Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-26
EDITED BY Mrs: Z. V. MILES.
"Better is a little with righteousness
than great revenues without right"
Memorial.

Memorial.
The Memorial of the American home
against the American saloon, presented
by Nettie G. Hall. M. D., to the LIST Re-
publican convention of Jerauld Co., re-
ceived and acted upon by the same.
To the honorable delegates to the Re
publican Convention, the. would-be
commissioners and voters in general
of Jerauld Co. Gentlemen.
We do not come here to-day at the
bidding Of any party organization nor
in the interests of any man or set of
men. We come as delegated represen-
tatives Of the Woman's Christian Tenn
'peraface Union to present to your
thought the memorial of the American
home against the American saloon.
Our society is the result of the Woman's
Temperance ,Crusadeo Of 1874 and stands
not only for total abstinence and prohi-
bition but for nc sectarianism in relig-
ion, no sectionalism in politics, no sex
in citizenship-A society as well known
in Florida as in Oregon by the result
Of last years work-A society chat has
had open hand for the Catholic as well
as for the protestant, and for the for
eigners as for the native born. We be-
long that band who has fed the hungry
and clothed the naked and healed the
sick, taught the ignorant, elevated the
degraded, %gladdened the sorrowful, and
led to the cross multitudes that had
been wandering. The band that has
gathered again the fortunes that had
been scattered, and built again the home
that had been ruined; bound up the
broken Hearted, given, peace where was
discord broken open many a prison and
restored many a maniac to his right
mind, prevented many . suicide, thin
ned the Workhouse, jails and hospitals,
helped to fill the schools and lecture
rooms; turned in'useful citizens those
who were pests of society; secured the
adoption Of temperance text books by
law into the schools Of Michigan, New
Hampshire, Vermont and New York,
by which books the children are taught
the effects of alcohol on the human sys-
TEN. Our work is not only IN America
but in Canada and across the sea, where
cathedral doors have been thrown open.
to us and bishops and Canons have TAX
en- hold of,this work. In the words of
! Jennie Eggleston Zimmerman, "The.
correct formation of a child's habits,
the reformation Of drinking men and.
the transformation of public opin-
ion and law relative to the liquor traffic.
are the steadfast aims Of the W. c. r.
U. We are 100000 strong, working un-,
der our motto: "For God and home and.
native land," with malicetoward none.
and charity for all" We do not come.
| for any whim but at the mandate Of:
! stern conviction under the pressure of.
personal responsibility. -, Because Of
what the saloon does against the home,
we are here to ask, nay, to plead that
you nominate only such men FOR office
as will honor our county. by taking
such a standi in the great Issue of to-day
as will throw a safe guard around our
homes. Men of high moral standard,
men for whom good, true women may
work and pray. We ask mer of every
shade of politics, of every creed of re-
liglon to join us in Il efforts TO pro-
tect the homes of Jerauld Co.from the
rumseller. We come to you asking
that every man shall give vote on our
side remembering if you dc not that
your wives and children will be with
out representation. ..a
We ask you in the voice OF those
whom you love to take this stand. We
want men, large hearted men who will
dare to do right. The qualifications
we would require in your candidate
would be that he is a good lover of his
country, a good citizen, and that he is
true on the temperance question. Let
yorr American manhood stand TO its
convictions and be as true as twenty
wears ago in the day of the nations
need. Dare to vote right ard: mothers
good and>true will shower Blessings on
your head and He who madcthe world
will bless and reward tbs righteous
deed.. We know that the: government
i%nsures protection to life, limb and