W. C. T. U. Column

At the regular meeting of the W. C. T. 0., on Thursday, April 23, Mrs. Parker, president of the Union, was appointed a delégate to the district convention of the W. C. T. U., to be held in Hillsdale on the 12th and 13th of May. The oratorical contest of the Prohibition'Club, held in the law lecture room on April 23, resulted in the eelection of H. H. Walker, of this city, to represent the college club at the state convention at ïpsilanti. The oration showed rnuch thought and careful preparation. The yount; men who work so nobly in the S. C. A. and for the temperance cauae are and ever will be an honor to the University. Their names shall live when all others are forgotten. The local option bill for Wales was successfully carried through its second reading in l'arliament, ono member from Wales voting against it. Ninety per cent. of the inhabitants of Wales are in favor of the total prohibition of the liquor traffic. - Union Signal. A prohibition daily is proposed in Detroit. Michigan is one of the foremost states in the temperance work. To publish a prohibition daily will be taking a great step in advance both for the state and for the temperance cause. From the Labor Echo of San Francisco, Cal., we quote the following: "The legislature broke up cursing, drunken and brawling. It was a fit ending of the session. It can be no matter of surprise to any one that those men who had marked their career of office by lying and stealing should termínate it by drunken profligacy. The scènes, as recorded in the daily press, match some of the worst in the most disorderly assemblies during the French Revolution. After shamelessly breaking their pledges, after haying steeped thernselves to the Ups in iraud and bribery, they still further disgrace the people and the state by an unparallellert exhibition of drunken folly." The above reminds us very forcibly of a scène in the Capítol at Washington a few years ago, when our National Congress broke np in the same way, after a session protracted until the last of June; and of other men who represent the people in public places. The time must come when all this will be changed. Kither this will be in reality what it today claim to be,a Christian nation, with laws to remove these great evils from our midst, and people with consciences and backbone enough to enforce the laws, ortt will be a nation noted for its drunkenness and many vlees, and abhorred of all the world. It is in our power to make it either. Which shall it be?