San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-12-10

City.l
We give below some short extracts
from that grandest woman of the age,
Miss Frances Willard, in her annual
address to the recent National con-
vention. Taking a pencil to mark
short paragraphs in this one is puz.
zled where 20 stop for every line is
full freighted with thought.
1.-THE true retormer is the one who
sits at the prov and sees only God.
But evermore God works by means.
The brain has the hand as its instru.
ment. The individual has an organ.
lied society as his most cogent wes-
pom aud most powerful alley. The
hand can do butlittle without q trowl
through which 1t may employ and d.
versify its power; he who holds
the strongest instrument and handles
it most skillfully accomplishes the
most. We women are more unfor-
tunate than we can at all compl ehend
i'm having at hand such an instru-
ment as the w. G. II. u; to which
we can carry our best inspirations
and see them wrought into deeds, a
warm home-center of progressive
ideas and achievements. / cannot
express to you my growing sense of
the power that dwells In these groups
of faithful and true women In every
quarter of the world animated by the
spirit atten tive in mind, motherly in
heart, helpful in hand and hospitable
in soul; ready to respond to every ap |
peal that comes to them from the
Dugle notes of their great Preside
camps, where the couven tiOns plan
the work of the year that lies ahead
1--WE have no business to 90 on day
by day enduring the presence of q
drunkard going on In his drunken
ness without let or hindrance and
making of himself foens for every
thing in the world that is bad"
ut Is an astounding fact that 1873
women have been arrested in the
street of London for drunkenness
within the last year. The worst of
1t is that this number does not at all
reveal the actual enormity of the
situation for it Is almost wholly the
lower classes that these figures rep
resent. There are regular sets of
drinking women who chib together
and treat each other and do not al
low themselves to fall In to the hands
"
ing of the most aristocratic classes
swells still further the pitiable army
wholly from the mother sex, who
are giving themselves to the devil
through the voluntary insanity of
drunkenness"
Miss Willard is constantly urging
the various unions to petition the
legislatures to "build homes for the
men who are under the drink hallu-
cinat1on and to pass laws for the de-
tentiou of drunkards within these
walls where work should be pro.
vid ed for them and every effort made
to give them back the self control
which they have as thoroughly lost
as any bewildered steed that ruu
smuck along the streets with the bit
in bis teeth and his driver over
thrown"
There Is no outrage greater than
the continued presence OF drunkard
in q home. Not only on account of
the incalcuble misery that such q
presence creates, but for the sake OF
future generations deteriorated by the
awful inheritance of drunken
percentage. If it were any other di.
sease the person manifesting the dis
gushing and terrifying symptoms OF
drunkenness would be speedily re-
moved by the order OF the state to q
place prepared for him, and nothing
but the heart-breakipg familiarity
that the centuries have wrought with
this form of human misery, and it's
diabolicsl effects. holds the civilized
world from rising en- mssse and pIac-
ing the drunkard beyond the reach
of the man who makes him drunk
and beyoud the power of cursing
every home of which he Is a part"
We feel that it is due the Daily
LIGHT that we call the attention OF
all white ribbon wearers to the fact
that is is the first newspaper in San
Antonio to give q column tn the w.
G. II. u. work. We thank them for
their kindness, and hope all who
feel an interest in our work will re-
me Der the fact. True it is that we
have not so far accomplished any,
thing by this column, but it lis a small
effort in a noble cause and as such
will not be entirely lost, even though
We may never know OF any good ac-
complished, so we take courage from
the thought that God can make even
the weakest instrument subserve His
purpose, H. r J.