The Opelousas courier., 1892-07-23

appear IN next weeks papers.
We are told that some of the gentle
men ~ around town have made some
rather unkind remarks about u w.
C. T. U.columns, insinuating that we
were incapable of filling our columns in
the three papers every week. We rise
to explain. When the Temperance
Union was organized in Opelousas a
committee called upon the three edi-
tors and asked for a column in each pa
per to publish Temperance news, etc.
This was most c%onrteously granted
| with this stipulation "When we are
rushed with work we cannot give you
a full column-sometimes, no room at
all. Since then every week we
have sent manuscript to the three pa
pers for publication--except' twice
when the matter arranged for the DEM
ocrat was lost. Sometimes nothing
came out, and we of course attributed
it to the above mentioned reason i. g..
paper full. W. would be grateful if
the editors would insert a little note to
that effect whenever such is the case.
Of course we would not think of in
1ictipg upon a patient public three
columns of original matter a week-for
three very good reasons. lst, pa
thence has it's limits, and far be it from
US to wear out the good people of Ope-
lousas. 2nd, Why, when we have an
almost unlimited supply of excellent
clippings--matter far superior to our
feeble efforts--why rack III shallow
brains remember that missing sixth of
an %ounce] to compose temperance ar
ticles which will shortly pass into in
ocuous desuetude and probably never
be aver glanced at 2 3rd, We are not
anxious to erect a target for public
criticism, and conservative old Opee
lousas is still too far behind the on
ward trend of the present to &C
cept feminine views or writings with
out a wry face. Don't expect too much
of us, gentlemen, for when all's told,
we are only "cranks !"
When drunkenness is hereditary, a family
will die out some times in four, and at the
outside in five generations.
The w. C. T. q. at Point Island, Minnesso-
ia, recently entertained a rouslng county
convention, and among other resolutions
adopted the following. Would that our wo-
men generally would go and do likewise /:
Resolved, That inasmuch as the wearing of
trained dresses is compulsory at the court
of kings, it is a fashion that may we'll be set
at naught by the women of a republic; and
since a style of dress which keeps a woman
continually clutching at her garments de
tracts from her dignity and moral influence
as well as from her freedom and comfort, and
whereas, by the wearing of trains our sisters
are made weak, we will wear no trains while
the world stands. Union Signal.
Women are coming ON and on in politics.
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster is chairman of the
Woman's National Republican committee,
and spoke before the Convention. Mrs.
Lease and Helen Gourbar and other women
spoke before the National Prohibition Conven-
ton, and the former is a member of its ex-
ecutive committee. Now comes an Associ-
ated Press dispatch showing that at last our
Democatic brethren are taking in the stu
alton:
New York, June 29.-''The women did it
in $780, said ex-Speaker Reed. the wo-
men will do it again in 1892 With these
words the first woTGaR's. Democratic caEl
paign club was born this afternoon. The
speaker was Mrs. Mary Frost Ormsby, presi-
dent of Frances Cleveland Club No. ~
Union Signal.