Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1890 — TEMPERANCE COLUMN. [ARTICLE]

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

WINE AT WASHINGTON. Mrs. Phinney, president of the NonPartisan Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Ohio, wrote to Mrs. Tilton in relation to the use of wines and liquors by the pissent National Administration, and received the following reply: . ’ ‘ ‘ ••Dear Mrs. Phinney —l think the voters, and the mothers, sisters and wives of voters have a right to ask about the habits and official oustoms of men who are exalted by the suffrages of the people. It is true that wine has been furnished at state dinners by the present administration, and by every other except during the four notable years when Ohio’s noble son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Hayes, gave the world the beautiful picture of pure home courtesy. It is also true that very few offic al homes during this administration furnish wine, and even when it is furnished the example of the Harrisons,’ Wanamakers, Windoms, Millers, Proctors, Hustons, Hepburns, Dorchesters; Forsterß ( i Morgane r and many others, has a restraining influence. Scarcely one of the nien selected by President Harrison as his ad visers ever take wine. Blaine is now a total abstainer. President Harrison does not take wine at any of the receptions, even when only gentlemen are present, and Mrs. Harrison ‘never under any circumstances, anywhere, takes the wine.’ The wife of a leading Senator says: ‘Never since the time of Mrs. Hayes has to little wine been taken at public official receptions in Washington as during the present administration.’ The only inaugural ball without wine was the one given to President Harrison, and the chairman of the inaugural committee told me that he consulted the -President and followed his wishes, and he added, •wines end liquors are absolutely prohibited, either to be sold or given away,’ anywhere about the premises. The stories about wine at the last inaugural ball grew out of the fact that the caterer furnished among the deserts a water-ice flavored with some kind of liquor and called Roman punch. I ha-ve the best authority fOr"aIT that I have written, and I think the people ought to know the facts." BEER AS FOOD. , _ Gla-’gow Reformer. In a recent Parliamentary debate a member of Her Majesty’s government said something about the “nutritive” qualities of beer. That beer has stimulating qualities may be at once admitted, but “nutritive” powers are quite another thing. A barrel of ale analyzed shows as follows: Quarts. Albumen (flesh forming) 1 Malt sugar (unfermented) 2 Gum (of no dietetic value) 3% Alcohol (intoxicatingspirit) "X Water ............... .....130 Total 144 PRESBYTERIANS AROUSE. iThe Rev. Joseph B. Turner and the Rpv. Dr. I. N. Hays, of General Assembly’s Committee on Temperance, has published an appeal for financial aid to carry on the temperance work in Nebraska. The need of help, they say, is exceedingly urgent, owing to the great importance of the issue at stake and the failure of the crops in that State, thus leaving the people without means tp wage_the. tarn.!. France fight From fifty to one hundred thousand dollars is required at once. Contributions may be sent to Hon. J. M. Stewart, Lincoln, Neb. A TREMENDOUS PROTEST. The Immense anti-compensation demon?tiation at Hyde Park, London, was a s ; ght to remember a lifetime. In sp te ot government efforts to prevent it, the parade was an impos.ng sight; 100,000 men and women, a hundred bands and four hundred banners were in it. There were thirteen speaking stations in the park, f. om each of which strong speeches were made. r Station 3 was held by the British! Woman’s Temperance Association and the Worhen’s Council of the United Kingdom Alliance; Miss M. E. Docwra presided, Mrs. Pearson, Miss Phillips, “Mrs. Forster, barri»ter-al law, of Ohio,” as the Chronicle gives it, and Hannah Whitall Smith were among the speakers. A telegram was read from Lady Henry Somerset expressing hearty sympathy. Miss Julia Ames, of our staff, was an honored guest. Sir Wilfred Lawson presided at station 2; Mr. W. S. Caine at No 4; Prof, Stuart at No. 7; Mr. James Row. lands at No. 8: Mr. C. E. Schwann at station 10 (all M. P.’s), and Cardinal' Manning at station 11—Union Signal.

NOTES. z Huron’s large brewery in South Dakota, will, it is said, be converted into a beet sugar factory. The retail liquor traffic is now prohibited in seventy-nine municipalities of the province of Manitoba. The city marshal ot Cartersville, ’Ga., says that prohibition has done Cartersville an incalculable amount ot good. Chicago has one saloon for every forty voters, and a policeman for every two hundred voters. Comptroller, Onahah, of Chicago, says that seventy per cent, pf the license fees of the 5.000 salQons of Chi cage are paid by brewers.