The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-03-27
THE TEMPERANCE WAVE
The Meeting on Friday Night.

number of surrenders that had taken place IN
various localities, referred to the outrageous
proceedings which had taken place at Cleve-
land, and Of the immense meetings which had
been held to express sympathy with the ladies,
and of the certainty of their securing a victory
in the end. He then invited the audience to
rise and sing "Stand up for Jesus" Rev.
Lease then lead in prayer, after which the
Hon. Mr.. Ford was introduced
He had come to speak to them about tenn
perance, and would ask them 10 look where
1 we are now and where we were one month
ago. Then the temperance people had been
disheartened. Saloon keepers were growing
rich while men and boys were dying from
their nelarious traffic. Men thought the evil
could not he overcome. They didn't know
how to go to work. But this movement had
pointed out the way.
In considering the matter there were sever
al points at issue which he would notice. And
he would present them in this manner. Is
drinking good thing Are drinking habits
good things? Are drinking houses good
things No one believes, whether christians
or others, that either of these are good. This
was strong talk, but it was SO. The drinking
habit prevailed to an alarming extent and was
productive of much evil, and never before had
the habit been so generally rebuked and in so
kind spirit. You hear the matter Of secret
drinking rebuked, and opposers of ths temper
ance movement often charge that temperance
men drink secretly, and they reprobate the
practice, while justifying the open saloon bus
mess, where drunkards ara made. It is not
private drinking that is responsible for the
great mass of drunkenness. If it were so, why
is it so many men become drunkards and SO
few women, and those few are invariably
found among those who patronize the open
saloons. How many among your acquaintan-
ces do you know who drink every day Yet
physicians tell US women need stimulants
more than men, and have q greater desire
therefor, yet they resist the inclination. Can
not man resist as well as she /? You would
blush to think of women adopting your hab-
its, yet she has the same right to contract thosc
habits you have. Men frequent the open sa-
looms, women do not, and that makes the great
difference. Women do not swear, and they
avoid many other vices men are addicted to,
as though she occupied higher plane than
man. Why don't the men get upon the same
plane and be as good as she.
The women are the sonl carriers in this
conflict, and move forward with sn eye of
faith seeing the victory beyond, and he bid
them God speed in the good work. Many
men say by their actions that drinking is q
good thing Judges and Legislators have
said the same thing. Ohio, at one time had
three Supreme Judges who could not keep So
Der, yet withal this, you never can get a man
to own he is a drunkard, and not man sd-
dioted to drink but would be sorry to know a
son of his had begun drinking. Yea, they
may say what they please, but the drinking
habit is bad thing, and whenever man be-
gins to take his glasses of beer or other liquor
daily, you at once conclude ne is going
the downward road and his chances Of saliva
ton are gone unless he gives up drinking.
Suppose two colleges were advertising for
students, and one set forth that its faculty are
drinkers and do not object to the use of iq-
uors, and the other would not permit the use
of liquor among its faculty or students, how
many parents would send their children to the
the parents did not object to drinkingP No,
parents do not willingly expose their children
to temptation, for the drinking habit is bad
thing. You discount every man who goes to
saloon even though you 60 with him and
drink with him. It is upon the same princi-
pie that scofsrs atreIigion direct their children
to their mothers knee to say their prayers.
They love their children and would save them
from becoming scOffers.
Saloon keepers knew the drinking habit was
bad thing and the liquor traffic was bad
thing, hence they wanted to have a license
system, SO that the the law would protect it,
but even that would not protect it when the
convictions Of the people were right, for revi-
walls like this would result, and public senti-
ment he educated against the traffic. There
is something in it which will not bear the face
of an honest woman, and when their prayers
ascend against it it must stop,
A Boston chemist had advanced the theory
that drunkenness prevailed and followed the
course of the isothermal lines. That people
living along those lines could only avoid be-
coming drunkards by moving out. But he
supposed that chemist only applied his theory
to man, as somehow the women living in the
same localities are not effected by the isother
NAL lines. Possibly the isothermal lines, which
were very crooked, were made just on pur-
pose to wind around among the people and hit
the men but miss the women. It was a base
cheat You see it everywhere. The father
and sons addicted to drinking, and mother and
daughters sober, intelligent and upright people,
If isothermal lines were bad for men they
were good for women, and men should feel
ashamed that they could not live soberly like
the women. Let them come up to women in
this regard. Women have suffered the evils
Of intemperance without participating in it,
and it is right they should now come to the
front to put down the evil from which they
have suffered.
When the speaker had concluded the audi
ence Joined in singing "My Soul be on Thy
Guard" and Rev. Chittenden followed in
prayer.
Mrs. Bolton was then introduced, and occu-
pied the attention Of the audience short
time. She is pleasant speaker, but not re-
markable. At the conclusion of her remarks
''Ny Faith looks up to Thee" was sung, and
afterwards Mr. Bolton occupied some tine,
in recounting events in the crusade. At the
conclusion Of his remarks Rev. Bushnell oc-
eupied the floor for few moments and mani
tested warm interest in tho progress of the
work. Prayer meeting was announced for
Saturday morning, and Monday afternoons and
the meeting closed with prayer by Rev. Ksp-
Ier, followed by singing.
On Sunday, at the different churches a
meeting was announced at the Episcopal
Church for Monday evening, and at the Pres
bytsrian Church for Wednesday evening, at
the latter of which il was understood that Van
Pelt would be present
ON MONDAY EVENING
a most gratifying gathering of the ministry,
friends, and lady workers in the present cru
sade was held according to arrangement
There were no speakers from distance, nor
was there any unusually attractive feature to
induce large audience, beyond the general
interest in the great theme Of the 'day-hence
the very full attendance aoffrded unmistakable |
evidence of the growing anxiety that the good
work should proper. The respective minis