The Penn's Grove record., 1896-05-01

" AMY 80
al Prohibition Party. The big State Of
Texas has come under the local option
law within a year. The State Of Miss.
issippi, in eighty OF its eighty-nine
counties, is under local option. In Ar
kansas an equally large proportion of
area is under prohibition by local OPP
ton. The signatures of the women
there, on a petition against saloons, had
equal force with ballots. In Colorado
a week or two ago the women in all the
towns and villages voted for license or
no license. The press reports, which
are not tinctured with temperance yir-
us, said the temperance cause won all
along the line"
"Do you notice a change in the gen.
eral feeling for the temperance cause?'
The reporter asked.
"There is an entirely different atmos.
phere," Miss Willard replied. "We
live in an impressionist age, and we
judge by the atmosphere. 1t is more
highly charged by prohibition ozone
than it was years ago."
"And what is the end to be?"
"Total prohibition" Miss Willard
replied, with decision, ''salted down
with salt sea waves. Not sad sea waves
for they will be joyful.
GLOW soon? Certainly in fifty years;
perhaps in half that time, we move SO
rapidly. Legislatures in the South pass
scores OF bills at every session exempt
ing the territory within so many hum
bred %feet-within SO many miles or
fractions of miIes-of churches, COL
leges, schools, and charitable institu-
tions from the liquor curse,
Eyes, we do that 20 a certain extent
here, but it is a Southern idea, and
they apply it more frequently than we
do. They say in some Of the Southern
States that no town that has not a
municipal form of government shall
have a saloon. The devotion of the
people is such that in many places they
have torn up their charters, much as
they enjoyed the privileges they gave,
and went back TO village ordinances to
get rid of the saloon.
Tennessee was the first State to
make this municipal government law.
Judge East of Nashville said he could
tell me of town after town where the
people had torn up their charters to get
rid Of the pesthOuse, which is called
more and more the curse
"Australla and New Zealand have
given the ballot to women. Men Say
they must have their votes to put down
the curse, as they cannot do it alone.
New-Zealand is perhaps the most pro.
gressive country on which the sun
shines. The temperance, labor, and
eq~ual-suffrage movements there are a
generation in advance of this country.
In Norway the liquor traffic is under
State control, with II provision that
every five years all men and women
twenty-five years old or over shall have
a chance to vote as to whether they de-
sire to have the State liquor agency
continued or not. If it is abolished,
they will have prohibition out and out.
They voted this Spring in twelve lead
ing towns against the curse. When the
was over the people sang "A
Fast Mountain Is Our GOd,' and the
Lutheran priest pronounced the bene.
diction. The Woman's Christian lem.
perance Union is working in all this,
the keynote being the protection OF the
eyes, / believe in woman suffrage.
men say the ballots of the wom-
Ell will mean death to their trade,
IL believe in The bicycle, too. 1t is
The greatest agent of the temperance
The human body and brain
IA stimulant. Our heavenly
has provided this stimulant for
physical system in oxygen"
ut bas been said here" the reporter
remarked, "that bicycle riding, by
stimulating the thirst. has increased
he use of intoxicating drinks, and that
women are using them more"
son, folly!" Miss Willard replied.
In Chicago there is nothing so hated
BY the saloon keeper, the cigarette deal.
s, aud the proprietor of the low thea
re as the bicycle. They say the people
ire all scurrying for the parks.
Smokers and bicycle trainers say
'iders can't smoke. For once the smoke
in their own faces. Men must
temperate to ride. To keep ones
balance is the sine qua non of riding. l
10 not ride outside of secluded paths.
in public streets is wearing for
10Th men and women, l am glad the
is making it possible for work.
ng girls here and in London to get in.
o the country.
II believe the X rays are going to do
much for the temperance cause. BY
heir means drinkers and cigarette
mokers can be shown the steady de-
in their system which follow
he practices. Seeing is believing"
democratic State COnventiOn.-Reduc.