Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-07-17
W. c. 7. U. NOTES.

VIC. 7. U. NOTES.
tThese notes arc printed as furnished by the
press representative Of the State W. e, I. u, and
this paper is in no manner responsible ior me
statements.l
"There is no right without parallel |
duty, no liberty without the supremacy |
of the law, no high destiny without |
| earnest perseverance, no greatness
| without self-denial. "-Lieber.
Says the Union Signal, editorially:
ITO continue in the Use of alcoholics
| is TO deny the law of total abstinence,
and to make extremely Improbable II
not impossible revelation of tho truth
with power of will to obey. He who
will begin the test of the law OF total
abstinence by the keeping of the law,
10 MIN shall the clear truth be revealed.
! These are the words of Him who gave
and kept the whole law. If We continue
in My words then are ye My disciples
indeed, and ye shall know the truth
and the truth shall make you free.
The law of liberty, the law Of life, the
law OF love-these three are involved in
the law of total abstinence from alco-
halics. He who would perfectly obey
them must also perfectly obey this.
There is no middle road. 7
The Christian Endeavor world stated
some weeks ago: I'm Germany the
student life and army life are two
places where the excessive use of alco-
hoI is especially felt. Tho health OF
the students is being undermined and
their morals are suffering from the
drinking habits that prevail in the
| Fnbo na n la said nf
! the military life for most of the duels
.. that have taken place recently have
grown out of drinking affairs, after
which the officers were the worse for
liquor. Count Douglas, supported by
members of the National, Liberal, the
Conservative and the Polish parties,
, has introduced into the Prussian Diet
a measure asking the Prussian govern
ment to legislate against the excessive
, use of Spirits" which shows that the
:, people of the country see the danger.
A recent number of the Union Signal
! contains the following item: At
the annual meeting of the Royal Army
3 Temperance Association, held in London
recently, the presiding officer, Major
I General Desborough, said that the
I $1,000 total abstainers in the British
T Army were men to be relied on, and
< men who were less frequently in the
= hospital than were Others. " The
grant to the association, he stG ted
8 was at the rate of four and hal
3 pence per head for each abstainer,
y but the men were worth, in hi:
:, opinion, pound head. The value
y OF sober army could not be estimated
v in money, and he related numerous in
y stances OF battles fought and victorie
q won by on-drinkers. Furthermore I
y man who kept the pledge did not stol
D. there. He thought of higher things
2. and became better man in every way
10 and to this was due the high characte
of the British soldier :"
I'd Our national organ prints an edi
Of torial on 1.-THE Liquor Habit fror
w the Chicago American from which "
IS quote as follows Whisky gives grea
es many things to men-negatiye gift
st most of them. OF these gifts here are
ms few: Lack of friends, lack Of will, lac
ne Of self respect lack of nervous force
p. lack OF everything save the hideor
ne craving that can end only with uncor
es seriousness, and that begins with il
II. creased suffering when consciousness
We restored. With the fear of whisky thel
We should be impressed upon childre
., sympathy ana sorrow for the unforti
ne nate drunkard. One of the ablest me
and one of the most earnest in Americ
zee said 10 his friends recently; II new
les drink as you know but when | sec
os- man lying drunk in the gutter | kno
EN- that he has probably made that We
cir day a nobler struggle to control himse
3 a than | ever made In my life. He hi
led Welded and fallen at last, but only b
CT cause all his strength is insufficient
he overcome the disease that possesses. hir
nd Ieacn your children that drunkenno
for is a horrible disease as bad as lepros
lily Teach them that it can be avoide
ty, that the disease is contracted in you
not through carelessness, and that it
spread by those who encourage drin
to ing in others. Tell them that t
ere avoiding Of whisky is not merely
nan question of morals or obedience
on mental and physical salvation, succt
the in life, happiness, and the respect
an, others. -
has
,cu- We are glad to pass on the follow
'rds information given by the Signal: 9 NJ
lay- Katharine Lente Stevenson, preside
hey of Massachusetts w. @. I. u, has j
it'll completed trip of nearly two WEI
In in the State of Maine and says she
ram prepared to speak with grea
authority than ever before on P
said hibition on its native heath. WI
ould she unquestionably found towns VIII
th the law was violated, she also fol
the towns where it was perfectly enfor
erer as any other law upon the statute DO
, his In one place the president of the I'm
3 set said to her: II we were to see 4
staggering upon our streets we sho
ixth be much more likely to think he
hbed sick than that he was intoxicated.
ctive is a sight we never see.' In anot
If he place the minister said We do
1t he need the law here in the village
leix, enforces itself; there would he no lie
ut of selling and no drunkenness in the c
his munity il there were no law. The "
lsac- have done their work and prohibit
community is the result Y
re of
ctiye 1.-THE Board of Liquor License G
lied missioners of Baltimore, Md, ha;
> the fused applications from -
share saloons. - THE Happy Home Lea
n. | temperance society originated
IS we Archbishop Keane Of Dubuque,
whole held State convention in that cit
gang, May Both. Two hundred delegates
II our present. Archbishop Keane adore
take the convention urging the formatic
polls. strong organizations to fight
'ment saloon. Officers were elected, as
, pro- also delegates to the Catholic
n the Abstainers' Union, which meet,
ctims Dubuque, August 6th-sth.