The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-20
Chicago Women Are to Invade
Haunts of the Men.
BAN ON ONE GLASS OF BEER
Disciples Of King Alcohol Must Pre-
pare for Onslaught to Be Made
On Their Weakness.


King Alcohol, prepare for novel on
salught on your weakness!
Mrs. w. A. Brubaker of the Cook
County Woman's Christian Temperance
union has planned an attack on col
lective man who is not total alb
stainer. At every gathering of men in
the country where an informal speech
may be made she proposes to have,
|if necessary, IL secret Temperance
speechmaker.
The proposition was made at the
opening session of six days gath
ering of the union yesterday in the
Wabash Avenue Methodist Episcopal
church. This was not the only nov
city. Mrs. Alice C. O'Neal, vice pres
ident of the union, who has charge
of the medical end of the temperance
propaganda in the county, declared
that to drink glass of beer was a
sin, and every woman present who
did not think the same was hypo-
critic
Invade Haunts of Men.
Mrs. Brubaker's proposition came up
in the shape of a plan of work for
mothers meetings in connection with
the Woman's Christian Temperance
union. These meetings. she thought,
should be of three kinds-straight
away mothers meetings of the union,
meetings to win other women of the
cause, and, finally. meetings where the
haunts of men might be invaded, even
though the men did not know they
were the objective point.
eve ought to carry our mothers
work into the mems field" said Mrs.
Brubaker. "There are so many things
that men do not hear about OF do not
have brought to their notice. We
ought to learn about mems meetings,
no matter of what character, and at
every one of these meetings we ought
to have an advocate.
wherever we can have an advocate
to plead the cause of the mothers and
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
union, and our advocate is permitted
to speak as such, there will be no
difficulty in having it done. When
ever expedient, we should have an ad-
vocate of our cause at mems meetings,
and. if not understood to be our rep
resentative openly, it would be good
idea to have one there anyway. We
could learn how our cause was re-
ceived and we would understand about
the progression of our work"
Mrs. Brubakers proposition was re-
ceived with favor. Action upon it in
an official way may be taken by the
union before adjournment Saturday.
One Drink a Sin.
81 consider that the drinking of
glass of beer is a SIM" said Mrs.
O'Neal in a talk on the evils of in
temperance. "A drinker of one glass
NAV not be drunk, but the sin is the
same. The drinker is defiling the
body. 1 don't think the sin of the
absolute drunkard is like that of the
moderate drinker The drunkard is in
such a state that he can hardly be
blamed. But the man who drinks
every day and attends to his business
sets pernicious example to many
who believe they can safely initiate
his example"
.Do all the ladies here feel as you
do. that the drinking of glass OF
beer is "a SIM" Mrs. O'Neal was
asked.
..If they did not they would not be
here or they would be hypocrites,' was
the answer.
While the union was in executive
session an unidentified man appeared
and said he would like to talk on the
recent assertion attributed to DIR.
Wiley that any person who did not
drink was mollycoddle. He was adj
vised to come around later when there
was scientific temperance instruc-
tion.
A pledge was read, which, it was
recommended, should be spread extern
sively by tile purity division of the
union as follows: 81 promise that
I will not, by the help of God, do,
say or listen to anything l cannot tell
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