Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29
TEMPERANCE NOTES.

| Compiled by Miss Julia Ames, of the W. c.
| I. u, Chicaeo.l
| TIE number Of cigarettes smoked in
1885 was 25O,000,000 more than in 1884.
Cigarettes are more poisonous than tobac-
co in any other form.
The Marquis Of Londonderry, the new
Irish Viceroy, is q warm friend Of the tenn
perance movement. He has taken deep
interest in the work Of the Irish Temper
ance League.
| EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY NINE dele
| gates were present at the Prohibition Con-
vention of Massachusetts,. Many white
ribbon women were among the delegates,
and were the recipients of much attention.
The Sheriff of Lawrence, Kan, seized
5000 bottles of beer at the fair recently
held i'll Bismarck. Parties were selling it
in violation Of the prohibitory law. In the
evening the contents of the 5000 bottles
were poured on the ground.
The October number of the journal of
Heredity, published in the interests of that
department of the w. G. T. u, will con-
tain an article on the ancestral history of
Miss Francis E. Willard, by Mrs Jane
Zimmerman, sister of Edward Eggleston.
| NINETY-TIvE saloons surround the very
commercial and political centers of Bos-
ton, the Court House, City Hall, Boston
Museum, city prison and police station.
AS the supply never exists long without the
demand, such figures as the above tell
their own tale.
THE Catholic girls of Philadelphia have
organized a large temperance society, called
the Cathedral Girls T. A. B. Society"
The Catholic women, young and old, are
10 f1o Of ,:o1,
| needs to be done, and are working bravely
to advance this great reform.
| MRS. M. B. REESE, national organ
(! West Washington Territory w. G. T. o.,
will make q trip to Alaska shortly. Into
every dark place on this globe the white
ribbon hosts will be marshaled, to fight for
home and against the rum traffic.
The worlds w. G. T. U. petition has
already been printed in the Hawaiian, Cey-
lonese, Japanese, Swedish, and Russian
languages, and is being circulated in all. It
is eagerly signed by most of the citizens of
those countries, who have suffered so much
from the rum sent them by Christian ma
tons.
VIM. G. BEECHER, son of Henry Ward
Beecher, was last week nominated by the
Prohibitionists of Kings County Brook
lyn), New York, for District attorney. Mr..
Beecher has long been in the fight to en-
force the laws against Sunday liquor SELL
ing. The chances for his election are said
to be very good.
MRS. MARGARET LUCAS, President of
the Worlds w. G. T. u; Mrs. Margaret
Parker, First President Of the First British
Temperance Society; Mrs. E. H. Bradley,
Mrs. Jennie Pearsons, and other prominent
English women, are on their way to this
country to attend the National Convention
to be held in Minneapolis Oct. 22-30.
Mrs. SHELTON, white ribboner who
deyotes herself to laboring for the promo
ton of temperance among the Germans,
recently so won the Germans of Omaha
that they gave her permission to speak on
Temperance in one of their large beer gar
dens. 1t was directly over the saloon, and
the proprietor closed his doors and came
up, with his whole force, to hear her lee
ture. Many names were added to the total
abstinence pledge, and club of twenty
subscribers obtained for the German tenn
perance paper published by the W. G. T. U.
Fontaine F. Fox. Jr., Chairman of the
Prohibition State Committee of Kentucky,
saws: "Tnless we ore. niZe the party and
nut out candidates for the offices, we can
not reach the object of suppressing the
crime and pauperism produced by the
whisky traffic. We must have laws for
this purpose, and we have no right to ex-
pect whisky Democrat or whisky Re-
publican to execute laws made in the inter-
est of our party and in the advancement
of our views. The liquor traffic belongs to
the department of crimes, and cannot be
suppressed by moral suasion. Law, and
law alone. is able to grapple with it. The
law that grapples with it will not be enact
ed and enforced by any but Prohibition.
ists."