The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-03-05
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT..
EDITED BY THE WOMEN IS CHRISTIAN TEN
PERANCE UNION.

EDITED BY THE woMEN's CHRISTIAN TEN
PERANCE UNION.
OUR MOTTO FOR GOD AND HOME AND
NATIVE LAND.
aThe world wants men-pure men
Free from the faint OF sin;
Men whose minds are clean without,
And true within.
In the Oregon legislature the constitu-
! tional amendment prohibiting the manu-
facture and sale of liquor passed the house
on Monday, February I'd, by vote of 80
to 10.
The Rev. Joseph Cook said recently in
a lecture of the w. G. T. o.. -sThey have
fought the good fight, they have kept the
faith, but they have not finished their
course"
Blackstone says, ''All disorderly inns or
| ale-houses, bawdy-houses, gaming-houses,
stage plays, unlicensed booths and stages
| for repe-dances, mountebanks and the like
| are public nuisances, and may npon in
dictment be suppressed and fined.''
Gov. st. John spent Sunday recently ii
Evanston, ILL.,, on his way from Minneso-
ia, where prohibition means crowded op-
era houses, brass bands, triumphal pro-
cessions at railway stations. etc., indicat-
ing that the cause is twenty years ahead
rather than set backNhat.period
| was in Salem, Ohio, on the Sabbath for
temperance lesson in the Sunday school. I
mentioned the Is, OOOksaloons in Ohio that
were running our boys and young men.
"Why don't they shut them up ?" asked
| bright boy. s'Sure enough!'' | replied,
| ''supposing you boys were to start colony
| in Dakota; suppose one were teacher,
| another a minister, another blacksmith,
and one boy should insist upon being a
saloon keeper, what would you do about
| it 2" ''Pitch him out ~ from dozen
voices. "Well. if you could pitch him out
and stop it, why don't big men do it in the
cities and villages % 'sOh! know, . said
one boy, holding up his hand, lit is be-
cause the men love the drink themselves. y
Gen. Neal Dow says: Elections Ehave
often been likened to the race-course, the
different political parties being the CON-
petitors Hitherto the little Prohibition
wagon has been compelled to keep out of
the way to avoid a collision with it's pow
erful rivals. Last November it kept its
own side of the track and refused to turn
out to make way for the grand machine
which came laundering after with crack
of whip.and foot OF. horns and shout and
huzzah, drawn by splendid team of mag
nificently equipped thoroughbreds, old
stagers, guided by a mere touch of the
lines. There was a collision. but it was
not the little Prohibition wagon that was
smashed and tipped into the gutter-it
was the grand machine IN which l was one
of the Disguised passengers.
Is there mother, wife OF sister with
heart SO callous that it would resist the in
tensely earnest appeal of Mrs. Aldrich, |
lowa's w. G. T. U. President, and still sit
with folded hands and listless heart ''Oh, |
women of Iowa! How can you keep 81
lent when the politicians are so coolly de- |
batting the repeal of our prohibitory law
that never had a fair chance for it's en-
forcement, and all because they want |
money in their city treasures. Which |
OF your boys-the treasure of your heart |
and life-will you give in order that your
city may be lighted with gas, or bril- |
liant with electric light Which child can |
you spare to help your city grade and |
pave it's street? How long will you con-
sent to tread on sidewalks that the blood |
Of souls has enabled your city to lay for |
your convenience? How much will you
take for your boy? What is your father,
your brother worth to you? Will you, |
without a protest,give up your husband, to |
enable the saloon keeper to put $500 or |
81 900 license into the treasury of your
city? Lift up your voices like trum-
pet, oh, daughters Of Iowa. Cry aloud |
and spare not ~ Make the men of Iowa |
awake to our help! Make city coun-
ellis ashamed; make politicians afraid !;
make the Ubiquitous liquor traffic tremble |
under the righteous indignation Of out
ragged womanhood, and the swift condem-
nation of an outraged and awakened peo-
ple!''
Ard will not the same appealing words |
touch the hearts of V5roini0 wives and |
mothers as well ?