The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-05-01
THE LADIES' WAR.
A Card From Nine. Hyaeinths-LOysOn.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND,
March %, 1874. {

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND,
March %, 1874.
TO the Editor OF the Herald.
Will you permit me to use thu
columns of you journal to give q
word of appreciation, counsel and
encouragement to the women OF
America who have enlisted in the
temperance war. There is no doubt
that intemperance is the greatest
evil in our our beloved republic, and
destroys what is dearer than gov
eminent, wealth, education or liber-
ty-the happiness, prosperity, the
lives and souls of her people. 1t is
enough to fill the mind of every
thinking person, surely of all who
love their fellow men of their coun-
try, with alarm at the thought that
an entire army of American youth
go trooping into perdition every
year by the use of Intoxicating IL
quors. More hearts and hearths are
made desolate to-dry throughout
the land by drink than by our lac
war, for every wife who lost her
husband and every mother who
lost her son in that struggle for ma
iional life is consoled in her loss
and proud in her grief; but the
wife or mother who follows her
dear ones to the drlnkard's grave,
or sits with the ghouI by the fire.
side, suffers and weeps in shame
which no mourning veil or vest
Inent can hide.
Dear sisters, IL is q hard but holy
war you have inaugurated may it
I'm ufn IL
all you would, remember you will
be blessed If some are saved. The
evil is so deep that 1t will take a
generation, at least, to cure II. But
you must succeed, for your cause is
Gods justice and your arms divine
only let your prayers be intelligent
executive for prayer alone will
not suffice-it must be followed by
good works. Search out the cause
OF your sorrow, which is not alone
with the sellers OF Intoxicating
drinks, but with the appetite that
demands 1t.
The great American malady is
the malady of the stomach. Con-
scientious people become dyspep-
tics; non-conscientious people be-
come drinkers. Bear in mind this
fact, that the appetite for drink is
not necessarily made by drinking,
but in nine cases out of ten it il
created and cultivated at your To.
bles-in your children 10y the use oil
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
Of Annw0UnA
inflamed stomach, Is always fol
something stronger. The use Of
soup, milk and salad prepared with
good oil, should be cultivated. II
short reform your tables If you
would reform your drunkards and
save your sons. Cure the cause and
the effect will be but natural. Stop
the demand by correcting the ap
petite and stop the supply by pre-
venting manufacture. Any legisla
tor who does not see and acknowl
edge that the use of poisonou
drinks, as in England and America
is not a public evil, a corruption o
society and q civil danger tina
should be dealt with by the law, i
unworthy of the place that the in
telligent people of America CAV
him. Instead OF rye for whisky
raise grapes, that pure native wine
may be used when needed. Distil'
leries are slaughter houses of mon
and should be dealt with as such
and money gained from selling Ii
quors is blood money, and SHOULD
never touch the palm of an homes
man.
BE not dismayed by insult no
discouraged by defeat; but, wit
charity for the culprit and pity fc
the victim, go on, pray on, wor
on. God bless you.
Yours, most sincerely,
EMILE j. LOYsoN.