River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-08-12

Mr.. Olin, nominee of the Wisconsin
prohibitionists for governor. is the
husband of Mrs. Helen II. DIN. COM
piler of the Temperance Calendar.
Mrs, Leavitt, our round the world
missionary, is in Japan, and her letters
in the Union Signal are very inter.
esting.
Washington Territory claims an
other victory III prohibition work.
The National w. C. II. u. Conven-
ton is to be held in Minneapolis in
October.
The names Os Miss Frances +. Will
lard and Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith,
have been placed on the executive
committee of the international Con-
gress of the Social Purity Federation,
that met recently in London. Mrs.
Smith will return to America by Oct.
LIST to attend the National w. G. T. u.
convention, and will be accompanied
bya distinguished company Of English
ladies as fraternal delegates.
A friend from Wisconsin writes: 81
saw in this weeks Wisconsin Chief
that only four of the women of Wash
ingtOn Territory voted at the last gen
eral election" Evidently the state
ment was made to prove that women
felt no interest in the question before
the people. Mrs. Switzer, president
of the state, distinctly says there were
very few who did NOT vote. There
seems to be conspiracy among our
enemies to make these false state
ments concerning the women of Wash
ington Territory. They fear the bal
lot tor women more than they do pro-
hibitiOn, hence they try every means
to defeat it. Their latest dodge is to
make out either that women will NOT
vote, or that if they do, they are not
to be depended upon to vote for tenn
perauce. a fearful pressure was
brought to bear upon the women at
the last election; that so many of them
did vote, and voted right under such
circumstances, proves conclusively
that giving them the ballot was NOT a
mistake.
Somebody writes: els Miss Willard
in favor of the third party? Please
answer through the Signal" At
which we laughed. Why, man, Fran
ces L. Willard is the mother of the
Prohibition party, and would rather
die than disown her child Union
Signal.
A gentleman writes: 81 believe,
from fifty years experience as drug
gist, that three cases out of every four
where these stimulants (alcOholic)
have been used would have gotten
along as well without them"
Can moral wrong be made legally
right! l believe we have asked this
question before, but as we have re-
ceived no answer we are still inquir-
ing. OF all the strange paradoxes of
our time, the strangest seems to be
that of person who teaches that in
toxicating liquor is physically evil,
and morally and socially seductive
and corrupting; who warns the public
against the tavern as a trap and a
temptation to ruin; yet who, in his
relation Of citiz en-, takes part in the
election of men who sanction the sale
of the drink which he decries and
denouncesl 1t is worse than fOlly-it
is inconsistency, contradiction, and
perversity. 1t is profession flouted by
practice. it is moral suasion counter
acted by legal temptation. Law
has entrenched and emblazoned the
liquor traffic, and no lesser agency can
now annihilate it. 1t is too strong for
mere suasion. DR.. +. IL. Lees, f.
S. A.
"What l wish to do is to lift the
idea to the level of its
patriotic significance. I know that it
has two sides. But there is one thing
that law can do, and which the safety |
Of republican institutions demands, !
and that is to shut the door of the !
drinking saloon. Wendell Phillips.
" 1t is not enough to say, Educate,
mOralize the people, and |
then they will not drink. After
Ill, knowing what man is, knowing
.he corruptions of our nature, know
ng how difficult it is to Withstand
temptation, what right have we to
expect that moral machinery will
all these fatal incentives to
ntoxication. '-Cdnon StoUeH.