The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-14
Column Should be Sent.

Booker r. Washington says prohlbi-
ton Is the greatest boon for the
black man since the emancipation
proclamation.
! Nearly three hundred American mu-
inequalities i'm th,rty-six states, aver
aging 10000 population, each have
| outlawed the saloon
| Mrs. Florence Richards, national
organizer and lecturer, gave an ad.
dress at the Miami Valley Chatauqua
| July 20.
| Mayor Sherard of Anderson, s. c.,
furnished the Spartanburg Herald
| with two and a half colums of tes-
tlmony in regard to prohibition In
| Anderson county In which he said
| that II Is a success; that the law
is enforced; that there is less drink
ing less drungenness; a ndthat is
has paid the city financially.
The Transvaal Liquor Commits
| sion, says Mr.. William Hoskin, (mem-
Der of the legislative assembly, has
received evidence that among the
1900 natives employed in the Premier
mine, all but III voter for the pro-
hibition of liquor sale.
Woman suffrage came to the fore
for a moment i'm the National Edu-
cational Association at Denver, Colo,
| when John Mcdonald, editor of the
| Western School Journal of Topeka.
| Kan, took up arms for the women
! before the natieaeI- council of -rius
cation. Mr. Mcdonald said: Tn
Kansas 30 out of an approximate
|
men. What "a narrow being man is!
He is willing to let more than half
the country schools of his state be
ruled by women, thereby acknowl-
edging that she knows more than
that she knows enough to vote for
the incumbent of that office"
A special from Evansville, Ind,
says: THE Model Brewery at Troy,
Ind, will be sold at public sale on
fully 81 to satisfy the claims of cred
tors. The company was adjudged a
bankrupt by United States Commits
sIoner j. w. Wartmann in this city
several days ago. 1t is said the COM
plny's financial embarrassment was
caused by the prohibition wave
sw eeping over the country"
Minnesota w. &. II. u. entertained
tbs members of her college class
| University of Minnesota 'SD at Il
supper at her home, during the re-
cent reunion of the class, To quote
from the class bulletin account of the
affair, MRS. Scovelrs supper did
credit to her college training and was
a practical refutation of the notion
| o. nd a,
Incompatible"
Mrs Frances Il. Beauchamp, pres
ident of Kentucky w. G. T. T., spoke
at the Jackson, (Tenn) Chatauqua
lately. 1t was repeatedly remarked
> on the grounds that Mrs. Beau
champs lecture was the best ever
: delivered by any woman on Jack
son platform, and that so strong was
her appeal that one who was not i'm
sympathy with her side of the ques-
tion could not have entirely resisted
the earnestness and reasonableness
of her remarks.
Glendora (Calif) w, G. r. u.
| united with the ladies of the c. A.
II. and the board of trade, and held
a safe and sane" Fourth of July
, picnic. No fire, no noise, but songs
| n
splendid address by the state w. G,
r. u. president, Mrs. Hester Il, Grif-
fifth at the close Of which hand
some drinking fountain was dedica-
, ted. The erection of the fountain
was made possible by the generosity
, of a public spirited lawyer, who Is
an honorary member of the union
The Union Signal of August 5th
1909,
A Warming to Churches and Preachers
In Bonford's Wine and Spirit Cir
cuIar of June 25, 1903, in a report
: of a speech delivered, before the
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers
convention, by Mr., Joseph Debar, oc-
curs this passage: ''The churches
themselves are proverbial mendcants
: They are always appealing for funds
[ to meet current expenses, and II
i, their appeals they rarely overlook
men of our calling"
This charge against the church may
have been true in days gone by, t'
:. some extent; is il true today? Arr
i there churches and preachers that vii
= take, much less solicit, contribution
from the liquor people? We can no
conceive of their making a create
mistake. If they do it, they blin'
u their eyes to the monumental wicked
r ness of the traffic, and effectuall
It close their mouths from bearing tes
o tmony against it, or they viii b
guilty of meanness to the last degre
=. profit by the traffic and then de
nounce IT,
- AS far as we are concerned, W
I, would as soon take gold red hot fror