Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-02

At the district convention Of the W..
O. L. u. recently held in Mitchell 1t WAS
decided that Dakota should accept the
extended to states and terri
tories by the National W. @. T. q. and
furnish a in the National Temper
snce hospital at Chicago. Beside the
money required. the local unions will
provide bedding, toilet articles etc. In
fnrtheranee OF this purpose the ladies
of the Ysnkton union will have a quilt
ing bee" at tho residence OF Mrs. d. N.
Gross on Walnut street. Wednes lay
afternoon at two O'Clock. Come ali
members of the union, bring your
needles, thread scissors and and thlmblss
and sew FOR. the benefit OF q hospital
where the sick are cared for and cured
without the use OF alcohol.
LINE UPON LINE AND PREckPT UPON PRE-
CRPT.
70 many the SUBJECT of temperance
appears q threadbare theme. Have we
not known? Have we not mol heard?
Ars not all these arguments familiar !?
Well, suppose they are, what then !?
Does it follow that because a truth has
bsen once uttered or even thoroughly
promulgated that there is no need OF re-
iteration. There arc some truths 10
wholesoms, SO absolutsly essential to
the development OF o firm character
that they must be repeated q thousand
times.
They must be held before the mind
until they are absorbed by il, digestsd,
SO to speak, and become a part and par.
Gel of the fibre of the soul. 1t is not
simply because a leaf has seen the sun
that it has taken IN the tint and glory
of the summer, but because il has been
feeding on it. The TRANSPORTATION of an
autumn forest 10 not the accident OF .
frosty night, but a revelation of all the
stored up sunshine of a summer bright.
ness. And 10 it II with . character, 1T
takes line upon line and presept upon
precept to make q. character. All the
sterling virtues of 8 soul are made by
frequent contact with sterling truths.
And the virtues of honesty, sebr;s.y
and temperance are no exception to the
rule.
It is not enough that q child should
be told what good manners are. they
must bo drilled into him. It is NOT
enough that he should know what con-
sists of true politeness, he must hear il
frequently, see it lived before him. bs
compelled to practice it. And &c
it ID with the great truth
of temperate living. The American
people nsed to have held before them
constantly the highest ideals, the mos'
heroic lives, and the grandest principles
of denying self for the good Of others.
There is moi. only q new crop of drunk
ards to be reclaimed every year, bui
there is a new class of mild tipplers te
be drawn out of the ranks from which
the drunkards are recruited, and a new
class of moderate drinkers to be saved
from becoming tipplera, and still
more important than all, there is al
entiraly new army of ehildren to SAVE
from entering the ranks OF drinkers
The truths which are 80 familisr,t 10 tolt
to III, are rev to them. They must
learn things from the beginning, as they
learn the alphabet or the multiplication
table.
1t is an old truth to hear repeated from
the pulpit on the Sabbath thou shall
not steal, but until theft ceases it must
be taught. 1t is not q newell statement Il
proclaim from the sacred desk, "thou
shalt not bear false witness against
thy nsighbor," but until character ii
safe from the tongue of scandal, unit
lying shall be no more, tho decalogus
will have to be repeated. And as long
as tho thousands are crowdlng or
through tbs various steps Of the socia
glass, moderate drinking-gsntesl tippl,
ing-nnd from drunkenness to a drunk
ards grave. ard a drnkard's hell, so long
will we need to warn, sntraat, sgitatl
and teach in order that We may Save
n%rltitudes OF children, many moderate
drinkers. . few tipplsr-and possibly
as brands snatohsd from the burning
here and there a drunkard.
@. f, CIAPP.
sHoULD WE WORK Fol- PROHIBITION?
1t cannot be doubted that there are
SEINE honest advocatss os temperance
who are frightened at the notion OF pro.
hibition by the new ending cry oil
the anti-temperancs element that plo-
hibition does not prohibit. BY the way,
il 1t DOESN'T why do thay Fight it 30
Justify? In the first place, these faint
hearted Temperance people believs the
assertion. Blindly following the lead OF
those interested in proving the truth
they overlook the vast areas where the
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