Dodge City times., 1889-08-01
W. C. +, u. Notes.

Six Thousand people attended the tuner
al of Mrs. Lucy Hays.
In Chicago over 1000 dram shops pass
ed pauperism and crime over their bars
last Sunday.
In Cincinnati walk of five miles fail
cd 10 find saloon or cigar store open. a
theater gate unbarred, or any one carry
ing beer Thanks to Ohio Legislature.
Rum and Crime, by Hon. a. B. Rich
ardson, in the Union Signal, should be
read by all thinking Christians.
10 beautiful years." by Miss Willard,
and the Union Signal for 6 months, all
for "A cents. Apply to Cor. Sec. of Local
Union if you wish to take this paper on
these terms.
The conflict of man with alcohol is the
great conflict of our time and of the gen
Grafton to come. We have now to settle
down to business and work together.
Miss Mary Scott, Past President of the
Us" at Kinsley. Kan, gladdened the
hearts of her friends by short VISIT IN
Dodge City last week.
The Messenger official organ of the
W. c. T. L. announces that the 7th Dis
trict Convention will be held at Pratt,
Sept. 5, 4. D. Presidents of Local Unions
please call meeting and let a delegate
be sent from Dodge City.
The w. c. T. T. State Convention will
be held at Bcloit, Kansas. Onr grand
leader has turned deaf car to all the er-
gent calls for her presence elsewhere and
is coming to our own beloved state to
help US in our W. c. 4. L. Let the Tenn
perance people not be frightened by Sa-
tan's cannons.
A recent meeting of the Chicago
Methodist Preachers association afford
ed striking proof of the invincible spirit
of prohibitionists; it was missionary
gathering, but DR.. ABB. Leonard, one of
the missionary secretaries. came near
turning it into prohibition jubilee man
aging, by the way, to get in a telling plea
for equal suffrage, he cited the excellent
result of woman's ballot in the Boston
school board election and thought the
results would be equally salutary when
women were allowed to vote in other elec
tons; he said that one great mission Of
the Chnrch was to push the battle
against saloons to victory; the declara-
ton Of the quadrennial reports of the
Bishop to the general conference "Li-
cense is vicious in principle and power
less as a remedy. The liquor traffic can
never be licensed with sin, ''was written
by Bishop Merrill and would live long
after the good bishop was in heaven.
Since the recent amendment defeats the
papers and liquor men were gay, the
the question was at last taken out of
politics and settled. He would tell them
it was not settled, and never would be by
any compromise, no great wrong could
ever be settled by a compromise. The
battle had only just begun and would be
waged until the traffic was exerminated.
at is war to the knife and the knife to
the hilt''
As he thus closed the feeling in the
audience was intense. The tears, shouts
of amen and prolonged cheering,
showed the heartily sympathy of his
hearers with the fearless. eloquent
speaker.
Let Us thank God and take courage
that during the current Methodist and
political qugrdennium, when the high
license craze and crime has reached its
highest pitch and the powers of darkness
have combined as never before to crush
the holy cause of prohibition, this Boan-
ergas of the great reform, DR.. A. B.
Leanord, missionary secretary of the
Methodist Episcopel Church Is in po-
sition where his voice will be heard at
hundred annual conferences, and other
ringining out in clarion
tones for ''the complete legal prohbi-
ton Of the liquor traffic and that
he is not afraid to mix little gospel
politics with his religion