Oregon Good Templar from Portland, Oregon • 2

thought and investigation of bur But with you the ties of eltish- ness are not entirely broken, neither legislation is proposed in WaWi-ingtou Territory, giving tl.e rjjm of action to relatives of druukardsVe romsa POETLAND, NOV. 17, 187 1. Beo. Gkokge: While other re (good fffliiplar. rirMled by Grand Secretary.

"Wednesday, xov. 22, isn. conform his daily acts auf -demeanor, that we may go before our Creator as has been expressed in the language of the prince of American poets "Not as the quarry slave at night scourged to his dungeon, but sustained by au unfaltering trust." We can then realize how pleasant it is for brethcreu to dwell together in unity, and the pleasant ties that will bind -us together, will not be severed in death, but never, never more. i 1 "M-lflxbuMS Dsfeal Itself." The designs of civil government is to protect the rights and increase the happiness of all good citizens, but when it is laid hold of by selfish nlsJn jeopanlyiejnostilitterest curse with which we are own citizens, that at no very distant day our State will be blest with a free school system and a public law compelling all to avail themselves of its privileges. The Common Brotherhood of the lAtdge Circle.

How often we meet together around our common altar and mingle our pledge together as one common brotherhood 1 Andjiow we seperate and go from its hallowed precincts to mingle amid the varied scenes of a busy or an idle life. We meet in a united capacity that we may be benefitted not only physically by abstaining from all which will intoxicate, but that we may be made" more noble, more more generous, and more christiab-lilaft. To accomplish this, a fraternaspirit must prevade our niembertuip. The foolish, proiid, haughty spirit of superiority, or the manifestations of selfishness or jealousy must be suppressed or our ob-ject fails, 7 A Good Templar should first be prepared. in bis heart in order to properly carry out the spirit of our vow lie cau then intuitively glance beyond the polished or the rough exterior and read the secrets and motives of the heart.

Within the portals of a LodgeRoom, these varied elements are found. The rich, the poor, the learned and the ignorant are there. But a heart beats within the breast of each, and the aim and purpose of tliat heart tells of its faithfulness or treachery, Around the walls may sit those whose hands are decked with rings, aud whose limbs are covered with costly fabrics; Beyond may be pnd whose pen is gifted' who can write the thonghts'that breathe, whose manuscripts we delight to peruse, and whose brilliantly rounded sen tences and comprehensive ideas are purloined to grace the effusons of isome lesser, aspirant for literary honors. Closo beside may sit one whose' tongue is eloquent, from wliose lips fall arguments brilliant, convincing aud logical, whose voice in public assemblages is listened to with marked attention, and whose very presence adds a charm to polite circles. And last, but not least by far, is tho hardy laborer whose palms are calloused with manuel labor, who walks upright in the sight of God aud man, and in whose bosom there throbs a heart gener ous enough to forgive the errors of all mankind and large enough for tho love of nil mankind to dwell therein.

Cast your eye over all these and tell us who is the supe rior. The learned and the polished may be deceitful, but you cannot bo mistaken when the laborer wipes away with his brawny hands the sympathetic tear that glistens as it rolls down his sun-tanned cheeks. You may be enraptured with some gem of thought, 6omo nicely finished sympathetic expression from the educated, but is it superior to the hardy grasp of the hand, and that look that speaks as with thousand tongues Truly may we say: "Full many a gem of purest ray serene, 7 Tbe silent hidden heart of man may From the Bible wo learn that the Supremo Ruler is no respecter of persons. "For remorseless time which knows not the weight of sleep nor weariness, will hurry us to that death which levels all." As has been eloquently said by another. "We may dio and bo forgotten, no requium may bo chanted by our graves, aud no eulogium ba pro nounced over our coffin.

Others may laugh and sneer, but tliey too will come and bo a part iu the same mouldoiing heap. Tho wise, the good, aud the wealthy will all mix their lot with ours." On that final day, leave will bo taken from brawny hands, uuoouth appearances, costly apparel, and earthly learning and ignorance. Then let us be careful of distinctions that seems to sep-' erate us. Let the brotherhood of the lodge room be the precusor so far as the leveling is concerned of tliaFilav. Let each aud every one have the stronger and purer bands of benevolence and trne hun-anity encircled yon.

To desire, the triumph of onr principles, without sacrificing some of our own peculiar and selfish opinions, is not a' practicable way of accomplishing the end sought and is" ony half conver sion and a very effectual way of serving the devil. Too- low an es- t'tnatehas Viade-oT the political importance of the tem perance cause. The magnitude of the evils of intemperance have not been fully comprehended, though it is almost universally admitted that the power of the liquor fiend is tbe inflicted. Iu the past, the means resorted to for its removal have not been adequate to the work to be accomplished, and the hydra-beaded monster will never be driven from our social system until the question of the legal" snppression of liquor traffic takes a deeper hold upon the the hearts and understanding of the people, and it becomes a political element euteringall-the arteries and nerves of the body politic, bearing directly upon every department of social and civil government, and involving iu the highest degree the welfare aud happiness of the whole people. E.

