Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31

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the full truth about the part that
whisky played in the tragic loss OF
I certain great battles and POSITIONS,
they will take measures to prevent
at least the higher officers from cap
| iitulating to the bottled enemy VINO
| is always a powerful ally OF every
other enemy.
Back of this all lies an idea that
| is greater than the liquor question.
That is the notion that whatever
hurts persons efficiency, or ma
| tons, is not to be tolerated; and
| that whatever makes for selfishness
! and unbrotherliness is fundamen-
tally bad for efficiency and for life.
| We cannot run this world on look
/ out-for- or-number-one" basis. We are
/ all too tightly tied up in the one
| bundle for that. Nowadays we are
glimpsing a vast significance in the
Interpretation of the fulfilment OF
| Christs principles as we read: Bear
| ye one another's burdens, and so full
| fill the law of Christ" We are out
laws from the Kingdom of Heaven so
| long as we are not sharing the 9TH
er persons load. Not to have load
on our shoulders declasses us, as IT
were; puts us out of the good soc:-
| ETY. of the good. Looked at in the
large, the liquor question is more
than an economic question and a So
cial question and a physiological
| question: it is n religious question.
Celcbration-J
For decades the Sunday Schools
have observed what they call
Worlds Temperance Sunday
This lesson recognizes that anniver-
sary; that is why we treat it topi-
cal.y, rather than teXtually - al
though the Rechabites are wei
worth studying about. There VIII
be the note of jubilation in this
years celebration; for we have wit
messed the greatest demonstration of
the advantages of the suppression of
the liquor traffic the world has ever
seen. Some drinkers are still grum-
bling, of course; but they are not
drinking as of yore, so who minds
! the grousing?
1 Queer stories of all kinds are cur
rent since the United States went
dry" Thus, the House of Correc-
tion Farm in Philadelphia has not
had enough I'd. d.'s"-"drunk and
disorderly'-to carry on it's farm, or
to run the plant which supplies the
community with gas; and both OF
these calamities have been heralded
as evils of prohibition! Mr.. Blythe
tells in The Saturday Evening
Post" of workingmen who now are
so sober and flush" on Monday
morning that they do not care
whether they work or not: they
have money. so why labor? In the
old days, the beneficent saloon KEEP
them so poor that they had to work
Also a steam laundry complained o
being swamped with business, be
cause so many wives are now uSins
the husbands booze money to pa!
for the family wash, instead of do
ing it themselves.
None of the dire prophecies of tn,
brewers have been fulfilled; and tn
people generally are better off ant
happier with this one avenue of eX
penditure closed to them. Best o
all, the men who used to drini
regularly are finding themselves il
better health and spirits than be
fore, and they have quickly adapted
themselves to the new conditions
The only organized protest agains
the new law has come from the liz
uor dealers, and in sober daylight
they find few friends. They wei,
not the good fellows" many though
them; but only a crowd of selfish
unscrupulous money-grabbers.
Lifting Life's Level
Nobody with a clear brain shoulc
suppose that the temperance battl
has been won because the saloon
have been put out of business in tn,
United States and most of Canada
Far from it. Negations create moth
ing. We have to build a new ant
nobler spirit of human Relationship
if we are to make this old worlC
the livable place it should be. GU
sober society should breed inciter
and inspirers to brotherhood. Life
level must be lifted. There is
message for the day in Marguerite
O. b. Wilkenson's poem:
He set his hand to the plow or
day.
While yet his years were few,
Resolved to mark a distant field
With burrows firm and true.
His arms were strong for the toll o
life,
His heart was all afire,
Till a neighbor laughed, and turne,
him home,
Rebuked his desire:
You are too young, you are to-
poor, you are too weak salt
he.
Best leave such tasks to the ricl
and great, and strive to o.
like me-
Then rosy love brought gran,
largesse
To his very cottage door,
A maid of mystery and of charm
God never gave before;
And the lad held out dumb hand
of hope
To the mighty fires of peace,
Till the neighbor passed with tongu,
in cheek,
And then he sought release.
You are too dull the neighbor said
to shine by such as she.
Find you a girl of common clay t,
wei, and be like me!'
80 time sped by, till the FADING
day
Could bring but one last chance
To break the bonds of a sordid lif
And conquer circumstance;
And. well-nigh spent, he sought tn
road
To the heights where life
great,
Eager to reach one shining goal,
But his neighbor whispered
wait
You are too old to do it now
is far too late said he.
L could not do it myself you know
and you are just like met"
A Menace or an Opportunity
OF course there is law violation
in dry territory: somehow, th,
whole miserable business of booz,
| seams to bePet lawlesspeSc t.,