Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-03-02
w. c. I. u.
~ N. v. Q. 4. U. or HOT STRINGS.

The American Federation OF Labor
at its annual meeting in Detroit, Mich.
adopted q resolution asking Congress
to submit to the state Legislatures a
sixteenth amendent forbidding dis
reimbursement on account Of sex. Sam.
uel Gompers. president of the FEEDER
alton, is an ardent advocate Of equal
suffrage.
1.-THE most beautiful creed the heart
has is love Of home" "In the purity
of the home is the hope of a nation
So says the Champion of Fair Play, "a
journal Of the retail liquor trade" 1t
was this same beautiful creed which
drove the early Crusaders out into
the street and into the saloons to do
battle against homes greatest foe. 1t
is this same creed which urges the
homekeepers of the w. c. T. U. to lido
everything" that organized mother
love can do to destroy the destroyer.
Does the retail liquortrade conduce to
the purity of the home? With a saloon
On every corner and the liquor power
controlling our laws, where is safety for
our homes, what the hope of the
nation?
What prohibition will do for a town
has a fine example in Sheckelford
county, Texas. For many years this
county has had no saloons, and Albany
the county seat and terminus of the
Central Texas railroad, is the trading
point for a vast area, and is full of bus.
mess house. 1t is in the stock region
of this, one of the greatest stock rails.
ing states in the Union, and speaks
loudly for the character of the men
who are known to the world as "cow-
boys" There is not a house in the
town for rent, and the demand is Sc
great that a family have rented the
Jail for a dwelling! This town is fast
becoming an educational center, as
the situation, altitude and surround
ings make it an ideal place for young
people to receive the ideas that form
character.
The Hon. Hugh H. Lush, a New Zea.
land ex-M. p, is reported as saying
that woman suffrage in New Zealand
has Increased the influence of the
family as distinct from the individual
in politics. There is a tendency to
make the vote of the family the re.
suit of home consultation, and of a
family council; and this, it is said,
increases the bond of family and rem
ders more strong and effective that
future of the Anglo.Saxon life which
throughout its whole history has been
the chief strength and safeguard of the
race"
The executive committee of the
Scottish Temperance Federation has
adopted the following resolution:
"That this executive most strongly
protest against the acceptance by the
War Office of gift of one thousand
barrels of stout for the use Of the Brit
ish troops in South Africa. Such a
gift, it firmly believes, is certain to
have a d~emoralizing effect, to lead to
disorder, and to prove a temptation to
the many young men who are serving
their country and ought to be protect
ed from what Her Majesty described as
$50 great a CURSE The Executive feels
emboldened to make this emphatic
protest in view of the repeated testi-
mony of the commander-in.chief and
other generals, that in their expert
ence in similar expeditions conducted
on abstinence principles the health of
the troops was never better, and their
discipline and general conduct beyond
all praise"
The Netherlands Railway Temper.
ance Union was formed last March,
and has now about n hundred mem.
"