The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-06-04
WHOLE No. $40.
THE loyal woMBN,s MOVEMENT:
BIZ HORACE oAEE1EY.

Great trials are great opportunities.
ga Perfect through suffering" is a Law of our
terrestrial condition. Virtue is more than
Innocence; it implies amoral being, tempt
ed, tested, and proof against the seductions
of appetite or ambition. We are never so
sure of Gods benefcence as when We feel
His Christening rod, aud know that Attic
tious are but less obvious mercies:.
The North has hitherto felt the heavy
hand of War iao itsI bereavements ouly.
Very few of as have been impoverished by
it. Our Commerce has been annoyed fath-
er than arrested. Our Industry has rather
Abesn stimulated than paralyzed. Not many
of US owe more, many thousands owe less,
than they did when the Rebels opened FIRE
on Fort Sumter. The great majority are
and have been full fed, we'll clad, and blest
in basket and store, Notwithstanding the
black cloud lowering in the Southwest.
We have bought and sold, dressed and din
ed, received aud rendered Inequalities, very
much as thoughthe land did not resound
with the clash of arms. There are excep-
tons, of course; but speak of the gener-
al rule. To me, the most marvellous, pug
zling aspect of our great struggle is the
persistent appearance of general prosperity.
But this cannot last forever. The coun-
try WAS worth, say thirty thousand millions
of dollars Che last census says sixteen)
when this.war broke out. We have since
wasted at least one thousand millions per
annum, or in all one-tentli of what we were
worth in 1860. Of course, we fall in debt
TO Europe, after exporting vast amounts Of
sPecle.topa the constantly accruing balan-
ces against us, And, at length, il is evil
dent that these balances are likely heneeforth
to increase more rapidly than they have done.
We have consumed vast stocks of goods
that were on hand at the outbreak of the
war. We have sold large quantities of pro-
duce that we had on hand at the opening OF
1861, and have but partially replaced them.
Oar exports, other than Of Securities or of
the Precious Metals, must henceforth Ito
the close Of the war, and for some time
Ethereafter) be far below the average of the
last three years. Yet we are importing
goods as beautifully as we ever did, and
buying costly Wares and Fabrics as though
our horn of plenty was at the fullest. The
premium on Gold and Exchange, the prices
which rule in our marts, give audible warn
ing that we must retrench or be whelmed
| in wholesale National and Individual bank
ruptcy. Never was people more clearly
warned to give heed to their ways.
A number of loyal and noble women
! have been among the first to heed the alarm.
/ First in Washington-whence the people
expect much evil and little good-@sinoe in
this emporium and in other cities-meet-
lings have been held, associations formed,
and resolves passed, pledging those who
participated and urging their sisters gener-
! div TO INN ljoify cOhriafvy nd frnOolifJ IN
apparel, and especially to abstinence from
or great economy III the purchase and use
of Foreign Fabrics. The terms are imma-
terial; the essence is as we have stated, To
dress frugally, and to refrain wholly or
mainly from purchases OF the sumptuous
products of European or Oriental looms
such is the vital requirement of the Wo-
mems Movement just iuaugurated in aid of
the struggle for the National life.
Of course, much if not every thing must
be left to the judgment and conscience of
each individual. There are some for whom
a wardrobe costing 81, 600 will seem frugal;
there are others who would be extravagant
if they each spent on dress 800 per an
mum. But whoever adheres to the Dress
Reform movement pledges herself AZ least
TO apparel herself less sumptuously, more
economically, than she has hitherto done
to dress less richly and gayly than she might
Fer would do but for the trials which have
overtaken and the perils that still overhaDg
our country. She pledges herself to forego
somewhat of personal adornment ia defer
ence to the needs and the dangers of the
! American Union.
Ard whoever, with siugleness of heart,
shall unite in this pledge will appear not
less but more lovely in the eyes of husband
father, brother, lover, friend. The coars-
est homespun, the poorest calico, will in
vest her with halo Of patriotism which
every loyal heart must recognize and rever-
ence. That mother or maid who can feel
ashamed to wear homeliest russell in order
that her country may live is not worthy to
have country. For her, the heroism which
faced death bopelessly but steadily on the
slippery sleeps of fredericksburg, or amid
the dense tbickets Of the Wilderness, has
been displayed in vain.
But our country cannot be doomed to
overthrow. The struggle is q fearful one.
but the demon that rends her shall be cast
out. And among the agencies that contrib
l uted to her deliverance and rescue, history
will accord high place to the organization
and effort of the Loyal Women who inau.
q gurated, gave impetus to, and secured the
triumph of, the movement for Dress Reform
i4--- ----2--S- S--
The two cent pieces will soon be in cir.
I culaton, bearing on one side, LIMITED
States of America, 2 cents" on the reverse
. a shield andthe Words "God our trust
This is the first of our national coins which
2 recognizes the existence of God in either
legend or device.
n Gen. Philip Sheridan, whose praises arr