The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1909-09-25
BELINDA TROTWOOD,

'''s C"'iu6 AoChNCbN u
. 'The Temperance League" ne
u, glccting their own duties and in
terfrr'ng with what they know
s nothing about and they showed it
!. There were five Of them, and :
regular Mardi Gras set they were
! care yon for temperance, Mrs
Trotwood? asked the leader
; that looked as if her face had
been frozen while making a grim
ace, and bad one at that.
"Most assuredly, ma'am. Tenn.
perance in all tbings,' says /.
Then you abhor drink. and are
Tor its 1ermination, says an old
woman with cast in her eve,
and her mouth running diagonal!y,
and voice suggestive of saw
sharpinng.
No m"'am, | aint: for you aim
at Representatives,, and over shoot
| the mark
~ thought you said you were
temperament she snapped.
Yes, ma'am; but your IDEAS
are not temperance, but rabid
prohibition"
cts the same thing" said a
school marin with an air Of set
ting the matter; and she evident
~ had a better opinion Of her self
than the rest of the world had OF
her.
"No Miss" / corrected. cit
amt. Temperance sits on the
fence; Prohibition is as far on one
side AS the drunkard, groveIing in
the gutter IS on the other. TEN
perance il a half way measure,
and appeals to reason. Prohibi-
ton is faIIacy and an Impossible
|ity.'
"Let's down the Devil" cried a
sonred old maid, with scanty tow
FiDgIets and q plowshare nose
whose voice eminated from some
near her boots. I
(which way ma'ams" asked !. Is
nnOcently.
"What way could | meahF'
III thought, perhaps, you meant
0 swallow it out of sight" says |,
Ike a prohibition lecturer that / !
new; he took it by the Doctors
rders paying him five dollars a
lonth to keep the prescription up.
you mean to stop it's use just as
'ell try to drain the gulf of Mexico 7,
18th a teaspoon-You cant do it. q
hlskles, wines, and beers are q q,
cry faithful and reliable servant, f.,
ut an internal bad master. By "
opping It's legitimate and lawful bf
lie you open the backdoors of ar
Jug stores and give u glorious .Je
venue to a host of unprinoipled B,
'ople who will sell poison in the TN
Tine of spirits and will reap a IA
eater harvest than the State
d. l was in Kansas during the rix
,ht lid, and, during that time ba
W more drunkards and smeIled lac
ore sudden death whiskey than att
bxd ever dreampt Of. They Nc
lied 1t Carrie Nations breath.
Sab! there's noble woman for ma,
ny said an ObOist old lady, Ia
breathing hard and in
freely. Ma
'Yes," says l, sarcasticaay, I
10 kind of woman that makes
blush that her mother was q nh,
man. And one that has done moi Q II
advocate the sale of liquor than Sal
zone, by disgusting the right pla
1ded, and making them with Mo
w from the cause she advocat and
bin
DO you advocate drunkenness, on
nj" asked a severe looking a m
nan, padded aud painted, rea,
to look at. o,cl
No, ma'am, far from it, and r
9 your fallacious ideas likely wer
decrease it, no one would help emit
quicker than Behind. Trot. ,sk q
ID. But they won't, nor they Mes
t. Many man, and woman Doe
has been saved a spell Of sick. Il
, add raised from feebleness by IN }
es. beers, and spirits. These clnh
the people you deprive of it. Pat,
their health giving imbibi- ing
8, and perhaps cause their INNS
ID. But there'Il you stop. Dire,
drunkard, whom, l surmise, war,