Willmar tribune., 1900-03-14
TEMPERANCE Z COMMENT
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TEMPERANCE COMMENT.
Edited ed by the Press Superintendent of the
". C.T. U. of Willmar.1
WHICH SHALL IT BE?
81 The daily receipts of each saloon
j.. would be, a fair estimate, $50.
For five saloons it would be $780,
For six days out of the week it would
amount to 5000.
For ffty-two weeks, or a year, it
would be $46,8OO.
Now, which shall it be? Nearly
$4,000 paid directly out of the peo-
ple's pockets into the saloons with a
return of $4,000 license money into the
village treasury, leaving store bills
unpaid, taxes unpaid, and the neces-
saries of life purchased at places of
business cut down to a minimum
Or
Ihe $4,000 license money dispensed
with and the $4,000 retained in the
peoples pockets for which to buy food
and clothing, and other necess aries,
pay taxes, and yet have money for
standing debts contracted during the
years when saloons thrived in our
midst, innocent amusements, fruit and
luxuries never INDUCED in before, for
the dear ones in the home, making
sunshine and glee where before was
sadness and want.
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Frances E. Willard said: "In 1855
cut from my favorite Youths Cabi-
net, the chief juvenile paper of that
day, a temperance pledge, and past
ing it in our family Bible, insisted on
its being signed by every member of
the family-parents, brothers, sister,
and self. 1t is still there, thus signed,
and represents the first bit Of temper
ance work eyer did,"
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The Woman's Temperance Associa-
tion of the Presbyterian Synod of
Pennsylvania, believing that the IL
quor traffic and it's results cons >'tuye
way OF the gospel, earnestly request
every missionary society to elect a
temperance secretary, whose duty it
will be to advance the cause of total
abstinence by the use Of pledges and
suitable literature. This request has
been endorsed by the General Assemb-
ly's permanent committee on temper
ance.
The following is clipped from the
Baltimore Methodist, and is written
by Ida Hinman:
1.-THE people of Washington and the
nation have recently had a terrible
lesson on the evil Of Intoxicating Ii
quor. The adage, Let it alone and
it will let you aloue,' is disproved.
The recent brutal assault upon Gen.
eral Greedy, one Of the country's most
brilliant men and bravest soldiers, at
his own doorway by an intoxicated
man is sad demonstration of the fact
that the best citizen is not safe even
at his own door. The man who as
saulted General Greely had not the
slightest animosity against the Gen.
eral; he was so intoxicated that he
was practically insane for the time
and did not know what he was about
''It was feared General Greedy would
die, and he may hever recover his
former strength. How strange it is
that people who pretend to be civilized
will tolerate so stupendOus an evil as
the drink traffic in their midst"
It is said that at the trial of his as
sailant when Gen. Greedy was asked if
he held any personal animosity
against the young man, he replied in
the negative, saying that he ''took it
as matter of course.' This was
very proper. Someone must receive
the blows that drunken men inhict
It is usually their wives and children.
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Chauncey Depew says: "Twenty-
five years ago ! knew every man,
woman and child ia Peekski]l, N. Y,
and it has been study with me to
mark boys who started in every grade
of life with myself to see what became
of them. I went up last fell and be-
gan to count them over, and it was an
instructive exhibit. Some of them be-
came clerks, merchants, manufactur.
ers, lawyers aud doctors. 1t is re-
markable that every one of those who
drank is dead: not one Lying of my
age. Barring few who we're taken
by sickness, every one who proved a
wreck and wrecked his family, did il
from rum and no other cause"