Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-06-13
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For the Register.
Mr.. Editor-How are majorities over
borne and trampled Gu by mlnorltles
Do you, sir, believe this ? There were
not more than 500 men ia all France
who inau gurated and carried through
the Reign of Terror in that country Ia
1893 Thousands trembled before tens.
1t has been just so with society taxed
and tormented by liquor interested mi
norities.
But ever and anon. We see the people
r,,psed to a sense of their wrongs and OF
their strength, and these Pharaohs OF
ancient and modern times have been
EASILY shown their place and made to
Keep it. And public opinion is SO work
ed ND that offenders are watched and
punished, and why is it not always SO ?
An immense majority are right in their
opinions, and their personal wishes up
on the subject but through timidity
or fear of work, or of some sacrifice, or
other interested motive, reply to any
energetic and all embracing enterprises
for relief, at will do no good" 'You
cant stop this thing" Il don't approve
of that plan" you'll be next for the
woman's crusade" &c, &c Touching
the woman's crusade, though we have
never advocated it, we have never car
ed particularly to defend ourselves from
this charge.
A christian minister once said to us,
''If was them | would turn the hose
on them" All, said /, have you wife
and did you and she ever watch until a
late hour of the right for the son Of
your love, and have him come stagger-
ING to your door ?" mo" "Well,
then, God grant you never may, but IT
! YOU ever should, you can tell better
whether you would turn the hose on
these women, who have gone to rescue
their own and Others sons, through
snow and rain, and suffered themselves
to be misused and insulted, and this by
MEN too, so-called-yet pursuing still
the loved and the lost even into the
very jaws of Satan. No sir, said |, l
know you better than you know your
SELF instead Of turning the hose on
! these women, you would spread down
carpets for them to kneel on, as others
! have done who condemned them at first.
| Some have been struck and knocked
down in that service, and should any
! fall in it by the hands of british men,
we should feel for them as Rizpah for
/ her children. the sons Of Saul, who,
though innocent, were slain for the
public safety The mother ''took sack
cloth and spread it for her upon the
rock from the beginning of harvest UNI
til water dropped on them ont of heav-
en-, and suffered neither the birds Of the
all to rest on them by day, nor the
| beasts of the field by night.
1t will not be doubted that God hath
chosen the weak things of this world
to confound the mighty, when over
nearly $4,000 square miles of thickly
peopled territory, the traffic in all in
! toxicants has ceased or is hidden from
human sight. The decrease in one
month OF SGG0,000 tax on liquors in
two States-saloons forsaken and
! churches filled, and vast numbers, inclu
ding not only drinkers but sellers, Civ
inc evidence of true conversion.
Is there nothing in al this to modify
the judgments Of men touching the
world thatnow is and in the interests of
the kingdom of God Our love in this
work is indiscriminate. 1t embraces
not only the stricken household but him
who strikes it. EA.