The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-04-16

J. The Woman's Christian Temperan,
> Union has undertaken the task of he'll
ing to drive alcohol as beverage frol
the face of the world. Will it succeed
$ Yes, on one condition. What cond
tionG 1t will depend upon the cooper
alton OF the people. Our task is world
. wide, but our means are coextensive.
This being the case, the possibilitie
r OF the country union are as broad a
, the country itself. We are interests
J in every man, woman and child VIII
lives in the country. How shall W
reach them? Local orders of the w
] G. 7. u. are being organized in man,
rural communities, and through an ex
tension OF these we propose to bring al
rural people into touch with our grea
movement to make the life of mankind
more tolerable. We do not expect to
upbraid the poor drunkard who is tied
to his curse with chains OF iron, but our
sympathy for him is such that we can
remove his trouble by joining and help
ing the great move of State and nation
wide Prohibition. Our possibilities
would cease the moment We should at
tempt to criticise and upbraid people
who are addicted to the use of alcoholic
beverages. They are only partaking of
what civilization and custom has placed
before them. This makes our work
two-fold in its nature. We must labor
to correct false ideas of liquor which
have been instilled into our people by a
pre-civilization.
Their conception is such that they do
not realize the harm that is being done
TO them and to posterity.
To realize our possibilities we must
constantly keep our object before us.
In our local w. c. T. U. we are seek
ing the membership of all women.
Why? Because it will take our united
effort to save our own people, aDd to
keep them from stumbling on the ever
awaiting bottle of liquor which lies in
their path. If we work together as we
should for the cause of Prohibition, it
is possible for us to so completely gain
the confidence of the youth that we can
easily induce him to become a total alb
stainer.
1t is possible for us to keep the active
support of all our w. G. T. U. members
if we will only keep abreast of our order.
We can make our meetings so interest
ing and entertaining that each member
will be anxious for another; they will
also bring in visitors who will be so roy
ally received that they at once lend us
their cooperation.
The possibilities for us to reach out
are so great that we can, in time, have
all the rural communities OF the world
under our influence.
The influence of our union will also
be in other directions than temperance.
Wherever there is an earnest effort at
cooperation, an unlimited opportunity
is inherent with same for the uplifting
OF our people socially. Whatever tends
to break the monotony and isolation Of
rural life is an advance step which will
inevitably make US happier and better
When those conditions are
brought about we have proven our local
W. G. I. U. to be benefactress of man.
Kind. When we are able to get our peo-
Die better contented and light hearted
We have the seed bed prepared for bet
err citizenship and everything else that
makes life worth while.
Through helping to make farm life
agreeable, we stay the urban .
ide of immigration, and thus save to =
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ourselves the innocence Of country life
n all its purity and sweetness. More
han this, by keeping our boys and girls
n the farm, save them from tempta- II
ons with which they are unfamiliar. II
Our labors will still go further; wher-
yer we find an opportunity to retrieve
lie suffering or contribute to the desti-
lite there we expect to hover with our
rotecting care.
We propose to eventually become so
rong as to be able to ask the world
overs to take alcohol as a beverage
ON the face of the earth. Will our
eat rulers heed us? Yes, for we will
I'VE SO completely demonstrated our
fuence that all the world will be our
end and interested in our cause. When II
orld-wide Prohibition shall have been II
5ained, the historian of the future will
lite as follows: