him and he is growing
into disfavor socially. The evidence o.
this is seen on every hand.
A few days ago NJ. Jules Cambon, The
French Ambassador to this country, saiG
the American people; There may be
some hypocrites among them, but the vast
majority abstain from strong drink"
In commenting on this statement edi
torially the New York Sun says: "It is
true, as general observation must have dis.
covered, that prudence in drinking al
kinds of alcoholic liquors has increased
and that total abstinence from them is
relatively much more frequent than for
merly."
1t is plain that the business conditions
of to-day require the services of sober
men. No Others need apply Great enter
prlses can only be carried on successfully
by those who utilize fully their naturaF
mental gifts and their physical energies
The hard drinkers cannot command the
confidence of business men. hence those
who indulge immoderately in the use Of
strong intoXicants sooner or later become
toafers.
1t is a noticeable fact that the thrftiest
communities after they get settled down
to business produce fewer drunkards than
those where loafing is the rule.
Only few days ago the news columns
Of the Journal showed that fewer licenses
to liquor establishments were granted in
Atlanta during the first six months of
this year than for the same period of last
year, although the city has in the mean.
time grown largely in population.
Ambitious men have learned that sue
cess can only come either in business life
or in the professions to those who keen
their wits about them all the time and
preserve themselves so as to be able phys
icallv to perform great labor.
This state of things has had its inhu.
ence socially for apparent reasons and
hence those who at dinners and other So
rial entertainments habtually indulge to
the extent of obvious intoXication are no
longer regarded with amusement but with
commiseration, and as needing such ten
der care as is given to a sick man.
1t has always been matter of remark
that in the clubs in Atlanta there is very
little immoderate drinking. The young
men are busy here. and understand that
.he enterprise and sobriety of their com
oetitors will not suffer them to destroy
,r weaken their capacity by indulgence i'll
me use of strong stimulants.
The New York Sun says "even the
rammany General Committee, once called
collection OF red noses, is now full of to-
| al abstainers; that none of the great po-
| ltical leaders of the present is a hard
| thinker; that many of them are total alb
stainers, and that the same is true of the
Yreat leaders in finance, in trade and in
| he professions. Strict abstemiousness is
| ;he rule among them and a reputation for
| ntemperance is always injurious"
! Archbishop Ireland was quoted in the
newspapers few days ago as saving that
| temperance is increasing, and his conclu-
| non was based on information obtained
| rom the Total Abstinence Society Of
| America, Catholic institution
1t will be noticed that the observation
If the French Minister has been confined
% the large cities of the West and the
Gast where temperance is not enforced
~ law, but is simply brought about by
business and social standards
| The Sun arrives at the conclusion that
IS result of increasing temperance
lmong the people the liquor question
has been practically eliminated from pol
| tics, for the evils of alcoholic abuse are
recognized by all parties and by liquor
lealers not less than by the rest Of the
public"
| Whether the Suns conclusion in this
particular is correct or not it is gratifying
note the evidences of the fact that ours
becoming more and more a nation of So
Ter and temperate people.-Atlanta Jour
ial.