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We Times, 1'ublisued Every ' Friday Noon. . . by. THE TIMES PRINTING CO., Owosso, - Michigan. ' . . .' TERMS: ' One Year, $150 Six Months, 75 Three Month, 40 One Month, . 15 Strictly in Advance. ' ' ISFor papers sent out of iho county 15 cents extra will be charged to pay postage. Business cards, three lines, per year, $3 00 Legtils at Statute Prices. Terms for Business Advertisements made known on application at the office. WATCHES WE INCLUDE IN OUR LARGE AND COMPREHENSIVE STOCK OF WATCHES, MINUTE REPEATERS AND CHRONOGRAPHS, MINUTE REPEATERS, ' r MINUTE REPEATERS, CHRONOGRAPHS WITH MINUTE INDICATORS PLAIN CHRONOGRAPHS, SWISS WATCHES IN ALL GRADES, ELGIN WATCHES IN ALL GRADES. WALTIIAM WATCHES IN ' ALL GRADES. . OUR NEW "ROEHII & WRiGUT" AVATCIIES WILL BE FOUND THE MOST DESIRABLE IN THE MARKET BOTH AS REGARDS QUALITY AND PRICE. ROEHM & WRIGHT, IMPORTERS, JEWELERS, AND OP TICIANS, 140 WOODWARD AVE., OPERA HOUSE BLOCK, DETROIT MICH C-SOLE STATE AGENTS FOR PA TEK, PIIILLIPPE & CO'S CELE BRATED WATCHES. OWOSSO Lodfre, No. 88, 1.O.O.F., meet every Friday evening, in Odd Fellow's Hall, 8d storv, over A. McIIardy's Agricultural Rooms. All Wothers la god standing are cordially in vited. GEO.C1IAKLTON, N. U. GEO. M. DEWEY, Scc'y. T S. McBRIDE, Justice of the Peace. Collec I tions Made and Leal Papers Executed. Business promptly attended to, Duiton, Mich. Ai OMENTAL Encampment, No. 50, I. O. O. F. mfpt.s on the 1st and 8d Wednesday Even Ings In each mouth, in Odd Fellows Hall. Patrl archsin rood standing are cordially invited. W. MATLOCK, Scribe. A. ROUEKSTUN. C. P. TOIIN STORREH, Notary rublic, Real Estate J and Insurance Agent. Transportation Tickets from any point in Europe, for sale; also business connected with Consular duties promptly vttended to. Subscriptions to Tub Tives received. Offlce with G. R. Lyon. March 2 yl H ARRY GOULD, City Agent Evening News. euoscriptlons recelvedior an publications. T. GODD ABD. M.D., Physician and Surgeon, 0 Office Cer. W ashington and Mason Streets. Successor to Dr. Smith. Owosso, Mich. Mch 2 yl GR. LYON, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office over Stewart & Co.'b Bank, Owosso Mich. 2ft-yl II. B. PETERSON, DE1TTIST. (14 YEARS 1'RACTICJS IX OWOSSO.) OFFICE-Over Dimmfck's stote, Washington Street. RESIDENCE Cor. Park and Williams Streets, Owosso, Mich. . E. R. HUTCHINS, A TTORNE Y AT LAW OFFICE Over First National Bank, Owosso, Mich. . WILLIAM M.KILPATRICK " LAWYER, SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY General Insurance Agent. Office in the Williams Block, Washington Street, Owosso. Mich. S. F. SMITH, Attorney Counsellor at Law OFFICE Over McIIardy's Store, corner Wash ington and Main Sts., Owosso, Mich. 7-yl Drug & Grocery STORE, WEST OWOSSO. A good line of DRUGGIST'S NOTIONS. Prescriptions Compounded. All the leading Proprietary Medicines. I have a full line of FArilLY GROCERIES Give me a Call. . E. FISK, . West Owosso, r NEW SERIES, VOL. III. NO. TELEPHONE m W. TELEPHONE On Monday next for any and all Goods in the DRUG AND GROCERY "LINE, and they will be pleased to fill your orders at any price list of any House now doing business in Owosso. We are here to do business, and bound to give as good prices as any honorable competition. Thanking all our old customers for their very liberal patronage, we would be pleased to see as many new ones as choose to come. We are, Yours truly, B. & B. 1884. FALL We having just returned from New York with one of the largest and most complete Stocks of Dry Goods and Carpets that has ever been shown in the City of Owosso. Our stock is now in and every Department is jammed full of New Good, CLOAKS, DOLMANS. CIRCULARS AND PLUSH GARMENTS In endless variety at prices that can't help but suit all. UNDERWEAR, ' Our stock in this department is very large and complete, in Gent's Ladies', Misse's and Children's, in Colored and Whites, all sizes and prices to select from. DRESS GOODS. Now is the time to make your selections in Dress Goods, as we can show you all the Novelties of the season in Brocade, Velvet, Brocade Silk and Satins, also a full line of Ladies' Plaid Suitings at very reasonable prices. Our HOSIERY DEPARTMENT Is jammed full of, all the latest styles in Fall and Winter Goods, in Ladies' Misse's and Children's Wear call and see us and you will be convinced that our stock is just what we advertise it to be and that we mean what wc