Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-10-12
For Wisdom, Culture, Refinment
and a Better Civilization.


TThe readers under this head are %contri-
huted by the Ladies' OF the w. G.. II. T., under
the immediate supervision Of Mrs. Frank
Gibson rs Editof.l
EChildren are taught the bad effects OF
alcohol and tobacco in every state but
two, Georgia and Arkansas.
The Chicago city council has passed al
ordin nee providing that all employers
Of female labor shall furnish seats. The
fine for violation of such ordinance will
be from s.. to 500.
There could be no nobler work for our
state unions than the publications of
such pamphlets as the one we have men
toned, sowing the country knee-deep
with the iitertnre which will shed light
on the dark PLACES.
Miss Florence Kelley, factory inspec
tor of Illinois, has been quoted as saying
that eight thousand childrenare employ
ed ia factories in that state, andthat there
are more than two hundred child butch
erS In the STOCK yards.
The liquor element Of the country has
organize a secret society Of its own, call
ed "The Knights Of the Royal Arch" II
will admit saloonkeepers, bartenders
distillers and brewers. Tn first plan of
work outlined is an attack on the Sunday
closinp laws.
Mrs. Luella A. Ramsey, enr state presi-
dent was. born zeal Fort WAYNE, Ind.
She is the daughtcr of a methodist minis,
ter, and afssr her gralat:i9n spent SO me
time in tea hing. In 1885 She WIS mar.
ried TO Hoa muel a. RAMSEY, anl set
tied at Woonsocket, 5. y. Mr.. Ramsey
is in hea rty sympathy with all his wife's
efforts for humanity's uplift!
The motherhood of our country is
waking up, and VIC. 4. U. mail bristles
with snch questions as these: "What is
our best course of action against a saloon
displaying obscene p~ictures?"
I'll ow can | protect my boys against
impure literature sent through the mails
10 the school children"
The ignorance OF women touching legal
matt ers has been the power of the enemy
against her in her struggle to protect her
children and her home,
A pamphlet containing sections of the
penal code of TIE laws of the state of
New York, in reference to the publ
cations and distribution of abscene litera.
ture an d pictures, the manufacture and
sale of drugs for immoral purposes, the
abuse of the mails, etc., with the const-
~ruction of uch laws and the rulings OF
the courts in test cases, is published by
the New York Society for the Suppress
ion of Vice, and is a weaponthat will deal
more deadly blows at the octopus of sen.
suality than a thousand we'll meant but
non-educative sermons and articles
Union Signal.
few years ago the w. c. L. U. called
public attention to the fact that the con
dictionary stores of our cities were sell
ing "mixed" and " straight" drinks to
their young girl customers, and in con-
sequence the evil was for awhile abated,
AT present however, it is said that the
city treasury can increase its income by
a considerable amount if it will impose
the regular saloon license fee upon the
places that are doing a rushing business
in everything from claret to cognac.
The majority of customers do not know
that the egg punch which they sip at the
soda fountain has a ~treacherous foundat-
ion Of French cordials. This sort Of tip
ping goes on in about one-half of those
confectionery stores which provide little
round-topped tables for tired shoppers
and thus is created that appetite, so srear
ly desired by the liquordealer and manu-
facturcr, and upon which the prosperity
of their business decentralization Signal