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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1882)
HERALD. CHRISTIAN •— r includes the narrower ¿me of wo man’s temperance vote. • 11. In questions where the de cision is so easy as that between license and no license, woman’s then we have only begun to reckon the real damages. Whp can com pute the loss from sickness, from squandered time and paralyzed energies, from property destroyed, _ , -« 1 /»’ T1 • • 11 gent, and so would not add to the ignorant suffrage. 12. In questions so important to the home as those relating to tem perance laws, women’s vote would not often*be unused, and so would not add essentially to the danger of absenteeism at the polls, and of un exercised suffrage. y — Ex. bill for indirect damages and put it on the losing iide, and you have u«i\> quiii uvv«**) viv ’ f ,v* ■ • gate of not less than $2,00,000,000 a yej>r loss to this nation bv this iniquity*- licensed by government and tokrateiLby puTdTCFSCWtimciTt:” We read that righteousness ox- alteth a nation, but sin is a re proach to any people,’’ and we ask The Nation’s Curse, hew-4ong *hall our -govenmient con The most carefully prepared tinue to license a business which statistics show that there are not poisons the body and destroys the less than three hundred thousand soul ? H«>w Ion;' shall a govern- drunkards in these United States of inent, claiming to be Christian, pro America; and this statement is tect a business which lights the probably much bilow the truth fire-- brands over property, that -■OF these, thirty thousand die an brandishes the blade of the assassin, nually; one hundred thousand men that tills our institution with pau and women are remanded, every perism and our pri.sobs with crime, year to prisonj..tw.<* hundred thou that handicaps the entiie society sand children arq annua Jiy “íéñT" Tñ"| r’t ' mt r Ittml h » ÌU r Ac o-.-toward ~prc>3- the poorhouse; five hundred mur peiity nini-'liberty.-— Iìev. A. Tdc ' ders are caused by drink every Elroy. Wylie. twelve-mouthy and • four hundred suicides—/our deaths to one, as Boys Out Nights. proved both in England ami the The boy who spends an hour of United States—is the awful pro portion compared to the non-drink each evening lounging idly' on ing population. Magistrates, chap street corners wastes in the course lains and prison-keepers come for of the year three hundred and sixt^y ward with their statistics and prove five precious hours, which, if ap that not less than four fifths of all plied to study, would familiarize the crimes, have their origin in him with the rudiments of the fa strong o drink. On the same authori- miliar sciences. If, in addition to ty it is proved that dealing in the wasting an hour each evening, lie deadly draughts causes seven spends ten cents for cigars, which eighths of all the pauperism that is usually the case, the amount thus exists. It costs the United States worse than wasted would pay for $00,000,000 a year to support pau ten of the leading periodicals in perism and crime. At least two the country. Boys, think of these Think t»f how much hundred anti fifty million gallons 01 thing*. fermented and brewed liquor* are time and money you are wasting, made every year in the United and for what ? The gratification States; of distilled liquors, eighty- afforded by a lounge on the corner five million gallon«, and twenty or a cigar is not only" temporary, million gallons are imported. Here but positively hurtful. You can we have the fearful sun» t<>tal of not indulge in them without seri three hundred and fifty-five millions ously injuring yourself. You ac of gallons consumed in our country, quire idle and wasteful habits, and at what direct cst ? At a which will cling to you with each direct cost of $700,000.000, This succeeding year. You may in af on the debit side, and on the credit ter life shake them off, but the side what does our government re probabilities are that the habits ceive? A paltry sum of $50,420,- thus formed in early life will re • 815 in ex^ct figures. What, then, main with you till your dying is the direct loss to the nation ? day. Be warned, then," in time, Not less than ten dollars to every and resolve that as the hour spent dollar received as revenue. Bv this in idleness is gone forever, you will waste the national debt could be improve each passing one, and paid in less than three years. But thereby tit yourself for usefulness this is not all. But $700,000,000 and happiness.— The Youth’s Evan on the debit side—this is direct— gelist. » V A The Lager Beer and Brewers As Thp Macon, (Ga.) Telegraph sociation defiantly offered a reward gives an account of a smoker and of $1000 for the “detection of any drinker of that city who, when con poisonous or deletorious substance gratulated upon the appearance of or any adulteration found in their a well-browned meerschaum which heer.” Messrs, Hadley and Schar- he was using, replied that it had man, of the Business Mens’ Modera- cosl Ki in # about fiveTtm^rcd'^T- tion Society, analyzed’ their, beer lars to give it that color.” He bad ana discovering glucose and other smoked in it about four hundred substances, demanded the money. pounds of tobacco! He had kept The bold Brewers refused to fork both a tobacco and a whisky over, and contended that “ foreign account. For a period" covering ~-4wm4*diiltnraf inn Un-1 alumt Right years he 1 lad consumed tier the pressure they make the fol about two thousand dollars' worth lowing admission«, which all along of whisky—not less than sixteen they have, and even now deny, in barrels in quantity—for much of their advertisements and on their | which he had paid the high retail signs : This answers the question to fearful figures, indicating the enor those who know anything about mous drink and tobacco waste con glucose, its preparation and its ac tinually going on. The waste of tion on the stomach, liver and kid material substance is appalling in neys? The Gazette, Cincinnati, the aggregate'; the waste of health and character is more appalling.— (>hio, says : If the Brewers want to “act ■fc-.. . ------------ - --- - ------- fair and square” in the light of their admission, submit the ques The last report of the Pbiladel- tion to a cilmpetent jury, whether phia Home for Inebriates says that or not their “foreign eloihehTs”' the free lunch system is responsible" " which they declare“ legitimate ma for more drunkards than almost terials ” are “ deleterious ” and our anything else. word for it their $1000 banter will pass into another« hand. Why not these Brewers give a definition of AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER 1 <^TO ACESTS, “adulteration?” What does it mean in their vocabulary ?— Old GOODS UNSOLD RETURNED. Path Qaide. « If yon are out of Employment and want to start iu business you can mako from $3 to $10 a day clear, and take no risk of loss, we will seDd von on receipt of $11. goods that will seM readily in a few days for $25. 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