Juvenile Temperance.
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We commend the following article from the
Western Reserve Washingtonian, TO those
who doubt the efficacy of Juvenile Tempe
rance We hope that the number of those
who do so is small, and wish it were smaller
still; we can see no good reason why the youth
should not engage in this moral enterprise;
but on the contrary, many, very many, why
they should: C Bring up a child In the way he
should go, and when he is old he will not de-
part from it,'' saith the wise man, which to us
is sufficient for all purposes.


It is to be regretted that any should be found
opposed to temperance efforts among the youth.
We trust the number who do so is small. If
the force of habit among the old has become
so strong, that some excuse must be sought for
indulgence, let the young remain free from
such shackles. 1t is pleasing In every moral
enterprise, to see all classes enlisted for its
support, especially those whose influence can
be most powerfully eXerted, and longest felt.
The wise and sagacious of every age have re-
garded the youthful portion of the community
with peculiar interest. Enlist the man ofhoary
hairs, or the man in the meridian of life, in
moral enterprise; his influence will be felt for
a season, but his course is soon cut short by
death Enlist the energies of the youth in
that ENTERPRISE and you secure an influence that
will 90 on widening and strengthening through
a long series Of years. Remember this in the
temperance enterprise. Let the cooperation
of the young be secured.


1t is gratifying that the grand principle of
reform and safety is seizing upon that portion
of our population. a cold water army is ris
ing up in our land, that will wage success
fui war of determination with alcohol, when
those who now take the fore front of the battle
shall slumber in their graves. An ounce of
prevention is worth pound of cure. 1t is
easier to raise up from the children ofourland,
virtuous, temperate population, than to reclaim
from habits of vice, those already on the stage.
How could the patriot die and leave the direc-
ton of his country to generation of profii-
gate, immoral, and drunken youth. What hope
could he have to cheer his dying hour, that
the liberties he had fought for, the institutions
he had watched with fostering care, would be
preserved and perpetuated? These young de-
tenders of our country, these watchful guardi-
ans of our liberty-train them in virtue, sobn-
ety and temperance, that when they lay their
infirm and expiring fathers in the grave, and
the state with its cumbersome cares is rolled
upon them, and the church commits to their
keeping the precious ark other covenant, they
may be prepared for the responsible trust.


Let our youth become temperate, and the