Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1885 — W. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT. [ARTICLE]

W. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.

Tflgßr- C. T U. will -i eet at the of Mrs, S, A Henry, Mareh flMfipwP' m to carry out the fo]]owir. 0 Society. Mrs. B ParrisUwe# Prayer- Society. fSeming minutes, SecIfcsil'ftßk Mi-sei Wright and Osborne. Hmm, Miss Alice IrwinSelefjijßeading. Miss Hill, . Doxology. Society. asSygyWM ,„ Drinking baffiles u», confounds us, and mocks ue at every point. - WcMHHm’ alike the teacher- the man of the patriot, and the legislator Kverngber business flounders in hopeless tßßculties, but the public house triumphant ecurse.—[London cannot be burned, beheadA lie co the throne is and tr uth in a dungeon is -"W&vMill; and the lie «n the throne is to defeat- atad the truth in the dillMeon is on the way to victory HMm McKinney. No,liquor has been seid for the last [astkyaura in one of the.■s-/ealt best and ■fiKiiKisperous cuonties of Texas, and JteteHfenlly the jail is empty- The gMH||Npiould pause and consider that MIOMI • great moral.—[Chicago Stand - : IfcjS © orre ctly estimated that the cost '■WWfcJiquor traffic in the United States finMUjithe damage of thirteen Chicago ■MHSttßiy. year—more than one Chicago month. The liquor traffic, t thereß&e, Is a conflrgration which evflHbar burns up thirteen Chlcagos. fr iMtomputed that the average glass gßsgßHßkey, which cost' the drinker from ■to flitteen cents, only cost the one-sixth of a cent. is the key to the only reasonable argument agarnst at the question of prohiw * v<) te at the people. Here are goißtoMbe joctoets of manufacturers, >4hegover^ment.sod dealers,: from the distillery all the my down the miser* abtKydfl&nkardin the gutter. With profits and gains is it that they who share in the •pelt! |hould unite and spend large sums ■ to save the miqditoae traffic, they have their living.— [Kx. tried moral suasion for scores haye tried high license for Yet the«liquor powea has MlMtoides that put to shame ail the i-ntewrioua growth of our other industries. It baS4lot retraced a step. It is holder, insolent and high-minded to than ever -before in history These are not -groundless assertions; we shave spared,., neither dollars nor daps of labor .-verifying these fact. The. one temedy tha has not bean tried is a prohibition law backed up bv a national |3mililWti on party. lowa has the law: but it -hasn’t the party to back it iKanaas-iias the:law; but-no party stands or falls with it. Maine has the Uw, rand it had a, party too, years ago; for the Maine republican party was founded «n abolitionand prohibition. But the law has never yet had the .toackiug of nationalT>arty. And a State can only .aboliak the manufacture, and sale *lthin its borders; the importation from Its states it cannot abolish national law to help it. The teloon is an enemy io God and <mani llMnsed or unlicensed, it produces noffi|n|j;but fi ia aQ d sorrow; it thrives onlf on The stronghold 'Without Which it is powerless, with rwhlch alone, it is terrilbv potent, is the political jjbtronghold. It will never be persuaded to abandon it; it must be and kenet out forever—[Ex.