Show IT al 11 11 aa A INC E TOPICS THE CAUSE OP prohibition THE NAT NATION IONIn ONLY HOPE I 1 oe sot heart ll urt A national braine how illow ilia I 1 I 1 bior li Is I 1 it mriln fruno j I 1 lilt 1111 t fill fieldren dren not liny tilori u sote of ot of god 0 loae lotio not heart but kirn learn whit what god oil la is like and in the 1 d I erhest battlefield thou shall know NN where here to strike thrice blest Is he to NN whom horn Is given the instinct that cm cin tell 1 I 1 I hat god Is on the field when hen he lie la Is most invisible blest too Is he who nho can divine where rial right doth lie and dares to take the side that reems arong to mans blindfold eyce eyes then learn to scorn the of men arid it airn irn to lose with N ith god lor jebus won the wold through shame and aril beckons thee that road faber t might to ie editor of the rims rams horn intemperance ind and drunkenness has become so common without gainsa ing hit that i we e hai hive e become i a nation of drink orink vis this crime for it Is nothing aca tinn thin i crime li hie iii so spread its de tie bau sauching ching IntIlI CIlLeS that cur depart rn nt of life must b bi supplied with this evil in order to become attractive trac tte to man who mi ma interest themselves in such gither gatherings ings L bvm f n our nit notional ional and ilso also tho the cip itol of evir state in the union ari art hup supplied plied with mth or drinking pl its where here ita its members can secure ill all kindri of intoxicating liquors wilh impunity under the protection of the lift laii nd cien christian people those who ito hive have given their hearts to god and pledged them themselves seles to live purer and holler lives hin hive e become dc do blushed by this sin aln and tho the christian churches of our country han have e been led by this serpent until they are now I 1 lying ing in the dust just of humiliation references are numerous showing the dreadful and ile degrading grading influences of drink even in our halls of congress mr lir carlisle when nihon apt of the hou houst sent for the keeper heeper of the house and ordered mm hm to close cloo his restaurant up tight 5 alyin lyl ti 11 1 I intend to have hale congress con gresa adjourn bober sober for once general hsk fisk asked I 1 NN as ever such in abridgment of personal libert as by whit hat right did carlisle deprive the congressmen of their personal liberty to get drunk on ell low ament day the div 11 of all dis they delight to be in that conditions 9 I 1 myself nave nane counted eighty five fine staggering stig gering members on the floor of congress on an adjournment day if the speaker hid hill the right to abridge the personal liberty of our representatives on the day lay when they most do exercise personal liberty libert why by has he not the right to interfere with mith it on ill other dais of the chief justice coole in a lecture to the graduates of the ann arbor nile midi h sas div s we oa owe e our het bett life to ou oi country think of the united states senate confessing its drunk enna I 1 how humiliating and how hol too to have haie men helping to mike make the arms and control the destiny of bOO ba of leople themselves in uch tich a condition th thu it as private in enli it vidi inis no one would be willing vIII Ing to entertain them with the slightest interest or even cen admit them to his house dunles per perhaps hape he would mould do it in chit charity rit to title allow them to sleep oft their Ine inebriety briet in back chambers haap we ie no duty when such things are possible it Is no senti sentiment to say that we noe owe oe something vj tj our country an president ex once said that he was the i aly cue one of eighteen young men who nho graduated from college to kether gether who was mas not in a drunkards drunkard a grai e with V uh such en evidences before us which in them themselves speak volumes to a peo pie wo claim to be amon the hiemst type of civilization and christianity bow hon ion lon we me will remain under this po lotical despot rum power pomer god only knows statistics show that over SO 80 per cent of all the criminals and paupers boft r 0 v in our j i and almshouses nime houses were made suca by reason of drink drini and drunkenness how humiliating it must be to every christian famil to feel feet and realize that their influence for doing good ie Is turned into ev ei 11 by this monster rum which cannot be oNer overcome come except by united effort of churches and the of god working through them to the overthrow of alis abomination ma I 1 ask will christian people eople commence work nt at the roots of chis this grait evil for ac actions lions speak louder than words will every paper and ana periodical of the col corinto lilt please copy cop this article so hat that it may be read in the homes of even eler christian family jn la iba the land that the u bo be informed what nhat thie this hedri headed monster is 10 doing loing to our people and will act individually il in this mitter matter IF WELLS san diego cal intern lot 1 branc 1 in a paper or on the tilt reign of