The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-03-12

Correspondence of the News,

Correspondence of the News.
Letter from Lafayette. Ind.-
Preparations for - Woman
Movement Oh the Liquor Sci
lers.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. March 2, 1874.
/ DEAR NEws:-The exercises in th
various churches of this city yes
terday, brought to my mind the fac
that the Model Town" has been I'll
the papers" now for some time, an(
L remember in that connection that
have not written you for some time
So here goes for letter of some
sort, and I guess I will write of The
"Woman's War.
For some time past I have beer
much interested in reading of what
has been done in Hillsboro and 9th
er Southern Ohio towns, by the noble
army of women, fighting gloriously
against the monster that has devour
ed SO many of their sons, brothers
and husbands. And while 1 read
daily, the fire breaks forth at some
new point, until now it bids fair tc
sweep the land from Ocean to Ocean
While many sneer, and ask show
long will this last?" and "what good
will it do permanently" the good and
the brave cry Anae'a! and bless the
noble hearts who have the courage
to go forward with faith, prayer and
aoOrks, to conquer and to conquest.
And now that we, as the so-called
stronger sex, have in the years that
are past signally failed to save the
nation from the blighting curse of in
temperance, let us not paralyze the
efforts of these noble women by re-
fusing to aid them in their glorious
work by every means in our power
But I did not intend to preach,
but only to tell what the people and
the preachers of this city are going
to do.
By arrangement, yesterday the
ministers of the various churches
preached one or more sermons upon
the subject of intemperance and the
'woman's war" upon it, and tonight
a mass meeting is to be held in the
Ninth Street Methodist church, to
prepare for the work here.
I listened last evening to o power
full sermon on the subject by the
Rev. I. W. Joyce, of the lastmention-
ed church. In the discussion of the
question the reverend gentleman
spoke of Intemperance, 1st, As bu-
siness. I'd, As crime. 81, AS a
moral effect. 4th, The remedy for
it's overthrow.
He stated that 57,0OO,OOO of dol
lars exchanged hands in the traffic in
liquors, during the year 1873, in the
State of Indiana alone, andaccording
to the best method of estimates, the
amount spent last year in the United
States was S1,4OO,OOO,O0O! There
are 100000 more persons engaged in
the liquor traffic than in the ministry
and as teachers, combined.
In the State of Indiana, in Is coun-
ties where liquor is sold in 1,179 sa-
looms, there are 84,861 voters, and
these counties have sent to the Peni-
tentiary ATS convicts, OF one to every
179 voters; but in nine counties
where no liquor is sold, 81 convicts
have been sent to State Prison from
voting population of22, 166, or only
one convict to every 715 voters.
The speaker proved conclusively,
from the declarations of police mag
istrates and prosecuting attorneys,
and statistics of crime, that drunken
ness was the father of at least three
foerths of all crimes and misdemean-
ors.
He said that Intelligence, Religion,
and properly directed Industry are
the chief pillars upon which our ma
tional prosperity rests. The moral
effect of this liquor traffic is to un-
dermine these pillars, and bring down
the nation to degradation and misery's;
to impoverish and brutalize the mass
es, and endanger the perpetuity of
our Government.
The speaker closed with a most
thrilling appeal to fathers and moth
ers, and to young men, to battle for
the Right, and aid in destroying the
destroyer.
As he described the mighty power
of this fend, ikening it to kissing
serpent, I shuddered to think of the
many thousands daily being wrapped
in its Shiny folds, and the poison OF
its venom slowly but surely ooursing
through their veins; and of the weep
ing mothers, sisters, wives, standing,
wringing their hands in helpless
agony.
"The minister in the pulpit, the
Judge upon the bench, are not secure,
said the preacher, ''but this foul fiend
lifts his head and jeeringly laughs in
their faces and says, "I will bring
you down from proud eminence.
''This," he said, sis new force at
work-God and woman contending
with man and sin. It is not the first
time woman has been employed as