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tempt and thrown into the waste It has passed. Received all we
basket and the friends insulted, asked for. We have work to do
but now “ takes fresh courage, yet, work for all, but the worst is
Constitutional Amendment.
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buckles on the whole armour,” and passed. Let us, one and all, go to
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a r Ls o ut “ What w ill thou have me work as never before, doing our
"whole ffu!y?W^t iiir^bbk fbfward
Oct. 16, 1882.
do?”
Christian Herald:
Many poor hearts will be made to the next session of the Allianco
The proposition to amend the to rejoice ; we'all ought to be glad which will be held in Albany next
State constitution oil the temper­ and rejoice, ahd take fresh courage, February with great interest, and
ance question came up before the and press on to sure victory in a let us have just such a meeting on
Senate for final action on the 11th, few years, and drive the curse of temperance as Oregon has never
“arid after discussion,passed that |
h--All- 4rad.-==^jeg.ular Utatc,jubilee. All
body 18 for and 10 against it.
was done that could be done to will be invited in due time.
Friends in Albany, look out,
It came up before the House in defeat this measure. The power
due time, and after discussion, was in the 53,000 petitioners, 12,000 make room, we are coming rod we
passed that body on the 12th, 52 more than there are voters in the are many.
-Bi t J. W. W aits ,
for and 6 against it.
State. The success attained shows —
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State Temperance Alliance.
This is a copy of the amendment the wisdom- of the course adopted
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as proposed and passed both houses: and pursued by the A’liance. It
Temperance Lectures.
Resolved by the Senate, the House has been kept out of parties or
Concurring, that the follotting sect«, as such all being urged to Christian Herald
amendment to the Constitution take common interest. S"tne of
.1 expect to start out in the lec­
of the State of Oregon be and the
both
political
parties
voted
both
ture field on next Monday, Oct.
same is hereby proposed:
for
and
against
the-measure
in
the
10th, to be gone several weeks. I
ARTICLE....
Legislature.
If
the
sanie
policy
wish
all persons having business
S ection 1. The manufacture,
sale or the giving away, or the continue, success is sure,’- and com­ with the Juvenile work to address
— offering to seU-m. give away, or.thv. pletevictory will be ours within’ their communications to Dr. J. W.
keeping for sale of any spirituous, four years. Agitation is needed, Watts, of OiegonTJity, as T have
vinous, malt, distilled, fermented or sermons preached, lectures de­ authorized him to attend to all
intoxicating liquors whatever is
forever prohibited in this State, ex­ livered, literature scattered, the business in this line, and have left
cept for medicinal, scientific or good news proclaimed all over the the suppPes in his hands.
Slate, and the power of the press
L evi L eland ,
mechanical purposes.
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Elate Superiut'jndent.
S ec . 2. The Legislative«Assembly brought to the aid of this plan.
Oct. 11, 1882.
shall provide, by law, in what man­
I see the Statesman came out
ner, by whom and at what places boldly the next day after the vote
TobScco and Blindness.
such liquors, or any of them, shall
At the annual commencement of
be manufactured or sold, or kept and announced that it would do
for sale, for medicinal, scientific or all in its power to secure the final the Hospitt 1 College of Medicine, of
mechanical purposes.
triumph and enforcement of this Louisville, Ky., Prof. Dudley Rey­
S ec . 3. The Legislative Assembly amendment.
nolds delivered an address to the
shall, without delay, pass all ne­
The press is a power, and now is graduating students, in which he
cessary laws, with sufficient penal­
ties necessary to enforce this their time to speak out for or took strong ground against the ust-
against, no half way grounds. The of tobacco :
amendment.
