The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-02-06

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Our Badge: A knot Of white ribbon.
Our Aims: Home protection, prohibition OF
the liquor traffic, equal suffrage, one standard
OF morals, and the bringing about Of better
MRS. n. G. LIBBY, President,
MRS. LOUISA ANTHOME, Secretary,
MRS. ADA FARNHAM. Treasurer.
Miss Clara Barton was unani-
mously reelected as president of
the Red Cross society, which posi-
ton she has held for thirty years.
For the best picture illustrating
the evils of intemperance, the Bel
gian government has offered prize
of ], 900 francs.
1t has been suggested that our
department for State and county
fairs would add much to the gen
eral interest if they would present,
in a series of displays, the wonder
full amount of grain used for liquor
and the net gain to farmer, distiller,
wholesale and retail dealer, and
above all that portion which so
often falls to the farmers wife and
also to the children who inherit a
share in the business. If truth can
be sent home by so doing, our
women will act.
Presiding Elder Homer G..
Stuntz, who has charge of the
work of the M. E. church in the
new country, states that he is en-
phatically opposed to the army
canteen. He has made close
study of the company club" the
new name for the old canteen
or government saloon, and while
the regulations are rarely observed,
the soldiers with one voice saw
that the barracks are more free
from scenes of drunkenness, and
that it is far easier for men to leave
liquor alone than under the old
regime.
Last November 7,214 pints of
beer were sold at cost of 81, 1885,
so to the soldiers. This for two
companies-and at another larger
post the average sales for six
months was two hundred barrels
OF beer. At post where there
were less than one hundred men
nearly four hundred dollars worth
of beer was drank up in three
weeks. Can the mothers of these
soldier boys rest while there is
temptation before their boys?
Can christian people feel that they
have done their duty and not re .
lieve these men of the temptations
placed before boys who are parts
Of SO many homes? The W. G. T.
U. have two consecrated christian
women in Manila, and they will
gladly do all they can for your
boys. Cannot you make their work
more effective?
One of Mississippi's brilliant
daughters, staunch w. G. T. U.
lecturer, is doing field work in her
State, and with the W. G. T. u.
led by it's noble State president,
Mrs. Harriet B. Kelly, is trying to
secure prohibition for the whole
State. Sixty three of the seventy
five counties already have prohib1-
ton, and Miss Belle Kearney be-
lieves it is possible to rid the State
of its liquor. The Baptist church,
with it's 100000 members, is on
record as favoring prohibition, also
the M. E. church, and the usually
conservative Presbyterians, are said
to stand strongly for prohibition.
Governor Longino says: II am a
prohibitionist. I understand, of
course, that law prohibiting the
sale of Intoxicating liquors may be
Violated, like other laws, but / be-
lieve in the policy of prohibiting
the liquor traffic. The wife of the
governor is one of our w. c.. T..
U. members, an accomplished,
earnest woman, whose influence in
the capital city is being felt.
John G. Wooley has accepted
an Invitation to 60 to New Zealand
and Australia, believing that the
time f or battle between the church
and saloon makes it imperative for
him to accept the urgent call. Mrs.
Wooley will stop at Honolulu and
the Samoan Islands (where she
will visit the home of Robert Louis
Stevenson) then on to several
points in New Zealand, where she
will study the lives of the natives