WHO ARE THEY?

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 383, 18 June 1927, Page 3

WHO ARE THEY?

“They’ll never carry it. ’ Haven't you heard this cheering prophecy? From good prohibitionists, too. or oftener, from old friends who ha\e been good prohibitionists once, but have slipped gradually back from the vanguard, reliable voters and givers, but with no time left for personal work. “Who are they?”

“Well, you.” will be the answer. ‘‘You’ll never carry it. I’ve seen too many attempts to have much faith now in your carrying it. The other side is waking up too well, has too much to spend.”

"Then why don’t you give more?” "Don't 1 give enough? All 1 can manage in times like these.” "But it isn’t your money we want. It’s you. With your experience you’d be a tower of strength. "Don't say they or you, as if you were out of the light, or on the shelf, it’s all of us together, surely. Money ran help pay for good printed stuff, blit, however, good print is it can't have the arresting touch of spoken words. Trim's often a stranger. But people know you. respect you. They’ll remember what you say to them, if you say it often enough, anyhow. “Look here, when did you last say a word about the job? Can't remember, eh? Then it isn’t likely anyone else will remember hearing you either, is it? “But if you do say it now. no, not

to me, to the next person you meet on business, or just by chance, yours may be just the word wanted to set him thinking. Or it may fit into something else he has heard, and win the last voter needed to carry the election. Or it may he just the last suggestion to help someone give up an ‘occasional drop,’ or keen from starting the habit. You wouldn’t miss the chance of that, would you?” “Look here. I ni not an orator, one of your great speakers.” “Seriously, do you think any one of ever the best speakers can do more than the crowd behind, all made up of individuals? Don’t say they or you. or think that way. It’s all of us together will carry it. Come on into the fight, and say something to-day.

“If you can’t speak verbally, wear the how. That speaks.” KATHERINE MERCER.