Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-12-31


IIEADo'Rs NAT'N'L w. C. T. W.
l6l La Sale Street,
Chicago, Nov. IL, 1886,
To ALL WoRKINGMEN AND WOMEN:
BroIhrrs aud Sisters II Common Hope
We come 10 you naturally ~ uur friend
and ullies; with such OF our methods
involve corporation, arbitration and bal
lot-hox we are in hearty sympathy,
Measures which involve compu-iun Of la
bor, destruction of property or harm to life
or limb we profoundly deplore, and we he.
licve the thoughtful and the responsible
among your ranks must equally deplore
them as not only base in themselves, hut u
great hindrance TO your own welfare and
success. We rejoice in your broad plat
form oil mutual help, which recognizes
neither sex, race nor creed. Especially do
we appreciate the tendency of your great
movement TO elevate women industrially
TO their rightfu place by claiming that
ognizing them as officers aud members OF
your societies, and advocating the ballot
in their hands as their rightful weapon Of
self.lelp in our representative government.
As Temperance women, we have been
especially glad to note your hostile nttI-
iude toward the saloon as the worst foe of
women, and OF workingmen and OF home.
We read with joy OF the vow made by the
newly-elected officers of the knights OF La
Dor at the convention In Richmond, Va,
when will, hands upraised TO heaven, they
pledged themselves to be total abstainers
throughout their term OF office.
In addressing you at this time, we wish
to offer our sincere congratulations upon
your achievements as practical workers in
that great temperance reform which enga.
ges our steadfast work and prayers, and
which as we believe, involved, beyond all
other movements OF the age, your happi-
meas and elevation. Permit us TO ask
ment of our belief. The central question
oil labor reform is not so much to get
higher wages as how to turn the presen
wages 10 better account, for waste harms
most those who can least afford il. Ii is
not over production so much as under.con
sumption that grinds the faces OF the wor-
kingmen. Fourteen hundred millions of
dollars annually drawn, chiefly from the
pockets OF woFkingmen, by saloon-keepers
and cigar dealers means less -four in the
barrel, less coal in the cellar, and less
clothing for the laborer's family. We
grieve TO see them give their money for
that which Is not bread and their labor for
that which satistieth not.
Life insurance statistics prove that while
the average life OF moderate drinker is
but 353 years, that OF the total abstainer
is GA years. The successful explorers and
soldiers, famous athletes, pedestrians, row.
ers and shots are men who do not cobweb
their brains or palsy their nerves with al
cohoiic drink. We believe that the work
OF our societies, resulting in the laws by
which nearly one-half the children OF the
United States are being taught in the pub
lie schools the evil effects OF intoxicating
liquors upon the body and temper OF the
mind, merits your earnest corporation
and will prove one of your strongest rein
forcements in the effort to elevate your
families to the nobler levels OF opporiuni-
ty. We believe that the study of hygiene
including the knowledge OF the most
hos nj mi nd Ia 0 tLaa
are of the cheaper aud non-siimuiating
class, with careful consideration OF the
scientific methods by which in the prepa-
ration OF food a little can be made TO go a
'ong way in home economies, are well
orthy of our attention. We ask you to
aid us IN our endeavors 10 have taught in
all departments OF our public schools those
beneficial laws oi health which relate to
wholesome living in respect to diet, dress
sleep, exercise and ventilation, 40 that this
teaching shall be given to every Child as
the surest means to its higest happiness.
We ask your attention 10 our white cross
pledge of equal chastity for man and for
women, of pure language and pure lie.
We ask your help in our efforts TO secure
ad equale protection by law for daughters,
poor and rich alike, from the cruelty of
base and brutal men, and we ask your help
in our endeayors to preserve the American
Sabbath with its rest aud quiet, redeeming
IL from being, Ms now, the harvest time OF
the saloon-keeper, when lie gathers in the
hard earnings OF worKingmen, and we pro
mise you our cooperation in your efforts
to secure the Saturday half holiday, which
we believe will do 40 much to change the
Sabbath from a day Of recreation TO u day
Of rest at home and for the worship OF
God.
We call yonr attention TO our depart
ment of evangelislic temperance work !;
work for railroad employees, lumbermen,
herdsnen, miners, soldiers aud sailor.; also
Ia our etfprls 10 organize free kitchen aud
kindergarten and bands To supply free Ii
braries and reading rooms, teniper,nc
lodging houses, aud Restaurants and to
reach out helping hand ~ fallen women
~ well rs fallen men. We have a pub
fishing house al 161 LaSslle street, Chica-
go, which has sent out 30 900 900 pages OF
temperance literature in the last year. and
which is conducted by women. Its types
are set hy women compositors. Our ma
IiOnal organ, the Union Signal, has COED
words Tor all lawful efforts made by work
ngmen and women for their own besI
good.
We aSk you 10 do all in your power for
the cause OF prohibition, which is pre-em-
inenlly your cause. With the dram shop
and its fiendish temptations. overthrow
what might you not attain Of that relimas-
terry which ia the first condition Of sncceas; I;
and what might you not achieve Of pro-
leclIon and happiness in these homes
which are the hearts true resting places.
Your ballots hold the balance Of puwer in
this land Of the worlds hope. We ask
those OF you who are voters to cart them