alcohol among the modern nations lr dr dinet a leading french physician ba davs a its rival riva lie almost as terrible among us 13 18 iii tit are among the english and irlby in lit france ener sixth suicide has been committed in a elite state of intoxication one halt half of the liver complaints tm t thirds of the aisea disease ei 1 of the kiano kidneys ind one fifth ot of the various forms of hive have been produced by the u t of alcoholic liquors concerning the rotation of allce to pauper sin ill I 1 shall not venture an nit opinion it e ali tita ind and political ec orlon ats is differ homem somewhat hat on this point sol affirming that the abuse of alcohol Is the cause others tint that it is the t anut ft t of the wretched con editions in clil ti the poorest and most numerous ell casi live lip for my purpose it Is sufficient tent j cill call attention to the fact thit that inam er erastice atice pauperism imn and crime ire are generally associated ind and in the brench cities no less than in london new ew york or amsterdam A recent article in lo 10 revue des deux beux monde by othenia tl it clausson 1 valle I lie states thi tha th i therease there ther eare re in the french capital more thin CO GO establishments as cafeo cafe of the ironnest type gin shops ind and other places for drinking hit ili i sen seri e as headquarters to assas ansas ina ins ind and other criminal rhe nit author delks from ober observation Nation hiving having inapt ed oil i a number of thee I 1 loles oles in se be ling imong tilt thit I 1 arri arriera arr lers ers aw ati i from front the great thorough files of the lit aiu thay are avoided by respectable stople and can call be api apt reached at at tho the risk of personal safat lie ile states thit that in it certain quarter of the cit ahert 1 13 i almo t everi everl houe hou e of 0 blitch critt ains a min eshop of the charach or above ho lie bia fas the morny spent silent in these dens lens mostly by laboi liboi ing men aho vho ho have hae families to support Is simply enormous in matly ct of them to hundreds of franca francs during a single night in order to rasa an intelligent tell igent judgment on the late liate t of temperance lempen nce it iz 1 net emary u to ones self from prejudice prel udice and to study tho tile question lu in its arl arlous bearings mm alan american trae traveler lerit in il visiting french catl cities s confine them to the boulevards and public parka parks where life Is seen in its grandeur and still conventionally not having found men lying in the gutter as they sometimes do in america und kagland england the jump to tho the conclusion that there ie Is no drunkenness drunken nebs in france anil and on their return exalt the french is as the most bober people ln in the world from the glowing mot most travel travelers triv elers eri give of eirls it Is evident that they 1 ive ave seen but cue one hilf half ot of the city tho the f the aristocratic part but boere are millions in this great metropolis tro polis polls who iha do not live me on the boule maids at its NN who ho are strangers at the nouvel opera an I 1 do not belong to the cli clientele entel e of the grind cafe there is a dark background to the pretentious kaslan field an I 1 the stately rue divoll there are proletarian quarters thit that faini a startling contrast to the flaming avenue de do I 1 opera ind ana the metropolitan dea capacities the man ards in lit hido tilde heartrending scenes of sorrow dmd suffering caused L lv tho the intoxicating cul temperance A antei the washington correspondent of the christian reports that saloonkeepers Biloon keepers in that city are bitter and pronounced opponents of the LI lt cycle their customers have lime taken to around the cita and anti into the cot breathing put e air instead cl of loafing in the smoking ind and hlaing billiards and cards sir william vernon barcourt yar court is said to have hane been conNer converted ted to strictly to temperance in views through the influence of his wife u daughter of nf john lathrop motley the tho american kine rican historian while our population is boniv twice ud as large as in 1860 the consumption of tobacco Is five timea times greater and a nd of cigars ten tell times greater and this calculation cu leaves out the cigarette N vice ice president daughter went nent on record as a reil real temperance woman when she prohibited wino and oher intoxicating drinks at her wedding ed feast in along the line of total abstinence for railway employees emp loyes loes show a that of the dij railway man abera by the voice every one testified 0 o the inefficiency of habitual drinkers and declared that they inart invariably ably give preference pre ferenee to non drinkers both bath in the matter of e era rn plo ment merit and of promotion in an address before the union of clovel Clove nd Jid ohio judge logue of that cit v who ho has been judge of the police court for cars and during that time cases hai have e come before him stated that tour four fifths ot of fall till the casts brought into court were the as lt t of intoxication |