The Forrest City times., 1893-06-30
Temperance Notes.

in Australia: Il am visiting the east ern colonies and helping the W. C. T.. T.. branches in each place. With tongue and pen am trying to bring about prohibition for the new centu- ". When the colonies federate. and form United Australia. we women are praying that a prohibition plank be in the national platform. 1 had intended to go around the world, starting last year, but my country needed me here. trust the day may come when Eng land. America and Australia shall stand together against a common foe And may we then. who belong to, and represent the temperance women If these lands. love much. work lnuch, ahd pray much, that our Father may be gloriiied, and His Kingdom brought to earth"
 ''Of all existing forms of injustice there is none so cruel aud inconsistent as Is the position in which women are placed with regard 10 self maintenance; the calm ignoring Gf their rights and res possibilities which has gone on for centuries Would you have women step down from their pedestals?' some men ask Yes. if we can find any women mounted on pedestals. let them step down. Freedom and justice for ail are infinitely better than pedes- tals for few. always suspect the motive of any one advancing the pe- deStal theory. IL Is not the natural and fine relation between husband and wife, or between friends. They should stand side by side. the fine qualities of each Supplementiug and assisting those of the other. The women of today have no desire to be helpless and de pendent. Having the fuil use ot their faculties, they rejoice Tn exercising them. Ignorance is too expensive and wasteiul to be tolerated. We cannot afford to lose reserve power Ot any individual. Mrs. Potter Palmer.
 The eminent Dr. John Lizars says: During the prevalence of cholera. l have had repeated opportunities of ob serving that individuals addicted to the use of tobacco are more disposed to attacks of that disease. and gener- ally in it's most malignant and fatal form.
 Dr. Willard Parker, long at the head of the medical profession ln New l ork City, said: All who smoke or chew. gre more apt to die ill epidemlcs than other people"
 Dr. O. NJ. Stone, of Boston, said: "The idea that tobacco prevents dis ease IS an error. A tobacco users chances of recovery from any malig pant disease are lessened fifty per cent.
 Cart. G. B. Pettingil, who for many years commanded vessels trading be- tween Boston and Cuba, Mexico aud South America, said: Very few tobac co users recover fIom yellow fever. 1 once lost half my crew with 1t in Ha Vana. Every man who died used to- bacco, and every one who lived did not use 1t.
 Dr. Harris of the New York City where more diseases are treated than i'll any other place in America, says: 1t IS scarcely possible to cure q syphilltic sore, or unite a fractured bone i'll d devoted smoker y
 The London Lancet says: No smoker eau be a well man."
 One of the finest ttributes ever paid to our organization was that of Mrs. Mary Lowe DickinsOn'S. It was this: That the Wuman'S Christian Temperance Union sits today. sceptered and tlron- ed and crowned at the center Of the worlds cncircllng organizations of wo- men. is not so much because it's battle is against the foe of childhood and motherhood and the home; not because is grand crusade IS one of rescue to lost manhood; not because of it's huu- .1 .,ft | de in, .l multiplied agencies of it's numerous de- partments of human helpfuness as it is because it has struck thiS one chord to which the hearts of women answer. It made d Union. That was great. It made temperance union. That was greater It made Womans $ temperance union. and that was great est. But 1t made a WOman's Chris tian Temperance Union, and that, and that alone. made greatness in any de gree possible to all the rest. Nay. dare go even further Qoyal subject though 1 am and not unmindful of the royal preSence) l venture to say that not even such masteriy and magniti- cent leadership as this white ribbon army has has known, could have borne its victorious banner to the gate of every welcoming natien. or have lifted the towers of yon fair Temple to the sky, had not the hearts of the women of the world been already the temples of the living God. It was the voice of Christ that called together the white haired and white-souled women of that first crusade, and it is the Christ in the union, the Christ in the temperance and the Chrisl in the woman that has been, in all this movement, the secret and source of its success and power. "
 THls Sis the way the paragould SoliphOne presents marriages: