The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-09
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
EDITED BY THE woMEN's CHRISTIAN TEN
PERANCE UNION.

PERANCE UNION.
OUR MOTTO: FOR GOD AND HOME AND
NATIVE LAND.
To the members of the w. G. I. Z. of
Staunton and others interested
Hereafter our monthly meetings will be
held in the Ladies' Reception Rooms at
Temperance Headquarters, in the Hendry
building, on Augusta street, opposite the
Court House. Regular time for these
meetings second Tuesday of every month.
All who have the temperance cause at
heart are cordially invited to attend.
The Hon. Samuel }. Tilden has donated
$500 to the w. G. T. L. Of Yonkers, N. Y.
1t is said that there are one hundred vii
lagos and 900 serfs on the estate of the
Russian Count Bobinsky, and not dram
shop among them.
Iowa papers announce the death of an
extensive and wealthy brewer in that State
who was made frantic by it's Prohibitory
Liquor Law. Yes, Prohibition does pro-
hibit-SometimeS.
The Ladies Of Harrisonburg have their
Lunch Room open on the third Monday of
each month, that being the regular court
day. We hope all good temperance people
and any who want nice, well-cooked din
ner, who visit Harrisonburg on that day
from our community will patronize them.
The w. G. T. U. of Trenton, n. !, has
just opened large and splendid new pub
:. lie library. The building was erected by
subscriptions by public spirited men of the
city, and together with the grounds cost
S32 900, of which all but IS, 900 has been
paid. There are now 5000 volumes on the
shelves.
Listen to DR.. Talmage He says: II
have no faith in anything that can be done
for temperance but National Prohibition
| Prohibition by State enactment will not
do. If you drive liquor out of one State
you only drive it into another. If man
has a fearful disease, he cannot be cured
| by doctoring finger, a toe, an eye or a
an ear, you have got to give him dose
that will extirpate the whole system
Congress must do with the liquor evil what
| the individual States are doing. People
have an idea that the rum power is so thor
oughly organized that no power can resist
| it. But those who think SO don't take
| into account the thunderbolts Of the Al
mighty. The National Prohibition party
is necessity 1t will strengthen and
| finally win.
Moral progress must pace with COM
mercial glory. | see about me many
prriseworthy objects of the worlds indus
tries, but yonder, conspicuous among
them | see pyramids of bottles, and pol
ished beer bottles, representing the liquor
interests. They are placed here as repre-
sentlng a great industry, but from the
time strong drink leaves the rotted grain
till its furnishes its fiery work of disease
and DEATH fail to find a mark of indus
try, except that it keeps policemen. judges,
jailors and jurymen Industrious, taking
care Of the consequences Of the business.
notice also that the shoemen did not
bring along their tools, but the product of
their work. The wagon-makers brought
samples of their business. Why don't the
| liquor-dealers give an exhibit of their work
| "a deSolate home, weeping wife and starry
ing children. Go down by yonder reaper
and binder, look at the shock Of golden
| grain and the owner of the machine will
say Those are the sheaves we prepare
| for the harvest" Go to the display of
furniture, and the dealer says This is
Fmy work; p but place the bloated, blighted
body of a drunkard by the barrels and lot
tles-will the liquor dealer point to his
victim and say, ''Here s my mark ?'.-Ea
tract from Col. G. W. Balm S speech at ~
0. Er. during Temperance Celebration.