Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-03-28
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. CT. U.

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The folio wing is the response to the
addresses of welcome to the convention
of the w. G. T. u, of the First District,
given by Mss Lucy Hardin:
Dear Sisters-I cannot adequately ex-
press the true feelings of gratitude and
appreciation, inspired by the royal well
come we have received. Your bright
faces, loving handclasps, kind greetings
and royal welcome, make us all feel
that it is good to be here, and strength
ems the tie that binds our hearts. An
other year has rolled away and by the
goodness OF God we have been spared
to meet in our Second District Conven-
ton to report work undertaken all
along the line, and to plan more and
better work for the coming year. Our
lives stand together, one in object, aim
and purpose, by God's strength to puri-
fy the home. We plead for the sacred
cause of a clear brain, an untrembling
hand and a steady beating heart. We
aim to lift the standard to the pure IN
heart, in lie, in literature and in art.
We are u%ndismayed by opposition, dis
appointments or ridicule. Our work is
in common, and is devoid of envy, jeal-
ousy or political aspirations. We are
mi in aim and thought, and we be
lieve that our coming together will be
Tor good. The evil we are fighting is
not n that came into life in a decade,
but has come marching steadily down
in its onward step until it has become
so alarming in its sweep of human
souls, that the womanhood of America
has put its shoulder to the wheel, and
are organized for the protection of
loved ones. The Woman's Christian
Temperance Union is not a one idead
organization as many would have you
think, seeking only to overthrow the
liquor traffic, tear down the saloons
and empty all the whisky barrels, it
would do all this, if it could, but real
izing that the mills of the Gods grind
slowly, they branch out into almost
every conceivable line of philanthropic
work. There are now more than forty
different departments with a consecra
ted, capable woman atthe head of each,
and all seeking to alleviate in some
form suffering humanity. A one sided
movement makes one sided advocates.
The DO Everything Policy is ours,
not Of our choosing, but is an inevitable
evolution. Woman's patient steadfast-
ness in following the enemies of those
she loves through every lane of life,
has led her to antagonize the alcohol
habit, and the liquor habit; just where
they are, wherever that may be and
since these are everywhere, her policy
will be to do everything. Everything is
not in the temperance reform, but the
temperance reform should be in every
thing. The temperance cause started
out well nigh alone, but mighty forces
have joined us in the long march. We
are now in the midst of the Waterloo,
battle, and in the providence of God,
the temperance army will not have to
fight that out alone, for science has
come up with its glittering contingent,
political economy displays its legions,
the woman question brings an Amazon
ian army upon the field, and the stout
ranks of labor stretch away far as the
eye can reach. The agitation has not
been as great in the past year as form
erly and the reasons are not far to seek.
The financial panic has riveted the at
tention of the public, on their own dan
gers and disasters, and the spirit of
money making has invaded the ranks
OF the temperance army itself, but it is
a lively issue today, IN issue that stirs
such deadly hatred Is by no means
dead. 1t is still quick with fighting
blood, and its enemies know this even
better than its friends. The pessimist
says and truly there was never so
much liquor manufactured in any one
year since time began, as in 1893, and
as a consequence never so much liquor
flow down the peoples throats as in
this same year of grace. But, there is
each year q larger acreage from which
the brewer and distiller may gather the
golden grain and luscious fruits, there
are more people to imbibe the exhilarat-
ing poison, but there was never so much
intelligent thin hiking in ony one year, as
to the drink delusion. There were never
so many children studying in the
schools, the laws of written in their
members, there were never so many
total abstainers in proportion to the
population, never so many intelligent
people who could render a reason, scien-
tific, ethical, aesthetic for their total
abstinence faith as now; there were
never so many pulpits from which to
lombard the liquor traffic and the drink
habit, there we're never so many journ-
alists who had a friendly word to say
for the temperance reform, there was
never such a stirring up of temperance
politics, for the foremost historic nation
Of the world, Great Britain has this
year, for the first time adopted as a
plank in the platform of the dominant
party the principle that the people shall
themselves decide whether or not they
want the public house. The great world
brain is becoming saturated with the