The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-12-12
w. G. T. u. DEPARTMENT..
Conducted by tho ladies of the w. G..
Y. u. Of Anderson, S. G.
The Gr.at Need of Temperance Commit
tee Work.

1t is said that the consumption of
Intoxicating liquors in this country,
especially among women, is largely on
the increase, AID that s,i:,o IA danger
of social drinking rcgaining The place
it held in the days of our forcfathers.
Our annual liquor bill is one billion
dollars almost one hundred dollars
for each family. If this sum were
given to nan in five dollar gold
pieces he might walk round the earth
at the equator three times and drop
unc at every step. The average annual
consumption Of liquor for each man,
woman and child in the United States
is fifty-six gallons Of beer, four Of
whiskey, and one Of wine. San Fran
cisco also consumes in one year q
| quantity OF beer sufficient TO Iii a
huge cask, in which the famous battle
ship Oregon conld easily be hoated.
The saloons of our country, allowing
eleven feet frontage for each, would
line both sides Of street reaching
from Washington, d. c., to Kansas
City, Mo. Each year these dcns Of
iniquity graduate and turn into the
street six hundred thousand drunkards,
of whom one hundred thousand are
boys from sixteen to twenty years of
age. In view of these terrible and ap-
palling facts every Temperance Socie-
ty in our land should appoint an car
nest Temperance Committee that will
rcsolutcly do it's utmost to promote
the cause of temperance. Not long
before her death Frances f. Willard
sent out the following stirring ap-
peal to members of Temperance Com
mittecs:
"Only clear brain can think Gods
thoughts after Him. Only a steady
hand can glorify the divine Carpenter
by faithful industry. Only heart
unhurricd by artificial sti1nulants can
be loyal in its rove towards Christ and
humanity. bcseech you to be inces-
SAINT and ingenious in your efforts to
teach total abstinence for the sake of
head, hand and heart and to take as
your watch-word "Home protection
and the liquor traffic must be destroy
ed. Create sentiment for temper
ance and against intemperance. Do
your best to create public senti-
ment against tippling. Come out fair
and square for total abstinence. Let
it be known that you are a positive
enemy tc the saloon and the tippler.
| Don't mince matters-come right out
and oppose intemperance in every
form. Urge the young ladies of our
town not to keep company with a
young man who drinks unless their
association with him is to win him
away from drink habit. Alcohol is a
foe so deceptive, so insidious, so pow
erful that men who use it, even in
moderation, dare say they are SAFE"
Axel Gustafson, tie eminent author
of the Foundation of Death, says:
1--WE want the abstinence that is VOL
unfairly imposed upon himself by
man, under tho serious conviction
that Intoxicating drinks are evil"
These are wise words, worthy of con-
sideratlon. Every effort to secure
pledge signers should be accompanied
by campaign of instructions on the
subject. The instructions should be
along such lines as these:
1st. The natule of alcohol.
End. The effects of alcoholic drinks
on tho organs of the human body.
Bird. The failure Of alcohol to pre-
vent disease or prolong life.
4th. The inability Of alcohol to sus-
tain the system in extreme heat or
cold.
9Th. The danger of moderate drink
ing.
9Th. The poverty, crime, insanity,
and immortality resulting from the use
of liquor.
Promote the cause of temperance in
the Sunday School and Church. In. a
quiet way the Temperance Committee
can exert powerful influence in the
local Church by securing temperance
teaching in the Sunday School, the
placing of temperance books in the IL
brary, the circulation of temperance
papers among the Sunday School
scholars. the preaching Of temperance
sermons by the pastor, and the using
OF unfcrmented wine at the commun-
ion table.
Mrs. w. A. CHk sMAN.