FEMALES
Are most deeply interested in the success of the temperance reformation. As it advances, it dries up the fountain of woman’s grief, and turns her tears of bitterness into tears of joy. Ladies, sign the temperanee pledge, and thus cast your influence on the side of temperance. You can banish alcohol from the nursery, the sideboard, the social circle, and the festive hall. Mothers, sisters, wives, we entreat you to throw your gentle influence around society, to hold it back from the cup of death.
A REMEDY.
Let it be enacted that the expense of supporting all paupers who are made such through the sale of intoxicating liquors, shall be equally assessed upon the dealers in such liquors: let every man who takes out a license be required to give ample security for the payment of his share of the tax; and let the public authorities see that the destitute wives, widows and children of drunkards be well supported. This would put an end to nine-tenths of the groggeries; and the fewer the sellers became, the heavier would be the tax upon them. Friends of suffering humanity! why may not this plan be tried?
One cause of the prevalence of intemperance is the low price of wine, brandy, &c. Put down the spurious compounds, and the genuine will not be so constantly held out as a plausible temptation to young beginners. May not all who value health join in copying the following and obtaining signatures to it?
PETITION
To the Legislature of —
- The subscribers respectfully represent,
That inferior whiskey, coloured by logwood, cochineal, &c., flavoured to resemble in taste the liquor imitated and impregnated with spirits of turpentine, cochilus indicus, oil of vitrol, and other poisonous drugs, is sold throughout the country under the various names of wine, gin or brandy; and whereas this imposition is most injurious to health, and especially grievous to the sick to whom wine may be prescribed: we therefore pray your honourable body that such penalties may be imposed, by fine and imprisonment, against all who make or sell these or similar poisonous compounds, as may effectually secure the health of our citizens from such wicked and fraudulent practices. And your petitioners shall, &c., &c.
TETOTALISM.
The objection lo beer, cider, &c. is that all Drunkards in the outset commence on such mild drinks, and thus form a taste for drinking which becomes habitual, and this habit becomes a second nature, leading slowly, it may be, but surely, to all the evils and horrors of drunkenness. Besides which, as temperance becomes popular, the strongest liquors are mixed with, and drunk as cider, beer, &c.
THE FRUITS!!
Some of the great advantages of the Temperance reformation are already realised. Witness the reduction in the rate of insurance of ships manned by Temperance sailors, and the improved and comfortable condition of the sailors themselves, who, in the wet, cold, and hardships which they undergo, confirm the fact tha liquor all cases is not only unnecessary, but worse than useless.
Witness the three millions who have given the Temperance Pledge to Father Mathew in Ireland; where distilleries have been turned into school-houses, where, instead of crime, quarrelling, fighting, poverty and rags, now shine forth the Temperance blessings of peace, joy, and comfort.
And many are the glorious results of Temperance, so many, that a volume might be filled with the glad tidings, which urge on the patriot and the philanthropist, and all good men to perseverance in this glorious work of reform.
THE TREE OF DISSIPATION.
The
sin of
drunkenness
expels reason,
drowns memory,
distempers the body,
defaces beauty, dimin-
ishes strength, corrupts
the blood, inflames the liver,
weakens the brain, turns men
into walking hospitals,–causes
internal, external, and incurable
wounds,–is a witch to the senses, a
devil to the soul, a thief to the pocket,
the beggar’s companion, a wife’s woe, and
children’s sorrow,–makes man become
a beast and a self murderer,–who
drinks to others’ good health,
and robs himself of his
own! Nor is this
all; it exposes
to the
Divine
| DIPLEASURE HERE! AND HEREAFTER TO ETERNAL MISERY!!! |
The
root of all is
DRUNKENNESS!!!!
