Temperance Meetings and Prohibition
WE must therefore begin, as we began in 1838, by moral suasion. We should begin by holding temperance meetings in every school-house, church, and summer grove in the land. People of this generation have no idea of the interest these meetings enlist. There are plenty of good speakers and of good singers in every large vicinity who will volunteer with enthusiasm. We have what we did not have from '38 to '48,—the great power and influence of cultivated women. These women will do what never has been done,—house to house work. They will drag the facts out of the liars of evil, and bring them to bear upon the immediate community, and thus make them intensely effective. A year or two of this work, and prohibition will come of itself, and it will come to stay as a power which can neither be evaded nor resisted.—The Interior.