Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-02-18
GIVE us CUE q ONES .; :.
A Brief sketcs, of Mrs. Mary r. Latl,rop's
Temperance Lecture.

Temperance Lecture.
EDIroR SENTINEL will you permit |
me space in your valuable journal to give a |
brief review of one Of the soundest and most |
logical Temperance Lectures ever delivered
in Winston. 1t was that of Mrs Mary T.
Lathrop, President of the Michigan Chris
tan Temperance Union, delivered in
Browns Hall on the night of the 10th inst.
The hall was oyerfiowing and the audience
listened with marked attention during the
the entire lecture, which lasted some two
hours or more.
The reason I ask you to give it publicity,
| is that desire it published in the most
popular, paper and the one that has the lar
gest number of readers, and that doubt not
is THE SENTINEL.
| The exercises were opened with prayer
by Rev. Fl. a. Brown. DR.. Bagwell then
came forward, and in a short but pointed
address, introduced the speaker who began
| by saying:
II have come among you not as Mis-
sionary but as a friend. Some people say
this is not woman's work, when if it be
| mans work, why does he not perform it :?
Women have been waiting for 10! these
many years for them to begin the work, but
they are silent.
The day has come when the North and
South look each other in the face (which
they have not done for fifty years before)
on this vital question of Temperance. A
question which is to-day winning for itself
Iaurels in the minds of the American peo-
pie; question that must be settled, and
that without delay. Intemperance has this
great nation of ours by the throat and Is
crushing it into eternal Wee!
Ii men had spoken out sooner, TAT the
ballot box women would not have spoken,
but as men did not begin the work, women
had to rise. But now the women have be-
gun the noble work, we believe the men
+ will come to our rescue and assist lis IN
keeping the ball in motion. Then men and
! sisters shall be one in a mighty race. We
) sincerely believe that the men are going to
speak at the ballot box, and crush this rl-
inous liquor traffic, after which women will
return to their own work, as some of you
: men term it.
This evil has spread all over this land Of
ours and has destroyed the lives of great
politicians, but thank God it is now raised
upon the level of the American people and
will never go down as long as time lasts.
We are discussing Temperance on &C
: count of our most noble homes, mothers
fathers, young men, and for the good of thu
Q American people. Temperance shall sit OF
9 both our State and Criminal dockets, ant
:, will Judge for the peoples rights. Prohi
: bition is on our Banner, and we shall con
tlnue to wave it until we put under foot thi
great monster.
. There are three classes (which | desire t.
:, call your attention to. First, the manufact
g urer; second, sthe dealer, and third tn
,f drinker. All three of these are classed to
: gether, one ne better than the other. PR
% marily, every man drinks because he choos
- es to.
n A word to our young men, who are be
coming Christless and Goddess on accoun
of this liquor traffic. The country will 500
!, look upon you to make laws for the people
q But these are not the kind of rulers tn
country is seeking after. Sober and Goo
'e fearing men are the kind we want.
ID We say that the deacon who rents h
l. building, is Just as much to blame as til
a. imam who deals in the traffic, and will g
, down to hell as soon as the rum-seller. II
stands on equal ground. The Saloon is
m politics. on the inside, outside, and on e
ery side But we thank God our homes WI
triumph and the saloons will go down.
Se does not matter which party is in powe
d, | whiskey wall rule unless there be a chang
70 and at the ballot box is the placa to NAL
;, this change. One hundred Thousand me
~. every year fill drunkards graves. | ha'
er. traced the moderate drinker all along fro
of his home to the saloon and from there
;s the Jail, and thence to the penitentiar
Let our people he selfgoverned before thu
~ attempt to govern
again appeal to the young men of Il
country, on whose shoulders the manas
ut ment OF this country shall soon rest to
I'M sist us in doing away with this evil. o
on haw many young men there is who &C
aa into the best family circles and marries
:. most beautiful and VOWS he will keep h'
at and then forgetting these vows, goes astr
+. and becomes an habitual drunkard, maxi
EN- heart broken mother and desolate hon
lid Give me purify for purity and honor
honor Men stand to the final settleme
~ of this question:
MS 1 have only given brief sketch of
,ey lecture, knowing that space would not p
use NIT of the whole of it. A handsome bog
was presented Mrs. Lathrop, by the You
Ike Lady's Christian Temperance Union Of {
lay city, after which collection was taken
ip- for tho Womans Temperance Cause of t
as place. The audianee was then dismiss
ur- with benediction by Rev. I. III. Pegram.
ian GIVE Us Our HOMES
lew Wiaston, FEB. 10th, 's6.