Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-04
TEMPERANCE

petition to be presented to the legislature,
asking for the enactment of "A law grant
ing municipal suffrage To women.
Florida w. {. T. L. convention will
be held at Gainesvillcd, February 20 70
March 2.
Mansfield Ohio high school has set
apart temperance day and given cat
topics TO the pupils on the lcding
workers of the present time. This is u
GOOD though for all toBchers and unions.
and suggests a practical method Of work.
Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge will soon
I'LL a two weeks engagement in kentucky.
and goes to Arkansas for three weeks
work in May.
Mrs. Mary Read Goedale, nationsl or.
ganizer, is working UP her state of Louis
lana with her usual efficiency, trying to
secure the passage Of a scientific temper
ancc instruction bill, and to organize
unions among the colored people.
Under the gcncIal title of "Welfare
and Progress, u courso of ten lectures is
to be given in Philadelphia under tho
auspices of leading prohibitionists. The
first lecture will be delivered Feb. Il by
Miss Rachel G. Foster of Philadelphia,
on the subject Of 'Prohibiti0n and
Womans Suffrage in Kansas" Mrs.
and Gen. Clinton b. Fisk are among the
speakers.
Monrovia, Cal, less than two years
old, but with a population Of $500. has
passed an ordinance prohibiting the sale
of liquors under q penalty Of $500-each
dav Of selling to constitute a seperats
%ofTense.
The Worlds Petition. which provides
for the abolition OF alcohol and narcotics.
is meeting with great favor in the Orient
and in Australia. This petition will be
presented for signatures to all influential
bodies in America this year.
Mrs.. sallic Chaplin is introducing an
anti treating pledge in the south which
is being largely signcd. The pledge is as
follows: "Anti-Treating Pledge Of the
Wonan's Christian Temperance Union.
|, -, do most solcmnly promise that
! will not enter D saloon or public drink
ing place, either To drink any kind Of
liquor myself, or procure it for others; l
will neither treat or be treated mt any ba
where LIQUOR is sold. or engage in any
game Of chance where liquor in any form
IS the forfeit" This pledge will soon be
brought out by the Woman Temperance
Publication association.
In December, alone. tn Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of Tnkio.
Japan, added thir,y two new members 10
It's list. This society has just brought out
a pamphlet or forty two pages with the
title, Wine is Poison" The author il
Mr.. sen lsuda and the preface is written
by Count kazu. Botn asa mcn Of in
naence.
The people Of Japan are greatly inter
esscd in the education and elevation OF
women. In 1897 there were 1913 new
schools and societies for girls and women
established in that country. These are
in addition TO the public schools which
have long existed.
1t is estimated that $78, 200, 900 is spent
every year for liquor in Pennsylvania.
while the output in anthracite coal, their
! greatest industry amounts to only $780,
99j, 600.
A prize Of 5000 for an essay on the
effects of smoking upon the health Of lit
erary NEE, and its probable ultimate re-
suits upon French literature, has been
offered by an anti tobacco society Of
France.
The drink bills OF the nation for the
years 1880, 1881, and 1882, were over two
billions and four hundred and nine and u
half millions OF dollars. Were this in
conceivable sum divided among about tho
80, 900 our population. each person would
have SIG for each Of the three years, or
$f9 each for the whole time.
In a recent address delivered in Balti-
more, Bishop Ireland Of st. Paul, said:
1T is my judgment that nothing is des-
tined to elevate the Irish people and
Catholic church more than this total alb
s~tincnce movement. A new era is dawn
ing for the Irish race; for Ireland sober 10
Ireland free. Out of the so Nationalist
in Parliament, 40 are tcetotalcrs.
The township officers Of Jacksonville,
Ga, have passed an ordinance prohibiting
the sale Of J lmaica ginger within the
town limits.
Canon WHEREFORE says the whisky bill
Of ireland is 50, $50, 600 more than the
whole rental Of the country.
The National Temperance Federation
is "A society which was formed in England
in 1884. Tbe basis Of cooperation is that
ali socie,ics represented shall labor to-
gcthcr in legislative and other work upon
which they are agreed. and bring their
influence to bear upon Parliament and
with II. NJ. Government "a \ united body.
Twcnty-three well known organizations
are represented in this Federation.
Mr.. w. J. Mcconnell has held SUCCESS
ful temperance revival meetings at Plain
field, Lockport, Joliet, Ottawa and Utica
during the fall and winter. He spoke
! every evening for seven weeks at Joliet.
sustaining the interest throughout and
securing over 1,000 signatures to the
pledge. His meetings ut Ottawa were
the largest and mos; effective ever held
in that city. He is % in Galesburg.
lie has great power and ID doing excel
lent work.
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