Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-19
OUR PLEDGE.

Il nereby SOieInnly pIouitnc, Oou
helping me,to abstain from all distilled,
fsrmented and malt liquors, including
wine, beer and cider, and to employ all
proper means to discourage the use of,
and traffic in the same.'
1t is with sorrow that we learn Of
the death of our beloved friend and
leader, Miss Frances Il. Willard. The
sad news coming SO late last evening,
obliges us to postpone a special tribute
to her memory until next week.
Let your light SO shine before men
that they may see your good works and
glorify your father which is In heaven.
The mar who is trying to make the
world a better living place can be found
lighting the liquor traffic
DIR. Newman Hall once said. IL thank
God for being a Christian minister, and
after that for being a total ~abstaiper."
GOSPEL TEMPERANCE.
Gospel temperance" is the news of
a power that can deliver. 1t proclaiMs
the grace Of God IS the drunkard's
hope. THE gospel is the power OF
God unto salvation" from intemper-
ance. The grace of God can save.
Nothing else can. The Lion of the
Tribe or Judah has conquered, and can
conquer every form of cvil.sHe is
omnipotent. He is mighty to the pull
ing down OF strongholds. He can
storm and carry any heart.r Anyone
can be freed from evil by the grace of
God. The church should be thorough
ly alive 10 temperance work for she has
the cleansing virtue, She should be
more earnest in applying the remedy.
She should bring the drinkers to their
fountain. Finding them among the
tombs, she should bring them to the
feet of Jesus. lie will clothe them and
put them in their right mind.-Reo. r.
M. Foster.
The floral emblem OF the Worlds w.
q. I. u. is the water lily. The roots of
this blossom are in the mud but its
white radiance mi from its passion
for the sunshine, and the home finds In
1t a true emblem because only as the
sunshine of love and truth keeps its
atmosphere wholesome and pure can
little children hope to grow up accord
ing to the law Of God.
Miss Willard has said: "When
woman is transplanttd from the o
servatories of ~seclusion into the great
open garden of common life, the man
agement of that garden must change"
It.i a grand thing surely, to be able
to trace upon the canvas features OF
beauty, but, ahf to restore the image of
God to the face that is really the face
that smiles back into your own, to
there the image of God, which
was lost. that is a better office.-Frances
e. Willard.
Cambridge, Mass, is unique as al
prohibition city. No. other city of
equal size has ever been carried for
mo license" two years in SUGGESTIONS
in Cambridge that policy has prevailed
ut eleven successive elections. At
first the usual objections were made
The city could not do without the
revenue, etc but all have been
refuted by. actual exper-
ence. We are told that the valuation
II Cambridge, during ten years of
license, dropped in round numbers,
100000; during ten years of "nU
icense," it has risen $24.000,O0O. In
he license decade the average gain in
population was 1882; in the mo
license period it has been 2,195. In
the first ten years Isl houses were built
annually; in the second decade tile
average has been 1892. And please
note this point particularly-the city
gets annually in taxes on the increased
valuation, under n license three or
tour times as much as it wonld get
from license fees. Two years ago,
257 Cambridge merchants in all de-
partments of business. signed a public
declaring that "no license had
benefited the material interests of the
city and expressed a hope for its con-
Linuance, The finest feature of the
of the fiftieth anniversary
of the city, was, says the Nec York. In
dependent, 1.-The spectacle OF $4,000
keeping holiday and from san
rise to sun set not a drunken man was
visible anywhere. Union Signel.
A HOME BAR.
Now if you must drink, make your
wife your ~barkeeper, lend her az to buy
\ gallon of whiskey for a beginning.
and every time you want a drink. go to
her and pay her ten cents for it. Ii she
waters it 25 per cent it will be none the
for you. BY the time yon have
drunk a gallon, she will have S7.12, or
to refund the So, borrowed of
you for the gallon of whiskey, and have
i balance of IS. IL. She will be enabled
to conduct further operations on her
own capital, and when yon become an
inebriate unable to support yourself,
Stunned and dispised by oil respectable
your wife will have money
enough to keep you until you get ready
to fill drunkard's grave.
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