say. XO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS, AND OXE PRICE TO ALL. Remember wc arc Ilcatlqaurlers 011 Black antl ColM Silks and Fine Dress Goods. Xo. o Washington St,, Owosso, Mich Dissolution Notice! The co-partnership heretofore existing between M. C. Dawes, L. A. Hnmblin and E. 31. Miller, under the name, firm and Myle of Dawes, Hnmblin & Miller, is this day dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Dawes retiring, having sold his interest to L. A. Hnmblin find E. M. Miller, who, assume the business and nil liabilities of the late firm, under the name, firm and style of Hnmblin, Miller fc Co. Dated, Owosso City, Oc t. 1st, 1884. M. C. DAWES. L. A. HAMRLIN. E. M. MILLER. IT PAYS TO TRADE AT the FAMOU Where they guarantee everything to be exactly as represented. m We offer you better value than you can possibly obtain anywhere "else." Our 97c. White Shirt beats the world, while 38 cents takes a good work shirt. A pair of Jean Pants for 97 cents. In Neckties, Collars, Cuffs, Hosiery, Handkerchiefs and Underwear, our assortment is complete, and worth attention. IN NOTIONS Our stock moves the fastest. Why, we sell three handker chiefs for a dime; if you grumble we make it four. In Laces, Ribbons, Hosiery, Collars, Cuffs, Buttons, Linen Goods, &c, we solicit a share of your patronage. Crockery and Glass Ware. Our trade is constantly increasing. Why shouldn't it? OUR prices are LOWER. OUR goods are NEW, and OUR as sortment COMPLETE. Just think of it, 25 cents buys a GLASS SET, (butter, sugar, creamer, spooner,) or we will give you your choice of 999 articles for a silver quarter. IT H nil TXF oa ii0 Is constantly on the move. LARGE SALES and SMALL PROFITS is bound to "catch 'em." In Confectionery, Sta tionery, Chromos, Mirrors, Baskets, Toys, and 5 and 10 cent Counter Goods, we are prepared to give you unheard of Bargains. Fair time we will give a Handsome Plaque with Every 75c, Purchase, JC3TSIGN OF THE BLUE FRONT, OWOSSO, MIOH. r N 31.. 1884. u:; 7 OWOSSO, MICH., OCTOBER 24! 1884. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY REV. G. H. WILSON AT THE Baptist Church, Oct, 7th, AT THE MONTHLY MEETING OF THE "TEMPERANCE AND REFORM SOCIETY," AND REPEATED, BY REQUEST, AT HIS CHURCH OCT. I JTH, 1 884. "We ore liviuir, we arc dwelling, In a grand and awful time, In u ae on nes telling; To bo living is sublime." It is one of the delusions of our day that a casual mention of the ad vantages surrounding us, and the op portunilies before us, nill depict to any mind the many and great forces that are at man's service. We throw off in a sentence a de scription supposed to be wrapt up in an allusion, and an ''intelligent audi ence" is by courtesy supposed to see most if not quite all that is thus al luded to. The indifference, the unthough1 everywhere prevalent, so far as it bears on the question of duties and priv ileges born of our civilization, in dicates that the mind is dazed by the sight of potency and opportunity re vealed in the accomplishments, in the arts and sciences, in philosophy and religion. And yet we are all con vinced within ourselves that the sum total of opportunity given mankind is great beyond anything the past has seen. We "are citizens of the might iest Republic the world has ever known. Wc live under a form of government tint puts us all on the dead level of Democracy. We are of an age that dares . face any ques tion, and has learned to believe, at least in theory, that the masses are capable 'of v self-government. The mightiest problems of political econ omy and jurisprudence are themes about which we talk, wisely, at leastf in our conceits and as if capable alike to instruct and direct, the merest stripling-armed with brazen ignorance and sordid political aspirations,would lead his hearers to believe that he could carry the fate of nations and the destiny of empires on his should ers, and yet walk uprightly'and sure ly. Such is the intrinsic nature of a Democratic form of government that it demands the keenest thought on the part of electors, and the most sterl ing integrity on the part of the elect ed, to the end that power may intelli gently be conferred and used, and when the action of rulers exceeds the knowledge of the governed, they may remain restive in view of a well grounded confidence in the leaders of their choice. The measure of failure to reach that ideal is the measure of power permitted to the demagogue, who may play on the