The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-04
TEMPERANCE.
A Few Encouraging Words.

n foW hueOuFaBtuB "OENss
Editors of the Register.
have observed with pleasure the fair
ness and impsrtiality of your course
since the beginning OF the temperance
movement, and cannot but feel thank-.
full in common with many others, th st
your columns were always at our dis
posal, and your reports OF our doings
frequently fuller than those OF your
contemporaries. As all the daily papers
OF the city have treated us consider
stely and kindly, l emphatically enter
a protest against the sentiments and in
temperate abuse of personal character
noted in the communications, OF prob
ably the same person, which appeared
in the Standard of last Wednesday, and
the IntsLLgnceer OF the following morn
ing. Any one who is so wonderfully
sensitive as to think the thoughtless
sauibs in the local columns Of our jour-
nsls, or a truthful report OF meagre
attendance at our meetings, affects the
great and glorious cause is not made
OF the material necessary to help our
labor.
Let us be above and beyond all cavil
with the doubling ones and by our
actions and works convince them that
we are doing good. This is the proper
stand 10 reach, and certainly we are
reaching it. Six weeks or more ago
when the temperance agitation fret
commenced, how many there were who
doub,ed our ability to do good or in any
way affect the liquor traffic. Yet we
see to-day that we have not only Affect
ed it, but even driven away from our
city the proprietor oil one Of the worst
places OF resort in our midst, that is,
Lsramies Varieties. have no hesi-
tation in saying it was the greatest
demoralizer we had to fight against, and
did nearly as much harm 70 the youth
of the city as all the other drink ng
places put together. II nothing else
had been attained but closing up this
den OF iniquity, the Temperance Band
Of Wheeling, for believe through
God, it was they, would have been
fully repaid Tor all their LAHORE. But
this is not all that has been accom-
pllshed. The cost OF licenses has been
nearly doubled, the applications to
Council for keeping coffee houses and
ordinaries are nearly one-fifth less than
the number OF saloons VIII ich were IN
existence a week ago. Public sehti-
ment is aroused to an appreciation oi
the situation and the more thoughtful
are now considering how the aba'e-
ment of tippling and drunksnness can
be best subserved. At the Last meeting
of Council, in the consideration ol
applications for keeping saloons,
some attention was given to the mora
character and fitness Of the applicant
aud in the First Branch two or three
were laid over for consideration. ls
not all this encouraging? Does 1t not
make a good showing for the amount o.
work done2 1t does beyond 8 doubt,
and all friends of the cause will say So
Public opinion is the all-poweriul lever
which must be utilized in this grea0
work, and to make it available we mus
continue working on vigorously. esru'
estly, thoughttully and without cessa'
ton. Unto that end let us pray fol
strength. Ask the press to continue 81
they have begun, and when the balance
account is footed up, We will wonder 3
the immense profit on the side OF tenn
persnce, as compared with the amour
nf lahor and time invested
Co.WoRKER.