The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-19
TIE ". C. T. us APPEAL.
To the Members of the Legislature of
Georgia.

realth:
The Woman'S Christian Temperance
Union of Georgia most earnestly requests
v91r serious consideration Of the appeals
they havssent up to you. They have come
from tire hear IS aud homes OF the mothers
and women Of Georgia, and have been
borne TO you with earnest hope AID prayer
that your hearts and consciences may be
touched. and your wills incl ed to grant.
Each and every one of these memorials,
and the petitions which accompany them,
have an importa bearing. not only upon
the individual a ID the family, but upon the
morality and welfare of the state.
TIE fl S petition presented has been that
for Prohibiting bsrrooms within two
miles f he state university and all its
branches" Liquor drinking, barrooms,
and tnelr accompanying gambling rooms,
have become the baae of college life every
where throughout our country, in offering
with the morals and hi ldering the mental
and physical progress of the students.
They cluster about colleges, and are as
traps set for the ruin of young men. So
invariably is dissipation" connected with
college life that many parents are hindered
from thus educating their sons, preferring
less Of learning for them than exposure to
sue ruinouS temptations.
All colleges are not immoral, nor are all
students "dissipated' and ruined" But
when we think of the traps set for their
ruin, the wonder is that so many escape
Gentlemen, the young men of the ull-
verify are the wards Of the state, entrusted
TO IFS ca for education, and training into
future good citizenship. VIII you remove
the liquor saloons beyond their reachs Or
shall they have your Endorsement and
announcement of these STUNT ling blocks
TO success, and pitfalls for their ruins
We would urge upon you also, the grant
ing of our petition, which has been repeat
edly rejected, sc)rned and ridiculed by pre-
vious legislatures, but which we hope may
yet be ONE law--for compulsory educa-
ton In the public schools, as TO the scien-
tific, physiological, and evil effects of alco-
holic beverages upon the human SYSTEM"
believing as we do that prevention through
education will prove the best antidote to
the vice of intemperance, and the best aid
to total ab tinence and prohibition
The children of to-day are to be the citi-
zens of the future, and what greater hind
rance to good citizens ip than alcohol and
intemperancel Let the jails. penitentiaries
and nyict camps give answer! VIII you
not, then, gentleGen, do this good thing for
the rising gene alton, in helping to fore
warn and forearm them against the evils
which have proved such a curse to our peo-
pie and oar state?
We would also urge upon you the estab-
fishing of the industrial )llege, as propo> ed
by the Hon. w. Y. Atkinson, for the girls
Of our state, that they may be trained to
useful, practical lives, not ly for the
home but for NJ intenauce when thrown
upon their own resources IN the struggle for
life. The progress of the age las opened to
them many avenues of support that have
hitherto beeH closed to women. God alone
knows the full bitterness of the trials of
the girls and women OF the past, in their
struggles to keep together the bodies and
souls of themselves and those dependent
upon them. But millions Of them have
done it, seeming to gather courage from
their very despair, and taking up the burden
of lfe bravely, have gone on, amid diff
cultles and trials that would have made
men quail and seek refuge in the liquor cup
or death weapon. Yea, and millions of
women have had the extra and heavier
burden OF supporting dru lkards and their
saloon keepers. Gentlemen, will you not
help the young womanhood In preparing
for the emergencies of the unknown future?
Many poor unfortunate !" have fallen
away into lives Of shame rather an face
starvation and the difficult es before them.
But society justly, and of necessity, closes
its doors against them-though most I'M
Justly discriminating in favor of "fallen
manhood" The church pays little heed to
them, AID the world shrinks away from
them as from lepers. And the poor out
casts seem to be shut away from hope and
reform, a d nothing left TO them but a con-
ltinuance in their evil course.
For these, TOO, we have made our appeal,
asking for ''house refuge for those that
are peaitent and desire to reform"-that it
may 9 ''esta blished u non a basis similar to
that of other state eleemosynary institu-
tons, the management to be under the con-
troll of board of regents appointed by the
governor, selected from experienced d
pallanthropic women of the state; said in
sttution to be provided with work depart
ment and the inmates to be detained ing
enough to give strong probability
Of reformation" In the city of Au-
gusta a refuge of this kind was
esta bl1shed more than three years ago, by
philanthropic men and women there, in
response to appeals by Rev. Warren Cand-
Ter and DR.. Haygood; Mrs. Jonn P. King
being president, and a board of influential
directors and visitors. 1t has been doing
good work ever since, and has had num-
bers Of applications for admission from
other parts of the state. They have
obtained admission when tn re was
room for them. But its capacity is
limited, and its funds do not admit
Of its dong this Clarity for the whole
state. What, then, is to become of these
POOF p0nlLentS! Inc state pre- ctlCally
Licenses a d receives revenue from the r 81
and degradation. Is it not an act of simple
justice, and something tow I'd compe. lsa-
tlo7 to provide this refuge for them, and
help them to better life?
Last, but not least, and first of all our
appeals IN imp rtGnce-in that it bears go
directly upon The others that it might take
the place Of them, we most earnestly and
urgently ask OF you state law prohibit
ing saloons throughout the entire common
wealth, in order that our families-es-
peclally our boys-our business interests.
and public morals generally, may be pro-
tected from the great and growing evils of
The dram shop.
Gentlemen, you know that dram shops
are the curse of our state, destroying the
peace, welfare and happiness of cur people,
and hlndering the morality, good govern
Ilent and prosperity of our commonwealth.
hat more need be said against them?
ana do you hesitate or decline to remove
theinf Ii so, in Gods good name, and for
Cne sake OF your suffering people, we ask
you lohy?
Need we appeal to you in behalf of the
uTunkards hat are marching steadily on
ward to their fearful doc n? Need we APP
peal to You in Lehalf of the suffering, heart
Droken, down-t! odden women and children?
i1'eeo We appeal against the corruptions the
i.qaor saloon engenders against the moral
NY and good government Of our statel
-,ee1 we appeal against the innocent blooI
uley shed and fhe souis they reck lassIv aap1