The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-12-18
TEMPERANCE COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY THE W. c. I.U.

= Mrs. G. II. Read, of Bloomington, III
in reporting for her city the largest w
CT U. of any in the state, makes this
comment:
1--WE are glad to say we are radicals,
and keep that fact well at the front
.sNon. partisan''-of course we are non
partisan, like our national leader, Miss
Willard, and our Illinois leaders: we
are non partisan enough to help in any
honest fort to strike deadly blows at
the licensed dram.shop. While we
spell Prohibition with capital P, and
enter into no compromises with evil
do.rs, we rejoice in every agency that
has for its aim the destruction OF the
lionor traffic, and will lend hand to any
good, honest work for that end. Our
union sent prohibition literature weekly
into Dakota during the amendment
struggle there, and said, God bless the
party there that dares to stand for the
right" ,"
The Journal, of Providence, Rhode
Island, an prohibition paper aud an
ardent worker for the repeal OF the pro
hibitory law last year, admits the failure
of the present license system. We quote
from late editorial: at must be plain,
however, not only by the statistics of
license lately published in these columns,
but by common observation as well,
that the happy result predicted has not
been brought about under Rhode
Islands new license law. The saloons
seem to have increased. Complete and
absolutely accurate statistics are not,
indeed, obtainable But there are
probably not less than 1900 licensed
saloons in the State to-day while at the
close of the low license period in June,
1886, it was estimated that the number
was little over 900, certainly not more
than $50. Indeed, during the lawless.
ness of the prohibition period itselfthere
were hardly more tipping places OF all
sorts in the State than there are licensed
places now" The Journal says nothing
of the unlicensed places now in ex
istence. of which there are great many
DR.. Amelia B. Edwards, the famou;
Egyptologist, in letter to Mrs. Lucy
Stowe, of the Boston WomonS journal
says: "Since l came to America
have learned with surprise that tht
women of America are not privileged tt
vote on SO many local, parochial munic
ipal and educational matters as thu
women in England. Seeing how intiu
ential the social position OF women is II
the United States, am amazed at thi
anomaly which I earnestly trust viii
soon be swept away by the advance o
public opinion in the right direction"
Senator Ingalls, famous speech on th'
race question, wherein he says: "Th'
conscience of New England was neve
thoroughly aroused to the immoralit.
of African slavery until it ceased TO b
oroftable.' called out this comment from
the Union Signal:
"Who doubts that the orator OF
future congress wi proclaim the sham'
of this generation in some such blasting
words as these: The conscience OF th'
American people was never thoroughl.
aroused to the immortality of the liquo
traffic until 1t ceased to be profitable ="
Prayers, tears and white ribbons ar
the equipments of the W. G. 7. U. will
the ammunition left out. The enem.
was never put on the retreat with banl
cartridges, and ten penny nail wa
never driven with feather. The liquor
ties are anxious to impress Kentuck.
women with the idea that it is unwoman
" to want to vote, and would be entirel.
out of their sphere. To paralyze th'
LIQUOR power, women can use no wise
tactics than to resolve to do everything
the liquorites do not want them to do
Mrs. Josephine K. Henry in Souther1
Journal.
A certain saloon in Denver, Colorado
is said to be paved with silver dollars
and displays sign made out of twenty
dollar gold pieces. Its proprieto
believes in high license.
How good people can be so deceive,
by high license as to see in it anythin
other than the Trojan horse smuggle
into our temperance camp on false pre-
lenses, expect to discover on the da
when learn how you can elect prohib
tionists to power by not votingf for then
--Frances B. Willard.
81 have thee on the hip" cried rhe,
matism seIzing his victim and tossin
him on q suffarinp he'd 6NOt SOL h