Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-05-09
w. c. T. U. COLUMN.

w. c. T. U. COLUMN.
Conducted by the members of the W. C. T.
U.1
The worlds conference On missions is
now in SESSION in New York City.
There are about 700 delegates present
from all nations, representing all the
various religious denominations.
Ex.President Harrison presided,
whilst President Mckinley and Gov
ernor Roosevelt. of New York, occu.
pied seats OH tho platform and made
addresses.
General Harrison, during the deliv.
cry of his address, among other good
things said:
The men, who, like Paul, have gone
to heather lands with the message,
We seek not yours but YOU have been
numbered by those who, coming after,
have reversed the message.
Rum and other corrupting agencies
come in with onr boosted civilization,
and tho feeble races with the hot
breath of the white mans vices. The
great nations have combined to sup.
press the slave trade. Is it too much to
ask that they combine to prevent the
sale of spirits to men who, less than
our children, have acquired the habit
of self restraint. II we must have
consumers let us give them an inno-
cent diet"
These sentiments uttered by the ex-
president, in the presence of the Presi-
dent who could have prevented so
great disgrace to a civilized nation,
was cheered to the echo.
And all this reminds me OF the con.
ditiOns Of Washington city. the capital
of this, the greatest nation on earth.
For this city the president appoints the
commissioners who rule and govern
the city mexsurably. Not long since
the National Tribune, the old soldiers
paper, published in that great city and
which paper cannot be clsssed as q
prohibition paper, said:
There Is barroom in Washington
for every AL of the population. The
arrests average one every II Of the pop.
ulation of the whole district. In the
first precinct where there is q barroom
tor every lib people, the arrests average
one to every three residents while
there are only one to every IS people in
the ninth district where tho barrooms
only average one to every 1,O4S popula.
tion."
Suppose we take the capitals of two
states whose populations differ but ilit-
tie. Springfield ILL.,. with her 143 open
saloons and Topeka, Ks, with none.
Yet perhaps with many dives and
speakeasies, and yet IN that city there
are young men, man voters, who never
saw into an open saloon and are not
contaminated with its influence.
Then look across the state line to
that part of Kansas City. in Missouri,
where arrests for drunkenness on the
fourth of July, according to the Kan.
sas City Star. were 1873 and not one in
the city of Topeka. It would not take
long tor an occasional ''imbiter' who
is raising family of boys to decide
that he would prefer to raise them
in windy Kansas.
| The Rey. Bishop James N. Fitzger.
aid OF the M. e. Church in commenting
on this soul destroying evil, said:
Facing the saloon, the christian
man should remember that the naked
forms he seeks to cover. the hungry
bodies he seeks to feed, the fearful
eye he seeks to dry, the aching heart.
he seeks to soothe. and the bereft par
ents ard wives and children he seeks
to comfort, were nearly all brought t.
their sorrowful and foriorn condition
. BY the saloon which accomplishes it,
ravaging work because 30 MANY chris
tian men Will vote the ticket of q par
ty that does not say, and that will no,
say, the saloon must go.'''
Chief Willis L. Moore. of the u. s
Weather Bureau, has issued an orde,
prohibiting employees of the servic,
from smoking cigarettes during hours o.
duty, and warning them that those VIII,
smoke cigarettes at all will be mention
. ed In the confidential reports made t.
him by heads Of the several offices an,
. departments. Replying to criticism OF
. his action in this matter Chief Moor,
. said: "Some of our men who were re
/. garded as the most reliable and compe
I tent became careless and lax. ! sen
. inspectors TO inyestigats. and in almooss
3 every case It was found that this stat
|. of affairs was directly attributable /
!. excessive cigarette smoking. Men VIII
use them appear TO become deadene,
! to tho fact that neglect Of duty mean
reproyal, sqsnenslon. NJ diamissal i
. word. thsss Investigations .conyince,
me that cigarette smokers are NOT &
toe TRUSTED With important work.