The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1893-02-03
TEMPERANCE COLUMN,
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"A Hsat of History.
ny MRS, T. j. Kills.


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Tits often asked ia these days, 'sYha
IL the w. g. 4. u attempting9" AND
II saloon Is opened in any town 81
city. az once the question is asked
why don't You women Of the w. o.
q. II. DO something 10 close up The
salOon2" And the question, too, ii
often asked, ssSFhy don't you keep tile
Faloons closed? I thcnnht that wa,
what you were trying 10 do"
Friends, we do CLOSE the saloons. The
objective point of the women's crusade
WAS the closing mp Of the saloons Of
this nation. The flFEt prayer
offered ii Hllleboro was, 'IIofd, close
the saloons Of this town. We did
close the saloons Many q praise ser.
Woe was held over blazing Whiskey
barrel many doxoiogy was sung when
the keys to bar.room were put into
the hands Of sone faithful woman.
There was not q woman among ns
during those days but that believed
that saloons CLOSED by them in that
way would stay closed, but we found
that prayer W0nldn't do IL. II prayer
aioae could hare closed the saloons Of
America. they would be closed, for
heaven has been besieged by prayer
these nineteen years; but as Mrs.
Esathtop has said, we who follow her
words believe that man raised this
Mol0eh Of death IN our midst, man
derives 3 revenue from 1t. man compels
The youth Of our nation TO pass through
thia M0l0oh Of death, man must pail Il
doFn--dod never win. We did close
TIE saloons. Our work has gone be-
yand that.
II was stated here on the platform,
the evening Of our opening exercises,
that only two governors have weleomed
us, ard Want here to place on record
that thFaa have welcomed us. for Won
will remember down in the city of
Nashville there was not church IL
that city, when we were invited for the
FIRST time 10 the Southland. that would
open its doors TO as. They were q
little afraid of ne; they didn't know
what nice sort Of women we are, and 90
hall wRs hired and decorated, as our
women know how to decorate, and
there we gathered for our FIRST session.
The seats were 6lled with delegates.
aud on either side OF the aisle the
pastors Of the city were sitting, who
bad come ia 10 see what sort or women
thoa0 we're who had come from the
North and the East and the West.
AZ hrst &here was criticism liz the
faces Of those men, and as Mas w Hard
gaze her annual address, as only Miss
Willard can give It, the faces Of those
men began 10 soften and to blossom a
little, and finally there came a little
applause, and ri the end hearty ap-
pianae. a different spirit came over
these pastors, and they came aud said
w uH, .Xou cant hold yonT sessions
here, Bliss Willard, have my church -
And another, Mias Willard. have ma
church And !" Hy church ID central. n
Asc 90 II went, and we did 20 to one
Of the Presbyterian churches, the larp-
aat, and ! believe the most conservative
cianrch In the city Of Nashville, and
: shns night the governor, Governor
Taylor, member Of that remarEable
family, whore one brother ran for GOV.
eEnor on the Democratic ticket, another
brother ran for governor on the Repub-
liGan ticket, and the father, who was A
presiding elder Ia the Methodist
church, ran for governor at the same
time on the Prohibition ticket (and
they wanted the mother 10 run on the
Belva Lockwood ticket, but she didn't
1k was this Governor Taylor who first
gave rs welcome 10 the Southland, and
I want that 10 be recorded, for II was
remarkable occasion: and aa they stood
under the old flag that night there was
nrst Miss Willard. and next to her was
HEn. Snllse Chaplin, of South Carolina.
whoas husbaDd was Confederate gen.
eral, abe the owner of slaves. South.
eEner of the Sontherns. Next stood
she who was clad Ia widows mourning
for the husband who died for that flae.
our Mrs. Buell.. whose husband went
ont long ago from one Of our Connecti-
cnt regiments; and next TO her was
MAss Pngh, onr national treasurer, who
believe 10 the old days on her fathers
farm had close acquaintanceship with a
station Of the underground railway.
These women stood together under the
Old flag, and Governor Taylor stood |
beside them, rs we all rose and sang, as
only our women can sing, America"
Our brother politicians tell us there
1s ., great political chasm between tire
North and fhe South, but Il Is ilot true
The moIher- heart Of this nation has
bFidged It over. One morning during /
our devotional exercises, woman hi.
ting down in the body Of the house
arose and said, II never was as far
from home rs Fam to-day. / live u.s.
In New Hampshire In 1851 / sent
Two Of my boys down south to the
army Of the Tennessee. One Of them
died down here and Is buried ID al
grave, and said 10 father,
when the convention was called u
Tennessee. 4 guess I will 60. I may
BaE near Jimnie's grave, and 90 have
'pme. And turning 70 the other dele 4
satss she said. II want to say I never
lasa bad biz Of bitterness IN my heart |
I0s The mother o. the boy who wore
re gray any more than for the mother
4 tho boy who wore the blne."
Dear men here tonight, dear women
leEe t0snight, We stand aide BY side. Z
boulder to shoulder. modhera hearts
g0gking for tho overthrow 81 this Z
uEaed thing. May God bless as Il We {
p ont. North. soath. East and West, }
~ rome day, ag enre a. God lives, I
heEe will come an end 10 this thing. 3
Nc nniil ihas day ahaIl come, lut Is be 1
no 20 tae voiee faat tells u 10 follow
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