The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-02-18
w. c. T. U. DEPARTMENT
For God and Home md NutiYe Luu7.

able temperance shaking up"
Two or three weeks ago Lady Som
erset, Frances 3. Willard and John
u. Woo]ey were accorded an enthusi-
astic reception. Two great audience
rooms were not sufficient to accommo-
date the multitude DESTROYS of hear
ing them and hundreds were turned
away for lack of room. And on last
Sunday occurred another great mass
meeting of the citizens or rather three
great meetings to protest against law
of the city council favorable to sa-
looms. Prominent men from educa-
tional, legal and ministerial circles
raised their voices in protest against
the saloon element. When such men
as Judge Shaw, John Day Smith, DR..
Sudduth of the Safe University, and
others equally prominent, stop in the
midst of their busy duties to look at
one phase of this question, that of
Sunday closing of saloons, if we mis-
take not they will look deeper than
that and ask themselves why this evil
exists at all?
When the saloon becomes aggres-
sive and encroacEes upon the rights
of the American people, the time is
ccm ng when that people will resent
it as quickly as they would an insult
flon little Chill.
Minneapolis is building better than
she knows. When that city is known
as a moral city with a public-spirited
citizenship demanding righteous mu-
nicipal laws, St. Paul would better fold
her tents like the Arab, and as silent
ly steal away, for there will not be
room for her even as a suburb because
of the charging boundaries of her Sis
ter city. And as is the metropo is of
state so is that state. Even Redwood
Falls will feel the influence of this
temperance tidal wave.
The following are quoted from the
remarks of different speakers at above
mentioned meetings.:
The gospel temperance movement
put Light in the Window for Thee"
1t made better law, better government,
better manhood, better policy, better
men and women-it swept the whole
horizon Of mems actions like Cat
ling gun.-Miss Willard.
Lady Somerset spoke at greater
length than at the previous meeting.
The evil of drunkenness which had
settled down over the old land was set
Ting down here she said, but she be-
lieved that the nobler and better
Christianity which was spreading
would save US. The onward march Of
Christianity was hindered by those
Christians who spent their time on
the top of the mountain singing "In
the Sweet BY and By" They were
alone on the chilly heights. Work
among men for humanity was what
was needed. Christians who believed
that God was in the home, the ballot
box, the business, everywhere these
were needed.
The saloon gathered all within it's
reach. 1t invaded the home, it lurked
in public places, it found congenial
habitation in the seat of government,
it corrupted the courts of justice, and
throttled liberty On her throne. 1.-THE
action of the city council last Friday
evening is an illustration of it's damn
ing influence but, while the saloon
may be on top to-day, as surely as
there is God in heaven there will be
day of reckoning and that quite
early. The mills of the gods grind
slowly but they grind exceedingly
small The action of the saloon ele-
ment all over the country. he held, had
nearly reached the condition that pre-
coded final destruction.-Dr. Suddeth.
''This enemy of society and good or
der has grown 50 bold add defiant, and
exercises such power in the selection
of the executive officers in all our CT
ties, that for the people in their ca
pacity Of citizenship to longer remain
inactive is to acknowledge defeat. The
traffic has assumed boldness begot-
ten of federation, which defes the
laws, laughs to scorn a public opinion
which never rises above mere senti-
ment, and demands and not infrequent-
ly secures important official positions
in the state. Its assurance is equaled
only by vicious effects, for it is a
stranger to both modesty and shame"
Judge Young.
But the supreme court of the state
had said that the liquor traffic was a
traffic (which all civilized countries
deem necessary to place under re-
strain" THE first question which will
naturally arise, is Are we a civilized
countryT If not, we ought to give it
up. II we are, we ought to stick to it.
The liquor traffic is pauper-making
poverty perpetuating, society destroy
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