Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-07
HOW TO WIN.

HOW TO WIN.
11Ace"eht Directions for Making Prollibt.
tion Meetings :, Success,
me Chairman Of the tate Committee Of
concerning the method Of making Prohihi.
Iloh meetings success. They are such
sensible rules that we take pleasure in pre-
sehtlhg them to our workers as model rules.
well worth FASTING in your hat:
LITERATURE AND SPEAKERS.
circulate literature freely. and have as
many public addresses in your community
as possible. These two methods OF work
are not antagonistic. They should coexist,
literature ripens conviction. Lectures
quicken It into action: The one quietly
convert to the front. If you wish to know
now much good your papers and tracts are
DONG. call an able lecturer. and, il the litera-
lure mas reached mems judgments. he will
develop that fact i'll q way to bring you last
campaign papers into IL neighborhood. and
afterward sent Al speaker to organize. A
cluD OF sixteen new converts was the result
Do not neglect either of these lines of work
WHAT RUINS OUR PROHIBITION MEETINGS.
l. Prohibition meetings are only half adj
vertised; sometimes not even half
2 Our people in hundreds of places act as
II they were afraid to let everybody know
that speaker is coming. and when and
where the meeting is to be held. This is u
terrible mistake.
9. Complaint is often made that they will
not come out to hear" This refers to Re-
publicans and Democrats. Experience has
proved that they will come out to hear if
the ProhibiSionists will advertise thorough
ly and force the community to recognize
them. We must not act as though we had
no confidence in the meeting being Il sue
cess, or others will surely think it will be IA
failure. and by staying away make it so.
We must not be too timid or busy to speak
good word for the meeting every chance
we get. or others will think we have no con-
tdence in it, and stay away. Talk about the
meeting. and got every one else you can to
talk about it all the time
HOW TO MAKE PROHIBITION MEETING A
SUCCESS.
l. Always have notices put into all your
local papers. If they will not print them
without pay, go down in your pockets and
get the money and pay for the work.
2. Have the town billed as completely as
if a big circus was coming. Don't bill the
business houses aad then, stop. Put bills
need not think Of having an audience
unless you do this. Arrest any person who
defaces or tears down a bill regularly
and legally posted. When you have billed
Il town you have only commenced to adver-
tiSe.
. 3. Never fail to send word to. all clubs
within radius of fifteen miles. Invite them
to come either individually or as Il. club.
Urge them to come. and promise to return
the call. Send word to the country in all
cases.
4. Let it be clearly understood and never
for one moment be forgotten, that every
friend of prohibition owes it to the cause
and to himself to become personally re-
sponsible for the success Of every Prohibi-
ton meeting held in his town. Every man
ch hn IN Of
turn and dodge round a corner to keep from
meeting a Democrat or Republican. Walk
straight up to them and ask them to come
out to the meeting. Try and convince them
that the speaker will not bite.
5. Ii you will only convince the mad old
world that you can toot your own horn
and that you feel proud Of that Instrument
listeners will be proud to lend "a ready ear.
6. On the morning Of the lecture day bill
every house and store with To, Nigh,
dodgers. This may seem considerable work.
but it is necessary to the success OF the
meeting, Don't let your Prohibition speak
ers be forced to face empty benches by rea-
son OF neglect.
Z. Always answer letters in regard to
speakers or other business promptly. Adays
needless delay frequently causes much trou-
BILE and expense.
s. Imagine if you can. the chagrin and
disgust of apublic speaker. when. he finds
that the hour of the meeting has arrived and
ing is to be held has not been lighted. This
should never be lost sight Of The susges-
lions i'm this circular will do nobody harm.
and hundreds of sensible,people WILDE BEN
Gifted by them. We must be alive or our
cause will suffer.
HOW TO MEET EXPENSES
l. Carefully estimate all the eXpenses,ln
advance Then write down the names OF
all men and women to whom you may look
for help in raising this money. Estimate
how much each would be able and willing
| to pay. Be sure you can raise enough to
| nav expenses. Then proceed to secure their
subscriptions. upon the basis of this estl-
mate, and where you fail to reach the esti-
mate with one. make it up on another SO
| that on an average you will be able 10 raise
| all the expenses in advance. Avoid collec-
| tons where you can,
| 9. Another method OF raising the expenses
of a meeting which has been successful in
some places is us follows: Ask your inftuen-
tial people to help, bring the famous orator
to your town by purchasing number OF
! tickets for reserved seats. Push. the sale OF
tickets in every way. Enlist the ladies and
children. Send complimentary tickets TO
the ministers, Pay the press the same
courtesy. This method has the advantage
of success, in some cases many dollars De.
ing realized in clear profit. In some small
towns costly lecturers have been recalled
again and again. and the workers are
| pIeased with the results.
|