The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-04-05

And will carry us through .
THIRD DISTRICT OFFICERS.
President-Mrs. DR.. Gregg,
Quiet Dell.
Secretary-Miss Jennie Pick.
ems, Quiet Dell.
Treasurer-Mrs. Mollie Davis.
Lost Creek.
Nr. Box On Temperance Reform.
The editor of the Ladies' Home
journal Mr. Box, is a total alb
stainer, and never fails upon an
occasion to say an earnest word
for this principle. Il wish he
says in a recent article in his
Journal, that the good have
derived from these temperance
principles might come to every
man j know" Mr.. Box pleads
for a higher education of the PEG.
pie and declares that intemper-
ance is the product of ignorance
and when people are educated
the saloon will go through lack
of patronage. We rejoice when
ever publication of the circula
ton and influence Of the Loiies'
Home journal stands for correct
principles of living, and perhaps
at present we can hardly expect
a society organ to do more. but
we have a right to expect that q
man of Mr.. Bok's calibre. should
attain to a more comprehensive
view Of the situation that con
fronts the reformers OF to day.
If the saloon were not licens.
ed, if the government received
no revenue from the business. if
it were not protected by law. no
government permit, no saloon
politics, nothing but simply the
existence of liquor, as opium to-
day exists, then every temper
ance reformer could lock arms
with the editor of the Ladies'
Home Journal and say, I'VE will
kill this evil by destroying the
for it" But the saloon
Is a gtt6tie Institution, it has to do
with the public's welfare, and it
has proven Itself to be danger,
a nuisance, that the community,
the State, the Nation, can do no
other than treat it as such. This
is all that Prohibition" which
Mr.. Box condemns. means. The
State has nothing to do with the
Individual appetite, but it should
have everything to do with the
public institution. and so it
loes, but thus far o"ig to protect
il.
Mr.. Box says 1.-THE saloon sup.
ply a demand. Let us see how
this demand comes. Perhaps no
better example could be found
Of building up demand than in
the history of the LmIjeS' Home
Jon,moi When the present edi.
tor took possession of it, it was
a feeble affair, an Improbable in
vestment The demand for the
L0dies' Home Jouwd was very |
limited, but by marvellous ener.
gy and enterprise it was pushed
into every part Of the country
until today there are thousands
of homes that feel they must
have it. Mr.. Box created the de-
mand.
Vet great as his enterprise has
been, it is no greater than that
of the brewers and distillers in
pushing their wares upon the
people. the difference resting
only in this; one with a good
article stood alone. the other
with vicious article was foster,
ed by law.
AS to the needs of education
concerning which reformers are
all agreed, we would simply ask,
who is it that is pushing the edu-
cational work for temperance
living today The answer is
not far to find The aggressive
workers for Prohibition.
The last Democratic State
Legislature failed to even pass
the necessary appropriation bills
and had to be reconvened by the
Governor The Republican Leg.
islature the urst in - years
adjourned on schedule time
within the IL DAYS limit. and did