Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-05-22
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
Conducted by
THE GOOD TEMpLARS
20 n --
MULBERRY.
MuIREaRY.


Officers RECENTLY installed-T.
LAllison,W,C.T Miss Blanche
IIalbach. w. ". H.; A. NJ. Sol
ONIONS w. s.; II. II. Cooper, w.
l.. 81; Mrs, 5. V. James, w. T.;
Mrs. Doe. Warren, w. NJ; q.
n. Inglc, w. c.; Miss Lizzie
Alexander, Wig; DayeWood,
". O. c.; Miss Willie Caldwell,
w. II. II. ST Miss ella Hague,
w. l.. ii. s; Miss Miranda Dur
ham, w. ID. A.; Miss Mary Liz
zie freeman, w. X. :.
PROGRESS OF THE ORDER IN TEN
NEsSEE.
At the close Of the Grand
Lodge year, Oct, 1877, there
were 135 lodges, /. 0. q. T., in
our State, and membership Of
1853. AT the close of the year
ending Oct, 1873, there were
only 100 LODGES, but with "
membership Of 64S6; showing
an increase of membership Of
1923. Since the last session Of
the grand lodge Col. j. j. Hick-
man has been iii the field doing.
wondrous work for the good
cause. In East Tennessee he
has organized 81 lodges with a
total membership of 1901. In
West Tennessee he has organ
lied 40 lodges With a member
ship of 2T47, making in all Y
lodges and 4648 members. His
health is bad and he is unable to
work all the time or the figures
would have been much greater;
but what other person can show
a work half as great? Besides
what he has done, our Grand Wor-
thy Chief Templar G. L. Kelley
has organized some lodges. 9th
ers have been organized by lodge
deputies in different portions of
the State, so that the member
ship must be considerably over
10000. Besides the Good Tenn
plars there are many other tenn
perance organizations with the
same object in view: To lift uI
the fallen and keep others from
falling. | do not know theil
membership, but under whatey,
er name they labor may Goo
speed the good work.
l once heard a liquor dealer
: say, $50 on with your work. d.
all you can to save men from
drinking. But do try to keel
temperance out of politics; you
can't legislate a man into being
sober!" A wise legislator il
our midst said not many week
since: "You have no heed of
local option law. You mus
r first educate the people in tenn
c Iperance principles, and then yo1
r will not need local option law!'
All! then why make laws a
Y gainst felony, murder, arson am
t the thousand other crimes ant
n misdemeanors mentioned III on
4 statute books? Why not edu
S cate the people into doing right
: make angels, or at least goo,
t men, Of them and then Their
t would be no Use of Gnactin,
d laws against crimes, for non
G would be committed. The fac
+ is, human nature is fallen, wick
e ed, depraved, and until Go
a puts man into a different worlj
S and gives him a different natrn'
he will ever be the same. III
e will rob and steal and murde
i and get drunk and only the fca
: Of the law will partially stop il
i and that does not always stop il
e But every one will admit that il
: there was no law against Grim
t it would be much greater. If
G drunkenness with all of its at
n tendant evils came among Il
: for the first time like a grea
s pestilence from a foreign shore
n how the people, the Legislators
n the scientists would labor t
5 Stay the hand of the mighty de
5 stroyer; what stringency of quar-
S antine would be observed, wha
r laws enforced to stop it. And
t 10! drunkenness is with us ever,
}. day. Every year it sweeps 600,
e 600 men into drunkards' graves
G. Ten thousand other evils folloy
d in its train and money spent b
J. the million dollars for liquors
t We have become familiarize,
n with drunkenness in its mos
IS loathsome aspects, and view it
n attendant evils with an apath,
i that is something wonderful
y Aud men will gravely tell u
+ that we can't stop drunkenness
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