Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19

| lOu 70 1uSlduu, tucIc were Wlst meL
and conscientious, who considered tht
superior strength Of the oppressor, and
the infinite disadvantages under which
we labored, and who denounced the
Patrick Henry of that day, as having
engendered fit of "emotional insanity
among the people, which would bt
transitery in its nature, and which
quickly enough relapse into hard com.
mon sense when once they had been
whipped into obedience, and when the
restricting, and injustice to which they
had heretofore been subject, should be
brought to bear upon them with re-
doubled force. But the orators Of that
day did not manufact ure that emotion
1t was there. 1t had lived in the hearts
of the people, from the time that sp-
preston first begun. 1t had been
ground into their souls and stamped
afresh upon their minds by the history
of each day; and the eloquence of our
orators, was only the medium thatc COM
municated the electric spark which
fired the latent mass, and caused it to
burst forth might-an unquenehable
flame. / am glad that our forefathers
did not rely upon private prayer alone
to throw of the British yoke. 1 re-
joice, rather, that strong arms, and
stsut hearts fought manfully, relying
upon God only tor said and comfort" to
a just cause. But these sentiments of
ours have been longer in growing.
These wrongs of which we speak, have
been more cruel. George The Third
had only power over the political well
fare of men, but We fight a tyrant that
ruins body and soul.
1t was no doubt urged by the Phari-
sees and others, at Jerusalem, that
Christ taught an emotional religion,
that would soon die, leaving only a
memory behind. But the truths he
taught were eternal; and though they
rippled along in narrow stream at
first, this stream grew broader, and
deeper, until it flowed a mighty river
with resistless course; and the sneers,
and prosecutions with which the fool
ish thought to stop its flow, sank like
pebbles thrown upon its waters.
In an editorial, in a late Harper's
Weekly, it is stated that no less than
fifty thousand persons annually die of
drunkenness--actually die-and that it
is serious question, whether the sixty
millions of dollars annually raised by
the Internal Revenue, and by Tariff on
the importations of liquors, do not cost
the country two or three hundred mill
ions in the consequence. by the use of
liquors. 1t was also given as an un-
questionable fact, that four fifths of ali
the crime in this country, springs from
the use of intoxicating drink, publicly
sold. In the same article, occurs the
following: "Mr. A. NJ. Powell, in his
remarks to the Judiciary Committee
says that in prohibitory county in
Maine. of twenty-five thousand inhabi-
tants, he found an empty jail, without
prisoner for year. and the last pris-
oner was woman, convicted of selling
liquor Illegally. Gov. Perham told
him that, in his county Of Oxford,
Maine, with population of thirty, or
thirty-five thousand, he could show him
an empty jail, which had been empty
two thirds of the time during six years.
In Vineland,N N. j., prohibitory town
as Mr.. Lands stated before Commit
tee of Legislature, there is popula-
ton of ten thousand five hundred, and
last year, the police expenses were
twenty-five dollars; and in 1872, the
poor rates, among miscellaneous pop
ulation, were three hundred and fifty
dollars;" and thus, statistics show that
We would be wise to advocate the cause
of Temperance upon strictly economic
grounds.
There are few enough of us who can
say "We have no personal interest in
this NATTER" one, here and there, hap
pier than her sisters, may be able to do
this; but can even these dare say they
never will have personal interest? 1
am sorry that all women who can say
they have not suffered through the ruin
of father, brother, husband or son, do
not join us in this movement. / should
think they would instantly do so, out of
sheer thankfulness that they have been
so spared, if not out Of a human SYM
pathy for others, to whom the fates
have been less kind. We earnestly beg
of these fortunate ones to give us their
help, their influence and their SYM
pathy; and while We pray that they
may ever be spared, we must remind
them of the uncertainties of life, and
suggest to them that san ounce of pre-
vention, is better than a pound Of cure.'
But not upon selfish grounds would we
urge them. The service of humanity is
one to which we are bound to give if
not the greater-at least, some part of
our lives, and of what We possess OF
powers and to shirk, is as ignoble, as
cowardly, for woman, as for man.
We have all heard great deal of those
angelic qualities, those almost Divine
attributes, which, through the ages,
have made woman the theme of poets,
and of bards; and even in this prosaic
nineteenth century, maintains her still,
an object of reverent worship. Her
beauty, wit and charm, have been cele-
brated in strains of melodious elo-
quence; her devotion, tenderness, self
abnegation, have never lacked appre-
citation; but we venture to say, that no
one thing is more admirable, more de-
serving of all praise, than the zeal, the
disinterested courage, with which, ,--all
selfish motives cast aside-she enters
upon the path of simple right and duty
, The divinest attribute of woman is her
humanity; and long after the beauty
of Cleopatra, the wit and learning Of
De Staal, or the grace Of Recarmier |:
| forgotten, will live the memory of thost