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Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 3, 1896.
WHERE MOTIVE STANDS,
Our Platform. —Down with Ba
toon*.
Our Politic*.—tiujupromrion of
the barrooms.
Our Party.—Any party tlmrt
will rid the state of dramshops.
Our Campaign Slogan.—No
wmpronurc with the unholy liq
uor traffic.
Our Motto.—No license for
liquor selling strt any price, in any
place, or at any time.
Our Creed.—-“ Wherefore, if
mini make my brother to offend.
I will eat no flesh while the world
utiindi'th, lent I make my brother
to offend.” —I Oorirrtlrian** VIII
13.
Our Prinoipkn. —If the liquor
bualnew lasjeflta the world, give
it the «nne chance a* any other
bnstoe**. If the liquor buwinetw
curae# the world, give no (Jhance
a all.
Ham Jone* hat* “'•perilled.”
If the guard* and helpers of
the convict caiup* drank less
kwfliikey, they would practice leas
brutality.
If rife a&tooo* and > criminal*
are the (thief factor* in electing
Atkinson governor, would he not
fed under greater obligation* to
them titan to the dean manhood
of Georgia?
~ * O * ——
The horrible outmgeea on white
women by negro brute* within
the lari two week.*, are a fearful
<<Mum< ntury on Democratic cam
paign metthod*, and Governor At’
kinwon’* "iwnjKiign of pardons.”
The Augusta Democrat* must
tie a wonderfully symperiietik: net
of men. They are so sorry that
Ben Ullman’* eon wt Hutton dis
franchise* the negroes in South
Carolina, that they have arranged
to let t'hein oome over riie river
to Georgia October 7th, and vote
for Atkinaon, without changing
their n-ritleiiee.
After al), it was whiskey that
did riie inhuman deed* in the con
vict caanps, for which Governor
Artkinwm amummul «xne fine*. And
Governor Atkinson never made*
any protest against the whiskey.
And if Governor Atkinwon dot**
not know that there never can be
imprisonment as long as whiskey
tirurtadize* the gnards, he has not
eense enough to be Governor.
- •
Tlie Democrat* of Augutrta
have certainly made extensive
preparations for a "free ballot."
It seems to be quite "free” to
negro boys of all ages, and to ne
groes front South Carolina. Three
riiouwnd one hundred negroes
are regwtered. Os these 1,300 arc*
put down as just 21 years of age.
What a wonderful year 1875 must
have been for negro habit's in Au
gusta.
The Atlanta Constiturion and
Atlanta Journal charged Heun
Jone* with making such vague
general deliberations about fraud
toent election*, dial they were
not worth ootiwdering. Both
newspapers dtsuanded that Make
his statements more uperiJ&i—anA
to please the journalists Sam
‘•specified." Wonder if they
thought Kain didn’t known what
be was talking atniut when e
“writ" that first letter.
The Consriturion claims to have
discovered three or four preach
ers who are opprnsed to carrying
the temperance queerton into pol
itic*—therefore, according to the
Constitution, these preachers are
Atkinwui men. The rest of the
6.000 (lirwtian ministers of Geoc
gia have not to formed the Oonsti
rbtioti Chat they ar <qqx»aed to
mix iug tempruTice principles into
their polities, therefore they must
be supporting Seat*. Wrigid.
Judge Eve, of August i, m)* Ih
ingoing to give lhe populiMs a
representative on every election
■ board in Richmond county, but
that HE WILL SELECT MIE
MAN HIMSELF. Ilea solute ly ;
refuses to let the populists select
their own representatives. This
is the democratic idea of a a fair
■ division of managers!'
The Savannah New* said that
Governor Atkinson addressed 12,-
000 (•iitlitrsirist i<- people at .le*up
on last Saturday. The editor of
Motive wins at Jesup on Monday
night. It was dark and rainy, but
everybody said we wpoke to with
in 200 of as many people as the
Governor addressed, which would
make our audience, according to
riie Atkirrson newspaper estimate,
11,800. And the wonder of it is
that they were all comfortably
seated in a court house that holds
lew* than .300 js-ople.
.....
