The Penn's Grove record., 1895-09-13

The old officers we're re. elected, with
the exception Of Mrs. o. J. Croft, the
Recording Secretary, who has served
for several years and declined on &C.
count of failing health, as follows.
President Mrs. II. p. Patterson,
WoodstowD.
Corresponding Secretary-Mrs. q. B.
Wistar, Salem.
Recording Secretary Mrs. Mary U.
Bassett, Sharptown. lrnyNfs
Treasurer-Mrs. j. @. Davis, Salem.
The same superintendent were re-
elected with the exception that Mrs. 6.
N. johnson was put in charge of Ju-
venile Work; Mrs. H. A. Torton, I'm
fermented wine at the Lords Table, in
place of Mrs. Mary Smith deceased,
and Mrs. A. E. Maskell takes Mrs. Tor
toms place on Narcotics.
In the evening Mrs. Ella A. Boole,
of New York, made a very forcible ad-
dress IN W. G. 7. u. work and prohi.
bition. She is a very pleasing speaker
and holds the attention of the audience
by her able arguments and pleasing il
Illustrations. She said we are appalled, by
the pauperism, crime and anarchy caus-
ed by the liquor traffic. The action of
most people reminded her of the Irish
servant who was trying 10 mop up all
the water while the faucet was open
and flooding the room. She said she
did not have time to turn it off. 1t is
just as much u mission to close the
saloon as reform the dfunkard. They
were getting tired Of hopping up the
floor, when FIVE drunkards were made
to one reformed, and wanted 10 get at
the faucet to turn 1t off. She did not
believe intemperance is the great crime
of the age. An individual is solely re.
sponsible for getting drunk. The great
crime is in legalizing the saloon by your
votes to allow him to get drunk.
The saloon is an enemy of man as 1t
Injuries him mentally, units him for bu-
s%iness, weakens his will power and NOR
al force and makes him unfit for labor.
Railroad Companies will not hire
drunkards as the lives of passengers are
entrusted to them and it is the business
of the Companies to make the least re-
s%ponsibility of risk. If there. is an
enemy to horses, cows or hogs as in
some parts of the State the State Board
of Health is called upon to investigate
and eXtermiuate il. Not 81 with the
enemy of man. Is it not lis important
to have sober Presidents, Governors
and Legislators? The day is coming
when voters shall demand total abstain
eTs.
There is to be IA campaign for person
al liberty in New York. Prohibition
lists do not pretend to say what a mar
shall drink, but no man should have
the right to sell. Drinking on sunday
means more starvation, wife beating
and court work on Monday. IT men
were to spend all the money for neces-
saries of life that is spent for liquor
there would be the biggest boom in bu-
siness in this country you ever saw.
A pint of alcohol and q pint of water
poured together will not make a quart,
because the alcohol eats up the water.
She has seen many a couple made man
and wife, with the blessing that no
mar should separate whom God had
Joined, yet has seen them separated by
the saloon keeper. If the husband has
the personal liberty to get drunk has
not the wife the personal rights for pro-
tection2 We have just as much right
to make him a total abstainer as to
make him send his children to school or
arrest him as vagrant for non support
of his family.
The Sunday School boys of to-day
will he the drunkards a few years hence.
1t is the example Of the fathers in
drinking and voting that destroys the
teaching and makes the boys 60 wrong.
There are so many religious people who
do not believe that temperance is a part
of church work. When the churches
work as good as they resolve then we
will win. May the W. G. T. U. Or
g~anization be as powerful in stopping
the legalized saloon as the organized
snow flakes are in stopping a powerful
engine. 1t takes grit to be a member
of the W. q. L. U. and wear the white
ribbon all the time. Won't you help
uphold the banner as a protest against
license
A milk mau of a N. Y. town announ-
ced he was a candidate for Excise Com
missioner. The women pleaded with
him not to be, but he boosted he had a
right to do what he pleased. They told
him they had a right to buy milk Of
whom they pleased, and would not pat
ronize him. He soon withdrew. The
ship of state is grounded in the muddy
forts of all good people to pull her off.
Take hold of the rope and help pull her
off.
In a recent letter to the manufacturers
Mr.. W. F. Benjamin, editor of the Specta-
tor, Rushford, N. Y, says: at may be a
pleasure to you to know the high esteem in
which Chamberlain's medicines are held by
the people of your own state, where they
must be best known. An aunt of mine,
who resides at Dexter, Iowa, was about to