Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-24
VALUE OF TEMPERANCE,
A Letter From a Texas Woman II
Help the Prohibition Cause.

''7N VI N''D0N Ni'itits7 NiiiNh NiDu iio'
given to us.
The life of the captive boy Daniel
affords most impressive lesson of
the Importance of temperance
Daniel purposed not to defile him
self with the kings peat nor with his
wine, but instead he requested pulse
(peas, beans. etc. and water for him
self and his three companions
That Daniel derived great ad-
vantage from the effects of such a
diet upon his physical system is evil
dent from his long and brilliant
career
To him was presented under the
form of a great image the period
which covers the rise and fall of king
doms, the head of gold the golden
kingdom of a golden age.
Babylon. the head of gold. lowered
to height never reached by any of
its successors. Situated in the garden
of the East: laid out in luxuriant
pleasure grounds; interspersed with
magnificent dwellings. its $50 gates of
solid brass. hanging gardens and royal
palaces. were themselves wonders of
the world. Such was Babylon. with
observation-disclosures seated upon its
throne. With Belshazzar, grandson
of Nebuchadnezzar. the kingdom of
Babylon came to an end. the transit
ton from the gold to the silver of the
great image of Daniel
Belshazzar, the king made great
feast to a thousand of his lords and
he drank wine before the thousand.
and while they drank wine from YES
sells dedicated to the true God. hand
silently appeared tracing mystic char
acters upon the wall Then the kings
ceuntenance changed. and his
thoughts troubled him: although he
could not read the writing. he knew
that it was no message of peace that
was traced in glittering characters
upon his palace walls.
In the drunken reveIry of that fatal
night. the river gates were all left
open, giving entrance to the Persian
warriors. That nights work cost them
their kingdom and their freedom: they
went into their. british revelry sub
jeets of the king of Babylon: they
awoke from it slaves to the king of
Persia
Forget not Babylon, Rome. too.
went down to ruin because she for
sock those principles upon which her
foundations We're laid principles hos
tile to intoxicating liquors.
The foe that caused the downfall of
those ancient Kingdoms is abroad in
our fair land. 1t grapples with
strong men and thrusts them from the
ninnapIa of 70, ,,,to
street. It leaves thousands of wo-
men to struggle and fight the battle
of life for themselves and their chill
dren alone, while their husbands fill
drunkards' graves Thousands of
pure girls are robbed of their most
priceless treasure. their virtue.
through the dram drinker.
Thousands of children are made or
plants. being left alone to suffer and
fight for their existence.
Awful is the picture that reveals the
depth of sorrow and degradation into
which liquor has plunged these wives
and children.
1t is said that in the United States
nearly s2.25o,000.0e0 is spent every
year Tor strong drink. Less money is
expended for food, clothes and the
neeessaries of life by all the people
than Is spent for drink by one third
OF the people of the United States.
Inc money spent for drink will help
ESQ, 100000 poor people if each one
receives one dollar Will build 450
ooo sehoolhouses if each schoolhouse
costs $4,000.
IL VIII bring JOY to the drunkard's
nome and build neat cottage where
his howell stands
VIII fill the hungry mouths of bis
CRYING children and clothe the baol,s
mat have been stripped by the traf-
fiC.
The drink bill is nearly two HIM.
ored times as much as is given nv all
denominations for sending the sosnaI
TO foreign lands. 1t is more than
twice as is spent for bread.
Can We look upon the intemneranoa
and crime that seem to be deludine
the earth without feeling our souls
stirred to the very depths? While it
Is true that great good has been ac
cohphshed by thousands of noble
workers in the ranks of the National
Woiiail Christian Temperance
Union, the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION. the American Health and
temperance Association, and other or
CARNATIONS laboring TO protect the in
hocent and uplift the fallen. vet
much remains to be accompIisbed
The prohibition cause faces toward
victory. The whole world is waking
up TO its responsibility on this oues.
ton.
Nine states-Maine. Kansas. North
Dakota, Georgia. Oklahoma, Alabama
Mississippi, North Carolina and Ten
nessee have already by statute de-
throned King Alcohol, and others are
expected to join the ranks of the
noble nine. We are rejoiced to know
that our own state. Texas, is waging
warfare for state wide prohibition.
To prove that state wide prohibition
is not a failure as some claim it to be.
we quote from the report of f. b.
Coburn- secretary of the board of
agriculture of Kansas He says-
After thirty years trial, prohibition
is so popular in Kansas that no per-