The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21
Our Mrs. Merrick.

The Boston Woman1s Journal says Mrs.
| Caroline e. Merriek. for ten years president
of the Louisiana State w. C.. L. u, declined
q reelection at the recent annual meeting at
Monroe, on account of physical inability to
carry the cares of the Office longer. She re-
| ceived an ovation from the convention, and
| with difficulty prevailed upon them to ac-
cept her resignation. All the speakers at
this meeting we're Southern women all had
been present at the franchise reception in
Boston last November; all are in favor of
eqnal suffrage, and several expressed them
selves to the effect at the convention in Mon
roe. The speakers were, besides Mrs. Mer-
rick, Mrs. Mary Read Goodale, who succeeds
her as president; Mrs. Mollie MCGEE Smell
and Miss Belle Kearny, of Mississippi, and
Miss Francis Griffin, of Alabama. all of whom
are very pleasantly remembered in this city.
The money which is spent for liquor can
not be spent for anything else. The saloon is
sucking the blood of every honest industry.
1t is keeping US poor as a nation in spite of
our splendid resources, just as the individual
drinker is kept poor, though earning ample
wages. The sober people of the nation suffer
with the Incorporate, just as the drinking
mems family suffer with him.. But the tenn.
perate men of the nation have a resource
which the drunkards wife and children have
not. We can enact Prohibition to stop the
manufacture and sale of int0Xicants and put
an end to the waste of treasure. National
Prohibition would be worth 81 200, DOC, 900 in
cash to the people of the United States
From the Advance.
1t will be remembered that at the incep-
ton of the lottery question, the advocates of
the adoption of the amendment by which the
State was to have received an annual revenue
of $1,250,000 proposed its submission to Il
white primary. They maintained all along
that the question was not q party question
and the delegates to the convention which
nominated Judge McEnery for governor were
instructed to renew the proposition to sub
NIT the amendment to a white primary indie
pendently of all other issues. When the
United States Supreme Court maintained the
constitutionality of the anti-lottery postal law
and Mr.. Morris thereupon withdrew his prop
~osition, the McEnery State Central Commit
tee announced their intention to print their
tickets against" the amendment. The re
turns of the election prove that they carried
out their announcement in good faith-an
Insignificant scattering vote 'fOr'' the amend
ment having been cast in the State. 1t is 9
w~ell-known fact that nearly all candidates
on the McEnery ticket were opposed to the
lottery amendment and that thousands of
Democrats who supported the McEnery tick
ct were of the same opinion. With the advo-
Gates of the amendment they held that this
question, like every other proposed amend
ment, should be left to the independent ac-
tion of the Democratic voters, at a party
primary or at the election. The Nichols Eos
ter combination made political capital of the
lottery question and constantly refused to
take it out of politics by leaving it to the de-
cision of a party primary. They rode it from
start to finish and used it atihome and abroad
to raise contributions from the religious peo-
pie to carry on the campaign for the Offices
and as a cloak to cover the crime against
rights that was perpetrated by the
Young returning board and the Mich
oils election officers. So we'll did they fool
the "moral element" that the impression
still exists in many quarters that the election
~ of Foster was a triumph of the pure and
Anti-lottery Observation-Disclosures