The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-03-21

| we were k1ndly FURNISHED LHS
following by friend:
On Wednesday night, Thursday
afternoon and night Mrs. Clara G.
Hoffman,, Recording Secretary Of
Worlds w. c. It. u, lectured to
large and appreciative audiences at
the c. p. Church, the result being
an addition to the local union Of Is
active and honorary members,
making the total membership OF
the local union Of w. G. t. U. So
active and % honorary members.
On Wednesday night Mrs. Hoff-
mann began her lecture by reading
Isaiah xxxv
In speaking of the prophecies, she
said: They should all be fulfilled,
but not till the people shall rise mp
in their might to work its fulfill
ment, and it will come as sure as
the seasons come, for there is no
session of legislature meets but
this question of overthrowing or
restricting the liquor traffic bobs
up serenely, though 1T may suffer
defeat, just as the cigarette ques-
ton at the last session of the Ken
lucky legislature was defeated by
the money power. Yet it comes
again and will keep on coming till
it shall win. When we consider
that annually 500, 000,0 900 are spent
for tobacco and cigarettes and
enough for liquor TO bring the total
up to about two billion dollars a
year, it is no wonder the people rise
up against it, but who would have
thought of bringing up such ques-
ton twenty-five or thirty years ago?
The habit has assumed such pro-
portions that it is with no malice
aforethought, as we get more en-
lightened, we trv to overcome these
evils. The greatest drawback is
by those who believe in the trddi-
ton; ut was good for our fathers,
its good enough for me-" These
are most opposed to the suppression
of the habit, saying you can't en-
force the law. Laws have been en-
acted and are violated but why?
Because the officers are SO allied to
the evil that they are in league with
the traffic. But party lines are
drawn as strong North as South,
yet all States have laws for temper
ance legislation = education for
though the w. c. T. U. has never
cast a vote in any legislature or
Congress, yet they brought such
pressure to bear upon them that
they had to pass laws for education
and restriction. Over 1000 cities
now have curfew laws, all Of which
go to show the public sentiment.
Another good work they are doing
in looking after and saving boys
and girls from going to total rum
is illustrated by the following Incl
dent, which occurred in st. Louis
some time ago: One night the
police matron who resides at the
four courts was summoned to the
door late at night by the ringing of
the bell When she opened the
door a policeman told her they had
brought in girl in the patrol wag-
on, with whom they could do moth
ing, and he wanted her to take the
girl in charge. When the matron
got to the reception room she found
a beautiful girl of about 10 years.
AS the officers had told her they
could not get the girl to talk at all,
she asked the Lord to show her the
way to approach this girl. So she
walked up to her, took her by the
hand and told her to come to the
matron's room. Noticing that the
girl was shiveling and cold she put
a chair for her at the register and
asked her to sit down and warm
herself, asking her what her trou-
bles were. After a time the girl
said she had tried to freeze to
death, as she wanted to die, but as
she couldn't do so by freezing she
could by starvation. The matron
then told her she didn't want to die
but had duty to live for, and ring
ing for messenger she sent him
with money to near restaurant to
get something to eat, and by the
time he came back she had got the
girl to tell her story, though she still
would not give her fathers address,
fearing if he found out her condition
he would kill her, telling that as
she was farmers daughter, and as