The Press., 1897-03-11
Number 50.
w. C. T. U.

Neal Dow was born March 20, 1894, in Portland, Maine.
 The prohibition state committed of Massachusetts will hold it's annual ban- quet at Lorimer Hall. Fremont Temple, Boston, March: IS, at 5.30 p. m., to which an invitation is extended to all temper ance workers, of all creeds and faith, to unite in a recognition of the grand life work of the father of prohibition of the world," Gen. Neal Dow. Prominent rep- resentatives of, temperance and religious organizations will respond to toasts in honor of Gen. Dow, who will be present if he is able. At 8 p. m., Mir. John G. Wooley will deliver an address in Tre- mont Temple on Meal Dow-his life work" Four hundred and fifty plates will be laid for the banquet, and the menu will be exceptionally fine, as, no doubt, will be the intellectual feast. All the seats in Fremont Temple have been re- served. For tickets and further informa- tion apply to 294 Washington street, Bos- ton-"Union Signal"
 Bishop H. w. Warren writes: ''The great test of any people is whether it is able and worthy to hold what it's heroes have won. Washington would have gone down to history as defeated rebel but for the real heroism of the people he led. Wilberforce would have disappeared into oblivion but for the sturdy, justice-loving English character. Is Maine and the rest of this country able to hold and extend what Neal Dow and the other great tenn perance heroes won? Not all the blood slaves, or towards"
 E.J Wheeler writes: The world is full of 'reformers' who are mere dreamers, who have what psychologists call hyper | trophy of the imaginative faculty and | whose energies are exhausted in devising a scheme and making speeches about it. Their force is static, not dynamic. Neal Dow was a true reformer, who, adapting | his means to his ends, wrought out the idea of prohibition in statute laws, routed | the politicians, subdued mobs, and won 6 lasting victory. He was not the origina- tor of the prohibition idea. for Appleton was ahead of him in that; but he was more, he was the rentiser of it.''
 Some very remarkable women have illustrated Neal Dow's principles in the last thirty years. It is not as we'll nown to temperance people as it ought to be, that Mrs. General Grant made the first move against intoxicating liquors at the | White House, she having secured it's ban. ishment from the New Year reception oi the president. Mrs. Grant was succeeded by Mrs. Hayes, who was an Ohio woman and warm sympathizer with the wo mans crusade; life- long teetotaler, she never offered wine while at the White House. Next came Mrs. Garfield, Mrs Harrison and Mrs. Cleveland, all tota abstainers, and none furnishing wine tc their own guests, though, lacking the CO operation of their husbands, they could not prevent it's use at state dinners, ae could Mrs. Hayes, because the presidents views and practice coincided with hel own. Mrs. Mckinley is we'll kown to be a total abstainer, so that the six wives oi presidents, (President Arthur was wid. ower) since 1868, have perhaps dealt more telling blows against the drinking habit and, per consequence, the liquor traffic, thar any other women who have lived-fol "where McGregore sits is the head of the table"-and what is done at the White House sets the keynote of social observ ance for millions, and sends it's helpful in fluence out into the great and thoughtless world.
 Ut is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine," says the best O. all books, and yet no king ever lived who was not a wine bibber! But when tho people becoms the king, they must hole themselves steady of head and hand, ol abdicate. FIFE Willard.
 "Behold, a sOwer went forth to sow"
 In the spring of the century-long ago.
 Flood and ten1pest, and fire and frost,
 Swept the field, but no seed was lost.
 What of the harvest? The old Maine seet Is growing bread for the great worldh
 need. Mary 4. Lathbury.