Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-13
TEMPERANCE TOPICS.

4oO SOOA ASG0R 0RA0AS 0V AsSS AASA6 Aso
number over sixty.
A temperance alliance has been organ.
ized at Chamberlain.
A Good Templsrs lodge consisting OF
sixteen members has been organized ut
Wentworth, in Moody county.
The regular mass meeting of the w.
@. T. q. OF Mitchell, occurred in the
Baptlst church last Sunday night.
A W.C. T. U. has been organized at
Norway. Turner county. DR.. Burr, of
Hurley, lectured under its auspices the
10th.
Onida Journal: No license will be
granted in Clark county. In this country
mo license" means prohibition. In Ohio
it means free rum. This ls one difference
between Dakota and Ohio.
Parker Record: They had rousing
temperance meeting in district number
one, last Sunday evening, Five minute
speeches, volunteer songs. About thirty
signed the pledge and donued the red
ribbon.
Blunt Times: The Blunt section Of
the temperance alliance met on Tuesday.
Rev. Snow in the chnir. The constitu.
tion having been received was presented
aud quite number of signatures were
affixed.
Parker Era: At the temperance meet
ing last Sunday evening, among other
good things, Rev. Newell aud Mr.. Akers
delivered addresses, Mrs. @. Bancroft
read selections. Misses Howard and Iva
Webster declaimed.
Elk Point Courier: The temperance
lecture given by Mrs. Baxter, OF Michi-
gan. at the NJ. E. church recently, was
one of the finest ever delivered in the
city. She is very fluent and elegant
speaker, and entertained her audience
for upwards of an hour.
Mitchell Republican: A grand tenn
perance convention and jubilee will DO
held in this city April 18th and continue
three days. Bishop Simpson of Phila.
deiphia will be present, also large num-
Der of eloquent and noted Temperance
workers. The convention will be un.ler
the superintendent Of Rev. I. N. Par.
dee, which insures it good success. Del
egates will be present from all counties
in south Dakota. All the presiding
elders and the noted temperance evan.
gelist, Rev. ". 81. Hoodley, of Huron,
will participate. The Dakota Temper
ance Alliance will be organized at this
convention, aud temperance agent en-
ployed. The railroad will sell tickets at
greatly reduced rates.
Kimball Graphic: Capt. Curtis de-
livered lecture on temperance at the
Presbyterian church Sunday evening to
large audience. The captain had been
frequently called upon to speak upon
the subject. but declined. saying
that his views of the best modus
operandi in the Temperance work might
not accord with those of most workers 10
the cause. At the beginning of the
lecture he mentioned this, but said he
would give bis views regardless of how
they would be received. He ex-
pressed his opinions plainly and said that
prohibition was not the best way of put
ting down the evil of intemperance, and
that it could never be successfully carried
out, giving his reasons for that belief.
he said the only way to accomplish the
desired result was by education, and that
work to be done in the home. His views
are different from those Of most speakers
on the subject, and in our opinion are
the most rational. So long as boys and
young men think it is manly to drink,
and older men think they need a stimu-
liant. SO long will there be drinking, pro.
hibition or not.