The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-08-25
W. 7. u. COLUMN
Mrs. Merrill Pipkin, Press Supt.

Mrs. Merrill PIpkIn, PRESS Supt.
"The fight is ON, oh Christian
soldiers"
The w. {. Z. t. will meet in
prayer service at the home of Mrs.
Il. NJ. Talbert Tuesday afternoon at
9:30 O'Clock. Miss Vim, leader.
"NO greater source Of crime and
sorrow ever existed than social
drinking saloons. 1t is still the
prolific source of disease. misery,
pauperism, vice and crime"
The Neelcyville w. G. 7. L. has
defeated more than II dozen saloon
petitions IN the last two years, and
has defeated one man seven times.
NeighbOring towns are interested
and are sending in the siuews of
war.
, If the W. G. r. t. can defeat sa-
| loon petitions, what can they do to
whlskey candidates if they only try,
So let every union in st. Francois
county get busy before Novem-
/ Der Sth.
/ There are enough insurgents in
both parties to teach the brewers
aud saloon element that the day of
their pcrnicious activities and in
/ iluencc in politics is past. The in
surgcnts sounded the death knell of
| Governor Patterson 5 whiskey-made
machine in Tennessee. Men are
learning to put principle, honor,
| honesty and integrity above party,
and it is their intention to indicate
such II preference this fallby voting
/ for the cleanest man regardless of
party utilization.
Presbyterians and Prohibition.
The Temperance Committee Of
what is known as the Northern
| Presbyterian Church, located at
| Pittsburg, Pa, are of their own mo-
! ton sending II Prohibition speaker
| to Missouri to canvass the State.
| The salary and expenses of the
| speaker are paid by the committee.
/ one of their speakers addressed
meetings last week at Liberty, Key
/ trSvili", Macon, Mexico and Mo
/ berry.
/ This seems To- us to he very much
/ in Keeping with the eternal fitness
of things. The National Brewing
and distillimg interests, wholesale
and retail liquor organization, will
/ spend millions of dollars in Missoil-
! ri during the next seventy days To
/ defeat the will Of the people, flood
| ing the State with literature and
/ speakers as well as money with
which to buy the votes of the weak
| aud debauched.
! II the national liquor Organiza-
/ tiuns are sufficiently Interested in
/ the Missouri contest to spend mil
/ lions, why should not the church
and temperance people outside Of
! Missouri be willing to spend thou
| sands in behalf of the church side
| of the conflict? This is "A battle be-
| tween the brewery and the church,
/ and Missouri, having II great many
| brcweries, one Of which is the larg-
est IN the world, makes this the
most important battle ever yet
, fought in any State.
If the church wins this conflict
it will he II triumph not only for ev-
cry other state, but for our rcpub.
lie and for the world. II the brew
| cries win, 1t will delay the redemp
ton of the entire republic. III
Busch's brewery can he uuSted from
Missouri ii will he like the fall of Port
Arthur IN the Russo-Japanese war.
II the church and temperance forces
outside of Missouri will come up to
help the Lord in the battle lik" the
outside brewery forces will come up
to the help of the devil in the con-
tlict, there is not the shadow of II
doubt that the church will win glor-
iously.
We regret that Southern Method
ism has not II general secrctery and
temperance board or committee, like
the Preshyterians. In the absence
of such board or committee, let
annual conferences or individual
wealthy churches select their best
speakers and pay their expenses in
the Missouri campaign. Let the
general temperance organizations
of every kind outside of Missouri
send to us speakers and literature
at their own expense. The editor of
the st. Louis Christian Advocate
has hazarded his life In his strenu-
GUS fight for the redemption of Ok
lahoma and other parts of the coun-
try. Now we plead for others to
come up to our help in the redemp-
| a.
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