The Press., 1894-06-21
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.

mas Iallen OH SlXty per cent. since lSSu.
 It is stated that Maine Is less affected by the financial and industrial depression of the country than any other northern state. Has the prohibitory law anything ] to do with it
 The grand jury of Pittsfeld, Illinois, at it's recent sitting, adopted the following resolution:
 WHEREAS, Three-fourths of the time of the present grand jury has been taken up Investigating cases caused directly or in directly by the sale or use of intoxicating liquor, thereby causing great expense to the people of Pike county and making much litigation in our courts; therefore be it
 Resolved, That the best interests of Pike county would be advanced, If the sale of intoxating liquor was prevented | within our state.
 Union Signal: "Hero of Prohibition" is the headline in one of Chicago's lead ing republican papers, referring to Gen. eral Neal Dow's ovation at Staten Island on Sunday. Of the fourteen memorable speeches made at the opening meeting of the great temperance congress, General Dow's was declared to be the most inter- esting. Two thousand white handker- chiefs composed the Chautauqua salute which welcomed the 'grand old man" of prohibition. His lips quivered as he year, to respond, but he soon recovered perfect coWposure and delivered power full address, whose closing sentence was resonant with truth-"Christians have the whole solution of the liquor business in their own hands; when church mem- bers say Go and vote, Go, the grog-shop will go."
 Through the kindness of Miss Kendall, a lady in New York, gold medal will be given by the National Department of Mercy for the best essay on "The Atti- tude of the Bible Toward Mans Treat ment of Dumb Animals"
 Essays are limited to not less than 2,OOO, and not more than 5000, words.
 The age of those who compete is to be from IA years to Is years inclusive.
 Essays must not be signed; but name and address and age of writer written on a separate sheet, must be sent with the essays in a sealed envelope. Enclose stamp if you wish your essay returned.
 All essays must be sent by August 10th, 1894, to Mrs. Emanuel Friend, 594 Jack son-st., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to be ex- amined by committee appointed for the purpose. No essays will be accepted af- ter Aug. 18th.
 Specimens of the literature used in this department will be sent to any young per- son sending name and addrose to Mary F. Lowell, Sup't Dept of Mercy, Box 163, Bryn Mawr, Penn.
 Extract from Joseph Cooks address at the worlds congress of temperance work CTS at Staten Island, June 3d, 4th, 9th:
 "In the rising tide of temperance agita- tion in modern days, the wave of prohi- bition has most strategic position. All the waves that rise behind it urge it on. All the waves that rise before it are urged on by it. It commands the sea. There is, no doubt from time to time, reces- sion of minor pillows and eddies. But, as the horologe of time strikes the advanc- ing, Hateful years, the central idea of the temperance reform continually rises.
 '1760. John Wesley denounces liquor sellers as living in houses stained with
 blood, and driving men to perdition like sheep.
 "1795. pr. Rush, in cooperation with
 Franklin and Putnam, assails the drink ing customs of his day in the name of sci
 ence.
 ] "1S10. Lyman Beecher launches the
 thunderbolts of the church against in-
 temperance.
 "1826. Justin Edwards, in the Ameri-
 can society for the promotion of temper
 perance, lifts the educated sentiment of the land to abhorrence of the liquor traf-
 tic and of the drinking customs of society. 1888. Massachusetts adopts the ia. nous law, forbidding the sale at any one
 time of any less quantity than 15 gallons. "1840. The Washingtonian movement commences, and John B. Cough becomes on both sides of the sea the foremost ad 3 vocate of total abstinence.
 "1951. Conserving the whole moral
 and political force of the previous move
 ments, the Maine law arrives, with Nea Dow as it's originator and champion. y 1874. The Woman's Christian Fem
 perance Union is organized, and under
 the leadership of Frances E. Willard and later of Lady Henry Somerset and
 their co-laborers, achieves a career o r varied beneficence unmatched among or ganizations of it's class in the whole tide T of time.
 . "1S9S. The supreme court of the u United States decides in the Kansas caset
 that prohibition of the liquor traffic ii :, constitutional.
 1898. Scientific temperance instruc tion is made mandatory in the schools O n 39 American states and all the territories I 1884. Colorado grants to womel :, equal suffrage, and woman's ballot fl everywhere dreaded by the saloon as tn, II ally of prohibition.
 e "1995. If it is permitted to forecas e the future, may we not hope for con . gresSional Investigating commission vest l. ed with power to unveil the horrors O d the charnel houses which the liquor trai e fic has filled with dead mems bones an o all uncleanness "1900. May we not hope that befor 's the close of the century scientific temper d ance education will have been sprea d over the entire republic? Out of A state V it now covers 38, and all the territories ; with the District of Columbia, Annapoli Ill and West Point.
 n "1910. At this date the cities are like It ly to contain a majority of the populatio # of the land. Unless the liquor traffic ~ brought under control, some great disas 'h ter, caused by the political despotism (
 the dramshop, will probably occur an ,s will become the basis of colossal reforms =
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