The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-03-20
TIE PRINCETON UNION THURsDAY 81 R1H 20 1909
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is granted to thew. G. 7. U. The press super
intendent assumes all responsibility for the
sentiments and statements contained herein.
Our Motto: For God and Home and Native
Land"
Our Badge: A knot Of white ribbon.
the liquor traffic, equal suffrage, one standard
of morals, and the bringing about of better
0 MRS. N c. LIBBY, President,
MRS. LOUISA ANTHo1NE, Secretary,
MRS. ADA FARNHAM. Treasurer
The Quarterly Temperance Les
son comes next Sunday, March
%. The w. G. T. U. is planning
to observe that day so that it will
be bel pful to the many children
and youth of the land. The text
is from St. Paul's writings: "Be
not drunk with wine, wherein is
excess" exorts to industry, tenn
perance and happiness. Should
there be an objection in the mind
of any parent against the teaching
of these? We surely want our
children to use their time profit
ably and to build good characters;
without these there is no true hap
piness. These quarterly temper
ance lessons to twelve million
children for. six years, mean that
two hundred and lightweight mil
lions Of individual temperance les
sons are taught to the youth of
this hemisphere. A Pennsylvania
minister declares that there is no
need to plead that not enough
suitable texts can be found in the
bible on the subject of temperance,
for there are 500 passages in the
old testament and 40 in the new,
many containing several verses
each, and in one case at least a
whole chapter of nineteen verses
would furnish temperance lessons
for all time. While we have a
licensed evil to contend with we
cannot afford to take step back,
but advance step by step till VIC
tory is won.
Here is the record of one
saloons work: middleton, KY,
Feb. 12.-Six men were killed and
ten or more wounded, some of
them fatally. in a desperate battle
between sheriff's posse of fifteen
men and a saloon keeper (propri-
etor of the Quarter House) and
his followers. This place has a
record of fifty-nine murders and
twice that number of wounded"
| $3.50.
Mrs. Mary G. Stuckenberg,
national and worlds associate su-
perintendent of temperance and
labor in the w. G. T. u, and wife
of the American pastor at Berlin,
is making speciality of introduce
ing to American readers the
eminently valuable German and
Swiss scientific literature on the
alcohol question. The statements
made by many of the leading
medical men 60 to prove that
liquor in any form, even in the
light beer and wine, is poison for
a healthy child. That in a ma
jority of cases the foundations for
a drunkard are laid in early child
hood. One doctor declares it a
crime to administer alcohol to
children; another says that if we
have any regard for the welfare of
the younger generation, we shall
have to rescue our youth from that
murderer of humanity, alcohol,
and win them to total abstinence.
1t was the writer's privilege to
see and hear Mrs. Orminston
Chant, one of England's beautiful,
cultured women. For years she
has given strength, time and much
means to rescue the women from
the snares of strong drink. Yet
she states that the deaths among
women caused by drink has in
creased 104 per cent. during the
last year. When such women as
Mrs. Chant, Lady Henry Somer-
set, Mrs. Stuckenburg and hum
dreds of others just as noble, give
their best efforts for this work, we
should not count it beneath us. =
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The west side churches of Chi
cago have joined in a league to
enforce the temperance laws.
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Sweden has taken 4 the most
advanced ground of any country
in the matter of launching vessels.
King Oscar has ordered, in accord