New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-12
Nasty
The Temperance Movement Strikes the
Cross-roads-What Effect it Had Upon

(Which Is II the State kentucky
February 20, 1874.
When l opened my Northern papers anC
red NV the prayin movement by the wim,nir
; Nv OHIO and 1njiana, sed to myself, "Tht
, Cross roads is bound to ketch it. There ain
> no trouble agoin but wat it htes onto tn.
; Crossroads. Misforchoon has markt til.
Crossroads for its own.
Aud last Monday Bsscom got a posta
card on witch 1t WIZ statid that on the Fri
; day followin delegashen Nv ladies from
New Boston, manufacturer VILLAGE
started by a lot Nv Yankees over about ten
miles from here, where they don't sell nc
spirits, wood visit the Cross roads and try
, the efficacy OF prayer onto Bascom, to see
Ell they GOOD not convert him to stop his
8 sole destroyin, demoralizin bizness Ez
Bascom red the postal card Tor rather ez
red It for him) be was picter to look upon
HIS kneez knockt together and his face
turned CHASTITY pale, and his hand
trembled so thOt It wuz with difficulty
that lie cood raise a glass Nv likker to his
lips.
My sole-destroyin bizness " said he, tiny
bizness soIe-destroyin Good heavens, wat
next!"
any time is about up, guess" remarkt
Deekin Pogram. Il hev seen strange tbings
IL my lifetime, but when am not allowed
10 take my regler drinks it is time l wuz
goin hence"
The idee," said Issaker Gavitt, "that
sellin likker or drinkin it is demoralizin. l
hev drunk likker all my life, and
AT this pint lssakers wife come in, and
wanted Issaker to 60 and get some rice and
then go home and split some wood. Issaker
wanted to know wat she come there for. and
the unreasonable woman bustid into tears.
and sed she couldn't split wood, with no
| shoes and three inches of snow on the
ground, ana that there wasn't a thing in
| h0nla hn cialy hol, r
lssaker would spend half the time at WORK
that he did lOatin at Bascoms and half the
money ON his children that he did for likker,
| and
Issaker didn't allow her to finish her on
reasonable harangue. He took her by the
shoulder and showed her out the door, and
swore that he didn't know how it VIM in
Ohio and Injeany, but he'd be id if in
kentucky woman shoodent keep in her
proper spear. He wuznt agoin to allow no
| woman to dictate to him wat he shood do
with his time or his money, nuther.
Captain McPelter remarkt that eff his
wife ever Jlned IN sich a demonstrashun
| shed wish she hadn't. His wife tried To
stop him from takin another drink wunst.
after he felt his oats and he'd throwd era.
! die with SIX months baby out NV the door,
and the black eye she got wuz a warnin to
her never to interfere with his preregatiye
| no more.
| Poor Bascem WIZ cast down. He said
| American liberty wuz gone when a passel
wimmen got to goin about interferin with a
mans biznis. But he shood adopt vigorous
measures. He'd never surrender-never.
Friday come and Bascom WIZ ready for
EN-. Evry wun Nv our persuasion in the
Corners he'd ordered his wife to keep strikly
in doors, and on no akkount to vencher out
door IN the day. Bascom asked us ali to
stay with him, and see him thro it. To
witch we all agreed. Them ez wuz married
and kept house went home to Il I'D Their
doors and nail boards over the broken glass
Nv Their winders, so that Their wimrnen
shoodn't see outside. It's no small matter
to close up all the holes in the houses at the
Corners.
Well, at Ii o'clock procession Nv women
did make their appearance az the lower
end Nv the village, and they moved slowly |
to'ards Bascom's. g. ". wuz ez pale ez a |
sheet.
&c. W." sed I, ''there is but one thing |
700 kin DO Rally your friends about VOC. !
and make head agin the unholy croosade, |
Inc regular frequenters Nv the place are
tfitened, and are not here. Bring EN- here.
Bring EN- here to-wunsC. Swing out pla-
card which shall read:
"Likker free to all doorin the continyoo-
ance Nv this tanatikle canpane Ho. ali We
that thirst. Come and drink without money
and without prlce
II,
long ez the likker is free they will stay in
ana give 700 their moral support Shell
write the placard ~
6. w. wavered. He cast one glance at
his kegs, and sighed hesitatingly cast
one glance at them kegs, and waz deter
mined that so good an opportoonity shood
not be lost
"Ha,. sed l, :" the foe they come. they
come! To hesitate now is to be lost The
head Nv the lnyadin column hez turned the |
corner. Shell l write ~
Yes sed Baseom, Dustin into teers:
write. Et they shet ME up I'm rooined.
and ct you hev free drinks I'm busted. But |
ID ruther take the free drinks part of it,
Certainly" sed Issaker Gavitt, sooth-
lpg'y; free drinks, by all means. After :
a., Bascom, 1t amounts to the same thing.
It's free drinks anyhow, for VOC hev to ,
charge 'em to us, don't yoo?y
AND SO writ the placard and histed it {
up at the door. The result wuz majcal !
La less than ten mnits the glad nooze had !,
cached every house in the village. and +
here wuz gathered together in Basco,i,'s q
ich SOLD mass Nv Eberty-lovin men ez {
led never been seen together at the Cross Q
Roads. '''
Bascom appointed two Nv us to draw
lkker for the thirsty crowd, and then we
hrowd open the doors, calkilatin to greet 4
m with such cheers ez wood etfectooallv i
Hence all the singin and prayir ttey Good q
10.
ihe w1mmin approached. We Good see n
IN. They wuz all closely vailed. Ez they I
approached the door | directed the Iikker a
be served out faster, SO ez to get the d
toys tuned up to the right pitch. But. g
las they didn't stop! They didn't stop to T
ing or to pray or nothin. They simply s
assed by, pulling their walls closer to their n
aces and snickerin. looked thro tbe vail h
v one Nv EN- and saw whiskers. :;
But with rare presence of nihd T said | ~
othn. - =
-; PRAY Ii " more m ikker!' shouted, 'they a
by the time this drink wuz down Rascom ! n,
az SO far gone that he didn't know nuthin. NJ
lie got lunatic, and springin from the | q,
'nnter insisted on every body's not only 81
llhkln, but that every man NV us shood fiji | q,
bottle and take it with us. 81
1t IS unnecessary to state what followed h,
ne feviiry waved furious, and by night fl,
re bodies Of the fallen were niled ~, ron ~
' each other four deep. Every Gron nv -.
iker III the house wuz rome, for wat 20
nzh drank he'd ben allowed to waste. ro
I men draWd 1t who wuz too tite TO shet ne
e faucets. Bascom wuz laid out, Deekin | of
fogfaM WuZ snorin ez tho lie hedn't Silent | n
d week, and L, seasoned vessel that am, po
~, ~ the Wust played out Nv any Nv EN-. o
ne next morning Joe bigger venchered
oUhu, ana / asked him concernln' the |
mmin.
'Wimmin !" said he, them wuznt VIM nj
ctrys in New Boston Nasty" sed he. MI
"my opinion is that that cuss, IN
'iiock, put this up on you with view to eh
oinin Bascom. | heerd him talking with Int
e NV them tactrV men, who is his brother wa
law, ana heerd the brothern-law eay | oW