The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-19
Progress of the Temperance
Campaign in IIillsbOrO.


being suspended their visitations t
the liquor sellers, yet they have nc
by any means abandoned their nc
bic determination to put down tn
vile traffic in our midst nor hav
they been idle, though apparentl,
quiet. The daily meetings for pray
er and consultation have been KEEP
up, and last Thursday and Frida,
general prayer meetings were held il
the M. E. church, continuing tn,
whole of each day, followed by spir
tied and earnest speaking" meetings
at night. The church was crowded
on both evenings, and SO far from any
indications being manifested of dis
position to abandon the contest, on
the contrary the unanimous voice Of
the great Temperance army is still
for an energetic continuance of the
war until victory is achieved. In
deed it is evident that the temporary
check to their onward march, caused
by Judge Saford's injunction, has
only served to arouse deeper and
stronger feeling of determination in
every friend of the cause, to fight on,
until every obstacle is overcome,
and the last stronghold of the enemy
surTenders.
The work of organizing the county
by means of auxiliary Temperance
Associations in each township is be-
ing vigorously prosecuted, and the
reports received from the various
portions of the county show that the
people of the country feel as great an
interest in the success of our move
ment here at the county seat as our
own citizens. They, too, have seen
and felt the ruinous effects of the in
creasing sale of liquor in our town,
and their fervent prayers are be-
ing offered for the success of our no.
BILE women in their efforts to sup
press the giant evil. Thus the great
movement is daily widening and
strengthening its influence through
out the whole country, and a public
sentiment is being aroused, which
will never rest satisf ed until the il
legal and baneful traffic is entirely
suppressed, or so restricted as to be
comparatively harmless.
At first the liquor sellers generally
treated the women's movement as
mere temporary storm of excitement,
that would "blow over" in q short
time; but since the wonderful and
rapid spread of the movement to 9th
er places, and the astonishing success
it has met with almost everywhere,
they are amazed and alarmed-and
no wonder. When they hear that in
less than two months nearly 13O "sa-
looms" have been entirely closed up,
and half as many more partially
closed, and that not less than 40
drug stores have ceased to sell liquor
except on the prescription of re-
spectacle physician, they may well
tremble at the prospect before them,
if the women keep on with their pray
ers and singing. No wonder that
the agents of five wholesale liquor
dealers in Cincinnati offered last
week to supply the retail dealers of
Xenia with liquors free Of charge
if they would hold out and defy the
women!
We candidly and earnestly advise
every dealer in our town who has not |
yet surrendered, to lose no time in
his peace with the ladies, on
the best terms he can. The longer
it is delayed, the worse it will be for
them. Surrender they must, in the
end, and by holding out, they only
suffer greater loss of the good will
and esteem of the community. Let
them yield now, while they can still
DO so, and retain in some degree the
respect of the great majority of their
tellow-citizens, who have no desire to
njure them, but only ask that they
shall abandon a business that is in
turing their neighbors and friends.
By yielding at once, they will deserve
md receive the thanks of all our citi-
zens whose good opinion is worth
having, and will do an act, which will
promote their own happiness, and
hat of every man, woman and child
n the community.
To-day Tuesday the trial of the
Injunction case commences in our
Court of Common Pleas, before
Judge Steel. On the side of the Ia
lies, Hon. Richard A. Harrison, of
London, Madison county, NJ. ]. VIII
Jams, Esq, of Washington, Fayette
county, and Gen. Mcdowell, Judge
Mathews and Jas. Fl. Thompson,
Esq, of our own bar, will appear;
md on the side of Mr.. Dunn, ex-
Judge Stafford, of Chillicothe, and
Messrs. Collins & Parker and Beeson
Z Sloane, of the Hillsboro bar, are
Engaged. It is rumored that Hon.
George E. Pugh, of Cincinnati, has
llso been employed on that side, but
true or not, we cannot say.
AS our paper goes to press this
.vening, it will of course be impossi-
lie to announce the decision of Judge
Steel in this weeks News.