The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-08-06
An Iowa Editor on the Tenn
perance Crusade.

Mr.. Cary L. Nelson, editor of the
Abba Qowa) Union, who recently
visited our town, writes as follows
on his return home:
THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE.
Inasmuch as we have just been
visiting at Hillsboro, Ohio, where
the great Temperance crusade" be-
gan, our temperance friends here
abouts expect us to tell something
about its effects and present status.
This is a reasonable request, and so
we will tell what we know, for it
will not take US long. We will COM
mence by contradictingL the state
ment widely circulated by the whisky
interestand currently believed IN the
West, that the temperance movement
had died out, its effects disappeared
and a reaction set in which has car
ried the temperance cause to lower
ebb than it had reached before the
.'crrlsade" commenced. Such is not
the case. True, the street prayer
meetings have ceased; but nobody ex-
pected them to be kept up perpetu-
ally. Many of the saloon keepers in
various towns who surrendered to the
crusaders and quit selling liquor, did
not ''stay quit" but it was to be ex-
pected that a large proportion of
these fellows would ''return like a
dog to his vomit and q SOW that was
washed to her wallowing in themire."
The receding wavelets do not prove,
by any means, that the great ''tidal
wave" had no effect. On the con-
trary, our observation led US to be-
lieve that it has opened a channel
and set In motion stream ofthought
and feeling whose influence will be
felt with prevailing power for years
to come The source of this stream
is felt and acknowledged to be the
power of God, exerted in answer to
prayer. A wholesome and earnest
public sentiment seems to have been
awakened in opposition to the use of
that which in the end "biteth like a
serpent and stingeth like an adder"
and against frequenting places where
the poison is sold Moral and re-
igious people in the part Of the coun-
try we visited, all spoke of the tenn
perance movement, with a reverence
which seemed to say, ''Take thy shoes
from off thy feet, for the place where
thou standest is holy ground"
Though street prayer-meetings
have ceased, active work In the tenn
perance cause has by no means been
suspended. The work Of organizing
temperance societies, delivering TEN
perance lectures, procuring sigma
lures to temperance pledges, and the
still more important work of exert
ing private influence everywhere and
always in favor of temperance, still
goes on. A daily temperance pray
er-meeting is held in Hillsboro at s
o'clock in the morning. About
twenty-five persons were present
when we were there. That lit
tie group represented a vast amount
of zeal and power. There was the
beloved and venerable Joseph Med.
Matthews, whose influence now pull
safes in thousands of homes In the
West, through the hearts and headsof
mothers schooled in the famous fe-
male seminaries of which he has
been President Another attendant
upon the meeting is Miss Emily
Grandgirard, the accomplished and
loved Principal of the Highland Fe-
male Institute, who is earnest In the
temperance work, and had just been
out the evening before, to a neigh
boring town, delivering temperance
lecture and assisting to organize a
society, accompanied by two OF three
other ladies and Mr. James Brown,
formerly editor of the Highland
News, which paper, by the way,
under the management of Mr.. ]. L.
Boardman, is doing good work in the
temperance cause. Another active
member of the little circle, is Mrs.
Eliza Jane Thompson, President of
the ladies' temperance society of
Hillsboro, who is the only daugh-
ter of the late GoH.-Allen TrinAhle.-
and wife of a prominent lawyer.
Such are some of the persons who
are actively and earnestly engaged in
laboring in the temperance cause in
Highland county, and the whole of
the moral and religious portion of
the community seems to be united
in the good work. Perhaps the cause
: is losing its character as ''the women's
temperance crusade, " for the men are
at work too, and so much the better
: for that As one in the prayer-meet-
ing expressed it, "The women keep
one oar going, and in this way keep
the temperance boat moving up
stream, while if either oar stopped
the boat would turn round.
Not Enthusiastic.
! The Brown County News, the
Democratic organ Of the county,
hasn't a word to say (editorially)
: about Neal in it's lastissue. Itcopies
) the proceedings of the Convention
5 from the Cincinnati Enquirer, with
/ out note or comment. On the other