The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-10-05
Presidents Address W.
CT. u. Convention

1.-THE recent convention of the w. c. /.
u, held in Rising Sun. requested that
the WING publish the address OF It's
President Mrs. Belle c. Haines.]
Dear CO. Workers and FRIENDS:
We have gathered again in this, our
annual convention of cecil county W, y.
r. IT,. Meagre may seem the reports
brought up to this assembly, but true
and tired is this band of women herein
represented. And today we would pay
our homage to the dear All Father for
His guidance and His blessings and ear
nestly petition that greater stI ength may
be ours for the coming year.
We have gathered here where less than
a quarter OF a century ago two or three
licensed saloons stood within tie shadow
of our homes through and by tie eAofls
of these wives, mothers and SISTERS, the
saloon has been wiped out OF Cecil
county and we represent the standing
army of this county that will keep them
out And more than this, we represent
part of that great phaianx OF Amefl-
can womanhood that says the saloon
must go, and we VIII help to close 1t
out.
We recognize in it the most Insidious
foe to the humap family and today with
o1t any quib5lins we stand for National
Constituti onal Irohibition-and We do
not hesitate to say that If all of the
money, all of the prayers. all OF the
petitions, all OF the lecturing, all of the
teaching that has been done by our we'll
meaning, yet misguided temperance peo-
pie, we say if all of this had been di-
roctly aimed at National Prohibition,
We would today have almost finished the
period of reconstruction that would have
followed it, and today | beg OF you,
dear women. you who represent the
county of our Bay State, | beg of you TO
stand true to the principles that underly
Constitutional Prohibition. Local OPP
tion has teen an education 20 sur peopie
of how much better these snail terri
tories are without the Licensed saloon
than with it, but friends ! beg of you
not to want to live in your swaGGl.ng
clothes all of your lives. LOcai option,
as We ali Know, is but a crude form of
dealing with the question you with me
know the dsaraceful scenes the drum
kenness, the de auch.ng, that exists al
most at our own doors through and by
the Importation tina: our laws cannot
touch And SO | say today, sweeping as
the assertion may be, that no intelligent
christian manhood or womanhood can
pray for the coming of Christ's king
dom and not be a Prohioitonist. And
beg OF you, as active Christian men and
women desiring the furth,rance of tn s
bessed Kingdom that you put forth every
effort of yours in petition work in your
various localities for Congressman Hob
sons bin submitting ali amendment for
National Constitutional Prohibition.
And just here | would cal, the atten-
ton of the greatest features of our
work and tina, is the education of our
youth We have our laws relative to
scientific temperance instruction in our
public schools ! ask OF you, if it is
we'll done, If it carries with it the spirit
in which ttat law VAS formulated by
Mrs Mary H. Hunt. Can We not, as
county workers, see that our trustees
have our s2hool rooms .MelI- equipped
with TN G.rc""r text books and other mater.
ial needs to make the teaching effective
on this all-important subject. But most
important of all is the earnest teacher
ack of the subiect:-Outside of the text
book in the hands of the pupils are in
Vulnerable sources to teach the great
truths that unde. ly the subject. The
Look of Books teaches Prohibi ion from
Genesis to Reye ations. Magazines and
newspapers form an invaluable source.
:. literature in great quantities for small
expenditure, can be obi. ined from the
National w. C. T. U. Literature Building,
Evanston, Illinois.
And, too. every teacher should DC fami-
liar with the simple eXpel mems THAI
illustrate the harmful effects of alcohol
and nicotine. 1T should be our pleasure
and our duty to see that our public Ii
brares and school libraries are supplied
with books and maps upon this line of
thought The base of all oLr future wei
fare depends upoa how we'll we equip
our youth to enter this great field of
labor. But as poorly prepared as the
majority of our teachers were as crude
d the conception of sc.oDl trustees and
patrons regarding scientific temperance
nstruction-yet in the more than a quar-
ter of century since it hes zen made
a legal, compulsory study iii s.;r pub
lie schools, it has been bearing Il rich
fruitage. And, too, where does the mis-
sion of a teacher ell d-what influence,
what power lies back of the consecrated
life of true teacher. 1t is their privi-
lege to make it possible ior ,nese great
reform movements to b. felt in their