Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-02

that call our articles hare been wri'
ten in behalf Of Temperance.
read in church paper the other da
about minister who never NEEDLES
much either with temperance. poll
tics or religion; hoping In that way
I suppose. to get through the vorl'
without hurting snybody's feelings
He doubtless succeeded about q
well as do those editors Who try I.
walk both sides of the fence at oD'
and the same time, without gettnl
astride of it. The thing is impossi
hle. and 'can't be did take verl
little stock in that kind of religious
papers, whose editors would save
their prayers for fine things Th'
idea of praying for .deliverance frou
the power of King Alcohol, Is too re
voting for them to entertain for {
moment Here is q sample senti
ment from one of those religious pa
pers:
when there is nobody to buy
selling will s,op-not till then.
/ think / can make an improve.
meut upon that wording.
When there is nobody to sell, buy,
ing will stop not till then.
would infer, Mr.. Editor, from the
reading Of that quotation. that The
writer thereof justifies the saloonitic,
and condemns those that are exposed
to his snare. You can safely regard
that writer as one Of the genuine
temperance advocates on the other
side of the house. In fact, call
him first class fraud
will now invite yonr sttention TO
the following, which I take from 8
sermon recently delivered ny the
Rev. DR.. r. NJ Hatfield, of Cinoin-
natl, on the character Of the news
paper press. The entire sermon was
published in some Of the city papers:
1--WE have editors and newspaper
proprietors who are estimable men
in private life. whose papers are
moral pests. Members of Evangeli-
cal churches as some Of them are.
they allow the papers under their
control to advertise theaters, and 10
commend the vulgar performances Of
negro minstrels. Husbands and
heads of families publish papers that
are adapted to the moral meridian
of grog shops aud brothels. They
are not only destitute of principle
and immoral, but they are deliber-
stely wicked, corrupt of set pur-
pose. Their proprietors sell them
selves to do evil, and encourage i'm
morality and vice because it pays to
do so Their whole course shows
that thev have determined TO use
their position to make money, no
matter what their course infiicts. II
is the fault of society that such
state of things is allowed to exist.
Men should he so identified with
their business in the public estima-
tion as to have no standing or separa-
ton apart from it. Whoever does
blackguard's work, should be con-
signed to a blackguard's place, and
he excluded from decent society.
The money that he makes by nn
clean practices. should do nothing
towards lifting him to plain OF re-
spectability." Even q child is
known by his doings (how much
more are adults }. and it is character
istic of one who is to abide in the
of the Lord" and dwell in
His holy hill. that in "His eyes a
vile person is contemned." A tree is
known by its fruit. Now, Mr. Edi-
tor, if it be true that members Of
Evangelical churches will prostitute
their newspapers for worldly con-
is it at all surprising that
we find few religious ~ papers op
posing the temperance movement
A paper that will encourage or as
sist bad cause, will not hesitate to
make use of arguments to obstruct
The progress of just one. There
are none of these editors that do not
know that the liquor traffic lies at
the bottom of most all our woes, yet
have never before seen on their
part any very extraordinary msui-
festations of solicitude for the peo-
ple's welfare on this account; but
when one or two hundred women
rise up and proceed in body to beg
the saloon keeper to stop his dread
full work, all their temperance senti-
ments come Immediately to the sur
face! They are actually alarmed at
the bad state OF affairs, and declare
that the law should be made use of
to stop this attempted reformation!
1t clearly follows then, that the duty
of all indifferent persons, and others
who oppose the woman's movement,
is to ask themselves this question:
Do these women do right when they
pray, exhort, appeal, and besiege
these devils slaughter pens, in order
to save their boys from the drunk
ards fate2 After studying their
thus far, if they are con-
yinced that these women are actuated
by no vain motive-that they are Ia
boring in the interests of humanity,
rather than to be praised by saloon
keepers, then let there be no more
hsggliug or palaver about the great
of their proceedings.
If. however, they cannot reconcile
to these things, and still
regard this movement as "all wrong
and uncalled for" if, as it is claim ed,
prayer has been perverted, and put
to q wrong use; If God does not
hear their supplicasions; then how
very important it Is that the i'm
propriety be stopped II suf-
fered to go on Transforming public
opinion at present rate, there is no
knowing what bad things might hap
pen here in short time to saloon keep
ers especially If the opposition are
right, and the ladies do wroag in max
ing prayer an instrument for the sup
pressiou of intemperAnce, then they