Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-08-24

MING, AUGUST "a, 1889
workers and physicians and securing
their endorsement.
10. Department Of evangelistic TEN.
perance work.
IL. Department Of work among in.
Temperance women.
IL. Department of Temperance work
IN state and county fairs.
IL. Department Of legal and petition
We recommend an address from this
Women's Christian Temperance Union
to the people of Dakota IN the present
crisis OF temperance work in our terri.
tory. urging earnest and intelligent co.
operation to secure a constitution which
shall declare for prohibition. We hereby
increase the annual membership fee OF
our society from fifty cents to one dollar,
payable in quarterly instalIments of
twenty-five cents-ot which twenty cents
shall be used for territorial work as our
executive committee may direct; five
Cents shall go to the treasury OF the Ma.
tIonal Women's Christian Temperance
Union. We recommend two petitions to
the next legislature, one for scientific in
struction in the public schools, the other
for department for women in our peni.
tentiary to be under the control of
women. Finally, we declare these prin.
ciples and plans in the love of God and
humanity, relying for our success only
upon Him whose kingdom is to come
and whose will is to be done on earth,
and taking as our motto from his holy
words, "First pure, then peaceable.''
address Of tile Woman's Christian Tenn.
1erdnce Union to tue Home People
Southern Dakota: f
Dear Friends-The Womans Chris.
tlan Temperance union of southern Da.
kota assembled at Sioux Falls August 2l.
and ~, sends you its slsterly greeting
and respectfully but most earnestly asks
your help in the effort to secure constitu.
tional prohibition in view OF the follow.
ing considerations: The license system
ls acknowledged by all experienced TEN.
perance workers to be the great promoter
OF the unmeasured evil of intemperance.
The question of constitutional prohibi.
tion is now, of all others the most promi.
nent before every legislature and politi.
cal assembly, because it is the ques.
tion upon which the people are clamor-
ing for their right to speak at the ballot
box. The people of Dakota have looked
forward to the time when our corstitu.
tion would be voted upon as the proper
time for submitting this ques.
ton to the voters for their decision. Ex.
perience in all the states has proven that
the difficulty in the way of securing con-
stitutional prohibition, Is the unwilling
ness of Legislators to allow this question
to come before the the people. If this
opportunity should pass without any
action on this question it would not
come up again for several years and our
people would become greatly dis
c!ouraged, for the opponents of prohibi.
tion would Justly say, I'VE do not want
to be changing the constitution 80 soon.
You ought to have acted upon this ques-
tion when the constitution was being
framed"
1t is we'll known fact that constitu.
tional prohibition has had its first and
most signal success in the new states of
the west, and that in all places the coun-
try people have favored it, while the
populations of large cities have uni
formly opposed it. Dakota being yet q
territory, its population composed en-.
tlrely of farmers, with no large cities,
no distllleries, few breweries, and in pro-
portion to its population, very few sa-
looms. But communities, like individu-
ais, in the presence of the open saloon
soon form the ruinous habit of drink and
deteriorate in their opinions. The sub.
mission of constitutional prohibition as
separate clause, to be added to the
constitution only in case it carries, will
IN no way endanRer the success of state.
hood or any other vital interest of the
people. And this same PEOPLE has in
justice the same right to vote upon this
question as upon any other and the at
tempt to invade this right should be
considered an attempt upon our most
sacred liberties. This whole consti.
tutional movement-the people taking
this matter into their own hands
rather than leaving it to congress
or the Legislatures declaration oi
the paramount right of the peo-
pie to govern themselves. Therefore, as
the time is short and our society seems
in position to bring this matter to q
practical issue, We beseech your co-opera.
tion IN the circulation of the accompany.
ing petition, and also urge that temper.
ance meetings be held in this interest
and that if We are successful in securing
submission of the amendment, the same
means be used to secure its adoption
that were 30 signally successful last yeal
in Iowa. We pray Gods blessing or
your homes and ours, and that Hi
mighty power may nerve our hearts tc
strike this sacred blow for God and home
and native land: "To the honorable
president and members of the first con
stitutional convention Of Dakota at Siou1
Falls assembled: We, actual residents o
Dakota. respectfully petition you to sub
NIT to the voters of Dakota, with the
constitution which you shall prepare, 6
separate section forever prohibiting the
manufacture of Intoxicating liquors il
Dakota, and prohibiting their sale a. 3
beverage
Mrs. l. NJ. HARTsoUGH, Sioux Falls,
Mrs. E. J. CoGGINs, Yankton,
| Mrs. A. p. Lyon, Sioux Falls,
| Mrs. w. b. FAUss, Elk Point,
Mrs. $. D. CuRRENs, Parker,
Mrs. J. E. NASH, Canton,
Mrs. E. q. SNYDER, Vermiliou,
Mrs. s. j. Clark, Flandrau,
Mrs. A. ID. PREsoorT, Mitchell,
Mrs. H. MuRpHEY, Elk Point,
Joint Committee on Principles and
Plans.
French Cynicisms.
La Charivari: Men cling to theil
wives for various reasons:
Through mere love of comfort, "a one
is attached to good kitchen utensil.
Through habit, as one likes the COSY
arm chair, he is always certain to find IL