The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-11-27


unions held in the Plymouth Con-
gregational church the first Tues
day afternoon of each month.
Mrs. Frances Neal presided in the
absence Of the president, Mrs.
Powell, who was attending the
National convention at Portland,
Maine, and visiting friends in the
east. The State convention was
reported by three different women,
each taking it upon herself to re-
port on some different line. Mrs.
Thompson gave the statistics on
the liquor question as gathered
from the different reports and adj
dresses. / noted the following:
$4,000 wives are murdered by
drunken husbands and 1900 help
less babes are overlain and smoth-
cred by drunken parents each year
in our land of freedom. =
Mrs. Kercher gave the report of
the social feature and an account
of the welcome addresses, the re-
sponses to the same, and a very
vivid account of the demonstration
of departments, which through the
efforts of Mrs. Fuller of Redwood,
Falls was made a grand success.
Mrs. Hoover gave an excellent
paper on press work, using some
thoughts from the State conven-
ton, and many more from her own
experience as State reporter, also
some choice suggestions given by
Miss Willard several years before
she passed beyond.
Mrs. Canny, superintendent of
Jail work, chose her helpers from
the different unions and will con-
tinue to hold gospel meetings in
the jail each Sunday afternoon.
An account was given of the con-
version of some of the inmates and
message of thanks sent to the w.
G. 7. u. in behalf of one who be-
ieves their work is second to no
other society in the upbullding and
uplifting of mankind.
Miss Lucy Page Castor of Chi
cago, superintendent and founder
of the Anti Cigarette League, was
introduced and gave a very en-
couraging report Of her work. In
her few days visit to Minneapolis
she had met many prominent min
listers and educators who had given
her evidence of their cooperation
in the work of disconraglng the
use of cigarettes and promised re-
newed help and vigilant effort in
their respective fields of labor.
rlasters rlade Slaves.
Mr.. Edward w. Box, of the
Ladies' Home Journal, says:
Zone thing that led me to make
up my mind never to touch liquor
was the ruin which I saw it bring
to some of the finest minds with
which I have ever come in con-
tact. 1 have seen, even in my few
years of professional life, some of
the smartest literary men de-
throned from splendid positions,
owing to nothing else but their
indul gence to wine.. I have known
men with salaries of thousands of
dollars year come to beggary
from drink.
''Only recently there applied to
me for any position I could offer
him one Of the most brilliant editor
ial writer's in the newspaper pro-
fession-a man who two years ago
easily commanded one hundred
dollars for a single editorial in his
special field. That man became
SO unreliable from drink that
editors are now afraid of his arti-
cles, and, although he can to-day
write as forcible editorials as at
any time during his life, he sits in
a cellar in one of our cities writing
newspaper wrappers for one dol
lar per thousand. That is only
one instant Of several I could re.
cite. 1 do not hold my friend up
as terrible example, He is but
one of the type of men who con-
WINGED me, and may convince
others, that a clear mind and
liquor do not 60 together.
II know it is said when one
brings up such an instance as this,
oh, we'll, that man drank to ex-
cess. One glass will not hurt any
one How do these people know
that it will not? One drop Of
kerosene has been known to throw
into flame an almost hopeless fire,
and one glass may fan into flame
a smoldering spark hidden away
where we never knew it existed.
The spark may be there and it
may not be. Why take the riskg
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