The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-07-27

merely in order that the position of all
the parties concerned may be under
stood.
InPx1AHCI coLuMu.
conducted by lola W. CT. U.l
A gentleman who had spent several
months in Kansas, said recently: 'The
effect on children which
comes from familiarity with liquor
saloons was never forcibly presented
to me until I went to q State where
saloons were unknown. Kansas is
filed with boys ten years old and un-
der, who never saw saloon since they
can remember; nor "a man under the
influence of liquor. Being wholly
withdrawn from the sight of it, nearly
all of them will have no more desire
for drink on arriving at mans estate
than they will have for opium.
Though I am not prohibitionist, it
really looks to me as If the Kansas PEG.
pie were doing wise thing in keeping
public drinking places out of their
State. OF course quantities of liquor
reach the State in jugs, kegs and bar
rels from Kansas City and elsewhere,
but the rising generation is not mater
tally affected. for the old fellows
monopolize all the stuff that comes by
express, and they are shy about letting
people know they have it. The
National government. by.the-way, is
engaged in very small contempt
able business in Kansas. 1t has agents
there who sell government liquor
license to all who want them. These
licenses, the Supreme Court has held
cannot be used as evidence of selling
in State prosecutions for that offense. !"
Seventy-five thousand citizen of the
United States petitioned for the passage
of the Plat bill prohibiting liquor SELL
ing in the District of Columbia, and
only nine thousand one hundred and
seventy-nine persons signed petitions
against it, yet the Republican Senate
and the Democratic House would not
80 much ~ consider the bill, but had
it smothered in committee.
After three years work the w. C. T.
U. Of Shiawassee county, Michigan,
has been the means of having all
games Of chance, wheels offortune, and
sweet cider barrels removed from the
county fair grounds, and also secured
the privilege of having speaking on
the grounds during the fair.
A Presbyterian minister at the Lake
Bluff convocation, says: mo one force
has done 20 much for building up pure
public sentiment as the Womans
Christian Temperance Union. Some
Of my solemn old Presbyterian friends
are profoundly distressed for fear these
women will get out of their ephere,'
and do something desperate. Unless
they actually do something desperate,
I have refused to 60 into commissions
and stay awake at night. So far I have
not been profoundly shocked By what
they have done. They are shocked to
hear q women prayin meeting; 1 have
been 80 often shocked to hear men
swear, I rather enjoy being shocked
by hearing woman:pray. And these
Woman's Christian Temperance
Unions are at work all through the
long night Of other peoples indiffer-
ence and easy indulgence, not in the
least deferred or discouraged by diff.
culties or monotenous routine. Men
think they must have some variety in
their employment, but "a women will
90 over the same duties every day of
her life, get breakfast, wash the
dishes, make the beds, get dinner,
shop awhile or sew some, get supper
and wash the dishes and put the chill
dren to bed. It is exactly 20 in politice.
She will keep on doing precisely the
same thingspeaking the same speeches
singing the same songs, pleading the
same plea before judges, legislatures,
governors, religious assemblys, polit.
lcal conventions, candidates in office.
candidates out of Office, with absolute
y ::unfagging enthusiasm. and zeal. |
She never hesitates to undertake to do |
everything. She organized the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
md seeing need still of something be-
tides Temperance work, added on some
lllied departments---as heredity, |
health, daynurseries. scientific instruc-
ion, kindergarten work, industrial
Sunday School work, work |
n prisons, among railroad employees,
lmong soldiers and sailors, among
umbermen, among miners, among
allen women, with departments on
sabbath Observance, on social purity,
lnfermented wine at che Lords Table,
'arlor meetings, training schools, the
lower mission, work at State and
ounty fairs legislation, the franchise
ssociated charities, on narcotics,
labor, on impure literature,
the press, on education of
Ugh cast Hindoo women as mission.
ries in their own land, all this, after
lividing up their own work into Sec
Ions, such rs the Southern States.