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This is the only hope of success who now cannot buy his dinner.” smilling, and said : ‘ Well, I guess
and it is safe if the number of peti­ This was the beginning of an ad­ I’ll take a drink.’ ‘No, sir, not
dress by S. Stacy, before the Cadets here,’ saFd I. • What ?’ said he. I
tioners is sufficiently large.
Proposed Constitutional
Kansas is the (fldy state in this of Temperance, mere lads, who sat repeated what I had said, and also
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nation that has such an amendment. clothed in their bright regalia of ordered my bar-keeper never to let•
Friends of Temperance :
bluer ami red, in long rows on the him have a drink on pain of dis­
The Oregon State Temperance .Iowa votes on this same petition
settees in Franklin Hall, in South missal. The result was a quarrel,
Alliance at its session’ in February the 27th of this month,
Tiro meeting was amt I threw him mtHnto the street.
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Fast endorsed what had Keen done, '-Many of the
and favored unanimously a vigo- on this san e ling, and thia is our held under the auspices of the Sons He was a smaller man than I.
rous effort to secure an Amendment line of work to day in Oregon. ot-Temperance, and it had been an­ There was a struggle outside the
to ojir Statò Constitution, prohibit; When the Constitution was adopt­ nounced that Mr. Stacy, having door, but as be rolled over the curb
ing the manufacture, sale or giving ed by the people it did^Tiot grant given up his drinking |Jace in at the edge of Hie sidewalk ho
away or thè offering to sell or give one word of rights to'King Alcohol, Sixth avenue, New York, would seemed to lose all his < strength.
away any or all kinds of spirituous, but we failed to say that no power give his personal experience. “ For Looking up to me he said : ‘ Here I
vinuous, malt or any other intoxi­ shall be given to anyone to. prod tree eleven years J sold liquor,” he said. am in the gutter, and turned out of
cating liquor, except for medical, death among us. Hence we want “ 1 had one of the handsomest sa- arumshop!’ That man to-day is •
the Constitution sent back to the loons in New York. Some said it a member of Dr. Armitage’s church.
scientific, or mechanical purposes.
-—PktladclphiaTimcv.
Petitions have been sent out and people again that we may vote up- was the best saloon in the city. If
eircUlattd, askihg- theLegislature -Hi this gr e at problem.------—-------- =— Lit- w as t he be s t, G o d he I p the poor- * Effects of Smoking on the Hu- -
est. 1 can recall twenty customers,
Tbis-is American.
to adopt-and submit sffch Amend­
man System.
The majority to rule, no kingS each worth from $100,000 to $500,-
ment to the voters of Oregon.
Dr. Decaisne, in the course of in­
These petitions have met with nor rulcis except from the people 000, and only two- of them are now
vestigation on the influence of to­
great favor among. the people. and for the people. We simply ask able to buy -dinners for themselves.
.the privilege to drive this king To you, Cadets of Temperance, J bacco on the circulation, has been
About 25,000 have signed them.
struck with the large number of
/Almost everyone who bus had an from our fair- land by ballots? as would advise that you lather take
boys, aged from nine to fifteen, who
opportunity to sign them have done our fathers drove another king 100 •a glass of prussic acid than a glass
years ago by bullets'. It is only a of liquor.. Al you must die, it is smoke, and lias been led to inquire
so, but'’very few refused.
The people make Constitutions, question of time, when it shall be better to die at once. If a Gospel into the connection of this habit
the CiHjstitutionsmakeLegislatures, done; shall it be done now, done friend ever takes you by the arm with impairment of the general
and Legislatures make Statutory well an± done forever. The time and seeks to restrain yuxr from health.' He has observed tfrrrty-
has come Toy you To Determine, drinking, don’t tin iFand say,to him, ci ght b o y s, aged from n ine ter fif—
laws?
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Be kind teen, Who smoke moic or le-ss. <?f '
This is a GovernmeiH- by the There’js work for all todo; will ‘1 know
you circulate these petitions, sign"it enough to mind youtown bustn ess. ’
pepple ami for the p e opl e/
I’ve seen young men stand at my ent in twenty-seven. In twenty-
Statutory laws on temperance yourself an^get others to do so.