W. RYAN. Portland, Nov. 10th, 1871. THE OITLOOK.

BY I- H. The Temperance interests of the present age do not retrograde. Un doubted statistics prove this fact be yond a doubt. From all parts of the United State there is being re ceived the most conclusive evidence that the advocates of Temperance are steadily gaining ground. Thus it is the Temperance cause increases in prosperity thus it is the star of temperance is made -to illuminate the gloom and dispel the darkness that continually shades the hearts of earth's degraded children, and thus it is the youthful, as well as the aged, are saved from the terrible fate of plunging into the fearful realities of eternity, un prepared to meet their Judge and Ruler.

All this the centralized power of temperance has accomplished. The ciy of the present decade is onward and upward. the call of a suffering world that impels Us oti to action. We must respond to that supplication or be borne on by the impetuous waves of infamy and shame to anarchy and ruin. Our salvation, as a nation, depends on our.

success. Let us move on, stay ing not, employing all that our na tive geniuses can suggest, in over throwing iiitemperar.ee. I hen arouse yo slumbering legions of Temperance and do battle against exterminator, and against the enemies of innocence and virtue. The world is looking to you for protection, for redemp tion and for reform. Let all the powers of your intellect, your moral and your social, your meutal and your physical nature be hurled against Satan's stronghold.

Go forth and meet the foe iu every city, town and hamlet on this terrestrial globe, and victory will perch upon the banners of tha right That touipest which is hovering in the distance and fast approach ing, is tho finH temperance ami intemperance the battle in which the wrongs of myr- of widows and orphans will he redressed. To obtain such great result will rq- irc the united effort of all temperance loving people. Mutual Ftrife and contention must give way Jo unity the cause aud when the shall be fought and won your memories will ever remain tr-vh. iu the niiuds of an ever grate. 1 .13 1.1 ami your glorious deeds 8Ct'0D8 ever The three tliinss most diffiailt to keep a secret, to fttiset an injury aud to make good use of leisure.

Have notliin? to do with in a passiotw forjiien are not like iron, to be wrought ujou when hot. a man ports are continually reacliing you from various parts of the field, though unequal for the task, I am seized with the temptation to take up the quill and mingle in with the grand, triumphant and victorious shouts that reach yon. Nonpariel Lodge, No. 86, with which I am kloiitifiedn was never in a more prosperous coiiditiohrliiitatCsIdl-1 er iu crowds, weekly, around our alter to vow eternal fidelity to our noble cause. The veteraus have so nobly stood by the Lodge in her dark hours of ad versify whose faces radiate with smiles of please lire bow, feel much encouraged at the briuhteninu prospects.

Not wishing tobe egotistical, Nonpariel Lodge is destined to become one among the brightest stars in the constellation of Lodges composing the grand army of Prohibition The meetings are growing all tho more interesting as the membership increases. Each and everyone seem intent only on one thing the -iu terest of the meetings. Last Wednesday evening we were entertained with au acting chaiade entitled "Politics," and, although politics is considered a dangerous subject to introduce into the Lodue must admit that "Polly" was a success. Hereafter we intend having somethihg enlivening and enter-taming for each evening. Our sister.

Lodge in this city is also having a refreshing season. The members of Multnomah Lodge have always been ready to lend us a cheering word in times of discouragement. It is really pleasant for brothers aud sisters to visit each other, and a very friendly feeling exists between the Lodges. The visits of our friends are always wel come. I send you inclosed a list of our officers for the present term, for publication in the Goon Templar, also a few "Treasury Drops," which please accept, with onr best wishes fbr the prosperity of our Orgau.

Hoping these lines will not prove tootedions. I remain, i. Yours iu F. H. C.

SEMAJ. Encotu'ng'Iuy Letter from the O. C. T. Mr.

M. C. Geohgk Dear Sir db JOro I visited Nonpariel Lodge last evening. -The attendance was good. Their newly elected officers 'cuter on their duties with a zeal that will tell by tbe end of the quarter.

They iuit'atcd three of our prominent busiuessmen last evening, and had some five or six more proposed. In faot r.U the Lodges iu this part of the jurisdiction are alive to the work. East Portland is now one of the banner Lodges in the State. Willamette still retains her laurels numbers now near 180 members. Nonpariel and Multnomah have fully de termined to report at the least 400 members in good standing by the next session of the Graud Lodge, Mrs.

