The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-25
A WOman's Thoughts on the
TcmDerance Cause.

Temperance Cause.
We are glad to learn that the peo
pie of of our town are actually wax
ing up at last, and are now working
earnestly for grand reform, on the
side of Temperance. Surely they
have had ample time for reflection
and certainly, in no other place
have they greater need for refor-
nation than in Hillsboro.
When we look back we wonder
how this great evil could prevail to
such an alarming extent, in an in
telligent and Christian community.
Then, to think how patiently we
have endured it all! But public
sentiment is at last aroused in be-
half of outraged humanity. For a
long time it has been only feeble
wall, but now we hope it will be
like the cry for Liberty, louder and
louder, till
"Rocks their silence break,
The sOdud proong."
And if there are those among as
whose ideas and actions have been
dependent on public opinion, we
beg OF them to work now, while it
is called to day, for the night of
death will come, when no man can
work. When called on by eager,
earnest women to prosecute the
liquor seller, don't sit quietly down
with folded hands, and answer
calmly, persuasively, "Better just
let the matter rest here; you can't
do anything now." Be sure and
remember one thing: Ask a few
dollars for the excellent advice
given.
All have seen the effects of this
great evil, and let us not still de-
sire ga little more slumber, little
more folding of the hands to sleep"
Already we have slept too long, and
our enemy has been gaining ground.
If the war on Intemperance has be-
gun, let every man, woman and
child aid in the strife, in the battle
for the Right.
There are many that will cry,
Peace" but ihere will be no peace
till this terrible curse is entirely
destroyed. 1t is a righteous war;
let US fight it through, though it
may take time and money. Toe
much has been lost, too many have
suffered already. 1t is stated, that
"thirty>tliree and a thirdpe cent. of
all deaths in New aork City were
the direct or indirect result of the
use of alcohol, and in the last thirty
eight years 10000 persons in that
city died from its use, either by its
direct influence, or through the neg.
lect or disease of parents, themselves
slaves to alcohol" Could we mum
Der all deaths in the United States
from the same cause, what loss OF
human life, what fearful wreck of
human souls!
Then no one can picture the heart
rending scenes on the stage of life
and behind the curtain. What
tragedies we are daily, hourly en-
acting, and Oh, what will the record
be? How many silent, suffering
ones have cried aloud in the bitter
ness of woe, "Oh God, how long
must we endure all this?"
We arrest the murderer, and pun
ish him for his crime. 1t is strictly
forbidden by law to sell poisonous
article without a written prescrip.
tion from physician, but the
whisky-seller pours the poison down
the throat of his victim, destroying
not only the body, but the soul,
while he exults over the deep laid
miseries and over the money he has
made. How often the poor drunk
ard is caught in the dangerous net,
cannot control the appetite, or re-
sist the temptation, and so goes
down TO his grave in despairing res.
ignation-everything lost, and his
family scattered to the four winds
of Heaven, willie his self-destroy-
ing, Satanic angel rides on the
broad current of popularity. Socie-
ty claims him as one of the favored
ones. Ask the reason why, and
how eagerly they say, "Oh, he has
money" Go to his home, and see
how grandly it is furnished. His
table is bounteously spread, he fares
sumptuously every day, dresses in
broadcloth, and walks the streets
like a,lord.
Then, can we believe men engage
in this traffic without knowing the
result? Too much money is made
at the business to give it up so easi-
ly, though they are all living off of
other peoples agonies; and what a |
fearful price is paid! "Charity COW
ereth q multitude of sins," but don't
hide all the sins of the whisky-deal-
er under this loving mantle. Let
them be known, and condemned by
the world.
A man may be governed by un-
restrained passion, but he who |
walks up coolly, deliberately, and
strikes down his fellow man, knows
,UeU what the result will be. So
when men stand behind counters,
measuring the poison in the accurs-
ed cup, they can see the reeling |
forms, the bloated, crimson faces of
those who throng their saloons, and |