Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-22
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Mn. EDlroR 81 notice in last weeks
Enquirer low fling ct those ladies in
Rochester, Cedar county, who we're 80 sue
cessful in demolishing those rum. holes with
which that place was cursed. How comes il
to pass that Democratic editors are almost
without exception the abettors Of the MUIR
derous liquor traf6cp
They are generally opposed to oil laws
prohibiting the indiscriminate sale Of LIQUOR
% beverage, and backed by their leaders,
they laber to render inefficient all the means
designed by wise legislation to stay the
dreadful scourge Of intemperance, and sue
ceeding in neutralising the force of Law,
they thereby strengthen the hands of those
heartless wretches who are corrupting our
youth, sending waste and want broadcast
ever the land, and preparing victims for the
poor house, the prison, and grave yard.
Should the mother, prompted BY the un-
dying love she bears to her poor, fallen SON..
once bright with promise, attempt his rescue
from the merciless grasp of the rum dealer |;
the wife, with crushed spirit and broken
heart, subject to be driven forth by the once
kind husband, but now Infatuated demon,
exposed to the wintry blast, and the peltings
of the pitiless storm ;--should she resolve
that the murderer of her husband should
cease his work of death the sister, seeing
her much loved brother within the coil Of
the fell destroyer, she sallies forth to save
her brother ;-and yet this poor, pitiful,
whiskey editor would charge such ladies,
engaged in such noble work, with ssunsexing
themselves, and acting like border rufians.o
Quite gallant, very humane!
Why this sympathy for the Liquor traffic
Why this trucking to the liquor interest
Can it be mere devotion to party, or love
for intoxicating drinks?
How impressive this doggery- defending
editor was when urging the people to turn
out to the wolf-hunts which came of in our
county few months since! Somebody's
hen oost was in danger Of being entered,
and many valuable chickens torn to pieces !;
. sheep-pen broken into, the sheep scattered,
and some cruelty put to death; ssturn out,
fellew-citizens, with gun, powder and ball,
and rid the country Of these dreadful beasts
Of prey. But you, liquor sellers, I'll defend
you even against the penal sanctions OF the
law, and abuse any Set Of women who will
attempt to disturb you in your destructive
calling"
This same editor, who shows himself OPP
posed to the happiness Of his race, the we'll
being of society, and the prosperity of the
country, by sympathizing with, and openly
advocating the blighting liquor traffic,
seemed to manifest no little kind heartedness
few weeks since, when the cry of mad dog
ran through our city. O, how he felt when
he fancied this and that one will surely be
bitten! ssWake up, ye guardians of the
public veal, bestir yourselves, pass an ordi-
nance requiring the death of every dog in
stanter, and what thinning out of dogs
Many dog was killed that never intended
to 60 mad, but then they might do harm !;
therefore they must die. Very sensible-the
best security against hydrophobia: remove
the cause, the effect ceases. But you, rum
sellers, may 60 on in subverting virtue, con.
ducing crime, and destroying the souls and
bodies of men, yet I'll defend YOU'LL
manufacture public opinion against the
liquor law, and if women should rise and
attack you, I'll call them hard names, shame
them out of it, and you permitted to enjoy,
undisturbed, the rich profits of widows
tears, orphans cries, the maniac's loss Of
reason, the convict's loss Of liberty, and the
suicides of life. Our party must be sus-
tanned Democracy must live, cost what it
will"
Why cannot this self same editor give the
influence Of his talents and position, and
join in general crusade against the accursed
rum holes of our city What are wolves
and mad dogs compared with these soulless
liquor sellers? If the officers of law will
not act and put stop to these vile dsspera-
does in their work Of death, it would not be
a matter Of Surprised the poer, unfortunate,
unprotected women of eur city, who are
suffering what eye hath not seen, or ear
heard. of the wrongs, woes and misery, as
the direct result Of the doggeries, if they
should rise and head an armed host, and
initiate the praiseworthy conduct of these
noble women at Rochester.
Come on, ye broken-hearted mothers! ye
cruelty oppressed wives! we'll help hold
your bonnets.
We believe. law would be better, but in
the absence of enforced law, let every mother
protecther children against these murderers
as they would against brutal savages.
w. s.