The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-11-30
w. U. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. L. HOBBS.
DEAR WHITE RIBBoNERs

DEAR WHITE RIBBoNERs:
As your leader for the past year,
| am glad to meet you in this our
annual meeting. To you who have
been faithful during the past year,
| would say, continue to be faithful.
The battle is still on, our fight is
not ended. II has been stated by
military experts that forty well
trained soldiers are able to resist ten
thousand who have had no discip-
line. Ifthe Temperance army COM
pared with the great army Of the
world is as small as this comparison
between the figures forty and ten
Thousand would indicate, (and no
doubt it is, } we must remember
that those who have their hearts set
as flint, and who have caught step
one with another, SO that they
march as an unbroken phalanx,
must in the nature Of things make
mighty inroads on the enemy. Itis
for this reason that | regard the
Woman's Temperance movement az
without parallel, and without peer,
because it does not expect TO win
Through any sleight Of hand, it does
mot expect to surprise the enemy by
Iskirmishes o. night attacks, but ir
1.-THE strong day light Of reason and
IIfaith. We are TO encourage oul
hearts by the remembrance that th'
Master said. "a little leaven leav
enth the whole lump" and thougl
Jour work seems small when com
pared with the whole worlds work
! How often we feel discouraged
and especially those Of us who d
=, not keep posted in regard to tn
work what little we see appears $
insignificant. We should remembe
that this great world Of ours is mad
Of the little PARTICLES. If We woul'
, remember that the local and coun
,ltv unions are the foundation of tn
fIState and National work, and tina
,Ithey can no more do without ther
; eIthan the world can the particles tn;
compose it, we should take coul
age. We should not forget that
! Organization there is strength;
that two men together could d
Imuch more than each could alone
!, lone Of our State workers who wa
llasked how TO keep women in tn
, unions said: "a woman who
/, thoroughly converted will not 6
: back on it." She recommends
! 1.-THE Organizer as an infallible aid
4 retaining a woman. She said th;
lcounty unions could meet once i
'lsix months if they kept posted
: 1.-The Signal and Organizer and coul
dllive. | certainly think it is as in
possible for a union to live withol
. Literature as it is for person to Ii,
I without bread, or for grass to gro
! without rain. But | want to te
olyou that the W. c. T. U. is of ag'
! 1t is twenty-one years old. 10
& know, doubtless, especially II
Linen, how important they felt whe
they reached that age. They fe
!, THAT they were free, that is, the
lown man. then the next thing th'
,s,lthey could be somebody's mar
! and also that they could vote. {
. YES, they could vote. / suppo:
] that is why the w. c. T. U. wome
] Iof Indiana wanted to vote, becau.
elthey were Of age. Yes, twenty-or
years old. But | want to tell yo
THAT those twenty-one years ha,
brought many victories, althoug
1.-THE battle has been long and fougl
ol with many hardships. We ha,
eInot completed the work. O, N
! but we have victory whether v
have completion or not. Wome
to-day stand in a much larger rel
,e tion to the world than they d
years ago. Women :
, lday are larger factors in the devt
,flopment of the civilization OF Il
,e country, and are farther advances
,eI and more where God intended th'
ar should be than they were twent
one years ago. And we praise 4
Lord to-day, that He has brought
this victory. We thank God tod
IN THAT He has led us to see that it
IN our duty to not only work al
ut pray, but that it is our highest du
Is to vote. The men through th'
r selfishness and greed have run Il
nationlong enough. and have taup
us To see the danger ahead, and
&. bids us arise in our might and n
cue this nation from the danger
lis fast drifting to. But, oh, frier
c,- lust think Of the twenty-one ht
I. dred thousand victims gone
drunkards' graves during tn
.uI2l years. We should feel thank
- for what we lave done.
n CONTINUED next week.