The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-04-03
REPORT OF UNION MEETING.
The w. C. T. U. met with Mrs.

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The w. C. T. U. met with Mrs.
Swenumson last Friday evening.
Fifteen ladies We're present. In
the absence of the president, the
secretary. Mrs. N. *. Rudie,
called the meeting to order, and
the regular business of the even
ing was transacted. At the close
OF the business some lively dis
cusSjons were enjoyed One inn
/ portant item of business was the
election of Mrs. Dan Knight as
| president of the Union. Mrs. r..
N. .ludkinS was elected first vice
president and Mrs. Swenumson,
second vice president. Reports
on convention plans were made
by the different special commit
tees. Mesdames Knight, judi
llins, SWenumson and Rudie
were elected delegates to the con-
vention. Mrs. Mckeever made
some interesting and encourage
ing farewell remarks to the
members of the Union, and Mrs.
kivley responded with some
words of appreciation. Two
new members were added to the
Union.
DISTRICT CONVENTION
The District Convention of the
w. G. T. U. meets i'm Sisseton
next week Tuesday and Wednes-
day, April7 and 8. We are not
able yet to publish the whole
program. Monday evening the
members of the local Union will
give reception to the delegates.
Tuesday morning the business
of the convention will begin.
Part of the time of the conven-
tinp will be given to temperance
work and part to that of woman
suffrage. The program for We'd
nesday evening will be a Suffrage
Contest. Four of the Sisseton
ladies will take part. Most of
the speakers of the convention
will be from away. The conven-
ton will be held in the M. Il.
Church. All the ladies of the
town are urged to get into as
many of the meetings as possible.
In Russia the peasants have
stood on very low grade of civ
illzation, have been very illiterate
and also very much demoralized
by the abuse of vodka, a spiritu.
Gus drink. This drink was de-
clared government monopoly,
and the war with Japan was
fought with funds derived from
this source. Last year the gov
ernment of the car realized from
the sale of liquor the sum of
S412,O0O,OOO.
The statesmen of the nation
began to realize the result of this
traffic, and one of the leading pa
pers declared Public drunken.
ness has been growing to extra.
ordinary proportions, and the in
crease in drinking has assumed
a really threatening character"
Mr.. Menshikov said No matter
how much bureaucratic influence
the liquor publicists' should ex-
pend the fate of the liquor mon
opoly in Russia is already decid-
ed. If not the days, the years
of this unhappy child of Count
Witte and Kodovtzov are number
ed"
The Council of the Russian
Empire in February adopted Wig
orus measures for the regulation
of the sale of liquor, prohibiting
it's sale in towns between eleven
O'Clock at night and nine o'clock
in the morning, and after six
o'clock in the evening in the coun-
try; also prohibiting it entirely
in many public establishments.
Count Witte recently made a dra-
matte appeal to the Council to
stop the consumption of spirits,
which he declared was leading
Russia to ruin. The emperor
is himself a total abstainer. It
is cheering to notice this growth
of temperance sentiment in such