The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-05-23
w. C. T. U. N,
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. L. HOBBS.


Owing to the monstrous ant
growing evil of intemperance, ant
the many kindred vices which fol
low in its trend, for which the opel
saloon is the school and hotbed o
development, and since a hundred
thousand Of our boys and 10000 0
our most beautiful girls are annual
|ly torn from our homes to keel
these schools of infamy going, w
ask you kindly, and candidly, L
consider this and ask yourself th'
question-What am | doing t
check this mighty flood Of darkness
and ruin, this maelstrom that ha
destroyed more lives than war
famine and pestilence combined
This traffic without an exception i
the blacklist piece OF diabolism
when thoroughly analyzed, tha
ever visited any race or people
Think of christian nation main
tanning traffic that denies the in
FAINT the right to be we'll born,
traffic that seizes the human EN-
bryo and dooms it to life OF mis-
ery and woe before ii sees the light
God forbid, that we remain silen
and Indifferent when brought face
to face with such facts. How many
of these American homes have i'm
beetles, epileptics, nervous wrecks
in them, and in nine cases out 0
ten these wrecks are the results dl
rectly or indirectly of alcoholism
Why do we suffer this, is it possible
we never think of these things
Some one said:
Vice is monster OF so frightful mien
That to be hated needs but TO be seen
But seen too oft, familiar with her lace
We first feel pity-then embrace.
We have become so familiar will
this vice that we fail 10 think OF it
enormity, we fail to remember tina
the one hundred and sixty thou
sand boys and girls claimed by thl
blight every year, must come iron
some homes, some mothers broker
heart goes out TO these unfortunat
victims Of the traffic in all the ten
derness of mothers love, thougl
they they be lost to useful industry
lost to society, lost to virtue, lost L
themselves, and to all that makes
for eternity, and doomed to miser.
and degradation. What a dreadful
thought, and what grave response
|bilities rest upon those OF US wh'
see these great wrongs. AT th'
dedication Of school building tha
cost in the neighborhood Of 800,
|OOO, Horace Mann, in the course 0
Ibis address, said: "lf, by tn
erection OF this building one younI
man or woman il saved to the worl'
that would otherwise have beel
lost, the money and time spent il
the erection of this building will b
a success" After the close OF tn
address the speaker was criticised
|by one OF his hearers for extrava
|gance in expression, 70 which tn
noble educator and philanthrophls
replied: at is not extravaganza
should it happen to be my boy VIII
was saved" Can we not for a mo
ment place ourselves in the position
,f those whose sons and daughter
|are being sacrificed to the saloon
and the houses Of prostitution
lOften as look into the bright eye
aud beaming countenances OF ou
boys and girls, and as ! admir-
their beauty, their intelligence
their buoyant spirits and happ
hearts, l wonder to myself ho'
lmany of these jewels Of the HON
will have to be surrendered to thes
foul dens OF infamy, compared wit
which the blackest darkness cast
but a shadow. Many times as
gaze into the faces Of our youn
boys and girls | think Of Their pc
|tential greatness, | think OF th
possibilities of man, think OF n
worth Of the human soul, | thin
Iof the boundless limits OF the hr
man intellect, the wonderful oppol
|tunity which God has extended I
you and me, to perpetuate to futu'
generations all that is good an
great in our race.
DO we appreciate this potentl'
|greatness "a we should? Do "
realize that while the young girl
hoy is potentially great, that he
|by nature really weak, and need
lfor support the strong arms OF mar
|ly men, womanly women Tor h
safety and support? We think
little Of the true nature and grea
ness Of the young, that we line Il
streets Of every city, village, tow
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