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I am doing a rushing business and I want you to do my clerking." The first thought which rushed into Mr. Thomas' mind was, "Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?" but he restrained his indignation and said, "No, Frank, I cannot accept your offer; I am a temperance man and a prohibitionist, and I would rather have my hands clean than to have them foul."
"Anyhow," I said, "it's the proper thing, the usual thing to do?" "O'Donoghue has done it, and I expect that ruffian Vittie will have to in the end, little as he'll like it." I signed. "Here," said Titherington, "is the letter of the joint committee of the Temperance Societies." "There appear to be twenty-three of them," I said, glancing at the signatures.
In Latin literature, as little as in the Greek, is there any sense of the beauty of purity. Moral essays on temperance we may find, and praise enough of the wise man whose passions and whose appetites are trained into obedience to reason. But this is no more than the philosophy of the old Roman life, which got itself expressed in words when men were tired of the reality.
I gave the public at least a fair equivalent for what it gave me, for I put into my lectures all my vitality, and I rarely missed an engagement, though again and again I risked my life to keep one. My special subjects, of course, were the two I had most at heart-suffrage and temperance.
Inebriety, the vice of the warlike nations of the North, had not, perhaps, been the pre- eminent excess of the earlier Saxons, while yet the active and fiery Britons, and the subsequent petty wars between the kings of the Heptarchy, enforced on hardy warriors the safety of temperance; but the example of the Danes had been fatal.
An insurance office might make money by taking no risks except on lives of persons suffering from mortal disease. It is on this principle of economizing the powers of life that a very eminent American physician, Dr. Weir Mitchell, a man of genius, has founded his treatment of certain cases of nervous exhaustion. What have I got to say about temperance, the use of animal food, and so forth?
They were trying to get something nice for each of the choir boys and of the old women; and therewith, to May's surprise, this youth, whom she regarded as a sort of shopman, fell into full narration of all the events of a highly-worked parish, all about the choral festival, and the guilds, and the choir, and the temperance work.
That has been tried already; and if it is tried again so soon, these temperance men will cry, humbug! "'How would it do for him to get a pretty girl behind his bar. "'That might do. But then, his wife is a sort of religious woman, and wouldn't let him do it. "Couldn't we induce him to poison her, and so get her out of the way? "'No That's out of the question.
And if the temperance and justice of him who commands is different from his who, though a freeman, is under command, it is evident that the virtues of a good citizen cannot be the same as justice, for instance but must be of a different species in these two different situations, as the temperance and courage of a man and a woman are different from each other; for a man would appear a coward who had only that courage which would be graceful in a woman, and a woman would be thought a talker who should take as large a part in the conversation as would become a man of consequence.
By taking vigorous action in this matter, you would do more for the cause of real temperance and hearten those people who feel the sting of the wave of intolerance which is now spreading over the country than anything you could think of. I wish I could meet you face to face and try to impress upon you the utter necessity for this action. You will have to take action soon.
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