The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1914-06-10
TEMPERANCE TOPICS.

I'VE are indebted TO the National Adj
vocate for many items in these columns ]
An extended total abstinence cam
paign began in France, January II, at
Nancy.
The best drink for that tired feeling
that affects US all in the early spring is
i Adams ale fresh from the well.
WHO is BOSS"
No man who drinks is ever the master.
Whisky is always the master. 1t never
yields so much as fraction of its con-
troll. The chains that bind the drinking
man may seem imaginary, but when he
tries TO break them he finds they are OF
steel. In his sober intervals he makes
brave promises of reformation, and even
in his periods of intoxication he still
hugs the drunkard's pet delusion that
he ''can drink or let it alone" But he
cannot let it alone. The continued use
of alcohol causes diseased condition,
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The Supreme Court of the United
States has upheld Nebraska law giving
the wife and children of an habitual
drunkard cause of action against the
saloon-keeper who sells him liquor.
Prof Hahnel declares that 300 of ev-
cry 1000 babies are born dead among
the Bavarians, the greatest beer drinkers
in the world, and that 1000 of them
die annually in the first year of life.
Statistics show tina; 81 per cent of the
sons of brewery workmen of Vienna
were unfit for military service.
North Dakota has no saloons, but it
has one bank to every 749 inhabitants.
1t has 80 counties, AZ of which have no
poorhouses.
Premier Witte of Russia, said on Jan.
20, 1914, that the liquor business in Rus
STA was undermining the empire and de-
stroying its safety.
Eugene w. Chain, prohibitioniSt, has
been nominated a candidate for the
United States Senate from the State of
Arizona.
There were 1000 less arrests during
1913 in the city of Atlanta, the largest
city of the world under prohibitory law,
than in 1907, when the law went into
effect.
DOG AND MAN.
a young man, making a temperance
speech, said: "A man ought not to
make dog of himself by getting drunk. "
An elderly Irishman Immediately rose
and said: Il insist, sir, that you have
done dogs an injustice. and ought to
apologize to them. No dog was ever
low down enough to drink liquor, or
vote for saloons"
The point seemed well taken The
tyoung man apologized to the dogs and
went on with his speech. Two years
later that young man spoke in another
place, where a woman said: my little
boy and heard you in Magnolia two
years ago. My husband was an anti
and would not go; but when we went
home Charlie told his father what the
Irishman said, and he has been against
the saloon ever since" 1t does look like
men ought to do as well as dogs, don't il,
Employers of the great steel works al
Homestead, Pa, are forbidden to drink
while on duty, aud are given 10 under
stand that to drink while off duty may
lead to their dismissal
The saloon is nothing if it is not cruel
and unjust. 1t makes drunkardS and
paupers of men, and then levies its con-
tributions on their wives and children.
1t lives and flourishes on the misfortunes
or men. But the time is coming, thank
God, when it will reap what it has sown
death. Methodist Recorder.
The giving of liquor to children, so.
cial custom of years iL Switzerland, has
been broken by governmental edict.
OF the sixty lawyers of Winnebagc
county, H., it is said that only one will
defend a bootlegger.
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