Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-03-23
W. c. T. U. NOTES.

criterion of goodness; and Whatever IN
iures society at large, or any individual
in it is criterion Of iniquity "--Gold-
smith.
An article on "The Saloon Problem"
by the Rev. A. p. Doyle, general secre-
tary of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America. appears in recent
number of The Outlook, from which
we select the following: .
81 believe that in laboring to create
an antipathy against the saloon l am
doing a good thing for the community
/ can cast on the business Of saloon
keeping and the practice of saloon
going the more l will save that great
throng of the weak who are more or
less slaves to the craving for intoXi-
cants, the more | will protect the de-
fenceless wives and the helpless chill
drep and the cheerless homes of the
victims Of drink. The more l endeavor
to create public opinion against the
liquor traffic, by telling of its iniqu,ties
by revealing the hideous immoralities
too often associated with it, by paint
ing it rs it really is, responsible for
much Of the poverty. distress and
miseries of our modern life, am guard
ing the best interest of the people.
| Public opinion is Americas omnipotent
| force. 1t can do all things and nothing
| is hard or impossible to it. At its
shrine the greatest leaders bow down
and adore. He who attempts to an
| tagonize it is barring his breast to the
| thunderbolt, Re who opposes it,on him
will it fall, and it will crush him.
Place the saloon under the ban of
| public opinion and the serpent is
scotched, if not killed. After all else
has been said, l would plead for a
union of all uplifting agencies on Il
common platform.
"The saloon evil is malignant enough
to make us sink what little differences
of policies we have, and unite on the
broad platform of antagonism to the
saloon, so that public sentiment may
be strengthened enough to place it
under the ban.
DIR. Crafts thus writes the Union
Signal: ''By act of Illinois acting
governor, Miss Willard entered the Ma
tional Capitol on March LIST, just as
the House was completing the anti
canteen victory in which the white
ribbon has led on like the white plume
of Navarro. By all means let the
statue of this white soul and white
life and white ribboner BIO marble,
though her strength of heart and hope
were as bronze.''
"Miss Willard, says Washington
correspondent of the Union Signal, was
the first president of the National
Council of Women, helped to organize
it, and was one of those who drafted
its constitution. She chose the motto
Lead, Kindly Light She is still a
part of the light that leads toward the
shining goal. u 49,
Our national president, Mrs L. NJ.
N. Stevens, from her wide outlook,
contributes valuable notes to the Sig
nal. This bit from her pen appears in
recent issue of the paper:
Prohibition is not perfectly en-
forced in the Maine cities, but the pro
hibitive features in high license laws
of other States are quite as much yio-
lated as is prohibition in Maine. A
Chicago friend was visiting me not long
ago. / took her about to see Neal
Dow's home, Longfellow's birthplace,
Willistop Church where the Christian
Endeavor movement was born, and
other places of interest. We drove
from the western promenade where We
could look away to the White Hills tt
the eastern promenade, from which is
fine view of old Atlantic. This COURSE
took us through the principal thorough
fare of Portland, from one end of the
city to the other, past business house:
of various kinds and classes During
the drive and at its close my frleno
was very thoughtful and quiet. She j:
, not 6 white-ribboner nor n temperate,
fanatic and I was therefore greatly
surprised and pleased when she said, .
have been interested in all have seer
of your city, but what has attracted
my attention most is the absence o.
|. any signs of liquor selling. / hav'
been carefully watching and l hav'
failed to see any signs of any place
. which would tempt the weak or en-
! danger the innocent, and she added
with tender tremor in her voice 8
have been thinking all the time wha
? q safe place for boys this must be.
This mother of boys realized that her,
the liquor business did not seek ant
attract as it does in so many cities o
: our land 1t does not often enter int
the heart of "a good boy or young maj
to hunt out a place where some one, ;
criminal under the law of the State u
well us the law of God is secretly sell
ing that which the boys conscienc
. tells him must BIZ wrong to drink sine
I the law says it is n crime to sell.
wonder how any mother III tho Liant
:, can fail to be believer in and worke
! for prohibition! A prominent Main
! lawyer has Just been talking with me
= He is good man; has lived long ant
4 observed much. He is total ab
stainer, and he believes that the prin
s oiple of prohibition is right and som
. day will prevail in our nation.
: 1--WE have discussed the temperate
. question in its relation to politics, tn
y church and social life. He is sur
u there is much less social drinking tina
7 formerly; in fact, that conditions ar
: improving every year, but he great
deplores the fact that the punch bow
Z is found in many y home where rea
habit of calling any drink which
- permissible for total abstaincr by tn
name punch is mistake VIC shout
q try to correct. He said the youn
T. people of his family plainly understood
that no social function would have hi
company if there was anything Gale
> punch to be served, however Harmless
7 the mixture might be made; he hate
the name and its association. As tn
:, good man said good-by it occurred I
e me that IL might be we'll to pass alon
, his thoughts to some of ours VIII
! possibly may not realize how much il
=, iluence there may be in name. "
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