The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-19
Temperance Topics Under the A,
spices of the w. c. II. U.

temperance topics Under the Au-
spices of the w. c. T.. U.
Mrs. S. F. Thompson, superintendent.
Assistants. Mrs. Matte Blair. Miss
Blanche Fentress. Miss Bessie Hankins,
Mrs. S~hamburger.
We want to say hat while we are
not a member Of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union we think you
are to be commended for your work in
the temperance cause in the city of
Wilmington. o could not engage in
anything else that would be a greater
blessing to the human family than
your present work of trying to tear
down the stronghold Of saton, in the
form of the dram shop. 1t is true the
EVIL n works in various ways, but it
seems that the most Obstructive plan
of them all is the drink habit. We can
see the evil effects of it on every hand:
We a see it in all lines of business. in
the home; in the church.; on the street.
in the courts; OF the roads; in the
prison and on the hangman's trap. We
see a once happy home all broken as
sunder; a widowed mother broker
hearted n bowed down with grief; a.
fatherless son, who is following the
very footsteps of a drunken father.
We can see a loving sister beading wi h
her brother, for her sake, for his own
sake. for the SAX of his father and
mother and for all hat is good, to let
whiskey alone and not visit the saloon.
Is his not enough to stir the blood Of
every patriotic man and cause him to
rise up and say. by the help Of my
Maker l will help stop this business.
LOOK at the crime that is committed
right here in our w city. see the pro-
ceedings Of our Mayors courts and see
II a large majority Of the cases are not
to be traced back to h saloon. Real
izing all this to be true something
must be done and what shall we do?
Work and pray. We cannot vote, but
we can work, we can use u talents in
other ways. We can use an influence in
that direction n on the day Of cleo
ton. which we nope to have in the
near future, We can make a special
effort in prayer that day and s. God
to put it in the hearts OF our men to
vote the saloon out OF our city. We
are glad to see so many towns all over
the state going dry. For the last SIX
months there has been nearly a score
Of towns voted dry and the saloons
closed.
On January LIST two more big towns.
Durham and Goldsboro, closed the
doors Of their soloons even without the
compromise of a d~ispensary. Whining
ton is not so much unlike other towns
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much unlike other peop.e, and if abol-
ishing the whiskey traffic proves a
blessing in other places. it surely will
in Our own city. When we see so much
trouble. anxiety and suffering caused
by whiskey. it makes us feel that every
man that is in favor OF the saloon
should De. made to feel the burden OF
that suffering. We are rejoiced to saa
the progress of the Anti-Sa.o League
n mir its work should be
ed in every way possible. We VIII try
to use III best influence in its beha.f
We cannot close this article without
first calling attention to the evil of the
social unc Bowl." 1t is hard for q
man to drink right in his own home
and then go out and vote against his
neighbor's business. o had better
rid yourself Of the evil, get yourself
right at home and then you VIII be pre-
pared to go out and fight the great
OF sin.
Success to the temperance work in
DIR midst