The Monitor-register., 1896-04-17
Local.

The recent Salem county School of
Meth dds held at Daretown was exception
ally fortunate in its corps of W. @. T. u.
press reporters in attendance. Mrs. T..
Myers. Daretown, the newly elected
County Superintendent of the Press-in
place of Mrs. M. j. Pancoast, Salem,
who has so long and ably served in this
department, but o elected Superin-
tendent of Mothers Meetings-reported
to MONITOR REGISTER; Mrs. Pancoast to
Salem Standard; Mrs. Carpenter to
South ~Jerseyman; another Salem sister
whose name has escaped me, but whose
fine face is very present, to Salem Sun-
beam; Mrs. Torton to Pennsgrove Record;
Mrs. 3. N. johnson, to Elmer Times, and
your correspondent to Nep Jersey Gazette,
beside the condensed report sent by Mrs.
Myers to the Philadelphia Ledger.
And yet, only those who were in attend
ance will ever know how blessed it was
to be there. 1t was only when in the
personal presence at these gatherings that
there comes to us a degree of what the
white ribbon stands for, which Anna
Powell was led to say during the morn
ing's devotional hour represents Peace,
Purity, Prohibition, Patriotism.
Mrs. Torton said in her beautifully
earnest prayer that sometimes we feel
that people are being rocked in the cradle
of indifference to these things.
Margaret B. Ellis. our beloved CORES.
ponding Secretary, whose presence
throughout the day seemed a very pillar
of strength and cheer, said: ''The little
blaze lighted % years ago is blazing
still. Take on fresh courage to-day. All
that God asks us to do is just to do the
little things at our feet"
DIR. Ewing in his welcome to the dele
gates, predicted that within the coming
ten years a great conflict will take place
between the temperance forces and the
rum power for which the members of the
w CT. U. have been preparing them
selves all these years, and in which they
will take a prominent part. He wei.
coined the delegates not only to the viii
lage and the homes of Daretown, and
to the handsome church of which he is
pastor, but welcomed them to visit if
they wished the old church built 1877
years ago, or ten gears before the Deelara.
ton Of Independence.
MIR. Myers ia welcoming the delegates
made the strikingly honest statement, SO
honest that we cannot understand how
any thoughtful man Especially can ever
mention hard times without a blush in
face of the fact that all social, political
and financial questions pale into insignif-
icance before the temperance question.
And right here / will insert a statement
made by Kentucky's noted orator, Col.
George W. Balm, at a large temperance
meeting recently held in Washington.
"Col. Balm opened his address by
asserting his belief that one of the causes
of the recent financial depression was the
spending of 81, 600, 900, 900 in 1894 by the
American people for liquor an~d!tobacco."
He continued by saying:
DO not say our figures are xagger-
ated, until Congress gives us a committee
of inquiry to prove that they are wrong.
We have a larger and more expensive
standing army of ~drunkards than the
military forces of any country in the
world. The liquor men say that thou
sands would be thrown out of work if
the saloons were closed. 1t is estimated
that 400. 900 would be idle; but where
ever a distillery now employs 100 men the
commercial industry which would take
its place would employ 8 900 men, and in
a very short time 2, 800, 900 men would be
engaged in the industries which would
take the place of the distilleries and the
breweries. If the workingmen of
Chicago had saved the money they spent
in one day for liquor during the Pullman
strike they could have bought the whole
Pullman plant"
This statement surely adds weight to
Mr.. Myers assertion,i hich time did not
permit him to explain.
MI. Myers very amusingly said that as
president of the Salem County Temper.
auce Alliance, I feel that l am president
of the Salem County Temperance RelS.
dnce, because we are depending upon you
of the W. G. T. U. An honest confession
| is healthful to the s0ul--and am snra wa
all felt strengthened thereby.
But there, l am not going to add any
more to the excellent report of last week.
You should have been there, as I have
frequently said before.