The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-01-15
NEW SERIES---NO. W..
TEMPERANCE WORK.

BY request Of the ladies we publish the
following circular issued from the head
quarters of the Illinois W. C.T.U:
To the friends Of home protection:
Loves labor was not lost in 1870. We
recruited constituency of 10000 of the
best men and women in Illinois. OF S32
towns voting last spring upon the license
question, Gi5 carried no license-largely as
result of the awakened public sentiment
resulting from our work. Saloon keepers
know this, and admitted that the psalm.
singers who went to Springfield last winter
qua more harm than any other effort made
ny temperance people IN Illinois. The
Legislature denied our prayer, on the third
reading OF the Kinds bill, though on second
reading we had votes enough and one TO
spare. We look to you to remember those
who voted for us, and to replace those who
voted against us by better men in the au-
tumn of 1880. This winter there is no leg
islative session, but among the people who
Will select our next law makers we must
steadily urge the advantage we have
gained. Therefore we send you Petition
No 2, addressed to those smaller legisla-
lures called Municipal Councils and
Town Boards 1t is accompanied by an
ordinance for the adoption of which the
petition asks, and you will, we are conf
dent, zeaIously labor. The local author.
ties, being free to grant licenses, are also
free to condition such grant upon the ex-
pressed will Of a majority of the entire
adult population, and to employ such
method of asccrtaining that will as they
may choose. But there is no method which
has so we'll sustained the sure test of ex-
periencc as the dropping of each ones
printed opinion into box, and of this our
ordinance provides. 1t is applicable to either
cities or villages, organized under the gen
eral laws Of Illnois and is pronounced by
good legal authority in the state to be clear
ly constitutional and legal. If possible,
this ordinance should be passed before the
| next municipal election, for all existing IL
censes expire at that time, and should the
ordinance not be passed before then, the sa-
looms may all be licensed for another wear
before it can take effect. II any towns that
have voted no license are disposed to go
back TO license by all means urge upon
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election, thus putting upon the liquor in
terest the burden of an effort to secure its
repeal. In many places, the local elections
can be made to turn upon this ordinance,
thus giving the impetus OF living issue
and raising standard around which We
can vigorously rally. Let the petition and
the ordinance for which it provides be pre-
sented to the council by strong delegation
of temperance men and women, and let the
pupitpress and platform be enlisted to the
utmost possible degree in bringing the en-
deavor to the knowledge and Endorsement
of the people. Finally, let the entire work
be 'begun, continued and ended" in prayer,
an all day prayer meeting of the churches,
W. c. Il. L. and all other temperance Sc
cieties being the very first assemblage con
voked in the interest of this work. "Ex.
cept the Lord keep the city, the Waterman
waketh but in vain"
On cehalr of Illinois w. C. I. L.
FRANCES L. WILLARD, President
Evanston.
LAURA ]. RrrTENHoUsE, Com. on
Cairo, Home Pro
MRS. u, III. REED, lection Pc
Bloomington, titon.
MARY. II. VILLARs, Pana, ie..
HELEN W, STOCKING, Anna 'eo'''"'lcS'
January |, 1880.