River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-05-13
Temperance.
CONDUCTED BY THE. w. C. t. u.
For God and Home and Native Land.

The people of Rhode Island are re
joicing over the "second count" or
dered by the opposition hoping to
prove a lack of the three-fifth vote
necessary to carry prohibition. 1t
gives the State another victory. 1t
gives five hundred and eleven votes
over the requisite three-ffths. The
first count gave only fonr hundred.
Count again; we are willing.
Closing saloons in or after riot re-
minds one of blocking the stable door
after the horse has been stolen" AN
ounce of prevention is worth pound
of cure If they are harmful in
troublous times why not close them
before trouble begins!
Union Signal for six months go cts.
Mrs. LathrOp, of Michigan, says she
don't know of any better Illustration
of what w. c. Il. U. work is than the
following: "There was brother and
sister, New England farmers who built
house. The brother was one of those
easy going men who thought anything
could be done just as well tomorrow
as to-day; the sister was just opposite
and thought the proper time to do a
thing was to go to work and do it
straight off. 1t happened there was a
barn to be built; the brother put it off
from day to day, until the sister or
dered the lumber, and when it arrived
went out and began tossing it about.
A neighbor approached and asked
what she was doing-she could not
bnild a barn. She said she knew she
couldn't. but she was going to keep up
such a mighty racket that he would be
glad to come out and help build it. +"
What is the w. G. T. u! An or
ganized racket, and the rae 'Iet has just
begun. Here we are, and here we in
tend to stay for all time and eternity,
and keep up this awful racket. We
women are here to stay till prohibition
or eternity. Do not be afraid of IL
because it is a womans' Union. We
are not going to hurt anything but we
are determined that the saloon shall
go down. 1t is an organization of
women and in its entirety it is love;
love for its own; it is stronger than
death, it is stronger than politicians
and political parties. 1t is Christian
Temperance Union and that word
had its foundation at Antioch. Our
power is conferred in the faith of the
Son of God who came to destroy tie
works of the devil. 1t tenn Ierdnce
Union. We did not use 20 think it
was wrong to use brandy IA mince pies,
but now we believe in total abstinence,
imprisoned brain, imprisoned child
hood-so it is a WJman's Christian
Temperance Union and it doesn's take
anything very stroI to bind US to-
gether-only a bit of white ribbon.
The wine of Jud "a was the pure
juice of the grape without any mix
ture of alcohol, and commonly weak
and harmless. 1t was the common
drink of the people and did not tend
TO produce intoxication.-Rev. Albert
Barnes.
Senator Blair made a remarkable
speech on National Constitutional
Prohibition, on April Goth. The Six
teenth Amendment has grand good
friend in him.
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estly requested to subscribe for Our
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