, 1874-03-23

Mass Meetings Of the Various Tenn
perance Societies.

perance Societies.
Reports from the NIoycmcnt in
Other Parts Of the Country.
4 REVIEW OF THE CRUSADE IN IN
DIANA AND OHIO.
From Our 0tpn Correspondent
COLUMBUS, O., March 90 1874.
Old as thu Womon's WlnBky-War, or crusade
moyemcut, bus now become, the question of its
succoss, even in ohlo, l,aa yet to be determined.
There aro those who believe, With John Of
Gannt, TINT
Violent 1rea soon ht,rn out themselves;
HI tires betiInes Whp sPllrH Loo lust bbtiutS
With eager foeIiag fool doh choko the feo!or.
Thoro aro many in oyory town In which 1t has
temporarily succeedoi who firmly bolieve TINT
tie effect Of Ho much excitement will DO to leave
the country worao of than over, aud pretoud to
find reaction sotting in already. Tt1oro are
others who discover III it a deep Significance
which tloy would combat with their last breath.
In tho sudden disturbance Of social economy,
tho aheetod ghosts Of religious intolerance
and pricsteraft do squoak and yibber, and por-
tents dire are daily observed iu tue movement
So far, my own observations bayc been confined
to the immediate neiglborhood Of tho temper-
anco aamo. I llaye boon peoring through the
stiltng ssno'Ie whicb precoaes III outburst OF
zeal, or scorching outside tho tlames. I hayo
not yot yiowod tho soil over which tho rad-bot
broath Of temperance has passed, nor can
assort tint 1t haa Or has not dono its work effect
ually. Tho popular wish is father to the popular
belief tlat 1t has carried away everything.
layo no hesitation lu Baytng tint tho anti saloon
movement is pro-emnoutly popular. The oppo-
sitton that exists to 1t among respectable people
ia nll confined to Btroot-parade.
NORTHERN INDIANA
has shown no sigma Of strong feeling in this
and, from the symptoms in about d
dozen towns aud villages in the ncighborhood Of
the two railroads, tho Michigan Southern and
Pittsburgh i Fort Wayne, tho efforts Of tho tom
porance people have not fanuel the excitomen
up to biaz.pg point. So iar as can SEQ. thoro
is no reason to oxpcot that thoy will doso. either.
Tho moyomout began in OHIO; aud to Ohio. 40
fir as practical results are to bo looked for, it
will bo confined. And those results will be tho
passage Of q rigid lice nso law,
AND NOTHING MORE.
Public sentiment in OHIO is very bitter against
the liquor-trade, but the intelligence of tae State
arrays itself on tho side of IuT.
The people ale Unit against the
prevalence OF intompcranco, MS thoy aro
III every State. They arc unanimous IN their de-
hiro to cruah ont the email doggerics which iionr-
ish in every country town and village; but thoy
arc by do means unanimous, eftler III Indiana or
Ohio, in tho belief that The existing law backed
by tho strongest Of public sentiment can secure
the end arrived ut. What la wauted in Ohio Is q
1ira,,Hn Law 1nf1In md fltt,nfa h.hpa r.
las not.
THE BAXTER LAW OF INDIANA
appears to POSSESS many advantages as O re-
st ictiyo agont. Like tic Illinois inv, it holds
tue 'iquor.ucalor and !ia landlord responsible
for tne OWL effects the latter produces, ,-lnaking
it criminal oifonso to sell Intoxicating liquors
to minors or to persons III tie hab'
1t OF becoming intoxicated. At tho
snme timo, it authorizes the issue Of permits by
tue county to liquos-deaiers, upon tho condition
that o mai ior1ty Ut voters Ia tho ward or District
Sign petition to tim! ELECT. T1o permit nsols
only to be placed at largo figure, say 81 900, to
mako tle law exceedingly edaotive, inasult1oh rs
1t oradicates the cheap hallnts Of yice, mud hus
q tondouoy to make tho saloou-kcepor wary.
The wor6ins of this provision appears to hayo
been very encouraging; for, except ia "apa-
laino, whore Il majority OF the saloons woso
thriving without any license Mt al1 the number
of placcs where liquor call he obtained il ei,-
niicantly small compared with tho population.
Luz ohtlI!lt&Lt Hou!u uut w AH4Ak tuat @AoT9 AI0
thrce SALOONS IN Northern Ohio wllero there is but
one In Indiana, proportloned to tho population.
Heuco tho domund Tor farvll movement i'll tho
inter State WIS not by any neaus what it was in
Ohio. The ladies OF Indiana, whore any organ
izod actio IL bong taken. hare adopted the
motto and principles Of their Ohio sisters, M
they do tho dlebses and bonnets Of tho Flenoh
Capital ,-bocause 1t was fashionable to join in
the movement, not because there was any worry
urgent neceasisy for it.
VALPARAISO
WAS the tlrst town visited, and there tho fool
Jug was iutorse. It i'us burned ont now, and
The Mayor could llayo accomplished in week
what tho ladies have not yet succeeded In clIoot-
ing. Five weakH ago the movomont commenced
NTH tho circulation Of temperament -plellgoa III
various forms. Tho saloo,,-kocpora were called