The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-10-05

community. We can't go ito the home
and tel the mothers individually what
we can tell in a general way to an audi
ence of paren.s The w.st teacher car
arrange a simple program On a Friday
afternoon once a month-have a limited
number of the children take part and
then arrange for capable man or wo-
man who unde1s ands the grea, problems
that confronts parents, and let them
give a talk. distribute Literature, recon-
mend books for reading etc. have al
ways believed that every teacher who is
no. an earnesS w. C. T. u worker, a
strong, courageous prohib.tfonis;, loses
fully one half of Their power for GOOD.
And, 100, | wish to impress upon you
the fact that there is :, depar ,ment re-
cognized by our Nation-a department
that | had hoped to bring before tnis
convention sufficiently convincing that
every white ribbon would be crossed by
the gold. For wherever woman has been
clothed with this ne@ power, stronger
laws have seen enacted for the preven-
ton of the home and the bettermenI o,
the Stare. Wyoming, Colorado, Utah,
Idaho, Washington, California, have full
suffrage A number OF others partial
! never have been able to understand but
one reason for any one standing out
against 1T, and that is the alliance of the
liquor interests for they know full well
that an enfranchised womanhood will
sound the death knell of the liquor tr
fc, and al of its kindred allies. If the
ballot We're ours in this State every
woman's influence in the various Depart
merts of this organization would be
treoled. Think you. have We fair rep
resentation in Our State government that
the Havre de Grace race course would
ever have been opepe1? Would sucn
plans as the Oxford Fair receive State
aid under the delus.on that it is a bene-
fit to Agricu'ture? Would two pool
rooms grace the torouga ur TIE Rising
sun, If there were some women on the
Board of Commits sioaers7 Houiu there
not be some civic house cleanng-so
unearthing of musty laws that would
make for the betterment of every sec
ton With our in0orl ideas of wise
economy, would We not make it possible
to have crossing repaired Or public
highway or a few stones placed in a
washout without paying three different
men to see that fourth man used the
shovel and the pick? Would we pay
all of the hard earned money of our tax
payers to fee sinecures in Office and
leave almost none to pay FOR the lii.
provements that should be made for the
benefit Of our county at large.
And, too, how can We so readily lend
our aid 10 the suppr> ssi5n of the White
Save traffic as We IAN through and by
an unlimited ballot. The relation OF the
saloon to the traffic in women is full
wei. known, for impurity and intemper
ance stalks hard in hand throughout tn .
land of ours. The reports from the sup.
erin. endea.s of the various Departments
of this organization will come TO you
fraught with greater meaning than !
can give them. and so | viii hastily
c ose with the fol.c@Ing recommenda lions
for our work:
/. That We petition for National Con-
stitrtional Prohibition.
2, That We petition for laws for the
ABOLITION of the White Slave traffic
3. That we enforce the avs regarding
the sale of alcohol and narcotics to
minors
/. That we urge for the enforcement
If the laws On Sabbath observance.
>. That we supply literature anu map
to be used on Scientific Temperance in
struCt.on to our public schools.
6. That we ask our county superin-
endents of schools that method work
on Physiology and Hygiene with special
reference to alcohol and narcotics be
given an equal place with other bran
ches at our county institutes.
!. That we send capable speaker
anti-narco les into every school room IL
the county.
s. That we organize n woman's suf-
frage organization in the county
In brief, sisters let us be about our
Masters Observation-Disclosures that
this year of 1912 is full of blessed privi
leges-that the fields are white unto the
harvest ana that God asks thai part
OF this great work be done by you.