The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
W. &. g. u. Column.

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country have increased since 1875, and
says:
"There is cold comfort 10 these
figures for the prohibitlonist, for they
indicate such large number of CON.
sumers that prohibition is impossible 81
/ And again. SIT is evident these figures
settle but one point, and that is that
the possibilities for prohibition are pro-
crossing back ward" The figures upon
which this conclusion is correct, but
one thing is certain the prohibition
host is not to be discouraged by figures
Had the number of consumers been
small, and the consumption Of liquor
decreasing, neither the W. G. T. U. nor
the Prohibition party would ever been
organized. It is not because Of the
weakness Of the liquor traffic, but
rather because of its terrible blighting
power that we make war upon it. There
is no possible objection to our opponents
using statistics to prove to their own
satisfaction that evil is omnipotent,
with or without statistics We know that
there is.
No wrong however great. however
strong but availeth Gods avenging
hour"
We assure "our friends, the enemy"
that however rapidly prohibition may
DO progressing backward we shall
never lay down our arms until it is
secured.
After the battle Of Buena Vista, in
which the Mexicans we're disastrously
defeated, General Santa Anna COM
planned that he had whipped that
Yankee General three times that day
but he was fool he never knew it."
The Prohibition host is just such an
ether fool" as General Taylor; it will
never know it is whipped until its
enemy is utterly routed.
The Tennessee Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South on
the last day of its recent session at
Nashville, adopted the strongest possible
temperance resolutions. One of tho
Introductory sentences to the resolutions
reads. I'VE do not under value the
gospel of the Son of God. nor moral
suasion in any form; but in our opinion
moral suasion alone can never free US
from an evil created at the ballot box !;
and perpetuated by the same instrumen
tality."
The resolutions are very comprehen-
sive, denounciug the renting Of property
for the purpose Of the liquor business,
or in any other way. directly or indirect.
ly, assisting the traffic; calling for
legislative enactments which provide
for scientific temperance instruction in
the schools; recommending unferment-
ed wine for sacramental purposes etc.
One resolution Endorses the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. The
Tennessee Conference has FIVE hundred
and twenty-eight ministers and sixty
one thousand lay members.
Hon Chauucey NJ. Depew says, "a
considerable proportion Of failures in
business, and ninety per cent Of the
detalcations and thefts and ruin Of youth
among people Who are employed in
places of trust, are due directly to
gambling"
The Homestead strike is estimated
to have cost the Carnegie Company
three millions of dollars. Add the
loss to the mill hands and the State,
and it will amount to Eve millions more,
besides ssore Of lives. Civilization is
long way from bsipg complete yet.
Neither strikes Dor lockouts advance it.
Letters from Chinese missionaries
disclose the intention Of the govern
ment to make swift retaliation for the
unjust exclusion act if it is enforced on
May /,
DEAR ON Duty :-I'ye been think
ing. Each white-ribboner the world
over is asked to deny herself something
to which she lie accustomed, etc" (See
page one, Union Signal) 1 think il
"we women" would learn the difference
between our aeeds and our VdHts, be-
tween what we must haye to meet the
demands of life in its truest sepse, there,
would he many a penny dropping into
the treasury Of the Worlds W. G T. u.
may need g!oves--I am accustomed
to them-I want them--but may
economic greatly in the purchase Of
the ssme. l may be accustomed" to
perfume on my haIkerchief. fresh flow.