Arizona republican., 1901-04-26

the man or woman who stands up in his Faith in God"
 Have you any social influence? Then use it. l know of little orphan girl who was adopted and trained to regard the social glass, whether served from a punch bowl or in other ways, as an unmixed evil In the strength Of her noble young womanhood she was on committee to arrange for banquet at the unveiling of the statue of Robert F Lee in Richmond. By the sweet power of her influence the social glass was excluded from the banquet, and lesson of temperance was given to the whole south. When Mrs. Hayes was mistress of the White House she did like service for the country. and the memory of Mrs. Hayes is enshrined in the hearts of thousanus upon thousands of those who love her cause and feel honored to emulate her example. I read of three young men who made an agreement that not one of them should ever marry ary girl who was not worth ten thousand dollars In her own right-and not one of them remained bachelor nor broke his pledge.
 Let me tell you of the sort of contract I would like to see--a contract on the part of young women--that not one or them would ever entertain any social attentions from any man, though he were resplendent with diamonds. whoce hand. be 1t ever 90 white and capable of drawing ever so large check. was | known 10 be used to lift the wine cup | , Al. rn vynIitI make n start with leaps and bounds If that contract were made and 1t were known l that 1t would be followed out.
 | Now let us glance at temperance re- | form from business standpoint The saloon trades with the saloons friends. | The majority of temperance people trade anywhere. In < town in Ohio | where the council had the privilege of granting licenses for saloons a meeting | was called to try to close up one par | ticular saloon. There had 10 be a pe.:- | ton signed by voters to affect the coun- | cil. only three men would sign It.. Forty women were in that meeting. The laws against the boycott are strict down in Ohio, and so. these women simply said. We will trade with the l people who sign the petition." not say ing what they would do with the peo- pie who would not. Soon they had most of the women in that town | pledged to the same thing. Result? | Four hundred names of voters went | down on that petition, and a victory for | temperance was scored. Business men said: If we must choose between the | saloon patronage and the church pa tronage, of course we will take that of | the church, as 1t is more valuable If you find men straight on the temper ance question, patronize them.
 Now let us glance through the ballot | box at this question. As Christian men and women we should be interested in
 politics Why? Looking for definition
 of the word in the Standard Dictionary,
 We find that politics is 'The adminis-
 tratlon of public affairs for the pros-
 perity, safety and well being of the
 state" Then surely the Christian
 voter has no right to fail to make his
 will felt at the polls. I am persuaded, and so is everyone who has given 1t
 thought, that for the enactment and enforcement of law nothing amounts to
 very much except votes. The liquor ele-
 ment understands this perfectly well
 Some time ago saw a copy of Truth,
 a liquor dealers orgah published weekly in Michigan. In that paper was list of thirty-nine names of congressman who must under no consideration be
 voted for in the coming election by
 friends of the liquor interests. Why? Because they stood with the anti-saloor
 forces. But listeni What can the
 Christian men of our country accom-
 plish? The Christian voters of the
 protestant church can cast about five
 and one- half million votes. The voters
 of the Roman Catholic church can cast
 about two and one-half million votes
 eight million votes in the hands of pro.
 fessedly Christian men; and l have
 been told that this Is over one-half mil
 lion more votes than were cast for the
 election of William Mckinley. And yet
 ua oIlow tho calonn element tO dom.