West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-03-01
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The mayor of Philadelphia says
he will not grant license to any
place of amusement which has a
bar-room attached or in which H.
quors are sold.
The temperance question attracts
more attention in the South every
year. One of the first bills introdu-
ced in the Mississippi Legislature
last week was most stringent pro-
hibitory law.
The law in Tennessee prohibits
the sale of liquor within four miles
of a school-house. The saloonists
have burned and the temperance
people rebuilt schoolhouse five
times on this issue.
Miss Willard has organized prom
Using Unions at Fort Smith, Ark,
Mrs. Judge Smith, President; at
Marshall, Texas, Mrs. DR.. Marks,
President, and at Jefferson, in the
same State, Mrs. j. H. Bemis, Presi-
dent.
Francis Murphy is having glo-
rious success in Scotland. In For
far, with a population of 1900,
half the entire community signed
the pledge and donned the blue
ribbon. In Dundee, city of $780,
600 inhabitants, over 5000 have
become total abstainers, and from
one to two thousand are signing
nightly.
prohibition in Kansas" is
the title Of a 22-page paper-covered
pamphlet containing the recent adj
dresses of Cows. St. John and Col
quit in the Brooklyn Tabernacle.
AS campaign document for prohi-
bitionists, this is one of the best.
Five cents for a single copy, so
cents for twelve copies, and $500
per hundred. J. N. Stearns, New
York, publisher.
A correspondent from a Kansas
town which not long ago supported
thirty saloons, says: eve haven't
single one now, and we don't pro-
pose ever tohave one again. Wine
and spirit drinkers are giving their
allegiance to the law just as slave
holders did to emancipation-slow-
ly but surely. They yield bravely
and manfully, and will yet bless
prohibition. Indeed, | have al
ready heard men do this who have
been in the habit of drinking to in
toxication."
SPUYTEN DUYvEL. - Hdrper's
Weekly illustrates the Spuyten Duy-
vii disaster most wildly by means
of Thomas Nast's irresistible pen.
Bottles, more or less plethoric, with
hats on, and arms and legs sprout-
ing from their sides, are carousing
hilariously in sleeping-car sec
ton. One of them labelled Rum"
has his hand on the bell-rope, and
is giving it the fateful pull.
No wonder Congress doesn't want
to investigate the liquor traffic.
Murder might be an inconvenient
charge for our Legislators to meet.
A POSTAL FROM Miss WILLARD
En- Route in Arkansas, Jan. 28th.-
Of all the proofs that "Home Pro
lection" is the way out, Arkansas is
the mostshining and unanswerable.
Last winter the Legislature gave
women the right to vote by sigma
ture against dram-shops. To-day
the estate of pistols and bowie
knives" Gas Arkansas is called has
three-fourths of its towns under pro-
hibitory law. "Haste to the res
cue," dear women, and tarry not in
all the plain.
FRANCES E. WILLARD.
In Texarkana, said to be the
worst town in Texas, the friends
of the temperance cause keep tenn
perance truth as standing paid adj
vertisement in the daily paper of
the city. One of these paragraphs
reads like this, and will do good
anywhere:
"Reader, are you one who is daily
contributing Of your hard-earned
wages to the rum-seller's support?
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