' Tempcrence men sometimes
vote for a whiskey candidate, and
afterwards say they thought he
was a temperance man. Whiskey
men NEVER vote for a temper
ance candidate under the supposi
tion that he is for them. The
liquor men take pains to find out
for certain whether the candidate
they support is really on their side.
Why don't temperance men look
out as sharply for their principles
as the saloon men look to their
interests ?
Take the “State ticket” on which
the Augusta liquor dealers declare
the “EXISTENCE” of their busi
ness depends; write “woe unto him
that giveth his neighbor drink” all
over the back of it; carry it to
prayer-meeting and kneel down
and ask God to bless it ; then lay
it between the leaves of your Bible
and carry it to the voting place and
piously look up to Heaven while
you drop it in the box. and it will
do the devil’s dirty work just as
surely, as the ticket borne by a
drunken bummer, from a vile sa
loon, and deposited in the box, with
curses on his lips.
“THE HIGH OFFICE OF GOV
ERNOK.”
(joveruor aikuinoh saja Suau
nogui ih hot qaa.iin-u ,ur 1
lllga pOHIIIUUI, VI (ICM cruur. ’ 11
gemuH ivr pacaiug pruiuines; u
aivuily io iK.urctU'C ivr uis owu non
(otioiiUH eaun; 11 vac pi-oaututaig
puvliv oilkx; io use* ot uurrow
ill too uknlui une
<rt executive eieuieuej- to buy
vol ch oi oiie vilest outlaws auu
wouid-iiie uruuiuats; ii uiese are
iiie quanucabions Uweruor At-
Kin won devnis iievvssarj "tor bue
wgh oilice vi Uoveruvr <rt Geor
gia," CUeu we ibluuik God that
n*eab. VS right has nvt a single
quaiiiivAtliou of that sort.
Bui if devviiou to principle,
love of livine, sj iupatiuy tor nu
nubility, suocuessiui business ex
periArtitret, uuuupeaoliwbie integ
rity, uivad education, keeu per
cepiioiks, honorable aims, aud uu
seibali patriotism—if Wiese ure
ncAjdAii qualiUubtious "for bile
high office of Governor,” then
S,«ab- " right jiesseses every re
quisite.
The people have t’he choice be
tween a noble, high-minded states
man ami Governor Atkinson.
LOCAL OPTION DID NOT Do
IT ALL.
Democratic voters are lavish in
their praise oi local option, now
bliat uuey know Uial local option
uas done all it can do in Uhe State.
iVe have repiviledly ashed them
to name some "wet" eounues
winvu could be made “dry” by a
local option eieviaou. But they
kuow so Utile about (she leuiper
amv quest ion that tliey seem uu
able tv respond.
Anouher prints of the ignorance
of Uhe Democratic orators aud
press ou the temperance question
is the repeated assertion that "un
der local optiou loti oo'xutiee have
voted dry.”
A few sharp, but uniuformevi,
editors of great DeUKHiratic dail
ies; a few da tilling Democratic
campaign orators, have made this
rei'kiees assertion, —<o be taken
up aud echoed by scores of edi
lorial poll parrots and esuupaigu
pijionjays, until tiiousauds of pee
pi,- who Live not the opportuui
ties for obtaining correct in forum
iwu have l»evu led to believe the
statement, aud yet this state
statement >s a long way from
truth.
In the first place there are 41
"wet counties, so that rhe number
of “dry" oouutiee <xmld net possi
bly' be 105. but is 96 only. Os
the IM> dry eounfies only 52 have
betAU made "dry" under the local
option law. Tldrteen counties are
drv under spmal acts aM the I-eg
Mature. Tiiis is “State prohibi
tion’’ "forced" on 13 counties.
Four itHittric* are dry under rhe
''three mile law.” This is "State
prabttHtfon” "forced” on four
OMMttieu more.
Eleven remnttes are dry by re
fusal of the oreiiuarie* to grant li-
cense. Thi* is "Hlate pndiiliitiiin"
••lornsl" oil II roiili'tlcs Ihfollgli
tin* dis. i'iioii granted onlinsirie*
iind< r Hhite law.
