The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-08-14
Incorporate Temperance.
Food for the Temperate and Intem-
perate to Ponder Over.

scattered up and down that country in spite of the re-
strctive measures which have been adopted in spite
OF the agitation constantly going in parliament and
OUT or It, Tor the enactment of still mole restrictive
measures In England the consumption of Intoxicating
drinks has almost doubled within the last ten years
In I9oo the consumption per head of the population
Tor Great Britain and Ireland amounted to f4 l6s and
some ODD pence; III 1910 the amount consumed per
head OF the population had swelled to 98 9salnost
douDe thus, at the present moment the consumption
OF intoxicating liquors in Great Britain and Ireland
foot up to more than S43 for every man, woman and
child In the community. John Bull boasted that he
crank himself out OF the Alabama difficulty In the
year I'e Alabama claim was paid there was surplus
In the revenue OF just about the amount of the claim
ana tnat surplus owed It's existence an enormous in
crease IN the consumption OF intoxicating drinks in
that year The London Punch of the day had pic.
tufe In Which were represented two reddened disspat-
ed, ragged drunkards just entering saloon One said
TO the other: Il say Bill we created the surplus
Lets 60 and have mother drink, Bill and We'll get
nother surpls. You know that the increased con-
sumption OF Intoxicating beverages in the United
States, has than doubled during the last 10 wears
for an American does not like to be licked by an Eng
lShman In anything You can not take up a temper
ance newspaper or periodical without reading appeals
to faithful for increased exerton IN the cause
strengthened by the dolorous statement that the evil
OF lntemperate drinking is fearfuly on the increase
know what facts would. Here after fifty years cru.
SADIE against particular vice, those who have con-
Quoted the crusade are obliged to confess the vice to
time we tried something else? The Rev. DR.. Howard
Crosby said, at meeting for the promotion of temper
ate drinking held in New York the other day: 'The
prohlblton people have been working on false theory
They have made their fight against moderate drinkers
and not against drunkards. So temperance men, who
have not believed in practiced total abstinence.
have been kept cut of the temperance work for wears
Ana now, continued the Doctor, "the moderate and
temperate people are going into the work themselves,
and look for very great results
It's not at all difficult to understand why the pro-
mDlt0n movement should have resulted in failure The
frofnpltion retormers set themselves the impossible
task of roofing out of human experience habit which
Is as wide as humanity itself and which has about it
The rme OF all the human ages. There is no custom
at once so universal and SO ancient the custom of
mblbing alcoholic drinks "All countries. whether
civilized or savage" says writer in the latest edition
or sne GneyeioPeda have in every age
ing was known and practiced by the ancient Egypt
lans. The Greeks borrowed the art from the Egypt
ans, and pfacticed it at very early period of their
history. Beer and vinegar the latter especially ntox-
lcatng, were the ordinary beverages of the Roman
soldiers who fought, and conquered, under julius Cae
sar The Romans introduced the art of brewing
amongst the ancient Britons who had previously been
content with mead-an intoxicating drink made from
honey. Penetrate far back as you will in human
history and you can ascertain anything of the social
condition of the people living at that far back time
you will find prevalent amongst them the custom of
taking some sort OF Intoxicating drink Man has nev-
er yet been so highly civilized as to be above apprec-
atng and never yet so low down in savagery as to be
incapable of appreciatng--a drink! For good or for
evil the phrase Lets liquor up boysp for ages upon
ages has been in every conceivable language on the
lips of humanity The Germans and the English today
are nveterate lovers of beer as ever their Teutonc
ancestors were who worshipped god who was great
drinker Of beer, and who believed that heroes who
won heaven at last would find their chefest felicity in
having tipoing matches with their deity Well, the
beer bibbing English have produced Shakspere. and
the beer-bbbing Germans have produced critics capa
bic OF understanding him. And yet the prohibition
reformers dreamed the utterly impossible dream of
taking humanity in detalone by one. and persuad-
ing them to forego this widespread and deepseated
this age-honored and sge-hardened custom of human
lie. NO wilder dream was ever creamed. The entire
course of the worlds history presents no instance of
such thing ever having been done The ATTEMPT of
the old woman of whom Sydney Smith tells u.s. who