Woodstown register. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 187?-1892, 1884-01-08
PROHIBITION COLUMN.
W. C. T. U. ITEMS FROM THE COMMITTEE.

w. c. T. U. ITEMS FROM THE COMMITTEE.
The COST OF THE CUP.-The
amount OF liquor consumed in Great
Britain is enormous. 1t amounts to
500, 900, 900 every month, i, e., SIS
100000 every week, and about szs for
every second, day and night. There
are 3.5o8. 40 letters in the bible, and
if $500 were placed on every letter it
would represent the annual expendi.
ture in Great Britain and Ireland.
The grain consumed by brewers and
distillers is sufficient to provide four
loaves week to every family in the
United Kingdom. These figures are
really startling. Seven hundred mil
lions of dollars are annually spent
tor intoxicating drinks in the United
States, exceeding by $4,000, 900 the
sum spent for food, and nearly one
hundred and fifty millions of dollars
more than is spent for clothing. We
have more than twenty-five times as
many drinking saloons as there are
churches and school houses. Nearly
nlne-tenths ofthe inmates of our aims
houses, from SO to 90 percent of our
criminals, and about one-third of the
patients in our insane asylums are the
victims of intoxicating drinks.
I AT Oakland, Cal, there was a FAM
lily trouble about the children. The
father, while drunk, attacked his moth
er-in-law. His wife, frantic at seeing
her mother abused, seized a pistol
and fired at her husband missing him
and wounding her mother. For this
act the wife and her five children 1.-THE
eldest only eight years of age) were
locked up in the city prison. Since
then. and within a few days, all five
of the little ones, the innocent cause
of the family disturbance, have been
carried to their graves, dying ofdiph-
liberia.
All friends of temperance lend their
aid to the cause by promoting the
circulation OF this paper.
Resok0ea, That inasmuch as the
rum faction interferes, through the
channels of business, with our work
of procuring signatures for the petit
ton for prohibitory amendment, we,
the w. e. T. U. of Woodstowr, do
pledge ourselves, not only to bestow
our patronage, as much as is possible,
upon those who have so kindly cheer
ed and aided US, we do also pledge
ourselves to lose no opportunity
to secure patronage for them from
others.
Ifthere is class of people who hate
petitions and petitioners, there's also
another class who more than equally
detest Rum and Rum Advocates.
We, the w. c. T. U. represent the lat
ter class. We send tracts to the "Hea-
then Chinee," and are not to be squel-
ched even by those who ''hate" us.
"Pray for those who hate you, and
despitefully use you"
Six members of the faithful little
band Of the w. c. T. U. met on Wed.
nesday week, at the residence of Rev.
J. G. Crate, and had an enjoyable
time. Adjourned to meet at the resi-
dence of Mr.. VIM. Flitcraft, on We'd
nesday of last week. The Union
deplores the absence from these meet
lngs of members of the churches.
and of Friends meeting. The work
is eminently one for the protesting
Christian, and the avowed friend of
Temperance. All ladies, irrespec-
tive of creed or circumstance are res
pectfully and afectionately invited
to attend these meetings, and help on
with the good work Gentlemen are
are cordially invited as visitors, and
to become honorary members. ~
A poor worthy man of this borough,
though unfortunately of dissipated
habits, upon being requested to sign
the petition for constitutional amend
ment to"prohibit forever the manufac-
ture of alcoholic drinks as beverage,
replied. Indeed good lady, will not
only sign your petition, but l will give
twenty dollars if every drinking saloon
in this place could be closed" When
the pitiful victims of this giant evil,
themselves cry out for help, who
shall resist then entreaties What
man that signs license would not,
in the words of Cowper, "blush and
hang his head to think himselfa man?'
The w. c. T. U of Woodstown, send
to the Editor of the Register, and. to
all those who have proven themselves
friends of the temperance cause, by
affxing their signature to the petition
for constitutional amendment, New
Years Greeting. May their lives
be heightened, and their business be
prospered. ad9s 20