Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-08
The Common Enemy.

The Common Enemy.
The saloon is the most awful curse
our world has ever known. Stamp 1t
out. The saloon entails unspeakable
misery wherever it gains foothold.
Stamp it out The saloon brushes
hearts as ruthlessly as cattle crush the
flowers upon which they tread. Stamp
it out. The saloon withers manhood
with simoom blast Stamp it out
The saloon causes the black waters OF
crime to flow like a flood. Stamp 1t
out. The saloon steals the bread from
the mouths of women and children.
Stamp it out. The saloon topples our
reason and peoples our asylums. Stamp
it out. The saloon corrupts politics
and debauches our public servants.
Stamp it out The saloon paralyzes
law and holds with an iron grip its ad-
ministrators. Stamp it out The sa-
loon burdens the State 10y the waste of
untold millions. Stamp it out. The
saloon pollutes the face of civilization.
Stamp it out. The saloon makes the
conscience of society as weakas a body
which has received a paralytic stroke.
Stamp it out. The saloon is a menace
to the Church of God and every right
eous cause upon the earth. Stamp 1t
out. The saloon defiles the bodies,
blights the minds. and ruins the souls
of victims. Stamp it out. The saloon
sends thousands staggering into eter-
nlty with eternal anathemas ringing
in their ears. O. brothers, 10y your
prayers and words and influence and
t,otes stamp it out -EpuorH Herald.
Miss Ida C. Clothier is sending out
a little message to the Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Unions on behalf of
the Young Woman's Department of the
National w. C. T. L. 1t is most ten
der, loving, touching appeal to the
members of the W. c. L. L. to assist
the young women to organize into 5,
and to take up their own lines of work.
To encourage them in every way to do
all they can to influence the young
men to come into the temperance work
and live upon the lofty heights of
purer manhood
In her closing remarks she says:
Sisters Of the W. c. T, T., will you not
do all in your power to help these
young women, believing that as the
nation will demand so much of the
wOmanhood of tomorrow, you can III
no way better aid the cause you love?
And when you go home from that W.
c.. Z. U. meeting with only four or five
faithful ones present, do not say that
you don't know as it does any good to
hold on" or make an unkind criticism,
or comment unfavOrably on the work
you have had to do, for that bright
daughter is not going to fall i'll love
with what you term prosy, dlsagreeable
work. But let the girls see the beau
tiful side Of our work the clearing of
the pathway, the lifting the burden,
the strengthening the weak, the help
ing the erring one, the redeeming of a
soul and very few young women but
will be willing to help in such cause.
Thousands of girls who have been total
abstainers all their lives, but who
never have realized what this great
evil is that we fight, need to have the
thought brought home to them, that
through silence, Indifference, or lack
of desire to do anything, they are help
ing the enemy.
Then will these young women aroused
from their lethargy. be our strongest
allies and helpers; and with one hand
placed in the hands of our parents for
guidance. with the other will grasp the
hand of the children, and lead them
through brighter, broader and purer
pathways, and together the three gen
erations in one, crush out the great
destroyer of the home here and the
home eternal"