It is a well known fact that to­
This form was agreed to by the simple question is, “ ¿shall the
people
be
heard
on
this
problem
?
bacco
deranges the digestion and
Alliance committee who had charge
of the matter. A majority of both Shall the electors be allowed to poisons the nerve centers of a ma­
houses agreeing to this proposition pass directly u[>on this question ? jority of the male members of the
it will be placed upon the journals Can the people be trusted ?” Is it human family. A species of blind­
of both houses with the names of not strange that any meinlier of the ness, not complete but partial blind-
those who voted both for and Legislature would vote No on this ness, sufficiently great in extent to
against the measure. It will be proposition ? yet there were 16! destroy the reading of ordinary
referred to the next Legislature, We should be generous and not type, results from the continued and
and if agreed to by a majority of criticise too harshly as to their , excessive use of tobacco. Careful
both houses, then it will be sub­ reasons. I think the excuse that investigations have led to the dis­
mitted to the electors, and if rati­ wilt be offered will be on- constitu- ( covery that that form uf tobacco
un­ irabit known as smoking produces
fied by a majority of them, then it tioned ground# “ That it
will be a part of the constitute n. constitutional.n' Well, I guess that the so-called amblyopia. This form
, amblyopia is precisely identical
The total vote of 70 votes for and it was “ unconstitutional ” either in of
the book or in their head und in all respects with that produced
only 16 against it, is very surpris­
hearts, think it was in the last; yet from the excessive use of alcohol.
ing to many, unexpected, and
we are thankful that it was grant­ Both are incurable. I know a num­
brings fresh courage to many, and,
doubtless, brings the hand writing ed ; we received all we asked for; ber of persons in Louisville who are
and we asked for nothing but what now practically blind from the ex
on the wall to the traflia Con­
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I I cessive use of tobacco. A lady in
gratulations are coming in fast al­ was right.
Friends, we have silenced one Portland was forced to admit she
ready ; one g<»od brother says he
shouted “ Glory to God in the battery—“That it was no use try-' had been a secret smoker of tobacco
, highest,” and could not help it and ing, that you can’t get it to pass” for thirty years. On abandoning
did not want to help it. Another aud this was very often fired into the habit, the further progress of
writes that he believed the peti the ears of those circulating peti­ her dimness of vision ceased, though
tions would be treated with con- tions. We will hear that no more. there is little hope of her regaining
Temperance Department.
that power of perception which she
had already lost. - She may be con­
sidered fortunate in the possession
of enough vision to gp about and at­
tend her ordinary household duties.
Snmkingtohaeeo
known to result beneficially to any
person in the world. It always
lessens the sense of smell and taste ;
it always contaminates the breath ;
it always creates an unsteadiness of
the muscles, through its irritating
effect upon the nerv^TunJ I know
from personal experience it di­
minishes the capacity for mental
labor. Now, if you can succeed in
inducing even a few people to
abandon the habit of smoking, and
to pay over to a common charity
fund tile amount formerly spent
for cigars and smoking-tobacco, the
time may come wheu public taxa­
tion may be reduced, and the condi­
tion of the pauper, who is now
miserable, made at least comfort­
able. If the money destroyed by
burning cigars and tobaeco. in
Louisville could be paid- into the
city treasury, it would support all
our charitable institutions, and pay
the entire expense of the street
cleaning department besides. This
would reduce taxation nearly or
quite one-half, and produce a cor­
responding improvement in the
public health.— Domestic Journal.
Tobacco.
Of course every callow schoolboy
straining at the end of a cigarette,
knows more about tobacco than the
'whole medical faculty. But pos­
sibly an exceptional smoker may
be found who will “ read, ponder
and digest ” the reasons given by
the surgeon-general of the United
States Army for the prohibition of
tobacco in the National Military
and Naval Academies. This gentle­
man declares: “ Beyond all other
things, the future health and use­
fulness of the lads educated at the
military school require the absolute
interdictfrffi of tobacco.^ The must
eminent authorities testify to its
evil effects on the digestive organ”,
the nervous system, the voice and
the eyesight. A special form of
irritability of the heart is named
“tobacco heart.” In the Ecole
Polytechnique, in France, the non*
smokers take the highest rank.
Even down South, the chewers’
paradise, the best schools forbid the
use of tobacco. Prof. Richard Mc-
Sheriy, president of the Baltimore
Academy of Medicine, declar* s that
" the effect of tobacco on schoolboys
is so marked as not to be open to