Twelve counties arc dry !«■
cause the licens fe, fixed by *|>ec
ial Htaic law i* so high ifo.ooo to
$20,000j, tha I no one can pay it.
This is so much additional "Ktate
prohibition” “forced” on the ooun-
I ies.
Four other counties are dry,
but we have Issm unable to get
{accurate information as to the
manner in w’hioli they were made
! “dry.”
It will tilius be seen that the
principles inivolved in “State pro
hibition,” tihat is. prohibition by
the aultiority of State law*, as
: dst’inguiidied from the local op
tion plan of prohibition by vote
of the jM«opJe, is already in opera-
■ tion in 4<l counties, or nearly as
many as will Is- atTected by tlie
anti-barroom bill.
The results of these methods of
■"State prohibition” “forced” on
I riie counties have been so nearly
with the results in local
option counties, that many pooplc
have failed to notice that the two
systems are entirely different.
And yet prohibition in those 39
{counties ern'liodies t’he entire prin
ciple of tihe anridiarroom bill.
Would it not be well for the
average whiskey campaigner to
“stock up” wiiti a few facts be
fore he start’s on his campaign
tour?
——
The Whiskey Dealers “ Option.,’
< KAw roHiivir.i.R,Ga., S<-pt. 21, ISM!
i Editor Motive:
I was informed this morning that an
■ agent of I’ott and Thompson, whiskey
dealers of Atlanta, had approached a
certain candidate for the legislature
and offered to pay hi» campaign ex
penses, provided, he would conduct it
in the interest, of the local option as
against the Anti-Barroom Bill I am
also reliable informed that similar of
fers are lieing made to candidates of
all parties.
If necessary I can furnish names of
men who was thus approached.
I. W. B.
“For ways that are dark ami for
tricks that are strange,” those whiskey
men “are peculiar ”
By Their Fruit Ye Shall
Know Them.
Editor Motive: From indications it
appears that the Constitution ban
about interviewed all the Methodist
preachers I hey can get, on ttie subject
of local opition, and is now started out
on the colonels, majors and captains.
It has no doubt been very gratifying
and encouraging to the newspapers,
that are befriending the liquor traffic
and the enemies of prohibition to read
such interviews from those preachers
At the same time these interviews were
ertshing to the hearts of the ministers
and Christian friends all over the state,
as they never dreamed of such opposi
tion coming from the source it has;
fathers expect their sons to be educat
ed, and made haters of ttie liquor curse
and vote for its overthrow, whether in
politics or out. These preachers ought
to get one of these circulars recently
sent out by the retail liquors dealers of
Azigusta. So they can see that they
state in the circular, that the “exist
ence of the barrooms, and the liquor
business depends on the election of the
Democratic ticket. They see and know
that, if Seaborn Wright is the
barrooms will have a bail showing.
And yet; you three preachers are for
local opt ion, ami the Democrat ic party
Kaeh of you should take one of these
tickets on which Hie liquor dealers are
depending, for rhe continuanceof their
business, put the ticket in the side
pocket of your coat nearest your heart,
pray over it, and when you place that
ticket in the ballot box, ask yourself,
if you are doing the same sinfulact
as the barroom keepers, who put in the
same ticket that you did.
TheSA* letters are interesting you
put in the newspapers, will live longer
than any of you three preachers. You
should read the Weileyan, the Leader,
and the Motive. Have Bros. Sam Jones
and George Stewart come and bold a
week’s service at the Tabernacle and
avail yourselves of every service. Go
to the altar at every call, and at that
altar make a new start.
E. D. ('HK.SRIRK.
TUr Next Meteoric Shower.
Preparations are already being made
by astrououiers for the pext great show
er of November meteors. Those showers
are telievwi to te due to the croaeing of
the earth's path of a stream of minute
bodies —probably pebbles not exceeding
an ounci' or two in weight and spaced a
mile or two apart in the densest portion
of the swarm—which complete a revo
inricn in tteirorbit in about 33 tj years.
