Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-08-25


On Friday afternoon. August 4,
he W. @. T. U. met at the home OF
Mrs. Howard on East l street, the
10 beet for consideration being Non
A lcoholic Medication. Super in
iendent of this department Miss
Lomas.
Program consisted of select reading
from the works Of Rev. N. D. Hills,
singing, and an excellent paper on
the subject by Miss Lomas. An in
discussion followed and
many instructive facts were brought
out. New members are always gladly
welcomed and we say as did Moses to
his father in law, Come with us
and we will do thee good.
Mr.. Berry, formerly public ex-
ecutioner. was questioned as to the
connection Of intemperauce and
serious crimes. He is reported to
have replied: "You ask me If IN
toxicants have much to do with
feeding the gallows. l tell you |
have never hanged a teetotaler, nor
remember one ever being hanged and
in all the 500 executions have been
connected with, 10 out of 20 have
been through drink. England Lon
don Times.
The leading article in Munsey's for
August vacation number) is 1.-The
Story of Temperance. A wonder
full story, says the writer, Herbert N.
Casson, is that of this great politi-
cal and social movement which began
almost a century ago-one of the most
interesting and important chapters OF
American history" The article
touches upon "its causes and results,
its famous leaders, ard the prominent
part American women have played
in it during the last 30 years. Il
gives a temperance map of the United
States and many familiar portraits
among them those of Miss Willard
and Neal Dow.
When a reader of Munsey's earns
or is reminded-that at the time th'
Declaration of Independence wa
signed the average amount of liquo
DIR ank in one year throughout tn,
colonies was 80 quarts per family
that 30 years later it had increased t.
$50 quarts for every home; tina
social life among all classes was on
liquor basis; that liquor was though
to be as indispensable as bread; tina
century ago such an arid waste as
home without a bottle could scarcel.
be imagined-when, we say, his at
tention is directed to these facts and
as parallel picture, the now side o
the case is brought before his meDta
vision, he will hardly venture to sa.
again that temperance Teformers ar
visionaries and fanatics, nor will h
have much difficulty in forecastin
the future of the drink traffic.
Mr.. Casson points out that we ar
still under the head of unfinishe
business" as regards the liquor ques
tion; that our drink bill for one yea
would build three Panama canals
but that drunkenness as nationa
I American vice has become a thing @
the past that the hahitual drinker
barred from employment on railroad
and in stores and offices; that it
now a business necessity to be sober
Further, he shows that in every stat
and territory except 10, partial @
total prohibition prevails, and that i
one-the Indian Territory sale G
liquor is prohibited by fedora
| statute.
Three organizatiUns-the 600
Templars, the Catholic Total Absti
nence Union and the W. C. 7. u
Mr. Casson designates as the regu
lar soldiers of the vast temperanc
army. The militia, he says, has nc
! been counted. Munsey's reader,
however, should be correctly in
formed as to the white ribbon forces
He credits us with a membership q
$50, 600. Including W's and Y's it
| double that number.
We have called attention to thi
Story of Temperance" first, becaus
it presents the then and now of th
movement from the standpoint O
history, not sentiment; second, be
cause the article is in itself an en-
couragiug sign of the times. Tn
magazine IN which il appears reache
thousands Of people whom temperate
literature as such never reaches, an
who would not read it if it did raecI
them. As time goes on we shall finC
more magazines thus helping alonI
hn s,f