Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-03-03
For the Gazetts.
Let the Women Pray.


Have they not suffered long and dire.
To TO your church yards and cemeteries.
call up the spirits of the thousands, those
who sleep In drunkards graves, the sleep
that knows no eud; hear their voices of woe.
Let the women pray
Go TO your Jails and fenitentiaries; hear
the groaDs and curses OF the poor chain
bound prisoner, ask him why there? Why
his life 10 worse than wasted the hopes OF his
family destroyed, the blot upon his name
and posterity7 lie answers Rum hath done
1t.
Let the women pray!
Go to your Insane Asyluns Hospitals,
and your Aims Houses, witness the iuco-
hersnt rawlings Of the mad men. the excru-
ciating pain aud suffering of the manned and
diseased, the abject condition OF the pauper,
who by the thousands fill all these places,
victims OF the liquor fire, and
Let the women pray
Go to the sQualid home In your Cities
towns aud country districts, See the poor
| emaciated. poverty-striken mothers and
| ragged children without food, fuel or cloth
| ing, many OF which mothers, reared in af-
fuence, now doomed to the lowest DEPTHS
| of degradation, who number untold thou.
sands and what the sequel The dram shop
hath done 1t.
| Let the women pray!
| See the thousands OF young men and wo.
men struggling In poverty, with but scant
| drunken fathers at the dram shop or beer
house, who, bat for which, might fiji the
highest places In society with honor to
thousands and to their race, and hear them
exclaim In Heavens name,
| Let the women prayI
Hear the poor convict Just ex plating his
crime beneath the gallows, whose prospect
In lite at one time was as fair as YOURS ex.
| claiming Rum hath brought me here, and
Let the women pay
Look out upon your streets and bust ness
at the thousands OF dear little children.
| growing up without restraint, indulgiug In
blasphemy and all manner of evils, whose
i prospect for evil Is appallIng,g 90 to the dram
shop, the tale Is told. Their fathers are
there reveiic z In their cups, instead of being
at their ire sides instractlng and fondling
upon those dear little ones, and giving
cheer to their poor heart.sick mothers.
Let the women prayi
See that dear little, fragile, half-clothed
child, scarce twelve years old, tram ping
I barefoot through the snow TO the dram
} shop, hear the plaiutive cTy,
Father, dear tsther, come home"
The mother at the tireside, or rather st the
ashes, burning the midnight oil la watch
Ing Ter the couch OF q dear little boy, W bose
breathing tells too plainly that death ia
nigh.
Let the women pray
In the interest OF tie thousands Vet uu
born, whose fate for veal or woe, depend
upon the aunihilston of the serpent OF IN.
ttill.
Let the women pray
In the name OF all that's sacred Ia life
wife, mother, sister and daughter. and fo
the sake of father, husband, brother anc
son. health, happiness. honor and prosperi
! ty, and for our hopes in the hereafter
! against this curse of the age,
Let tie women pray
! Tell me not that on Deia war soil breat he.
the man who SO far lost to the love and
, memories OF his mother. that would lmitat,
the poor, self-respected bar-keeper in Ohio
. : as to offer insult and indigbity 10 woman
r In her mission 10 save her husband an,
children from the death that never dies
I Let the women pray
Talk not Of loss to landlords, grain an,
fruit growers, to the Government In III
collections of revenue, from which arises
greater curse than The pisgues of Egypt
better that all those interests su fer an hun
dred fold than that the serpent destr ~ the
race, even to the extent il has In years tina
are past. and whose fang grows more pois
onous day by day.
Letthe women pray
: A SUFFERER.
Kent County, Del, March