The meteors cross the earth’s orbit at
the point reached by our planet on the
12th or 18th of November, being, there
fore, next due at the place where the
orbits intersect in November, 1899, or
Novemter of 1900. As the stream is
inuneiMely long, the earth, it is thought,
will pass through the dense part of it
on both years aud may encounter scat
tered members of the group ca one or
two years preceding and following thews
named. The thickness of the stream
seems to be about 100,000 miles, but
the earth, passing obliquely through it.
is exposed to the meteoric downpour for
about four or five boars.—New York
Sun.
Under free coinage at 16 to 1 the sil
ver dollar must be one of two things—
either it will be worth 100 cents—in
which case it will not be the cheap dol
lar which is promised to the farmers—
or it will be worth 63 cents and will
cheat every man who is compelled to
take it out Art 41 vent*
Setback.
I promt, Hottoi. of (,<< :,•. i
making Ho- inifttake or liirir live. |,,>
Antagonizing the beimw-r.ib- fouiy.
The last legislature «m Denioer.li
mid it trt<-K< d only a few voles ■>.’ p.o
iug tb<- Hush Bill; ami with just a 111
th- effort the prohibitionists could ii.iv
■ mtrolh.l the n< xt h-gislatmv im I ha I
tilings Hu ir own way. But instead ot
Hull they have fused with I lie (Hipullsii
(who ever heiir.f of the pups la-lug pro
hibitlonlsls la-foret ami epciiial tire or
the only party that can ever pass :i
prohibitionist law. Pouglas Breeze
We were talking with one of th<
leaders of populism ii, an a.fjolniim
county Ibis week and we asked him
if he was a prohibitionist. He repl ed
that he was not, and he voiced the sen
timcnls of seventy-tive per cent, of hi*
party, but yet just to gain the gov
ernorship they have put a plank !■:
their party antagonistic to their views
on that qaestion. -Fort Valley Lead
er.
Smne of our tlemoci'.i.ric m w's
paper friends are no doubt lion
ts-lly gnxirrus lest the anti-bur
rotrm bill slimild fail to sc. lire
the democraitic support they hope
for it. But f'lrt-y labor under a
grave misajiprohension of facts
in t'he statement, “■rite last legis
laiture was (lemocratie and lack
ed only a few votes of passing the
bill." '
While fihis is true our friends
should remembe:!- that it lacked
41 voles, of having Ilonwwt’atic
votes enough to pass the bill. In
other words, it. would have re
quired 41 mim? Democratic votes
for the bill to pa«s it by Deni
ooraitic votes alone.
Airorher analysis may furnisii
our friends food for thought;—
there were only 47 Democrat:*
voting for the bill wliile 59 D<rm
ooraits voted abainst it and 28
Democrats dodged tihe vote, but
most of rhe dodgers are known
to be opposed to the bill.
Now, in face of these fadts, our,
friend who never hoard of “pop*
being prohibitionists,” will be
surprisod to learn that 26 popu
lists voted for the bill and only
3 againt it, and only 9 dodged.
Anolther thing our prothibitiori
Democrats have overlooked: —
only one-third of the democrats
elected to 'riie legislature voted
for the bill while twodhirds of
the jM>pulwts elected to t he legis
lature voted for it. And let it
be remembered that in 1894 nei
ther party was committed to the
anti-barroom bill, or to prohibi
lion, by its plaitform.
This year riie Dcocrats (held
tlit-ir slate convention and most
of ■ t'iieir le-glsla.tlve <rin venrions
in advance of the people s pa.iny
conveixtwms. The democrat is
state convention and most of
their legislative convention's were
ttibsolutely silent on the temper
awe question.
The aiiti-bai-riuwii bill 'lkial been
I ag»!;rb-il for two years from end
!to end of the state, and yet tin
■ Deiu c'i-r.itic con vent ions cwti re'y
■ ig'noreil it. Whwt. could proihibi
biiionlsts and prohibition Deawo-
■ erars ex]H-ei.
It is universally conceded chart
j there is a very large majority of
' the voter** of tin- Democratic pt>r
i ty of Georgia who lielieve in pro
hibition. and yet this majority re
<-(*ives rite recognition of their
prineiph-s from the D< imc i-aric
leaders and platform maker*.
