The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-09-28
The Temperance Meeting at the Pres
byterian Church Sunday AfEer-

!, byterian Church Sunday AMER
noon
The temperance meeting NJ the Pres
lsterian church Sunday afternoon wa
well attended by good sized and appre
ciaiive audience. The exercises wer
opened with Scripture reading ant
prayer by Rev. Mr.. Hanna. "Work, 10
the Night is Coming" was sung by tn,
choir, and then the president of the loea
union introduced bliss Blanche. Haz
lett. who addressed the audience, for 4
period of thiriy-fve or forty minutes
imposing her hs .rrFs deeply with rv-
cry fact and new phase OF the subj. Ct
she presented. u
Miss Haz!eti is modest, unassuIning
lady, but she is severely in earnest on
tue temperance question, and
her views on the question
OF prohibition are emInenLiy practical.
In substance she said: 81 wish il could
be impressed upon the minds OF the cit
zeus OF Emporia, and of every other
city and town in the state of Kansas,
that they should apply the same rigid
rules of law and common sense To the
regulation Of thc:liquor traffic that they
do to everything else Of corrupt
ing or demoralizing character. The
I friends of the liquor traffic complain
that prohibition is a gross infringement
on personal rights; that according 10
our national code it Is unconstitutional.
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new thing; from the beginning to the
end of Gods Holy Book are written rig
| id restrictions-thuS far snalt
| thou gn and no further; the
constitution of the United States says
all through it. Chou shalt not, thou
shalt not" No body complains seri-
ously of these prohibilory clauses in
the constitution until they aru applied
to the liquor traffic The public do not
complain or think it an infringement of
personal rights to restrict slaughter
houses and the like, 10 certain limits
with respect To thickly settled ncighbor-
borhoods. Let them apply the same
common sense views to the liquor
traffic, a more baleful evil than which
does not, nor never did exist"
She admOnished the young ladies of
Emp ria 10 he careful with whom they
associated to require of their gentlemen
companions the same purity and no
bility of character that they re-
quired of their lady friends.
No gentleman would associate in re-
spectacle society with young lady who
would smoke, chew, drink whisky, and
sit around on store boxes and white
pine sticks, and every young lady
should be just as exacting of the young |
man with whom she associated.
The speaker admonished the young
ladies of this place to assist in the good |
work of prohibition by joining the w.
C. T. u, and concluded with an appeal |
to the male population of EmpOria to
join hands with the women for the COM |
plete suppression of the whisky traffic |
in this place, giving due credit for the
good work that had already been accom-
plished here.
At the conclusion of the address an |
opportunity was given for those who
wished to join the union, the conditions
being the signing of q total abstinence
pledge and the payment of fifty cents
into the treasury of the union. Gentle |
men could become honorary members |
by signing the pledge and paying one
dollar. Quite number of new ms M
beers were added among the ladies, but |
no gentlemen joined SD far rs we could |
see. just before adjournment. Rev. Mr.. |
Lott made a short talk, principally for |
the purpose of stimulating the audience |
to liberal contribution, which was ta-
ken up, at the conclusion of his re-
marks, alter which the audience dispers |
ed, feeling that ii had been very protita-
bly, entertained.