Send to hhn for more if you can , bar with blue ribbon on the lapels two there were various disorders of
are not so firin as If embodied in
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of their coats, drunk. ‘No, no,’ the circulation— b r ti ll de sou file in
the Constitution, placed there by a lira them.
Be sure that all .are sent in time, these young men would say, ‘ I’ve the neck, palpitation, Disorders cf.
vote of the people, and can only be
removed in the same way, hence its so that they may be prepared for taken the pledge; I’-m obliged to digestion, slowness of intellect, and
permanency. Mere Legislative en­ the Legislature. Work with us you all the same.’ They had no a more or less marked taste for
actments fluctuate as parties ór in-' dear friends, it is of great import­ business there. [Mr. Stacy raised strong drinks. In three the pulse •
fluences and solid means are used ance, let not a single opportunity his voice.] That was not their was intermittent.
pass. See that every pic nic, camp­ place. Liquor is at deadly enmity . In eight there was found, on ex­
upon members of the Legislature.
Wise Statemen are fast coming- meeting and .all public gatherings, with a blue ribbon. Pretty soon it amination, more or less marked
to the conclusion that the gieat have tried ’workers there with peti- would be, ‘ Well, I’ll take a glass of diminution of the red corpuscles ;
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cider;’ • I knew—1 knew—I knew in twek’e, the?€ was rather frequent
Temperance problem must be set­ tions.~
We have abundant reason to what that glass of qjder meant epistaxis; ten had disturbed sleep ;
tled by the people.
Dear friend, this is your work as thank God and take courage, and The rumseller d? a good fellow. He and four had slight ulcerations of
is liberal with his money. He is the mucous membrane of the mouth
well us ours. Shall the evil be re­ press on to sure victory.
Let all who love God or their jovial. When a customer enters which disappeared on ceasing from
moved from among us ? Sha'I this
fellow
man gird themselves for the his door, he says: ‘ Hello, Johny ;' ' the use of tobacco for some days. In—
dark curse of curses be driven fiom
our fail- State ? Or shall its deso­ conflict; only three months more to where have you been these two or , children who were very well nou£
■ - three days ? But he’s calculating ished, the disoider was, in general,
lating work go on and continue to work on this line.
Be sure to know that all petitions all the time how much money the le-is marked. As to the ages, eight >
add victims to the great enemy of
those who have fallen beneath its are mailed befoi^ Sep’t. 1st, to Dr. customer has in his pocket, and how of the boys were from nine to
J. W. Watts, the State Superintend- much of it he can put in his till. I twelve; nineteen, from twelve to
t read ?
lie is a thief. He takes money for fiftiTeifi. l'hfpduration of the habit .
What say you fathers, mothers, ‘ent of petitions, at Oregon City.
which he gives no benefk in return. I of smoking was, in eleven, from
Move forward, is the word. •
brothers and sisters. ? Now is the
D r . J. W. W atis ,
In all my eleven years behind the six months to a year, and in sixteen
time for you to say.
Pres,
of
State
Temperance
Alliance.
bar 1 carp rec al I only one agreeable more than two years. The ordina­
We ask no sacrifice, but we need
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thing. A young lady came to me, j ry treatment of aniemia in general
workers to circulate these petitions.
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ahd said : ‘ I wish ^uu would not produced no effect so long as the
< >ne days work now is worth more R ev . D. T. S tanley , l bx >( 0UL
give father any more to drink.’ 1 | , smoking was continued ; but, when
than any five years of your past life J, C on ser .
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laughed, as rumsellers arc accustom- this was desisted from, health was
to drive the curse from Oregon.
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Rumsellers
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doTn -such cases, *buT7slfe per- * sopir perfectly restored, ilThere was
— We have three months more to
work. This measure can only be
“I have seen a man take his first sisted, and finally 1 promised I no organic disease.—/L i/i's/cr JZet/i-
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secured Ity a large petition. Shall glass of liquor in my place who af­ wouldn’t let him have a drink. 1 cal Jotirnal. .
terwards filled a Suicide’s grave. don’t know what possessed me, but
we have it ?
-—patient waiting is * often the
Will you see that your influence I have seen manafter man, Wealthy 1 promised.
» icn next the father highest way of doing God’s will I •’—» *
is exerted in'this direction ?
and educated,&onie into my place, (¡ame in he walked up to the bar, Collier,
Temperance Department.
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