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Address All Orders to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
THE HOUSE OP MIRTH AND THE
HOUSE OP MOURNING
(Editorial In Philadelphia North
American.)
The current of the United States
mails, swollen by the flood of early
holiday business, has been raised to
a still higher level by other messages
of good cheer and human fellowship
not -definitely connected with the
Christmastide.
Ministers of the gospel, Catholic
and Protestant, Jew and Gentile,
throughout the states of- the central
seaboard, and, for aught we know,
throughout the entire nation, have
received these extra seasonable re
minders that man was not made to
mourn. Strictly speaking, the mes
sage is that if man does mourn it is
his own fault, for nature, he is told,
has provided a surcease from melan
choly in the divine' blessing of
booze.
The preacher who finds a1 book in
his moaning mail and feels the flush
of pleasure that comes from a friend
ly remembrance that may be at the
same time an intellectual treat, may
well be pleased when opening the
tome he finds the title page in
scribed, "A Textbook of True Tem
perance." The subject of temper
ance is one that is near to the heart
of every student of moral and social
conditions. It is particularly engag
ing the attention of the good shep
herds who love their flocks.
But, indeed, may they observe
with wonderment that they are to be
taught the principles of true temper
ance by interests which are virtual
owners of a great percentage of the
saloons of the country, and the most
active and powerful single influence
in the extension of the liquor traffic.
For the publishers of this new
book are none others than the own
ers of the country's breweries, ap
pearing on the title page as the
"United States Brewers' Associa
tion." There is something in the audacity
of these men that invokes a peculiar
kind of admiration, the same kind
one might have for the wolf who ex
cused himself for eating the lamb
because the lamb, drinking below
him in the brook, "muddled the
stream." -
One has but to consult this new
textbook on true temperance to
learn that the great evils which even
the brewers concede have sprung
from the liquor traffic in this coun
try have been due to the efforts of
the temperance folk to abolish .the
saloon.
That the brewers have hopes of
converting some ministers to their
point of view does not rest for proof
on the fact of the book's being sent
to the religious leaders. The vol
ume contains internal evidence. For
there is a chapter devoted to prov
ing that something presumably the
breweries and saloons owned by the
United Brewers' Association has
the "sanction of religion." To carry
this point, the brewers appeai to the
solemn sacrament of the eucharist.
And then elaborate statistics are
quoted to convince the preacher that
religion flourishes best in those com
munities where the saloon has full
sway, and that it languishes and de
clines when the saloon is put out of
business.
As the clergymen of Pennsylvania
will soon be called upon again to
consider the question of local option,
they may turn to the brewers' chap
ter on this subject for enlighten
ment as to its relation to the prin-
ciples of "true temperance." They
will find, perhaps to their surprise,
that the brewers unequivocally in
dorse local option. This is what the
brewers say:
"Many men believe as heartily in
the principle of local option as they
disbelieve in state-wide prohibition.
To deny that the1 local community
has tho right to decide for itself
whether or not the sale of intoxicants
shall be licensed is to deny a whole
some principle of local self-government."
The clergyman, seeking to be
guided in the work of true temper
ance, may be somewhat confused by
this statement in the textbook. For
he will remember that the brewers,
who lay down this doctrine, them
selves were the leaders in the fight
against a local option before the last
session of the Pennsylvania legis
lature. He may attribute the apparent in
consistency to the stand that the
brewers take against making the
county the local unit. But he will
instantly recall that the Fair local
option bill reduced the unit to the
lowest possible division, the rural
borough, and township, and the city
ward.
So the clergyman, reading on for
enlightenment, is told that the ob
jection to most local option laws is
that they make majority rule their
working principle. "It should not
be permitted to settle so fateful a
question as that of license or no
license by less than a two-thirds
vote," say the brewers in their book.
In other words, if seven-twelfths
of ' the voters of a district declare
against" the licensing of saloons and
five-twelfths vote for "saloons, "this
fateful question of license or no
license" will be settled by the five
tWelfths. This is what the brewers mean
when they say that "it isn't a ques
tion which can be settled by a bare
majority vote." Certainly not. The
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ments caused by nervous or sick head
aches, or other pains or aches by thoso
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In fact
' Dr. Miles'
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MRS. G. N. GRIFFITH.
. Santa Ana, Cal.
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ABOUT TOBACCO AND ITS DELETE-
rious Effects. By Doctor Charles 13.
Slocum. A book for everybody, tobacco-users
and non-users. Ladies snoum
read It. Boys, girls and adults can do
well by its sale. Send ono dollar for
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Slocum Publishing Company, Toledo,
Ohio.
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wood, West Virginia, for your
trained hunting dogs. .
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