The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-01
The Kalamazoo correspondent Of the De-
troit Tribune says:

troit Tribune says
There was dastardiy outrage and brutal
assault committed upon woman At saloon
| kept by one Thomas Brennan, on North Bur-
dick street on the night OF the 21st. \ woman
named Hyke went into the saloon between
nine and ten o'clock to get her husband TO come
home. He had been drinking and was then
gambling. Some words ensued, when Brennan
and rough named Pat. McCue attacked the
man and the woman, knocked her down and
threw her out OF doors, one of the men strik-
ing her number Of times with spade. She
was taken home insensible, and II Is thought
she will die. Brennan and McCue have been
arrested and are now in jail
Who tells US that liquor selling and the salo ons
should not be iuterfered with? The above Is a
more eloquent temperance lecture than tho
most expert professional could make. Verify,
it is time that something be done TO stay the
devastating and destroying influence OF liquor
drinking The people of Kalamazoo should
see to it that the brutes who committed the in
human outrage ID severely punished.
From he Decatur Republican.
..R EDIror AS your columns are always
open 10 all who wish to express their views up
on all matters Of public interest, ana as very
many have given their opinions as to the pro-.
priety OF the course tue women OF tie country
have adopted and are pursuing, also the motives
which actuats them. beg leave through your
columns to say my say. First for the facts No
one at all acquainted in your town will deny
that there is more whiskey-drinb1ng, billiard
playing, loating and rowdyism than is for The
public good. The Young men of the town who
are steadily employed'in some legitimate busl-
ness, and are sober, intelligent and refined, are
the exception and not the rule. There are
scores or them who will 10 nothing unless they
can be employed to run for hotel, tend bar.
or something OF that sort, and are unFaithfu
even at that. Groups OF able bodied young
men can be seen every day, when the sun
shines, upon the warm eide Of the street, IN
condition all the way from funny tight to sdg
or ugly drunk. The Industrious, thrifty and
temperate men OF the town are often asked TO
put their hands IN their pockets for the relief
Of the families OF men who are as well able 70
support their families az others, having abund
ant physical ability: yet they spend mora
yet in their teens resort to means anything bat
honest to procure means TO buy liquor. cigars
and rent OF billiard tables.
This state OF affairs has had the effect 10
alarm the women Of the town, and they have
devised such means IS IN their judgment would
be best adapted to correct the evils which all
candid people will admit exist To charge them
with being actlated by any but the purest OF
motives is as base and cowardly as il is unjust.
They keep within the pale o. the law. hey
first. with tears prayers and kind entreaty. beg
that the laws Of the land, which they had no
hand in making, the daily and hourly violation
Of which bring constant woe TO their e.sldes-
may be obeyed and respected. After ali these
mild and gentle means have Jailed, they then
demand as their right what they have asked as
q favor. They have done with droIcing tufts
Of grass, and now propose to try what cirtue
there IS IN stones. Their zeal and selfsacrifcing
devotion TO cause which they deem the most
noble. should command The respect aud ad-
OF every high.minded man And the
man who throws tumblers at them squirts
water on them, or in apy way insults, dsturbs.
or annoys them Is little less than 4 brnte.
Now. Mr.. Editor, for my individual views As
to the proprIety OF the course these women are
pursuing l never have believed that it would
result IN any permanent good. Theladies should
demand that industry strict integrity. sobrieiy
and gentlemanly department DO the only pass
port to refined and respectable society. Any
one who has ever attended the social gatherings
al your Town Hall have seen ladies' OF acknowl-
edged respectability dancing with young men
Of the most idle and dlssol1te habits who. by
some mysterious means, have managed TO pro-
cure decent suit OF clothes-which, vita
tolerable knowledge OF how 10 dance aud De.
port themselves a company, IS their only clam
20 decent recognition anywhere. Let the ladies'
give this class OF men the cold shoulder euerJ-
,cbere: and in nv humble opinion 1t will do
mora to reform them than the course they ara
But am willing 70 let them have
clear field and fair fight, and II they fail hen
let them adopt ms plan Ii is not patented.
j. K. HEypaYx.
HAMILTON. April 2OtI, 1874.