Carrie F. Young is now lecturing on temperance, in Eastern Oregon and Washington Territory It is her intention to visit all of Western Oregou during the winter months, giving public lectures on temperance also on the laws of life and health. Mrs. Yonng has done the cause much good where she has. spoken, and we trust that all will have an opportunity to hear her.

Yours Truly, JACOB STITZEL. I Item. At the reeeut session of the Grand Division of Sons of Tem perance of California, Clark, of Drytown, Amador county, was elected Grand Worthy Patri archy Tho cause of temperance seems to be progressing in that State. The various organizations are vigi lant and energetic in their work, At the recent Grand Lodge meet- tug, ijt. u.

c. riasweu was re elected President of the Templars' Band of Hope of California and Nevada. aoLMcni CUV tVtlUVID V. 11 ,1. 1ww tare two hundred times during the coming -J The Temixran' Sanur, of Attica, N.

has for its motto, Fight for. the right and uever get "'0" A regular femi Anr.nal fessioii Qf ine unuS Lodge'of Masiachu sett. I. O. of G.

T.j was held at Lowell, on the 20th of The numerical strength was repon-. ed as about the same as at the Annual Sessiou six mouths since. rri "ii i Guardians of thje Poor of adelphia, Pennsylvania, saysi "The Steward of the Almshouse believes that two-thirds of the inmates are there from the effects of rum." This is the testimony everywhere. In the receut fitate election in Pennsylvania over four thousand votes were cast for the State ticket. Iu Ohio the vote for Gideon T.

Stewart, Prohibition candidate for Governor, in 34 counties heard' from, was 2.S00. which is a fain of 7 about 180 per cent, over the ote of last year. The following are the Officers elected and installed at the late session of the rand Lod'ie of W. 7 W. G.

C. Rev. G. F. Whit-worth, Seattle G.

Counsellor, J. W. Brasee, Cascade G.W.T., Miss Flora A. Pearson G. W.

J. H. Munaon G. W. A.

R. II. Hewitt; G. W. A.

B. Young; G. W. Dept. Eliza B.

Henry; G. W. Gusrd, Elleu J. McNatt; G. W.

Seut, T. A. Lemon G. W. Messenger, John J.Reagan-, C.T., Rev.

G. W. Sloam. The R. W.

G. Templar, Rev. John Russell, is to deliver a course of lectures iu Connecticut and Maine. Over fifty towns Illinois have voted for entire, prohibition. W.

W. McGarrity, of New Orleans, oue of the old standard-learers of tbe Sons, is issuing cir culars for the" organizing of the Friends of Temperance in Louisiana. A Mass State Temperance Convention held in Minnesota nominated the following State ticket For Governor Judge Abiier Lewis, of Winona. Lieutenant-Governor W. A.

Beutley, of St. Paul. Treasurer Dr. William L. Nentzel, of St.

Paul. Secretary of State. J. Gail-ford, of St. Anthony.

Attorney. General. F. Sargent, of Plainview. Justices of Supreme Court Judge O.

E. Hamlin, of St. Cloud A. P. Jewill, of Lake City.

The following are the officers recently elected by our sister Grand Lodge of California G.W.C.T., A. D.Wood; G.W.C., Win. IL Wills G.W.V,T., Mrs. B. Thompson; G.

Sect, Geo. B. Katzenstein G. J. Counts; Grand Chaplain, G.

W. Ford. According to the Detroit Tribune, the liquor law of Michigan the most striugout State law on that subject which has yet been en, acted. Tie Tribune says: "It should bo borne in mind by those who drink, that under the amended liquor law of the State, now in lorce, any person 1 wno is fonnd drinking in any saloon, tavern 'or public' place, or in the streets, is liable to a fine of $5 and costs, or imprisonment for not more thau twenty days." New Hampshire is. to hold a State Convention on the first Wendesday in December to nominate a State ticket.

The Massachusetts Total Society is actively engaged in temperance work in that State. It is estimated that twenty-nine hundred grog-shops were destroyed by the great fire in Chicago. He who knows right principles Is not equal to him who loves them. AH tominn.ilwilo.i r.tf!. lett- an i-eliMinK lo the tiuOD Tk.

on busintt or ol Iipi wte-hhorW lie (o II. CCOSUH, AlXuy, Orejou Kofire to rxrtisinsr-. Will ovr rx-clum-ji-t nietim change the address of 1 lie Uom1 lo Alluinv. Oregon, of Poru-uul, as heretofore. Compulsory' School Laws.