On rhe ot her lumd the People's
party adopted an antli-lmmoom
plank in its state plalfonn. which
hrs b i*n heartily tnidorsa-d by
every local eonv<-ntion of the par
ity since held and srccepted in
good faith by every leader, evepy
candidate and nearly every voter
of the party.
Ibmioi-ratie prohibitionists, by
ihosands have felt blurt it is a
niartter of neceartty in this cam
paagn. to support the. State
ticket of the I’eople’s party and
the li'gwha.tive tickets in all the
countiee and senatorial distriets
where the Deroocratic Candida tee
are openly against us or are play
ing rhe sharp game of trying to
earrv a Sunday Seliool tm one
shouhter and a saloon on the
otht-r.
We are not Populists, never
have l>een. and never expect to
lie. but we shall most heartily
ami ronmienrtioAudy sup|»ort the
I’eople’s party candidate and
platform in Georgia this year.
We could not consrienlionniy
do otherwise.
Buncombe and Bossism-
To The Motive.
The Democrat!* papers in At
lanta have very strenuously
sought to convey the topreosrion
that Dr. Candler and the Wesley
an Christian AdvAxate were for
“hMxtl option.” and tence against
State pnAibition. Dr. Candler,
in a «'ard to the Constiration,
states distinerty that he endorses
rhe Bish MU and has earnestly ad
viwated it. Thee IMuocratk" pa
pers with charactAteistie unfair
nes. wdiile "howling” about Sam
J Aines' suppress»A»n <rf the fact
riiat the DenMCtats voted for a
regitration law. are seeking to
sappree rhe fait that Dr. CUndler
advomxes the Bush bill, t. e mteis
Un- pi.ii iivaiii endoms! by Hie
I'aq-ulisl Party; also the fact
Dial the \\ esboau Advocate,
with might and main, i* adioeat
iug. week after week, not “local
<q«iion," but Htate pridilbition.
"< onsislency I* a jewel,” which
jriieoe “fair" papers don't seem Io
'have learned. \\ hy don't they
give rhe facts in rhe cane of Dr.
Candler and Wesleyan Christian
Advocate? Why don’t they admit
■ that every prohibit ion measure
passed by a Democratic Legisla
ture has been passes! la-cause the
Legislature has been driven by
public sentiment backed by
prea<"hers, Methodiot and Bap
tist, and the good petqde of the
Sttaite? Why don't they admit
that, left to an tintrammelled
Democratic Legislature, every
county in Georgia would be liquor
soaked today? Why don’t they
admit tlhut tdie registration law
against Seal). Wright are arrayed
alxiut wihidh they are “bowling”
does not insure a “free ballot and
a fair count?” Why don’t they
admit ttait they are being forced
by Hann Jones’s letters and the
rising man'ho<o>d of Georgia to
make a show of fair elections and
to discredit t'he frauds of 1894?
Wihy don’t they admit that
t he barrooms and barroom boodle
of the Site? Why don’t they ad
mit that the preachers, Methodist
and Baptist, in Georgia, stand al
most to a man for State prohibi
tion? That they carry their con
sciences in their own bosoms and
will, on election day, vote their
convictions, spurning to be con
trolled or influenced by ecclesias
tics, little or big, or by bihops liv
ing or dead? Some preachers will
vte for Mr. Atkinson as they have
the legal tight to do, others will
vote for Seaborn Wright <>f Rome.
Mr. Wright will be supported by
many because Mr. Atkinson has
on his side, in solid array, the
barroom* and barroom element of
the State; Iwcauee of his methods
in the last campaign; circulating,
for political purposes, the outrag
eous statement, that Gen. Evans
was 73 years old, until forced by
General Evans at Griffin to re
tract his words. Many will not
support Mr. Atkinson ecause of
statements whidh were never de
nied, that he would take his re
ward in this life and that General
Evans.could take his in the next;
that if he had the 'boys and bar
rooms on his side the good people
could go to hell; lieeause of At
kinson’s seeming effort to [wise as
i Baptist in the "secret circular”
addressed to a Baptist preacher
asking for his "help and quiet in
fluence;" because of his open in
sult to every preacher in Georgia,
when on the floor of the House of
Representati v<*s, the day after the
rejection of the Soldiers’ Horne,
he pointed to Dr. J. B. Haw
thorne, Who sat in Che gallery,
and said, "We’ll stand by w'hat
we’ve done regardless of the de
moniacal howls of the preachers.’’
