The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-08-05
RIBBON
COLUMN
Edited by Mrs. Thos. Weir

She can be. faithful in attendance.
She can wear the white ribbon.
She can bring in new members.
She can pay her dues.
She can help on programs.
She can study and be an intelli.
gent worker.
Finally, she can keep sweet, be
prayerful, patient and persistent, and
cultivate the three Gs: Grace, Grit,
Gumption.
We were glad to have our County
S. S. Supt., Mrs Howes, with US on
our picnic day.
So glad to hear of the fine trip Miss
Rose Davidson is having and that she
will be home in August.
Keep on doing the best you can, and
you'll find the best you can do con-
stantly growing better.
Many thoughts come to us, some
are appropriate, some not. AS J. d.
Rockefeller, Jr., said once, IL would
like a good text" and he took one of
the Psalms, "The Lord is my shep-
herd, i shall not want" Beautiful,
but still it was not as appropriate as
another verse: "He anointed my head
with oil; my cup runneth over" His
Lord was in position to give him
whatever he asked So is yours if we
only have the faith. Think on these
things. Let your faith carry you to
the land of the annointed.
Our convention will soon be on
hand. Let everybody be ready to go
and promote this work. Hope you
will or can all go.
Mary Baker Eddy is 80 years old
and few women have outlived more
rumors.
w. G. T. U. is getting along in
years and has still staying quality
and will outlive her foes, who pre-
dict short life. Never mind what
people say, so the eye is fast on a
higher Person
The friends of temperance in Ha-
waii are having a difficult time to
prevent the slow but steady exstinc-
tion of the native race by his imita-
ton of the vices of the white man.
To try to reform society with the
saloon untouched is like mailing the
pailings on the fence and leaving the
hole in the garden.
Both chambers of the Swedish
Riksdag and the ecclesiastical coun-
Gil have expressed themselves against
the sale of liquor at the army bar.
racks and camp as the traffic must be
stopped.
Farce drinking to health with
poison-What shall we drink to the
health of our friends?
Is there pure liquid that best pro-
notes health in all integrity? If SO,
let us drink the health with water.
Farce 2-Asking Divine blessing
on a meal including alcohol.
Farce 3-To the man who, without
fear, makes poisons and drinks pois-
ons, yet is particular about the air
he breathes and food he eats.
Farce 4-The Christening of battle
ships in alcohol. Shall we baptize our
children in whiskey? Why not?
Farce 5-The man who advocates
laws against theft, robbery and MUIR
der without asking if the law can not
prohibit when the dram shop is in
question.
OF 700 marked $40 bills paid on a
Saturday night by a Massachusetts
factory to its hands, 400 were deposit
ed in the bank by saloon keepers by
the following Tuesday.
1t is difficult to imagine what the
next generation will be like if the
craze for cigaret smoking goes on in
creasing at the present rate. Not on
ly men but women, l am sorry to say,
have become so accustomed to smok-
ing that it seems almost impossible
to rest more than one hour between
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smokes. 1t is a serious question to
try and solve. When at hotels and
restaurants they seek the shelters
and cozy corners to have a quiet
smoke all day and part of the night
soon rendering them slaves perfect
ly useless, being nervous, neurotic, OBJ
/ noyiouS IN evary one
There is nothing hereditary save
the law. There is nothing possible
under the flag except by the will of
the people, if that will is exercised.
Injustice can not have inception or
live except we sanction it either by
direct approval or by indifference. No
man or class of men can wrong us
without consent Our guiding laws,
based upon equity and right are suf-
ficient for our protection if we have
tho intalligenca to enforce them.