Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-06
PRACTICAL PROGRESS.
4 PROPOSITION THAT CARRIES Sue
CESS ON ITS FACE.

A Steady, Reliable Income--Eslans for Sys
tematie work-Thc Party Must BE Or
ganIzed--H Horace Waters Starts the Fund.
Now for General Response.
Chairman Dickie has sent out letter
to the press which contains call for a
steady, reliable monthly income for the
national committee He shows what
are the urgent needs Of the party, and
what can be accomplished by such a
fund as is proposed. No man can read
the letter without being at once inn
pressed with the reasonableness of the
committees appeal, and feeling that
every man and woman in the party
should at once send to national head
quarters, ~ East Fourteenth street, New
York, pledge for monthly payment
of some specific amount
We quote few sentences from the
letter:
1.-THE most urgent demand upon us is
the need of organizing work in the new
states and in the south.
Several Of these states present invit-
ing fields and all need national assist
ance. Efficient workers can be found
in each of them. They are willing to
help themselves, but they must have
outside aid for time. Spasmodic eff
forts are next to worthless and are al
ways expensive. To do this we must
have fairly reliable source of income
We cannot and will not enter into con-
tracts involving future obligations with
out at least reasonable certainty of be-
ing able to meet our obligations prompt
ly. We need 81 800 per month to do
this organizing work with any degree of
completeness
1--WE ask for monthly pledges covering
u period Of seventeen months.
1--WE prefer that contributors author
ize us to draw upon them on the first of
each month.
eve condition all pledges upon secur-
ing u total Of not less than one thousand
dollars per month.
pledges for less than one dollar per
month will be equally acceptable, but we
suggest that such pledges be paid quar-
terly instead of monthly.
Here is plan, simple, clear and free
from all entanglements.
eve ask the editors of our papers, our
platform speakers, our workers every |
where to urge it upon the people.
"We ask every one able to do so to re-
spond at once to this appeal. Our case
was never more urgent, nor the prospect
moro favorable.
"Do not wait for personal appeal,
The situation demands haste. Send us
your pledge and send it now. Unless
we realize 81 900 per month on this eff
fort your pledge is not binding. We
ought TO succeed and we must. Yours
hopefully,
SAMUEL DICK1E, chairman"
Horace Waters, the veteran Prohibi-
ZIONIST, enthusiastically indorses the
plan, and in the following letter, which
every one should read, makes his gener-
GUS pledge Of 500 per month for two
full years.
Who can read the following letter
without feeling moved to Immediately
join the old veteran in making up the
amount needed
Let every Prohibitionist send in his
pledge at once, and 80 hasten the day of
final victory that Father Waters, though
now nearly 50 years old, can be with us
TO Join in the hosannas when the victory
is fully won.
NEW YoRR, July 2s
j. Lloyd Thomas, Secretary National Prohibition
Committee:
NV DEAR BRoruER-"Mlne eyes have seen the
glory OF the coming of the Lord" and it is borne IN
upon me that our Prohibition party must go for
ward to meet him, not in thcspasmodic and rregu-
lar way in which we have hitherto worked, but by
continuous. steady, never ceasing effort, so that
every night win sec us "a days marching nearer
home"
believe our party can reap larger returns from
systematic work now than has been possible here
tofore
The continued misdceds Of the old parties has
driven hosts of good men from their ranks. They
look for relief in law, Our Prohibition party is
the place for them In the name Of God and the
people let us hit mp our banners and go forward
To this end | heartily approve your efforts to
systematic our party funds aud secure n steady,
regular and reliable income direct to our national
commttees treasury. This income should be so
regular and reliable that you can proceed system
atically and vigorously 10 the organizing work
which had In view when suggested tho st.
John southern fund.- in - and 20, and which
has not been carried on "a hoped There should
he at least one organizer In every state, the ma
tional committee paying part, or If necessary all
the expense This can he done with this fund.
Our committee should have a regular income of
not less than $1,000 per month believe our de
voted rrohibitonists viii contribute that amount,
and TO start 1t hereby pledge the sum OF 500
monthly for the term OF two years, making n
total of s., 400 the first payment TO be made as
soon M the pledges to this fund aggregate $1,000
per month
leXccpt from the obligation Of this pledge the
months Of January and March, 1871, during
which have already engaged to place ex-qoyer-
nor st. John into the amendment campaign in
New York state at an expense to myself OF $1,000,
If the legislature provides for holding that election
My pledge will hold good for twenty -four pay
ments Of 500 each carrying the committee
throughout the campaign Of ~,
Ihave 10 doubt that the committee will make
such good use Of this fund that In 1899 our mem
bers will he 40 increased and our party so thor
oughly organized that we will see victory nigh
am an old man now, but trust God will bless
me to live to see the drink curse, like slavery,
abolished forever from our land. Yours faith
fully, Horace WATERS.
Won Not Fail.
just so far as nation renders herself
,vooltb.. Nv Tho Inrrnlat alton of her ppn-