passions of the igno rant, rousing fears and hopes that have no basis in fact, but result in creating a basis deep and of danger ous growth, because born of class conflict, which makes ignorance vic ious and bespeaks social disorder and passionate factional discord. It need not be said that we are very far from that exalted plain which is alike the demand and the privilege of our form of government. We need only to recall the partisan utterances which are to day being rung over the land through the press and from the platform, utterances which ' in the coarse form of jokes, or the sharp form of invective, or the covert form of insinuations, would lead us to be lieve if we did not know the cus toms and tricks of campaigns that j any one who purposed executing any principle or project by political meth ods, had joined hands with every form of disreputable wickedness. While leaders are blamable so far as they sanction such methods, they will not sanction them,' nor will any practice them beyond that permitted by the people. It goes with the saying that our political methods are low, demoraliz A WHOLE NO. 231 ing, that appeals are made to passion, to prejudice, and that elections come full often enough for the nation's good. By merest courtesy, we permit to be read as true the posters on bill boards and fences and rocks, that the Hon. Blank "will discuss the politi cal questions of the day." We main ly expect that a mixture of misquoted history, of garbled figures, of unwar ranted accusations and stale jokes will make up a partisan harangue. No party is free from the charges thus preferred, and the people love to have it so. I have sometimes fancied that it would be an admirable thing to have in every locality an unparti san committee to attend political meetings and review the speeches made, and by mutual understanding let the people "boycott"- those who are not in the main true to the facts of history, that people might be kept from untruths, and find party affilia tions on the basis of real differences of principle. I am led to make these general re marks because of a belief that the paramount problem for this Nation to solve is the temperance question; because that question touches so closely the individual, on account of the resuts of intemperance in the person, and the effects wrought by it upon others; because it is purely un sectional; because it is necessarily political, and therefore demands for its solution an intelligence and mo rality of the very highest kind. Glance a moment at these propo sitions. It is the paramount problem for the Nation to .solve, because it is related directly . or .indirectly with more crime, more poverty, more ig norance than anything else. ....... In short, intemperance is the vice of vices, the mother of crimes. It is more irerciless than the scourge, more relentless than the sword, more insidious than any pest. Bewildering statistics meet the pallid form of thought to stagger it into faintness as we attempt to measure their immeas urable proportions. All taxation pales into insignificance when meas ured beside the tax imposed by it. - The most extravagant expenditures of unthrift, either personal, state or national, take on the dullest glow of pinched economy when measured be side the wasted resources burned to this Molock of our times. It the duty of felling the foe that would as sassinate the Nation resides in the Na tion, then must the Nation fell this, its paramount and most perplexing problem. The question touches the individ ual more closely than any other ques tion. It touches through appetite; latent in the blood of our nation by inheritance; developed in various de grees in a vaster army than ever war rior led. From the youth, whose blood feels the first exhilerating ef fects of what poetry calls the "wine cup," but modern custom denomin ates "the beer schooner," on to him who deleriously raves for some one to remove the cursed thing, and then curses the kindness that tries to do it, the victims of the vice are found.' It touches through avarice a vast army who gain somewhat of this world's goods at the expense of the besotted, the bereaved, the neglected and crushed ones. It touches through ambition the demagogue, who uses it to foist him self into notoriety and power. It touches the hearth and quenches the fire; the feet, and strips off the shoes, , the bed, and stripping it, leaves only the bare floor and the few rags with which to resist the