The Brookhaven leader., 1886-08-12
The Ladies' Work.

achieving the grand victory which has
inst been won "for God, and Home and
Native Land" can never be fully estima'
ted, and we find it equally impossible to
express our admiration for their heroic
labors in behalf of or common cause.
Especially is this true of the ladies of the
Brookhaven w. G. 4. u. For weeks be-
fore the election they held regular praye r
meetings and Saturday free lunches at
which they distr ibuted temperance litera-
ture, and plead with the voters to cast
their ballots Alright. But this was not
all. As the election approached, they
obtained list of the voters names at
each voting precinct and addressed to
each of the three thousand two hundred
voters in the county a written appeal
of which of the following is copy:
"DEAR FRIEND ask you to vote
against whisky at the coming election. We
ask this tor your homes sake and ours.
Helm us free our county from the ruiniOus
liouor traffic. Other counties i'll the State
are being made free, help to redeem your
own. Your TRENDS,
THE WoMES's CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE
UNION"
On the opposite side Of the page con
tanning this was the following beautiful
poem Ivy Mrs. Mollie MCGEE Smell, OF
Columbus, which is itself an appeal too
eloquent to be resisted, and these were en-
closed in an envelop and addressed to
each voter by name. And when we con-
slider that they also went to the polls and
renewed their petitions, is 1t any wonder
that Lincolh went dry.
Men of courage! Men of might!
Take the ballot snowy white
To vote for God and Home and Right.
Take the ballot, cast it in,
Help this temperance cause to win,
Help o'erthrow the whisky sin!
Men of courage! Men of might,
Vote the ballot snowy white.
Vote the ballot without stain
Pure and free from human pain,
Save the youth from being slain.
Save them from drunkard's fate,
Save them ere it is too late
Save them ALL in this dear State,
Men of courage! Men of might,
Vote the ballot snowy white.
See the children, here they come
Pleading sweetly, vote for Home"
See the blight OF drink on some.
They have fathers who doth know
All the curse of drunken woe;
Q, their children sorrow 80.
Men OF courage, men of might,
Vote the ballet snowy white.
Men. we ask Nou row to st"nd
Firm az truth; and with your hand,
Danish whiSkry iIon the land.
You can do it. and you will!
Let not any voice be still,
But shout till every soul shall thrill,
Men of courage, men of might,
Vote the ballot snowy white.
Angels watching now the fight,
Waging fierce twiXt wrong and right;
Twixt tie darkness and the light,
Look to see just how you vote,
Look your action brave to note,
Then from heaven there will float
Joy and gladness, men of might,
Ifyou vote the ballot white.
Vote for us, kind, loyal friend,
Vote for us and safety send,
All Your strength of purpose lend
To help push on the cause we plead,
To help us in our hour of need,
To bind the broken hearts that bleed.
Men of courage, men of might,
Vote the ballot snowy white.
See the humans stricken low,
Has not the whisky trailed its woe
Into many homes you know
You have friends who could be strong
But for this dark, sinful wrong,
When you see the drunken throng,
Be determined, men of might,
Vote the ballot snowy white.
Can you vote for whisky? Say,
You who watch and trust and pray?
And you who careless feel to-dayf
What! Vote for sorrow, want and death.
What! Vote for hell to blow its breath
Over this your native health
All! Men of Gods own given might,
Vote the ballot snowy white.
Come, oh come, we plead with you,
Be strong and faithful, brave and true,
There is work for you to do.
Vote for home and child and wife,
See the keen ullfted knife,
Vote for peace and joy and life.
Men of courage, men of might,
Vote the ballot SNOWY white.