Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-11-30
W. c. 7. U NOTES.

from this terrible evil. wc call upon all
TO unite in an earnest. continued effort
to hold the ground already won, and
move onward together to complete
victory over the foes We fight. Ma
tional Convention Programme.
We eladly greet our readers after q
vacation of some weeks, and do SO with
tho desire to mako our notes better than
ever before.
Practical helpfulness to Delaware
white-ribhoners, ard an arrest Of
thought TO those who are indifferent
to the temperance question are the
aims that inuye the pen each time, and
we ask the corporation of unions in
etfecting tho first purpose by keeIing
MS regularly informed of their work, so
hat we can pass it on along tho lines
pf the State union, through this
medium.
We do not doubt that the majority Of
delegates to our State Convention gave
a report of the successful meeting TO
their respective unions, those of Smyrna
aud Georgetown we know having done
sc at convention meeting.
Tho members OF tho union of the
latter town have been aroused to action
concerning, the violation Of the cigar
ette law, aud it would be well il all
unions in the State tried TO protect tho
boys in like manner.
The national superintendent of anti
narcotics, Mrs. E. b. Ingalls,, states in
her recent annual report. that she
finds that teachers everywhere are
glad to have tho subject brought before
,their pupils, for the cigarette o7il is
becoming more and more q serious
ploblom for educators
+. Our;s6th annual national ~. G. 7. u,
convention has passed into history, and
a most wonderful meeting it was, with
over 200 delegates from the North
South, Fast and West Of our fair land
and many visitors from within, and
without its broad domain.
Through the kindness of a Seattle
relative twhere, as is known the con-
vention was heidi. who had hearty
welcome ready for the non-arpearing
Delaware representative, copies Of the
city papers were received containing
full reports of the convention, and good
photographs of our workers, showing
the journalistic enterprise of .'the
Queen City of the Northwest Pacific
const. -
The convention programme, in white
and silver cover, and containing photo
graphs of Miss Willard, Mrs. Stevens
Anna Gordon and the church in which
the National W. G. L. U. was organ.
ized-in Cleveland, Ohio, lhT4-was
also sent MS, and is a beautiful SOU
venir of our silver anniversary conven-
tion.
The Union Signals of November 9th
and 18th. contain full reports of the
proceedings of the convention from
which material for echo meetings can
be obtained, thus bringing tho great
conyocation before the people, anc
showing to degree the breadth of the
work of Our organization, in which a
philanthropic woman can always find O
mission.
We select the following bits from oul
national Presidents, Mrs. Lillian Nj.
n. Stevens. fine annual address:
Agitate, educate, organize, are oui
watchwords.
I'VE can not be too thankful for tn,
great influence exerted by those stand
ing at the head of some of the great in
dustries, in requiring total abstinenct
of their employees. In reply to questions
sent out by the United States Depart
ment Of Labor it appeared that among
those discriminating against drinl
| were 80 Fer cent of the railroads, 7!
per cent of the manufacturers, So re
| cent Of the tratlurs, and ~ Fer cent o
| the agrioulturiStS-,the majority o
| these forbidding the use of lntoxicant
1 no Al, nh la d, l,,4
only while the employees are on duty. !
The other day we noticed in an un
| friendly journal paragraph to tn
effect that this was u hard year fer tn
total abstainers and prohiEitionists
quoting as proof Prof. Atwater's state
ments regarding alcohol, the repeal o
| prohibition in Alaska. and the circula
| tion of book recently published il
\ England called The Temperance Prob
lem and Social Reform, which hool
fayors regulation instead of prohibition
We need have no fear that our caus
has been set back by Prof. Atwater
revclaticn. Suppos,ng that he ha
proven to his satisfaction that alcohc
is sometimes a food. we still have o.
our side the vast majority of exper
estimony proving to our satisfactio
that it is not food We should
thankful that even among those VIII
agree with Prof. Atwaier, many ar
like minded with DIR. Cyrus Edison
who claims that it is food, but at til
same time admits there arc other food
just as good and less dangerous, an
says most emf hntically that If ever
drop was wiped off the face of th
earth, the people of the world would b
a thousand times Eetter ois. 2"
IJF. Cordelia A. Greene, who is a
the head of the CASTLE, N. Y, SAM
tarium, and who has been student (
the effects of alcohol for many years
writes: | have been carefully readin
all l have been ahle TO gather reearG
ing the experiments OF Prof. Atwatel
know one thing most absolutely
that the equivalent OF ary kind of liquc
two and a-half ounces of alcohol dali
will actually make au habitue Of til
strongest man or woman in the worlt
and physicians who administer alcoh,
in the crisis Of disease should do so fl
a brief period only, and Withdraw it /
carefully as they would opium or an
OF its derivatives. "
Whatever of truth Prof. Atwater {
any other scientific investigator ma
disclose can do no harm, for we hay
faith III truth and we know "Omnips
tence is not with sin. y We are sure n
intelligent mother will be more willir
because of any recent development
that her boy shall be fed on alcohol i
unfortunate wife will be ready to In,
applied that ENERGY" =. created /
alcohol which has Brought to h,
blows and beatings and abuse v
| chaU M ;, taa,,hi mn fully ,.,J -, a.,