colds of winter or the damps of summer. It touches the stomach and pinches it into hunger. It puts its ghastly fin ger on the cheek, and the rosy hue of ruddy youth pales. It takes the chil dren from the study and sport of schools and crowds them into the mills and shops, arid info' the streets, and then behind the bars. It touches the mind and its powers blight. It touches the soul, and unless grace Omnipotent interferes, it sends it reel ing into hell. You may let it alone; it will not let you alone. - It is no re spec tor of persons. It is un sectional. Not as was slavery, ar blight circum scribed1 by geograpical bounds. Not as polygamy, entrenched in a form that an army could throw up earth works and bombard it. From the rice swamps of the South, to the pine woods of the North, from the East, where the sun rises above the wild At lantic, to the West, where it drops as into the calm Pacific. In the black man's hut, in the pioneers cabin, in the factory town and the Federal cap ital. It is omnipresent in our land. It is necessarily political. And it be comes so because it U necessarily a moral question. Law, in the sense of statutory en actments, is either the expression of moral sentiment already attained un to, or of moral sentiment intellectu ally recognized as right to the extent that it becomes possible to codify it. The laws of the land relative to steal ing, arson, murder, and other crimes express the people's sentiment rela tive to them. Time wa3 when that Sentiment did not exist. It came by processes of growth. When it was so nearly attained as to make it possible and expedient to express itself by law, public sentiment did thus utter its convictions. And though no doubt weak at first, such sentiment has become so strong that it is to day unquestioned. The same is true of(,he question we consider. You cannot, m the na ture of things, use what is termed "moral suasion'' as an isolated method; as a finality. When moral suasion lias become so far successful, as to create a prevailing sentiment, it will utter it self in law. We .have reached, for instance, a point in our view of edu cation in this State where it is quite generally felt that the youth should clearly know the physical effects of certain elements (alcohol and nar cotics) in their nature, and that senti ment speaks in law, and operates in the schools. So it will be in every question which touches the people's welfare. Moral suasion which looks to the creation of sentiment by per suasive methods, will, if of a general nature" and -generally successful, cul minate in legal enactments which are of a restrictive and coercive nature. In our Democratic government sen timent utters itself into law through political (I do not say party) meth ods. When any sentiment is diversely viewed, but deemed of such import ance and bearing as to make expedi ent party action, political action by party is the result.' It becomes a party measure. ' My point, however, is that sentiment becomes codified by political action. In a government of the people, and for the people, such political action is wrought by the, people. Administrations are set to execute the purpose of the people. For these reasons: its vast magnitude, the closeness of its touch upon the individual, its unsectionaT, but politi cal nature, the temperance question presents itself to us as it never has to any other people. It demands the utmost intelligence in devising means for its solution, and the highest type of political and moral integrity in the execution of any plans set on foot to accomplish it. In this, as in every desired reform, "Evil is wrought By want of thought As well as want of heart." The temperance reform, which is the goal of endeavor to-day, is: National Constitutional Prohibi tion; State prohibition being a step ping stone to its attainment. This reformatory movement is of ten compared to' other things. I know of nothing with which to com- pare it. Prominent ana foremost in every so called comparison are the vast differences. It ui unique as it faces us. It is a question for solution, not by a monarch on his throne, at whose beck an army moves, and at whose words the hot shots of war belch from the cannon's mouth to sweep rebellious hosts into oblivion. It is a question for a sovereign peo ple to solve; to solve by men and methods that are human abeve parti san, and whose human tread knows no party bounds. Do not misunder stand me; I do not wish to imply that