Many will not support Mr. Atkin
son because of his intemperate
liquor-drinking proclivities, and
his wretched, ajiti-prohibition re
cord in the Legislature in the
past, butt will vote "in all good
conscience" for Seaborn Wright,
pure, clean, brave and patriotic,
an honor to our citizenship and
our State. A LOOKER-ON.
I’. S.—The only Atlanta Consti
tution prints this week an article
by an old toper of Eatonton en
dorsing “Dr. R. J. Bigham” in lo
cal option, when “Dr. R. J. Big
ham" doesn’t live in the State,
and hasn't written a line on the
subject. Let rhe people rally and
down the paper*, barrooms, rhe
machine and rhe liquor-boodle,
which it is said in good authority,
is fixing and fastening a damn
able liquor-allied Democratic Sen
ate in rhe State of Georgia. To
hesitate, to falter is treason to
God and country. So, men, “vtp
and on ever 4 ” L. O.
A Man’s Friend.
It is left for a heathen and a China
man to show the world an example of
pure and true devotion of friend to
friend that shines illustrious amid the
greed and ingratitude of civilized men.
When Grant visited Li Hung Chang,
he had greatly at heart the bringing of
China up abreast of modern nations.
There was no motive of seif interest in
his advice. He thought first and meet
of the good of China herself, and Li
Hung Chang, reader of men. knew it.
Grant's motives were so different from
these of the Englishmen, Russians,
French and Germans Li bad knowledge
oL They cared ouiy fcr the agxrandize
ment cf Items* ivea and the;r iwpctive
countries, and Li Hureg CJirng, reader
of men, knew this tee. He graded them
accordingly, in a>* the years of his
official emstcnce Grant was the only
great man, the Cnited states the only
nattoe, that had locked on China frin
any cater than the standpoint cf pure
greed.
From that day on Li treasured thia in
his heart. When, therefor*, at the ckse
«.f the Japan-China war artirratcn were
wanted to judge between the two na
tions and fix tfao indemnity China was
to pay. Use L'nited States was the coun
try to whkh Chiua turned first in ter
need. The services of the men chosen to
perform the delicate task were an sads
factery that Li uttered a ety of delight
when be cast eyes open ex-Ccmmisßian
er John W. Foster, who met turn in
New York.
St> inin hearted, to arpreciative at
friendly service, ia the wise old heathen
that he has said one of the chief moerraa
of hu visit to America waa to hrak upon
the tranb at Grana
EFFECT OF ALCOHOL
ITS ÜB6 CAUSES DtsGtNfeRATION OF
THE BODY
It I’rvxlnreff helfhrr strength No?
and <?hanv»« Muark? Into Fat—lt. Nffret
luff***?* Food, bol Retaurda tho A<*tlon of
the Htomerh.
Alcoholic drink is not a source ot
•trength. Trainers of men for feats of
strength invariably forbid nil kinds ol
ale, beer, porter, wino, rum, brandy.
They cast out the whole legion of devils
at once. Dr. Brinton says, "A moderate
dose of beer or wino would, in most
cases, at onco diminish the weight
which a healthy man could lift below
his teetotal standard.” Milo, tho Sam
son of Italy, and bis forerunner, the
Samson of Judsoa, were both total ab
stainers. This is small comfort for weak
backs and weak heads that try to
strengthen themselves with bitters, cor
dials and wine. The on4y use for them
is when one has too much strength and
3an find no possible use for it. Then al
cohol may be.safely recommended to re
luce it with rapidity truly astonishing.
Neither is alcohol a producer of heat
I might quote volumes of testimony
from experience in Canada and Russian
winters, from travelers on arctic and
antarctic ice, to show that alcohol is
death to men exposed to a temperature
ranging toward 100 degrees below zero.