The question as lo the advisability of compelling children to attend school is now attracting considerable attention from the public press. A law, of this nature has been adopted in some of the Eastern States while the question is now pending quae a numuer 01 others. We hardly think that tbe adoption of such a law will become an issue in our own State soon, for the reason that we are not, ready' for it Our present laws need considerable revision before adopting the prin ciple of compulsory education. As to the principle itself, it is a sound one, and we most' emphatically endorse it! It follows the adoption of the free school system as a legal and logical sequence. If the State has a right to tax the first man's property for the educa-- tion of a second man's children, then the State has the right to com-pel the second man to send his children to school.

Or it may turn upon another pointif it is thn dutv of the State to provide lor the welfare- and well-being of the public by necessary enacimenis for the preservation of persons physically, it becomes imperatively necessary as a moral duty to pro vide for the growth and welfare of the mind Care should be taken, however, in the publio education not to fell into the too prevaleut error that education merely is a panacea for our numerous State ills. Some one has said that Virtue is an angel, but that she' is a blind one and must ask for knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. On tho other hand, we may say that mere knowledge or education alone without the assistance pf virtue or molality is as likely to be a dangerous element in society as it is to be a safe one. Education and morality must go hand in hand. A State that makes one obligatory must make due provisions and euactmeuts for tho other; or else it fails in its graifd and essential aim of furthering the public good.

A well educated man uninfluenced by the restraint of morality, is apt to bo far more dangerous to tho publio welfare than the most ignorant citizen we may have. Thercforo compulsory education is not the only essential requisite to the welfare and woll-boing of a State. So far as restraining freedom of action, the compulsory school law, as at present in force in Mew Hampshire, Michigan, Texas and several other States, binds only on tnera who will not or do not send their children to school. Under these laws persons are perfectly free to choose their own mode of education, whether in publio schools or with private tutors, or with Iwme instruction. There is no denying the fact that our young Stato should inaugurate measures for tlio upbuilding of the cause of education.

An army of ignorance aud vice is growing up in 6in contempt of school advati- teges and regulations. As they grow up, the saloons claim them fbr their own, and from them thoir descent will be easy and swift to tlie jail and gallows or the grave. Is there no power or virtue in tbe strong arm of tho law, or must we, to a certain degree, become slaves of this vast array of vice aud ignorance Yet notwithstanding the present prevalence of this undesirable element we are hopeful of thefutnre and believe with thff" aid and assistance of Eastern emigration and tho careful sacred of human right end privi leges. The Republican or Demo cratic idea of civil government is founded upon the assumption that such laws are to be enacted and enforced, as will bring or prodnce the most good to the greatest number. Men who only seek to promote their own interests and those of the" faction or party with, which they officiate, are unfit to be trusted with the enactment of laws for the gen eral good, or with the administra tion of any of the departments of civil government Persons who are entrusted with the administration of public affairs, or who may aspire to the positions in the gift of the people, may have a proper regard for self-interest which is commenda ble but there is a marked distinction between self-interest and selfishness, for a perswn may be so thor oughly selfish as to have no regard for the welfare and rights of others, which is dispiseable in anyone.

It is an old maxim that yon must "judge men by their acts," but tbe the new versio-iis, "judge tuem by the motives for the act." A mau may do a praise-worthy act from an evil an apparently evil act from a good motive. When a person who is a political aspirant, openly espouses the cause of "total abstinence," he commits a good act; but if while doing so he endeavors to retard or throw obstacles in the way 60 as to preveut the. making of a political issue of tho the motive is evil, for it is move than half selfishness. He who is true to principle, aud firm and stead t'ast in the faith he pi ofesses though he may not reach for the time being the goal of his ambition will rise in the estimation of his constituents and reeieve the attention of all good citizens. On the other hand, he who breaks his faith or trails his principles in the dust though he attain tho object of his ambition will finally end in bitter shame and humiliation.

How quick are the selfish politi cians of the day to discover the means adapted for the accomplish ment of their own ends, and to choose aud pursue them with ener gy and determination How persistently they cling to gether aud ignore the growing question which is rapidly and surely drawing the attention of tho people, e. the legal supnression of the liq uor traffic. And why Because the liquor power is a iiuit, while the temperance element is iuhar momous and divided opnaous. While the temperance peoplo are desiring and seeking the best of lends the just and wise eradication of the power, the curse aud the crimes of the drink-demon there seems to be a lack of practicable wisdom among them, for they appear incapable of laying aside their selfish ideas and views for the general good. Now to desire a particular method more thau the ends sought is not practicable, for is thoroughly selfish, arid will defjeat the best laid project How often do hear these who claimtobe temperance men in tH strongest sense of the word f-x.

claim, it will not do to carry tV8 questiou into politics, or if we inako this a political issue it will onr party. To all such 1 wonH that, "now is the accepted time." llijrh waves our hinner o'er us, Higher still be it unfurled Till all nations joins the chonn. Peace and joy In a sobered! world..