The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-08-25

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is only a 1.-THE of the amount that the
pass in v er the counter for
which net them nothing at all;
that out of ten dollars which leaves
the home for this useless thing only
thirty or forty cents eventually reach
the public treasury in license and tax,
and even less goes to the grain pro-
ducer, and that each drinker could
better afford to pay his share OF the
liquor tax out of his pocket, chip into
a fund for grain production, n keep
the rest to use in buying useful things
for his h, me in such a way as to give
more and more useful emplO! ment to
his fellows and at the same time inn
prove his own condition in life.
Many of the methods which have
been used in the campaign are worthy
of employment in districts which have
not vet felt the stimulus. Thus, not
ably in Philadelphia children have
entered into the campaign. In some
cities they have paraded at the polls,
begging the voters to eliminate the
saloon in order that the control OF
their schools and their paths through
life NAV be freed from that menace
In some cities, notably in Illinois,
the choirs of churches, sometimes in
robes, have marched about. singing at
the saloon doors. Women's organi-
cations. individual speakers, like Mrs.
Nation, who for years have faced
every conceivable insult and affront
in order to stir up the movement
against drink these and the churches,
as we'll as the mems political organ
izations, have all helped. In Illinois
in q single day n thousand five
hundred saloons were thus voted
out of existence: and in Indiana. in
Iowa, and in many other States
saloonkeepers, honest and well-inten-
toned, finding themselves out OF
sympathy with their townspeople, tho
legally entitled to keep bar, have vol
UNFAIRLY closed their places of bust
ness.
The manufacturers of liquor have
naturally viewed this process with
alarm as their business dwindled
For the first time in the history q
their business they began to consider
it honestly. An organization has
been formed to compel the retailers te
separate the sale of liquor from it,
alliance with vice-all in vain, sinc'
the things are in~separable. Cam
psigns as wide as the country have
u. On begun through the mails in Al
efor. to alter public opinion, Blu
the promises and the suggestions O
! the brewers and distillers are met will
prompt replies; and they appear to-
(, much like the monkish inclinations Q
the sick devil to be taken seriously b.
most persons. The freedom witt
which the campaign is discussed il
the papers, ever sensitive to the de
sires of advertisers, indicates nol
little influence is left to the drinl
concocters.
Many articles have been writtel
upon the political and business a
poets of the prohibition movement
but after sll, the greatest story ha
not been told, nor can it be, except i
the most ~frsgmentary way, since
lies hidden 10 the hearts OF thousand
OF women among the secrets whic
will never out. II Is . story whic
has It's relation to the larger econom
Of the community, just as the pros
perity Of the community depends upo
|, that Of the several homes which mai
it. Yet it Is . hard story to preser
In figures. II 10 . human story thu
only two parties can tell-the wome
who keep it locked in their hearts, an
the doctors, from whom there are n
secrets. When poverty comes I'M
|, the home the bitterest struggle of tt
! woman II TO keep the increasing hart
I ship hidden, partly through pride !
in her home, partly lest any suspicio
OF incapacity attach to her HUSBAND
D The parlor and the dinning-roOm,
which company n admitted must |
kept up ct whatever sacrifice; but
the inner rooms. where the famil
i alone 60, are relocated the broke
/ chairs and tables. Bed linen weal
) out and is patched, but not replace
Towels become frayed and ragge'
wssh-bowls give place to tin basin
Wallpaper is torn and unmende'
plaster is broken and unrepaired, 81
when new blankets IRE needed u
housewife makes shift, at first on b.
D own bed. and last on those Of b
children, with ragged and worn-o
quilts. Little by little this stage
"a reached, but the signs Of It's apprOa,