The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-02-11
World Temperance Movement

World Temperance movement
The annual convention of n Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union, OF
Ontario, was held recently In the city
hall, Stratford. There was a fairly
large attendance of representatives OF
the whole province. The matters con-
sidered at the various sittings of the
convention comprised many Oh the
leading temperance questions OF the
day. The license law of the province
was pretty fully discussed, and the
convention condemned the lax manner
in which that law is enforced by the
provincial officers. Mrs. Mckee, the
president, in her annual address, re-
viewed the position of the temperance
movement throughout the world. She
referred to the agitation for a syndl-
cate to control the liquor traffic, and
also to the idea of government control.
She had little faith in the great Eng
lish movement called The Free
Church million pledge temperance cru
sade." Like many in the past. this
movement was simply a moral suasion
movement, and the liquor men and
weakened Christians advocated
moral suasion. 1t would have an edu-
cational effect, however, and the fact
that seventeen nonconformist religious
bodies had taken it up was a very
pleasant reflection. In speaking OF
Mrs. Carrie Nation, Mrs. Mckee said:
I'VE come now to notice another
method of reform, which, while not
commencing itself entirely to our
minds, is yet potent for good. n has
had the effect of stirring up the pow
ers that be- to do good work for tenn
perance, and institute drastic meas
ures against illegal liquor selling.
When we first heard OF Mrs. carrie
Nation and her Ratchet, we held our
breath and gasped, for, after all, we
said. she surely need not have done
that. But as time went on, and events
thickened, we found that the extra
ordinary actions of this courageous
woman had aroused the thinking
minds OF Kansas men, and awakeneo
them to the fact that, while they nae
a prohibitory law, it did not prohibit
as it should; that bribery and corrup'
tioR were potent forces in the admin
istration of the laws of the state
Now, while not many of us would d.
willing to follow the lead of Mrs. Ma
! ton, we yet find cause for thank1u
ness that any woman possessing
! courage and having the law on he
B side, could effect more good in a feS
months than twenty years wor'
along the quiet lines so many OF u
are more inclined to follow Mr.:
d Mckee stated very emphatlcally tina
+ they could not in any way co~untenanc
. government control. No compromls
4 was their watchword, and by that the
would stand. AS to the antl-ilquc
. saloon scheme being tried in Ne
q York. Mrs. Mckee thought it SCENE
y like building on another mans founds
q ton. Why not spend the time, none
X and thought on getting rld OF II
z saloons? She strongly approved
u the work of the Irish Temperan
e League. Rev. Charles Deacon, in opel
Il ing an address on enforcement
e Law said that he had long Vor'
y woman suffrage. His wife. he belle
z ed. was better able to decide what w
y for the good of mankind than any O
z of the score OF n loafers w
y were causing trouble in his nelghbc
q hood. That the most moral and mo
u intelligent section OF the communl
!. were not flowed to have a voice
the government of the country W
an outrage. Mr.. Deacon said II
there were in Ontario ninety!
municipalities, in which there were
licensees, 1875 had only one license,
had only two licenses. They sho'
4 start some agency to clear out the c
i. license in each of the 126 municipa
ties. and the two in each of the
municipalities. This would increi
the area without licenses, and II
would be able to attach the licen
in the municipalities with three, fl
or five licenses.