The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-04-11
THE LADIES WAR.
A Card from Mime. Hyacinthe-LOysOn.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
GENEvA Gwttzaraud March 1874

Card from Mime. Hyacinthe-L0ysOn.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 90, 1874.
viii you permit me to use the columns or your
journal to give word OF appreciation, counsel
and encouragement to the women OF America VINO
have enlisted In the temperance war There is
no doubt that intemperance Is the greatest evil IN
our beloved republic, and destroys what IS dearer
than government, wealth. education or liberty-the
happiness, prosperity, the lives and souls of her
people. 1t is enough to fill the mind OF every think
ing person, surely OF all who love their fellow
men or their country, with alarm at the thought
that an entire army OF American youth go troop
ing into perdlton every year by the use OF intoxi
eating liquors. More hearts and hearths are made
desolate to-day throughout the land by drink than
by our late war; Tor every wife VINO lost her hus-
band and every mother who lost her son in that
struggle for national life is consoled In her loss
and proud in her grief; but the wife or mother
who follows her dear to the drunkard's grave,
or sits with the ghoul by the Preside, suffers and
weeps in shame which no mourning veil or vest
ment can hide.
Dear sisters, 1t IS a hard but holy war you
have inaugurated may it end In victory II you
cannot do all you would, remember you will be
blessed II some are saved. The evil IS deep that
1t Will take generation, at least, to cure it. But
and your arms divine; only let your prayers be
MISUNDERSTANDING; for prayer alone VIII not
SUBJECT must be followed w good works. Search
out the cause OF your sorrow, which Is not alone
with the seller OF intoxicating drinks, but with the
appetite that demands 10.
The great American malady is the malady OF the
stomach. Conscientious people become dyspep-
tics; non-conscIentious people become drinkers.
Bear IN mind this fact that the appetite for drink
is not necessarily made by drinking, but in nine
cases out OF ten II Is created and cultivated at
your tabes-in your childrcp-by the use OF coffee,
tea, pepper, pickles, mustard, spices, too much
salt, hot bread and pastry, raw meat and grease,
and, above all, by the use OF tobacco. IRE cry
OF a depraved appetite, an innamed stomach Is al
ways Tor something stronger. The OF soup. mix
ana salad, prepared with good OIL should be Guilt
waited. In short, reform your tables If you would
reform your drunkards and save your sons. cure
the cause anu the effect Will be but natural. stop
the demand by correcting appetite ana stop the
supply by preventing manufacture. Any legislator
VINO does not see and acknowledge that the use OF
POISONOUS drinks. as In England and America, Is
not pubic evil, corruption OF society ana
civi danger, that should be dealt with by law, Is
unworthy of the place that the intelligent people
OF America give MIN. Instead OF rye Tor whskey
raise grapes, that pure native vine may De USED
when needed. Distilleries are slaughter houses OF
men anu should be dealt with as such, and money
gained from selling liquors Is blood money and
should never touch the palm OF an honest mani
BE not disnayed by insult nor discouraged by
defeat; but, with charity for the culprt and pity
for the victim, 90 on, pray on, work on. God Will
bless you. Yours. most sincerely,
EMiLlE ]. L0YSON.