The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1890-12-25
The w. G. T. U. Anniversary.
The Wahpeton division of tn

AuS W. VI He Os AUuOv0rH6rys
The Wahpeton division of the
w. c. T. U. celebrated the 18th an
niversary of the organization of the
National Union, Sunday evening
last at the Congregational church,
in the shape of a union service, on
Which occasion Mr.. l. M. Adams of
Fargo delivered the address.
The meeting was opened with a
crusade song by the choir, when
Mrs. Wilcox offered prayer. and the
president, Mrs. M. H. Morrill,, deliv-
cred very pretty and instructive
address upon the institution and
progress of the society. Showed
that it had done much service to
humanity and now numbering more
than 10000 members, was constantly
growing, the last national meeting
a few weeks since at Atlanta,
Georgia. having been the largest,
most enthusiastic and important
meeting of the kind ever held in the
history of civilization, nearly every
state and territory being ably repre-.
sented. And Mrs. Morrill, introduce
ing Mr.. Adams, that gentleman de-
livered an elaborate and very appro-
pirate address on the institution
and services of the Union.
To those people who have faith in
the idea of absolute prohibition. the
address Of Mrs. Morrill, and that of
Mr.. Adams undoubtedly applied
with great force. And to those
people unable to discover the prac-
ticability of prohibition. must have
occurred the idea that these two
speakers were at least sincere and
complete in the doctrine and in
their professions Of aid to the needy
of humanity. Mrs. Morrill, was sin.
cere in her denunciation of the SER
vice of wine at the fashionable din
ner. served perchance, by the most
dainty or delicate, \of hands. or
liquor served sver the most untidy
bar IN the most degrading saloon /;
one was just as deplorable or as
commendable as the other, in her
estimation. And then she men,
toned what the society had done
and was anxious to do for needy
poor in our midst, which is GER
tainly commendable.
Mr.. Adams was sincere in his
general argument that womankind
were moral force in the world and
that he thought women could with
perfect propriety assume the leader
ship in temperance reform as she
had done, and scored South Dakota
for its ungallant act of voting
against extending the franchise to
intelligent women, when in the act
of thus extending the franchise to
the Indian! And then again sin.
cere in the doctrine that purity of
character did not mean one thing to
womankind and another to mankind.
And he stamped his No. IA sandal
down upon the disgusting and de-
grading practice Of condoning the
one while condemning the other for
the same offense, in sincerity that
should have counted for something.
Does and always will with the right
right kind of people!
Certainly, there are sincere and
earnest prohibitionists, but they are
mighty impracticable people. 1t is
not tenable to parallel drunkenness
and all round cussedness in man.
kind to the old slavery system, or
prohibition to the emancipation.
1t is not a tenable position from the
very fact that in the one we combat
innate and Unborn spirit, disposition
taste, inclination and living con-
ditlon as inherited with the first
breath of human life while on the
other hand we combatted simply a
physical and inanimate and self
confessed surface deformity,--
which fell to the ground a despised
wreck, dead beyond any thought of
redemption. Slavery was only an
idea and it went out of it's own
weight. Sin in man began with
Adam and now seems to reach clear
down to hell and beyond and you
can't whip it out.
Drunkenness is the sin of intem-
perate drinking and there are
myriads of Incorporate iudulgencies
in the orld. Incorporate drink
ing is, certainly, one of the leading
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