The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-05

In you are our country's hopes, boys,
Her honor the boys must defend.
Then join the great temperance band, boys,
And pledge yourselves against rum;
Stand firm as rock on your pledge, boys,
And igh till the foe is o'ercome.
Annual Meeting.
The annual meeting of the w. G. T. U.
was held in the free reading room on
Friday, the 1st of May, at 3 100 O'Clock.
Election of officers resulted as follows
President, Mrs. Smith French; Vice
Presidents, Mrs, A. r. Roscoe, Mrs.
Johns, Mrs Donnell, Mrs. j. d. Lee and
Miss Mary Frazier; Recording Secretary,
Mrs. G. D. Doane; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Mrs. Dan French; Treasurer, Mrs
Leslie Butler.
The work of the year has been pushed
quietly. presistently and successfully.
The membership has increased, the
Union is growing in interest. The mem
bers are deeply interested in all the
branches of work. The tenth national
temperance convention will be held July
Is, 1891, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
In every aspect of this many-sided
subject. especially its, moral, political
and educational bearings the drink prob
lem is recognized as of first magnitude.
And temperance sentiment receives a
respectable recognition from all classes
of society now. Possibly there is more
opposition, but also there are more
praying and working for the cause
more than ever before.
New. perils and new phases of the
question makes it necessary for the
friends of the cause to take council to-
gether against this special agent of the
devil. All work becomes more effective
by the stimulus of personal contact and
consultation with each other.
The Worlds W. C. T. U. petition is
being circulated the wide world over
1t is the. plea of suffering, sobbing
womanhood for the protection of her
home and the salvation of her sons, and
daughters; it is union of hearts until
it will be said: 80 woman, great is thy
faith; be it unto thee as thou wilt
A Good Bargain.
At temperance meeting where sew
eral related their experiences. humor-
GUS Irishman who spoke was acknow-
lodged to, be the chief speaker He had
pair of fine new boots. Said he "A
week after signed the pledge / met an
old friend, and he says, sThem's fine
pair of boots you have on They are,
says I, 'and by the same token twas the
saloon-keeper who gave them to me-
Of T.,
=" 1T was, says 1, but / made bar
gain with him. He was to keep his
drink and l was to keep my money. NY
money bought me these fine boots. /
got the best of the bargain and I'm going
to stick to it, +"
Boys, will you do the same? Will you
keep your money, and invest in some
thing else than drink ?-I Youths Tenn
perGnce Banner
Protection.
Ours is famous country for protection.
There is the tariff to protect industry
while the patent laws are safeguard to
invention. There are the land grants for
railroads, subsidies for steamship com
panies, charters for corporations. In
many of the states we have societies for
the prevention of cruerty to animals,
and in nearly all, laws for the protection
OF game. Busy with all these gentle,
wise and patriotic measures, there is one
place our brothers have forgotten ade-
quately toprotect, and that is-Home.-
By Frances e. Willard.
The Woman s Appeal, lately addressed
by the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union through it's president, Miss
Frances Willard, to the brewers, distill-
ers, dealers, and saloon-keepers was in
the highest degree appropriate. The fol-
lowing is its closing paragraph:
brothers, the end is near the doom
OF the liquor traffic is sealed the clock
of God has struck the hour of the peo-
pies deliverance. You know this as
wella we do; you confess it in your
secret counsels. VIII you not come
with us in the great fight for a clear
brain and projected home?s will you
not, of free choice, do that which must
ere long be done under compulsion of
the OoG popuh, which echoes the UoT
Des! For this we earnestly ask, and for
this we fervently pray" iii5
...Somewhere beneath the vaulted sky,
somewhere beneath the slumbcring sod,
ratn broods her sIumbers ere they fly,
Rale Just1ce steels her clustering rod:
When wealth and power have had their hour,
Comes, for the weak, the hour of God
People living in this county have of
late been talking of petitioning the next
legislature to make an appropriation for
putting in fish ladders at. the Klickitat
falls. They say IF this was done salmon
and other species of food fish would come
up the streams in this valley in great
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