Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-11-03
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thereby promise that with Gods help
| will abstain from all intoxicating liq-
uors as a beverage-including wine and
any kind of beer or cider-that | will
not make, sell, or give them away for
such; that l will not allow my premises
o any premises subject to my control
to be employed for their use as a bever-
age; that 1 will earnestly endeavor by
all honorable means to promote the
cause of temperance.
The union meets every Thursday at 8
P. NJ. We invite all who are interested
in the work of saving fallen humanity
to meet with us. Our pledge you OBJ
serve is very simple and one to which
every christian, man and woman should
be ready to subscribe.
We are often asked the question:
What are you ONE doing for the
cause of temperance answer: we
are doing all the good people allow us.
When we do ''resolute and petition, "
our resolutions and petitions are prompt
ly laid OIL the table" and, being only
women, all we can do is to submit. 1
believe christian men can and ought to
give us gospel government. l am sure
there might be gospel suffrage, and un-
der this there will be no differences in
sex. and every %suffragan, will have a
vote and have it counted too. Every
christian ought to vote so that if his
ticket wins the saloons will be banished
forever; and every woman until con-
science of the country awakes to give
her suffrage should fall in with Frances
Willard and the rest at the front of the
worlds work, waging a peaceful war
for God and home and every land.
I do not claim that when women have
the suffrage that the millennium will
Immediately be on us, but | do claim
that the liquor traffic will be ''pulver-
lied" and l claim the suffrage because
it is our right. When Paul said Let
your women keep silence in the
churches" it only adversary, for what
right have men to demand such q thingp
who gave to them the right? 1t is said
women have more rights already then
they use well. That is very true; but
do men always use their rights for the
best? In regard to their voting, how
many neglect to register, or fail to cast
a vote at all? l read this week in a
New York paper that at the last mu-
nicipal election of that city 100, 900 men
failed to register and 10000 of those
who did register failed to vote. While
the 5000 gin mills sent out solid cohorts
every man armed with a ballot and
many of them loaded with bad rum.
The trouble is good citizens shrink from
soiling their hands in what they call
the dirty pool of politics, for which un-
cleanliness they are largely responsible.
Three millions of christian men are to
vote soon and there is one thing certain
that the vote of these men can define
and determine the issue.
was glad to notice in this weeks
paper the action of the temperance
committee of the Presbytery of Prince
Island on the subject of temperance,
making this earnest appeal: LET us as
ministers, elders and people take a firm
and outspoken stand on this burning
question. Our general assembly has
unfurled the flag with its motto, Total
abstinence for the individual and Pro-
hibition for the State" The church of
God should be known always and every
where as the relentless and uncompro-
missing foe of the liquor traffic. May
it not be said of it as was said of Meraz
Of old: Curse yc Meraz, because We
came not up to the help of the Lord
against the mighty"
The cause of temperance is advance
ing. The grand convention of Chris
tan Endeavor which met at New York
recently at every mention Of the subject
showed great enthusiasm and were
ready for radical May the
day soon come when not a saloon shall
curse our fair land. EQUAL RIGHTS.