Temperance Column.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 66, 15 September 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)

Temperance Column.

WORDS WEIGHTY AND WISE. It is clear that the best state of society — in respect to sobriety, public order, thrift, and general comfort—has been realised under a prohibitory regimen. —Daniel Dorchester, D.D. If you value your happiness, if you value your Jives —banish from your houses, from your tables, from your sick rooms, every drop of intoxicating drink; for be assured they produce weakness—not strength; sickness—not health; death —not life. —Dr. Collenette. What the temperance people demand is not the regulation of the liquor traffic, but its destruction ; not that ita evil effects can be circumscribed (idle fancy) or veiled, but that they be, to the extent of the State's ability, eradicated. Such a law we are willing to stand under and (if such bo its fate) fall with.—Horace Greeley. Our first work is to rescue the drunkard. Not simply to pledge him, but to follow him up and save him. Then shut the door through which he has fallen, and at the ballot box put a prohibition lock on it, so that it may never again be open.—l. G. Templar. I have little hope of tho triumph of the temperance cause until a large proportion of tho clergymen and of tho professing Christians of this laud rise up to the duties of tho occasion, and speak words that shall touch tho hearts of tho people, and live lives that shall blossom into fruit.—Hon. Hy. Wilson. Kvery Prohibition ballot weighs a ton in the battle of moral forces. It stands there solid, massive, enduring. By and by, in the shifting of political issues it will draw all ballots of leaser moral weight to it by the very gravity of the issue which it repreaeutd.—Voice. The Prohibition party still stands witn one foot on the Constitution of the United States, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, and with tho other on the law of God, as revealed by science and by the Scriptures. When those foundations crumble we will yield, but not until then.—Voice. We want no kind of license of the traffic. The license is the civil cloak of respectability that has kept the iniquitous business in countenance to this hoar. We claim that the license system itself is unconstitutional, and a foul blot on our national and state escutcheons; and " with arms to strike, and soulb to dare," we propose to wipe it out. — Thomas A. Poulson, D.D. The liquor traffic lies at the centre of all political and social mischief. It paralyzes energies in every direction. It neutralises educational agencies. It silences the voice of religion. It obstructs political reform. It is the greatest clog on the civilisation oi the ninote6nth century. —NewYorkTribune. The publicans are an immense army who live by poisoning the people for a profit. They sweep into their tills £14,000,000 per annum. Politically they can scarcely be rogarded as citizens at all, inasmuch as they recognise no interest except that of the " trade." It is the peculiarity of the liquor traffiio that the more prosperous^ the publican the more miserable is the condition of hifl oustomers. —J. Morrison Davidson. The saloon system is itself a league of lawbreakers, whose example affords a most powerful stimulus to disorder of all kinds. It openly proclaims its purpose to disobey ull laws which intorfero with its supreme purpose to make money in its own way, and at whatever sacrifice. —Hon. William Windom. From personal experience, and from experiments most oarefully conducted over large bodies of men. it is capable of proof boyond all possibility of question, that alcohol, in ordinary circumstances, not only does not help work, but it la a serious hindtrer of work. Ido not desire to make out a strong case. lam speaking solemnly and carefully in the presence of truth, and I tell you I am considerably within the mark when I say to you, that going the round of my hopspital wards, seven out of every ton there owod their ill-health to alcohol. —Sir Andrew Clarke, M.D. New York ruled by drunkards ia proof of the despotism of dram-shop. Men whom murderers serve that they may escape and because they have escaped the gallows, rule that city. The ribald crew which holds them up could neither stifle its own conscience nor rally ita retinue but for the help of the grog-shop. A like testimony comes from the history of our other great cities. State laws are defied in their streets ; and by means of tho dram-shop and the gilded saloon of fashionable hotels, their ballot-box is in the hands of the criminal classes —of men who avowedly and systematically defy the laws.—Wendell Phillips.