Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-07-28
To our Alliance Friends, their Wives
and Daughters.

To our Alliance Friends. their Wives
and Daughters.
Now that we occupy modest little
corner in this live, wide wake journal,
which makes its weekly visits to so
many of your quiet country homes, we
ask the privilege of speaking few
words to you.
Although you may not be identified
with the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, we invite your attention
to the matter of our department, and
hope that through these columns you
will become so fully acquainted with
our work, and the ennobling purposes
which prompt it, that you will
wish to be one of us.
You may not yet be especially inter
csted in the "Woman movement" and
YOU may not care about the minor de-
tails of the w. C.. Il. L. work, but if
you will read our columns we will try
each week to have something there,
that will feed the heart, interest the
the mind, and call you out of your
selves to thoughts of Christ and hui
mainly.
Do the cares of life press heavily
upon you ? and is your path hedged
in with difficulties? Put your trust in
God, casting all your care upon him,
for he careth for you," and then look
about to sec who there is less favored
than yourself to whom you may
stretch out helping hand.
In bearing another's load,
| We tighten our own,
And brighten the way,
And shorten the homeward road
In general principles the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union is in
sympathy with the Alliance. In
speaking of the breadth of our aims
our noble leader, Miss Frances Will
ard, said, "As white light includes
all prismatic cOlors of the rainbow, SO
the white ribbon stands for all phases
of reform, and there is no phase which
the drink curse has not rendered nee
essary."
We were much rejoiced when, at the
late State Convention in Jackson, you
inserted Prohibition plank in your
platform.
You are laboring to promote mate
rial, and temporal advantage, our
work goes further; it embraces not
only the moral and physical well be-
ing of men and women, but the higher,
spiritual good as well. We hope the
time will come when Unions will be
established in the farming districts
throughout our State, and that some
day Loyal Temperance Legion will
exist wherever there is il school house.
We are told on good authority that
the majority of the preachers, law
yers, doctors and successful business
men of the present day are reared in
the country. Then think what a
momentous responsibility rests upon
you. and how great the privilege ac-
corded you.
Surely this should stimulate you to
use all diligence to educate your child
rem in the principles of total absti-
nence, so as to shield them against
the temptations of town life, to fit
them for positions of usefulness and
prepare them to serve their country,
by eleeting to Office such men as will
put down the liquor traffic. Read
what the Nashville Issue says upon
this subject:
The liquor traffic costs the people of
this country over q billion dollars a
year, which largely comes out of the
pockets of the workingmen. This bill
lion dollars is worse than wasted, for
it brings nothing but woe, crime, mis-
cry, pauperism and death. Every
dollar of the billion goes to support
the most gigantic monopoly which
ever cursed a nation. This billion of
dollars, if spent for food and clothing
and other necessaries of life, would do
away with three-fourths of the power
ty, crime and misery which now des-
Olate the land