The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-10

yet it is interesting to know that
both Church and State have worked
hand in hand for the restriction, or
suppression of the drink habit.
Anti-Treating Laws In Egypt.
About 1000 years B. c., in Egypt
there was a general crusade waged
against the vicious habit, and
pledge taking was forced to some
extent upon the people of that fam
Gus country. Anti-treating laws were
also enforced but the Egyptians still
continued to drink, and there has
been no nation in all the world that
suffered more from that deadening
blight than Egypt during long and
eventful history.
Ancient Greece had rigid laws
against the manufacture and sale of
wine. Plato taught that no man
should drink wine until he had
reached his thirteenth year and then
only sparingly. And while that
scholarly and enlightened nation
practiced moderation, or total alb
stinence, she forged ahead in the
development of the arts and sciences;
but when she swerved from her path
of sobriety, then she began to
crumble and became an easy prey
to her successor, in the making of
the worlds history.
RomuIus The First PrOhibitionist.
Rome like Greece began well. 1t
is said that Romulas was a prohibi-
zionist and that he made a law to
the effect that any husband could
put his wife to death for drinking
wine. But, like Greece, Rome too,
in the course of ages, introduced
Bacchus and after Bacchus, We
nus also; which marked the begin
ming of the decline and fall of the
proud and mighty empire.
Whisky found it's way into Eng
land about the time of Henry VIII,
or little before. 1t grew to be such
lucrative traffic that his daughter,
Queen Elizabeth, made great deal
OF money out of it, until it's sale be-
came quite common in the King
dom.
Among the various signs over the
doors of saloons and ale houses in
England in those days the following
was typical of the social customs of
the day: Customers can get drunk
here for one penny; dead drunk for
two pence and can have lots of
straw for nothing. Thus we can OBJ
serve that with the rise of civiliza-
tion everywhere, somehow or anoth-
er, the drink habit increased and be-
came widespread.
"In the Colonial days of this coun-
try the government had whisky re-
bellion on it's hands down South;
and even out where Pittsburg now
stands, in our own State, there was
an uprising against the authorities
who threatened to restrict the abuse
of intoxicating beverages.
I'm fact, only last year, or the
year before, in London, where strict
and prohibitive laws were threaten
ed by the government, an army of
100000 men and women congregat-
ed on one occasion in protest of the
laws to be enacted"
At the Saturday morning session
of the County Temperance Institute,
Rev. c. H. Brandt, Wilkes-Barre.
presided. The opening prayer was
offered by Rev. A. c. Oliver. Rev.
James Rainey, Aldenville, presented
a paper on THE Prohibition Party"
Miss Minnie E. Coleman, Damascus,
explained the workings of the w. G.
T. U. Much regret was expressed
at the absence, from sickness, of
Rev. j. B. Cody, Bethany.
At the afternoon session, Super
intendent Brandt explained the
Brooks High License Law" G. H.
Knapp, Aldenville, spoke on Law
Enforcement" Rev. DR.. Swift read
an editorial from the Wilkes-Barre
Record. Rev. DR.. Hitler also spoke,
and several other addresses were
made.