The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-08-30
PRINCETON w. C. T. u.

PRINCETON w. G. T. U.
PLEDGE.
hereby solemnly promise God helping me, to
abstain from all distilled fermented and malt
liquors, including wine and cider and to employ
ali proper means to discourage the use OF, and |
traffic in the same.
OBJECT.
1t is the object of this organization to plan and
carry forward measures, which, with the blessing |
of God shall result in promoting the cause OF |
total abstinence and in the outlawing OF the
liquor traffic.
Notices of meetings are read from pulpits of
Methodist and Congregational churches.
Mrs. Mary II. Hunt, superin-
tendent Of the Scientific Temper
ance Instruction Departmental the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, reports that thirteen mil
lion children in the public schools
of the United States and Territor-
les are receiving instruction in the
physical and mental damage from
the use of intoxicants viewed from
a scientific standpoint. IS. s.
Journal.
The great London fever of 1889
took scarcely anybody but drunk
ards. In 1866 the yellow fever
took five thousand drinking men
in New Orleans before it touched
sober man. In the British Isles
one visit of cholera swept away
ten thousand persons, not half a
dozen teetotalers in that number.
In the city of Montreal three hun
dred and sixty abstainers had the,
cholera, and but one of them died,
while one thousand five hundred
drinking men died Of the disease.
Medical science refers a distinct
form of idiocy to acute alcoholism.
The'large percentage Of 1mbecile
cases among the miners of West
phalia has been traced to this
cause. Alcohol is an enemy to
the body.-Sezected. r..
PROHIBITION AS WAR MEASURE.
1t is not assuming too say that
all men, deep down in their hearts,
feel that the saloon is a public
enemy. The national conscience
condemns the rum traffic, and yet
it is protected and fostered con-
trary to the deepest convictions Of
almost, if not altogether, the en-
tire people. The reason for the
continuance of the rum power is
not because the judgment Of the
people is not convinced of its dan
gerous nature, but the national
will is not moved. With the
J conviction deep-seated in the ma
ton that the rum power is an
enemy, all that is needed to trans.
form that conviction into action is
a social crisis. Providentlal in.
dications point to that crisis as not
far distant. And we may in the
near future, when the nation is ii
the throes of civil commotion, wit
ness the abolition of the saloon a.
an imperative means of public
safety. Christian Nation
TEMPERANCE AMONG ROMAN CATH
OLICS.
Better and better grows tn
Catholic situation on the saloo1
question. Despite all efforts t
confne it's application to the Col
umbus diocese, the Apostolic dele
gates decision is bound to be a
wide as the continent in it's mora
influence. The three things i
Bishop Watterson's position whic
he approves, are the withdrawn
Of episcopal appreciation from an
society having a iquor-dealer {
saloon-keeper among it's officers
the denial hereafter of admissio
into any such society of anyone e7
gagged directly or indirectly in tt
manufacture or sale of intoxica
ing liquors; and the refusal of a
solution to any already membe
of said societies and engaged
the liquor business, but who carr
it on in a forbidden or disedifyir
way, OF sell openly or secretly (
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