But that would be experience, and we
are not willing to take anything that
has a shade of uncertainty about it just
yet. What is fact? Here comes science,
thermometer in hand, and she shows
that alcohol actually reduces the tem
perature of a body receiving it. That is
what we wanted to know. And now we
know it. If we were receiving testimony
and not mathematical certainties, we
would produce the testimony of Sil
Charles Napier and hosts of surgiams
in the East Indian army that alcohol is
equally death for men who have to face
the heat of a tropical sun. But since we
are not willing to introduce anything
that any man can gainsay or pretend,
we will return to our certainties.
Let any constant abstainer draw off a
little of his blood and microscopically
compare it with the blood of the recent
drinker, and he will be confirmed in
his abstinence. The one is full of bright,
round, electric disks of life; the other
has bedraggled fibers, palo in color,
shapeless in form, deprived of power to
absorb oxygen and eliminate carbon—a
devitalized condition of the life giving
fluid that must result in a devitalized
condition of the tissues it feeds. The
pipes that supply the city with water
are no longer filled with bright spar
kling water from the sky kissing hills,
but a turbid stream from the dyehouses,
distilleries, slaughteries and the sewers
of the cities above is offered to our lips.
Another certainty—Lallemand and
Perrin proved that a small dose of alco
hol would cause globules of fat, clearly
distinguishable by the naked eye, to
float in the blood. The result is another
clear change in the constitution of this
vital fluid. This fat is deposited in
stead of real muscle, producing what is
called fatty degeneration. Take your
microscope again and examine a very
fine section of a temperate Iran’s mus
cle. It is firm, elastic, of bright r< d col
or, is parallel fiber, with beautiful
crossings. That muscle means business
and is able to do it Now take a similar
section of a man who indulges in intox
icating drinks, and you see at once a
pale, inelastic flabby, oily aspect. Fat
has displaced fiber.
This t-specally takes place in the in
voluntary muscles, such as the heart
and those concerned inbreathing. After
such degeneration it is not strange that
the heart should stop its work mid beat
and never act again. It requires no ex
citement, no sudden shock, for that
mans of fat that ought to be muscle to
cease responding to nervous influence,
and so cease working. It may be in the
s»reet, in qniet conversation, and espe
cially in sleep, this man, a picture of
health, suddenly dies, and men say,
“What a mysterious dispensation ot
Providence!” We had tetter say,
“What a dispensation of— the other
one!” Or. better still, “Wbat an inev
itable result of taking intoxicating
drinks!"
I here close my certainties about alco
hol. I allow no man to dispute one ot
them. They are all sure as a two foot
rule, ponderable as pig iron, inevitable
as the tax collector. We make no allow
ance for varieties of constitutions, pe
culiarities of temperament, diversity of
habit, differences of alcoholic concomi
tants. These conclusions are sure as
fate—viz, alcohol never dig.-st* food
or helps digest it, never assists the
body to permanently resist cold, brings
no increase of strength, vitiates the
blood, emasculates the muscles, indu
rates the brain, harms the nerves, never
acts as food either alimentary or respir
atory, but is always and everywhere a
poison, in sickness and in health, and
the vital power* try their utmost to
throw it off, even to the extent of per
ishing in the attempt. Now, these are
facts, not opinions; certainties, not de
ductions. No man can gainsay them.
Neither are there any counter facts.—
Bisnop Warren.
Boe<ra>tec ClvlliMd.
How fast the Japanese are learning
the tricks of civilization may te judged
from the fart that, in spite at an edict
forbidding the importation of opium
into the island of Formosa, the Jap
anese parliament has passed an addi
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raue from opium amounting to $20,-
000.090. — Ftp hangs.
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Atrsricans do not want a union at the
church and state. We will fight against
it. It has ruined several countries and
will rum our* if we are mot on tte look
out. The Catholics would not like to
see tte state united with tte Presty
terians ct any otter cimrcm We appre
ciate what tte Catholics have deme for
our country. They have done many
good deeds. But they are in fear of ths
pope and tte prieeu. and their woetiiip
is enforced rather than votaatacy.—
Rev. H. T. Beatty, Presbyterian, Ho
boken. N. J.
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