The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-07-31
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
ABOUT TEMPERANCE TOPICS
by Mrs. NJ. Huff. }

ny MRS. NJ. Huff.
"A New York preacher was recent.
~ heard to say: Perhaps if some
great fanatics should arise and Mt.
TACK our modern lust of pleasure, our
sham religious life, our SNUG respect.
ability, our sin beneath our fine
clothes and good manners, there
might be real revival of religion
winch would not only save our souls
but purge our business. our social
life our politics, our international re-
lations of the rottenness and corrup-
ton at their heart Literary Di-
gest.
"You cannot fight crime, disease and
immortality and leave out alcohol"
exclaimed Mrs. Tilton of Boston at
the Biennial meeting Of the Gen. Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs at Chicago
last month; 'for you age fighting ev-
cry other evil when you are fighting
alcohol"
Rolfe Cooley says: "The saloon is
the worst institution lcgalized by our
government. We should seek to
abolish it by vote and by PERSONAL in
iuenec, and to put it in its place that
for which those who patronize the
saloon have personal craving. The
church and Christian Endeavor So
cieties can supply in part the friendly
fellowship and social opportunities
that are soaght and found in tine sa-
looms"
THE good women who, the country
over, fight the battles for temperance
within the ranks Of the W. G. T. IT,,
seem willing to utilize every path to
victory. They are not too fanatiGal
TO be opportunists when occasion 70.
quires. Down in New Mexico thsy
have just put a distillery out of-buS-
iness by purchasing it. To he suee
the women secured it from Uncle Sam
who had seized it for illegal practic-
es. But the bargain price of $305 in-
,dincates somewhat the present state
of the distillerY market"
''The choice 6etweel business OPP
lportunities and indulgence in liquor
idrink ing is forced year by year upon
Ia wider circle. The new Workman's
Compensation Bill in the state of
New York exemprs frorn liability en-
Ipl0yers, injuries received while the
workman is under the influence of
alcohol More and more workmen
VIII be driven to total abstinence as
confirmation of ms insurance in case
nj injury, as en4tioyurs are led more |
and more to insist upon such absti- |
ugnce as n condition of employment"
1.-THE full text of the Hobson
amendment for nationwide prohibit |
-imI through an amendment of the
Federal Constitution is rs follows: |
The sale, manufacture for sale, of |
Intoxicating liquors for beverage pur-
yuses in the United States and all I
territories subject to tie jurisdiction
thereof, and the expectation for sale !
thereof, are forever prohibited; the I
Congress or the states within their /
respective Jurisdictions shall have
uower TO enforce this article by all !
nsedfuE Legislation. Congregation |
aiisr.
prison population are composed Of !
dt.rsriorated and defective individuals |
who fall below die average physically
Iud mental standards declares DR..
Panl +. Bowers. Physician to the In
diana State PRISON, July l3, ut the
icurvention in Chicago Of alienists and
Iuurologists. Tie majority of pris-
imers are in n state of mental insolv-
,aney. Seventy-tive of one hundred
prisoners | recently classified, had
,venereal disease, and Of these sixty
five had both kinds Of venereal in
lection. Twenty-Five PER cent of
habitual criminals are feeble mindi.d.
Alcoholism most frequently plays the
part of contributing factor, not the
immediate cause of crime
"The alcoholic is primarily a weak
ling" asscrted DIR. Chas. F. Read,
Assistant Sapt. Chicago State Hespi-
tai for the insane. "The only effect
ual cure for alcoholism is enforced ali
stinence together with industrial re-
education. This is proper work for
the State. Inebriete colonies should
be ESTABLISHED"
DR.. ]. Cheston King of Atlanta,
Ca, deplored the fact that society is
encouraging imprudent speculation,
intemperance and vice, augmenting
the desire to gain wealth by specu-
latior rather than by honest labor,
and converting our youth into idle
vagabonds, filing our prisons and
peuitentiaries with defaulters, forg-
ers, bank robbers, thieves and muir
derers. st. Louis Republic.