The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-03-21

GNoTE-1he following communication
should have been published last Thursday
morning, but wa, mislaid. It's omission
at that time was purely accidental. ouI
pronoun in their communications rather
Than the editorial "we.1
The Christian Ladies of whesIipg
and the Tom perancs Crusade.
Editors Of the Register.
You seem to desire an expression OF
opinion on the all absorbing and mo-
mentous question now engaging the
public mind and hesrt-"the woman"
temperance crusade against the liquor
saloons, not only in our city, but in all
parts OF our common country. Ysur
invitation is as proper as it is generous
and maguanimous, and, being one OF the
oldest, and perhaps most regular read
ers and correspondents OF the REGISTER, L
gladly avail myself of your pEoffered
kindness, to tell you and your many
readers what l think Of this glorious
flank movement" Of the ladies.
As an introduction TO what We pro-
pose saying on the subject, we say that
the letter in the REGIsrEE Of March
l7th for indecency aud vnis ,r'ty, little
ness and moral cowardlce, can find
nothisg like it in the columns o. our
city papers since first there WAS q paper
published in Wheeling II he was 10
drink all the saloons dry in our CITY,
and if he was to consume hundred
years in doing go, he could not degrade
himself morally and socially more than
he is now, in the estimation Of decent
people No deeper in moral and social
filth will he ever sink. We don
object to any one discussing the pro-
priety or the rmpropriety OF the move
ment, hu, we do object to blackgusrd.
Jog tke lniis-, hecau'e nv mother vas
a woman, aud my VIE is woman,
and we have great respect for them and
their position in society.
Another correspondent appears in this
mornings REGISTER, claiming to be "a
Woman" We doubt it indeed, if sb Q
is one. She unsexes herself. and is
likely interested in the whisky busi-
mesh" in some way or other. If che
hasn't a drunken husband, she ought
TO have one q few montho, and she
would see and think differently from
what she now does. and would then be
in sympathy with those who have
drunken husbands to beat and abuse
them, ss never brute does it's mate. ::
From our observation where we live
in this city we notice that almost every
subscriber to our daily papers belongs
to some OF our churches. and II the
same proportion prevails throughout the
city, then we say that more than nine
ten,hs OF the readers OF our city dsilies
are members OF the different Christian
churches in the city.
This great preponderance ofrelisious
sentiment should, at least, have some
weight with those having control OF the
city press.
We don't oppose any one in the ex-
ercse OF his immunities as a citizen OF
this free government of ours, because
he differs from us on this or any other
question, provided he observes decency
and the truth in his arguments.
II opposing correspondents have
nothing but abuse and insult to offer
Christian mothers and daughters OF
our city, and no decent arguments, we
don't want any controversy with them
As to the propr,ety, necessity and right
oil the women to organize and prosecute
this extraordinary movement against
their most formidable enemies, the
whisky sellers" we haven't any doubt
whatever.
Woman was the last TO behold a
crucised Saviour, and the first at hl.
tomb on that memorable morning OF
his resurrection from the dead. 1t was
woman that anointed the feet OF ) esus
and wiped them with her hair; and
Jesus said that wherever the Gospel
would be preached in this world, that
would be told SO a memorial OF her.
To strike the sun out Of the physical
universe would not cause more dark
ness to the material world, than tc
strike woman down morally and social
| ", would cause in the moral aud socla
universe OF man. We ask every man
mot brutes having the names OF mer
but not their nature) what would socie-
ty be without ennobling woman?
She is first asd foremost in all th'
grand enterprises OF religion aud be
nevolence, where all her worth anC
virtues are known and apprecl ,ted by
an enlightened, religious, civilization
lis ouly in heather countries wher'
she is denied her social rights, that yor
gee her used as beasts OF burden, ant
for many other horrible purposes to-
brutal Tor my mind to contemplate
We have some hesthsus IN oul
midst now. Look out for them:
The woman should engage IN thl
wonderful assault on the saloons aud
whisky dealers, first, because she 10 sc
riously and vitality interested, (indiIid
ually speaking.) 1t is whisky tha
% axes q brute OF her husband. soni
father and brothers. 1t brings unsol'
sufferings on her and her little ones
It makes widow OF her and orphan
s of her children. 1t puts her husoan
: in drunksrds grave; dsgrscsd i
= life, and eternally lost in the world {
y come. 1t breaks her heart all throug'
r the few years that she survives him
d (if survive she does and his orph sn
= grow up in the deepest poverty. Al
Il the drum kard's family il this is not
= true picture OF the druukard. W
: know that it is, and many can no" :
. found in our city who can vouch ia
II the truth OF this picture. We Say the
. that tho women have an iudisputab