The Monitor-register., 1896-03-13
Reasons Why the w. c. T. U. is a
Patriotic Organization.
BY BELLE H. N

BY BELLE H. MOONEY.
Concluded
Is human nature sweet, holy and fruit
full of good rtkings2 Yes. when it gets
light auS air and culture-such as we
give to the beasts of the farm and the
crops of the field. But when it is
poisoned, perverted and de6led then it
becomes bad. Nothing on this earth of
ours can be good under adverse circum-
stances, but it can be under propitious
circumstances. And every organization
that makes the heart and the center of it
a nucleus around which are gathered all
of the vital questions pertaining to the
welfare of society, is evolving for the
future great possibilities. And since
these are the questions that are being
studied and discussed in every farm by
this organization, we ask of you, if the
abolishing Of the saloon, the wiping out
of the sweating system, and doing away
with foreign immigration, the planting of
churches and schools where ignorance
and vice flourish, the upbuilding of the
American home, the purifying of Ameri-
can politics, we ask: do these not have
the ring Of true patriotism ?
Such Ia the spirit that dominates this
organization and such it ever shall be
until better laws govern us. Such it
shall be until our country is swept from
the Atlantic on the East to the Pacific on
the West, from lakeland on the North to
the guifland on the South.
Such it shall be until this government
of ours shall make it easy for its people
to do right and hard for them to do
wrong. Such it shall be until every
home In this land of ours can sing its
r@an of gladness.
Such it will be when the heart force of
this organization sweeps over this land
of ours wiping out every form Of evil
that exists from the slumbering Credit
Mobilier, to the so-called Civil Service
Reform.
The whole future of this Republic, for
good or for i'll, for growth or decay, for
glory or for shame, depends upon what
we as her citizens make it.
We as women have not spent the last
quarter of a century for naught. Many
of us have the wealth of an inherited
tendency to patriotism, such as has been
handed down to us by the loyal mothers
of '61. W. have studied our history
lessons well. We know the needs of this
country of ours to- day full as soeN as u
brothers.
We understand the full value of the
ex-McKinley Tariff Bill, with its Reci-
procity acts, the Wilson Tariff, Civil
Service Reform and the Silver Question.
But back Of all these we understand a
greater need. We understand and we
know that it never will make a difference
which is in power so long as the heart is
wrong.
You as Republicans may shut up your
shops just as soon as our Democratic
brothers get in Office, and cry hard,times.
You may close every manufacturing
/ plant in this country to teach your
employees a lesson. You as Democrats
may return the compliment nexs year, If
opportunity presents itself, but it is
neither here nor it is not there. Protec-
tive Tariff and Free Trade will never
keep America from becoming the grave
yard of another than her aboriginal
children. But it must be and can be
ALL THAT WE DESIRE
By breathing into it, that love Of home
and of country, that sound morality and
honesty of purpose can give us. But these
only can exist when greed of gain and
love of power are swept away Only
when intelligence and virtue 60 hand in
hand and seek out existing evils.
DUR lotto
For God and home and every land, sweeps
the circuit of u globe, carrying good
news to the down-trodden and sin-stained
Of u W land 1t penetrates the darkest
r~ecesses Of beniRhted nations.
And over and above all, 1t has breatbad
to the present and to future generations.
that love for home and native land that
has never before been realized.
We are healing over the wounds that
have been inflicted on this land of ours
by the drink traffic and the evils that
follow it. And this government of ours.
touched as it is being, even now, by the
magic wand OF woman's infiuence. shall
yet show to the world what true patriot
ism is; the fruit will mellow and ripen
and history ever repeat the story of the
New CRUSADE.
Following is q brief sketch of the life
and works of our valued friend, Samuel
B. Carr, of Philadelphia, who so recently
delivered IN address on "Power" before
the Young Friends Literary Society, Of
| Woodstown:
"The deat tn of Samuel B. Carr, asso.
ciate principal of the Eastburn Academy,
Philadelphia, and a weli-known Prohi-
bitionist. at his home on Third day after
noon Of last week, is announced. His
death VA sudden, he having been sick
fof but four days. He was born near
Newtown. Books comfy, in 1874. At an
early age bis parents removed to Buck.
ingham, and hsfshtered the Carsersville
Normal School, from which be graduated.