The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03

nom mtemperanee on the part OF husbsnds
fathers, sons and brothers, and they had On.
gagged in the work because it was right. Goo
and the right are on her side, and greater VA
He that was for them than they that were
against them. They would continue in the
work battling for the Lord.
At the conclusion of her remarks Mrs. Cons
engaged in prayer.
Mrs. Bushnell then arose and addressing tn,
audience said she would rather have addressed
them from less prominent position. It rs.
quired some effort for a woman to address SC
large an audience, but she meant to be brave
and say few words on behalf of temperance
She had always been opposed to women
speaking and praying in the church, and had
paid heed to the apostles injunction ''Let youl
women keep silence in the churches-and il
they will learn anything let them ask theil
husbands at home.D But the present move
ment was against great evil and new and
special means were made use Of to put il
down, and she was willing to follow where the
Lord leads. She had been asked why they did
not visit the saloons, and it was even said thew
dare not do it, but she thought it required
more moral courage to speak from the plat
form in the hall than it did to do that. There
was not one of them but was ready to 90.
They waited only for the proper spirit. The
great temperance movement Of 1910 had ac-
comphshed much good, especially among our
own citizens, and it had the effect Of promo.
ting correct sentiment among the people.
and OF procuring good and wholesome laws
upon the subject. But the evil was mighty
yet, and those excellent laws were trampled
under foot. In this city the law against SELL
ing liquor to minors had been ruthlesslv vio-
lated. 1t was only about year ago that lad
had been found dead drunk on Front street,
near the railroad, and had to be conveyed to
his home and to his parents in that horrible
condition. Whoever sold that child liquor Vi
olated the law and and should have been made
to suffer the consequences. And later still q
little girl six or eight years old had been en-
ticed into saloon, and her parents, alarmed
at her absence, finally found her there. Shall
We submit to these things and have our child
rem enticed from us, and Injured to evils such
as these? We mean TO do all we can TO the
contrary. Il was indeed woman's war, and
they meant to prosecute it not with carnal bat
with spiritual weapons. They would ''put on
the breast plate Of righteousness and for a he'll
met the hope of salvation, j" and did not mean
to give up. They would persevere to the end
and and give ''the glory to God the captain of
our salvation"
Mrs. Haldeman was afraid she might not be
able TO make herself understood. She had
been in this country fOrty-one years, and had
seen great deal of the evils of intemperance;
she would undertake to do almost anything to
put down the traffic in liquors. 1t was great
war. They were fighting a great King, for
King Alcohol rules all who tamper with him.
They had been around with the pledge, and
had met with some who would not sign for
fear of their husbands, and some who would
have signed, but they did not believe the
movement would succeed. But God would
help the cause. One man came in while they
were engaged in trying to get his wife to sign
the pledge, and they requested his signature,
but he refused, as he was engaged in the Hq-
uor traffic himself Told him he was the very
man they wanted, and that the business he
was engaged in was calculated to make drunk
ards of his children, but he thought not, and
that he could make liquor and his children
not become drunkards Did not see how any
man who loved his wife and family could evsr
put the cup to his lips, yet how many who
profess such love, go home night after night
intoxicated. Liquor was the ruin of many
households, and all should labor to advance
the cause of temperance, knowing the Lord
was on their side.
After singing Rev. Lease came forward and
said there was proposition which he wished
to discuss this evening. It was somewhat
novel one, but yet the most serious objection
which he had seen advanced. The proposition
was ''Can we afford to dispense with the man
ufaeture and sale of intoxicating liquors 70
BE had read in leading daily paper an article
which maintained that We could not. The
reason assigned was that it supports largo
industrial class Of our population, which was
true, He had got hold Of paper few days
ago, in which were some statistics by official
authority showing that there were 100000
persons in the United States and Territories
engaged in the manufacture and sale Of intoX-
icating liquors, embracing the capitalists, the
distillers, statesmen and others. 1t was not an
unreasonable estimate, nor would it be an un-
reasonable estimate to say that there were
enough dependent upon these 100000 to make
the whole number aggregate 100000. In
other words one million persons or one-forti-
eth Of the population of the country receive
their support from this source. The question
arises therefore, can any business which sup
ports that proportion of our population be
dispensed with It is the strongest and best
argument that has been presented in behalf of
the traffic. Shall we foster or dispense with
it?
The man who sells liquor does not give a
consideration for the money which he gets. It
was not so with the merchant who gives value
received for the money you pay him. If I pay
SIPS for ten yards of calico, which ought to
make dress, if it does not, it helps TO make
my family comfortable. But should buy a
glass of brandy don't get value received, and
every ten cent drink robs my wife of yard Of
calico. It is estimated that there are at least
1,560,000 dram drinkers in the United States,
and if we estimate on drinks day for each at
10 cents, very moderate estimate, it shows
that $500, 900 per day are expended for drinks,
and the truth will probably double that In
twelve months, therefore, We have an aggre-
gate of S2Ol, 100000 spent in this manner.
Divide this among the one million who de-
pend upon themanufaeture aud sale of liquors
for support, and it gives S20l for the support
of each one. 1t would be better to give this
money directly. Better for the dram drink
ers better for the manufacturers better for
everybody. But we have not yet reached the
climax. It cost the government in 1870 $780,
100000 for the crimes committed through its
agencies, making the sum total 1921, ,OOO, 900
which divided as before gives 1921 to each
person of the million dependent on this traffic
for his support-enough to board tham all at
the Ball House, and with the expense thus en-
tailed you might build canal from here to
Cleveland four feet deep and fourteen feet
wide; it would ell the canal with whiskey
enough to float the produce of the country.
Just think of it, all that mass of rottenness
poured down the thrOats Of drinkers in 1870
and the same in 1873.
Men go west to escape the miasrna arising
from rotting vegetation in this climate, and
yet many of them arc addicted to the use Of
Iinrnra -.hich are nnthinr h,,t rattan ranatn-