John B. Gough, the temperance orator and reformer, asked that on his monument the following sentiment should be cut:
I can desire nothing better for this great country than that a barrier, high as heaven, should be raised between the unpolluted lips of the children and the intoxicating cup; that everywhere men and women should raise strong and determined hands against whatever will defile the body, pollute the mind, or harden the heart against God and His truth.
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See [Abstainers Live Long]; [Drink, Peril of]; [Longevity Accounted for]; [Personal Influence].
Temperance and Prosperity—See [Prohibition].
TEMPERANCE IN THE PRESS
So far as their advertising sections are concerned, our great magazines are rapidly “going dry,” asserts the Sunday-school Times (Philadelphia), after an investigation of some sixty of our popular monthly and weekly publications. In this investigation “strictly agricultural and other class papers, whether trade or religious publications, were not considered, it being the purpose to limit this inquiry to the secular magazine of general interest.” Of the sixty editors who were asked whether their periodicals accepted or refused the advertisements of intoxicating liquors, forty put themselves on record as absolutely excluding such advertisements. While the list does not approach completeness, the Sunday-school Times claims for it that it is typical.
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TEMPERANCE, RESULTS OF
The social results of Father Mathew’s temperance reform in Ireland were as follows: