Willmar tribune., 1900-08-08
TEMPERANCE COMMENT
lEdlted by the Press Superintendent Of the
w. G. T. U. of Willmar.l

Edited by the Press Superintendent Of the
w. G. T. U. of Willmar.l
A meeting OF the W. G. T. U. was
held July rs at the home of Mrs. Rod
lun. 1t being the annual meeting Off
GERS were elected for the coming year
with the following results: President,
Mrs. Olive M. Young; secretary, Mrs.
A. c. Stansberry; treasurer, Mrs. Celia
Rodlun. It was decided to take up
the same department of work that has
been carried on the past year and with
but one or two exceptions the same
superintendent of those departments
were chosen. Our lines of work will
be Mothers Meetings, Distribution OF
Literature, Contests, Flower Mission,
Loyal Temperance Legion, Evangelis-
tic and Sunday School, Prison and
Jail, and Press. Three new books
have lately been added to our library
and a new Librarian appointed. These
books are on Purity, and any one is
welcome to read any of them at Sc. a
week. Miss Tillie Nord is librarian.
At the close of the meeting Mrs.
Rodlun served refreshments and the
Union presented her with a small but
well-meant gift, as a token of love and
esteem for her faithful services as
treasurer of Willmar w. G. r. u. for
many years, an Office which though not
always so pleasant yet is quite neces-
sary.
The next meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. Covell on Friday, Aug.
10, at p. m. All are welcome.
!. The license system as a means of
police control is an admission that
evil cannot be controlled. It is evil
dence per Sc that the evil cannot exist
without the protection of law, that is,
in communities where policemen and
courts do their duty lest they lose
their positions. He who advocates the
licensing of evil is either an abetter of
wrong-doing or else he is coward.
Strangers visiting our city are we'll
pleased with the success of no-license
in Willmar. Were it not for the i'm
portation Of whiskey and beer from the
surrounding towns, drunken carous-
ais would be unknown, not only to the
average citizen, but to the police force
as we'll.
Rev. DR.. Theodore Cuyler of Brook
lyn, in speech uttered the following:
''It's time," he cried, "that our
Christianity were christianized. The
American and English missionaries
have gone forth with the Bible in one
hand and rum hottie in the other
The bottle has sent ten souls to per-
dition where the Bible has brought one
to Jesus.
''Now I've got something to say
about our new responsibilities in the
far east. Today we are, before God,
responsible for the moral well-being
of those people in the Philippines.
They are under the flag we raised out
there-the flag whose stripes are made
of the blood of men and whose stars
have led the nations of the world.
But today that hag-Old Glory, we
call it-hoats in Manila over 4OOdrink-
ing dens." eyes, shame! shame!'
"Oh, if our flag must hang over
these hells, hang it at half mast-the
flag we all love better than anything
else in the world except our Bibles.' -
"Revenue,' Shame on nation,
much more church, that will vote for
it or any political party that sane
tions, legalizes or protects it, when it
means the homes, the souls and happi-
ness of millions. Is there no clean
political party where you can vote
with a conscience void of offence, and
where it will not help to keep open
25O,000 saloons, to fill 100000 drunk
ard's graves a year, wreck millions
of homes and supply 100000 girls
annually to lega]ized houses of ill.,
fames Yes, there is one. But you
say it cannot win and you do not want
to throw your vote away. How do
you think God looks at that? Before
you cast your ballot at the next elec-
tion stop and think what you are vot-
ing for, what four more years of law
less reign means to this nation aud it's
millions of young people that are just
reaching manhood and womanhood.
For the sake of these, stop and think.
Search Light.
"Oh, say, shall the banner of Tenn
perance yet wave
Ger the whole of the land of the free
and the brave %