Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-07-13
Temperance Comment.
Edited by the Press Superintendent OF the
W. G. r. U. Of Willmar.1
NATIONAL w. c.. T. q. CONVEN
TTON

TON.
The local arrangements are wen
under way for the national w. Z. L.
II. convention which is to take place
at the Peoples Church, St, Paul,
Nov. IL to is. Mrs. G. S. Soule is
chairman of the committee. A prlncl-
pal event will be the election OF Miss
Wizards successor. FIVE hundred
delegates and large number OF visit
ors are expected. Among the number
are: Lady Henry Somerset, OF Eng
land; Pundlti Ramabai, of India, and
Miss Johannsdottir, of Iceland.
Among the noted speakers will be
Mrs. Clara Hoffman, state president
of Missouri: Mrs. Katharine Lente
Stevenson, national corresponding
secretary; Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens,
acting PRESIDENT; Mrs. Beauchamp,
president of Kentucky: DR.. Anna
Shaw, of Rochester, N. Y: Archbish-
OPP Ireland; Judge Pollock, of Fargo;
Leonora Barry Lake, of St. Louis,
of the Catholic Total Abstinence So
cieties: Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, of Bos-
ton, superintendent of scientific in
struction; Mrs. Louise Rounds, state
president of Illinois: Mrs. Benjamin,
president of Michigan; Mrs. Preston,
of North Dakota, and Mrs. Crammer,
of South Dakota.
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Tho W7;11,,,o,, T1pinp uo11 1.orro.
scented at the annual convention of the
eighth district of the w. G. 7. U. of
Minnesota, which was held IN Litch-
field June % and %. The delegates
report an interesting and profitable
convention. Instead of having dis
trict superintendent of each depart
ment of work, it was decided to let the
superintendent of departments in
each county have charge of the work
under the general supervision of the
executive committee of the district,
the coming year.
Every state in the Union except
Virginia, Georgia, Arkansas and
Utah now requires scientific temper
ance instruction for all pupils in it's
public schools.
Michigan Christian Advocate: Were
every law-breaking saloonkeeper's
license revoked, there wouldn't be
saloons enough left to quench the
thirst of the genteel wine bibbers and
tipplers who secretly patronize the
saloons, to say nothing of the great
and shameless mass who drink be-
cause they can't help it, and wouldn't
if they could.
Western Broker: Brewers and dis
tillers are considering plans for lin
ing beer and whisky kegs or barrels
with aluminium as preservative pro-
cess. But what is the use so long as
stomachs cannot be similarly lined?
II II
Cornerstone: If the government
would pursue the barbarous liquor
traffic which aourishes under our own
flag with the same vigor and determi-
nation with which Dewey went for the
Spanish fleet at Manila, the old ty-
rant would soon be driven from our
land.
There are pitfalls surrounding camp
life and temptations trailing in the
rear OF our army which are permitted,
but could be avoided to a great ex-
tent by organized public opinion. If
it is imperatively demanded that can
teens and every other device for sup
, plying our soldiers with liquor be
forbidden, and demoralizing camp
followers are prevented from ap-
preaching nearer than remote picket
lines, the morals of our boys in blue
} would be immeasurably safer than
under the usual regime. If our gov
eminent could be induced to furnish
some other luxury in place of tobacco
for smoking or chewing. we might
anticipate that some of the carefully
reared sons from Christian homes
2 would return as clean as they went
out If, besides this, the 'shome-
guard" would provide plenty of first
class reading matter-papers, maya
zines, books,-to while away the idle
> hours, it would help protect the Union
army from more dangerous foes than
the Spaniards.. All death-dealino
devices have been improved and per-
fected since our Civil war. Cannot
the government and the people device
progressive and moral defenses also
that those whom we delight to honor
r as our. national defenders may not
return to US with Incorporate habits
t and bankrupt in principle. z
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