The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-25
How the Work Goes on,

The Archbishop of Canterbury has
received letter from Congo native
who has learned to write. He says:
Great and good chief of the tribe OF
Jesus Christ, greeting: The aumblest
of your servants kisses the hem of your
garments, and begs you to send your
fellow-servants more gospel and less
rum
A Chicago anarchist who was con-
verted some months ago, and who has
since been engaged in Christian work
in commenting on the saloon in con-
| nection with anarchy, said: You can
never drive anarchy out of Chicago
until you drive out the saloon, for the
saloon is the hotbed of anarchy, and
every anarchistic plot is Matched out
in saloon, under a saloon, or over a
saloon"
Statistics show that the Jews as
race are relatively exempt from tuber-
culosis although what are regarded
as predisposing causes are present
among them to an unusual degree.
Among the various reasons assigned
for this exemption from the disease is
given their freedom from alcohol
ism 1t is rare to see a drunken Jew,
and the abuse of alcohol is well known
to favor the growth of the tubercle
bacillus
The awful havoc which beer is work
ing in Germany is causing much alarm
to those of the better classes. A not
ed professor of philosophy in the Uni
versity of Berlin. Friedrich Paulsen.
has recently declared: There are re-
gions in Germany where no inconSid
crate proportion of the male popula-
ton goes to ruin as the direct conSe-
quence of the mania for drink, and
there is no province where the pro-
foundest disturbances do not extend
from this cause over the entire life. .
Another has said: In 100 army
| prisons throughout the German EN-
pire fcrty-six per cent of all the MUIR
derers committed their crimes while
under the influence of drink. Sixty
three per cent of the cases of man
slaughter. seventy-four per cent Of
serious injury to the person, and
seventy-seven per cent of criminal i'm
| morality are due to the same cause.
In the navy, out of 1871 punisha BILE
cases during the last six years. sew
enty-fve per cent of the most serious
| cases have been due to drunken
| ness
fects of total abstinence is given by
Mr. w. ]. Cane, master of the work
house of Tonbridge Union, England.
! who says: christmas day was spent
! in the workhouse in very happy way,
| without the issue of any intoXicants
| whatever either to the inmates or
the staff: and this rule is in force at
! all times of the year, with the eXcep-
ton of such stimulants as are ordered
| by the medical officer as medicine
! have now spent twenty-five official
| Christmas days in a workhouse, and
|. | can say without the slightest hesita-
ton that by far the happiest for both
| inmates and officials has been the
| last three. when no intoXicants have
| been given
1t has been stated that there is prob
| ably more prohibition territory to-day
| in the United States. secured by effec-
tive local option laws. than has been
secured in any other way. When a
majority of voters in a given country,
town or precinct, vote against saloons,
| it is impossible to dispute their right
to be exempt from the curse they
deprecate. Those who favored the
popular sovereignty" doctrine of a
generation ago under which slavery
| was ruled out of the opening territor-
| les of that day, cannot object to the
application of that same principle to
the liquor traffic. Let the people have
a fair chance at it, if only in small
areas.-Ram's Horn.