The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-03-24
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The Temperance Moyement.

Au0 LoWpeIauC6 WVNelu0uSs
The article from the Cincinnati Com
msrcidI, In another column, will attract
attention, coming from the source It does,
on account Of the very decided opinion It
expresses as 10 the final success Of the
Women's Crusade in that city. People
generally have not been expecting such q
result in Cincinnati, and notwithstanding
the Commercials very decided expression
Of opinion they will still await events be.
lore coming TO the same positive con.
ulusion.
The point oil peculiar interest Just now
in tho Temperance Movement Ia Cleye-
land, on account Of the brutal scene
that took place in that city last
Thursday, in which several ladies who
were praying from place to place were
most foully abused by terrible crowd Of
ruflans, and at last actually assaulted and
put to flight The event naturally stirred
up the whole city, SO much 80 that the
Mayor ielt called upon to issue q procla-
nation, in which he warned everybody
against congregating in front Of any clti-
Gems place oi business or residence,
This proclamation was unsatisfactory to
the people. 1t was neither fish nor flesh,
and was construed by both sides, and
especially the Temperance people, as an
attempt to avoid responsibility. The
hadsr newspaper expressed the opinion
that it was somewhat curious to read
proclamation warning the women Of the
city against unlawful assemblsges upon
the side walks, while at the same time 1t
was notorious that liquor was being sold
without authority OF law by 1900 men in
Cleveland. 1t wound up an article on the
subject as follows:
One word In conclusion to our city au-
thorities. Since you have taken so decid.
ed position in maintaining the sanclity
Of our municipal code, 1t is your duty to
see that all its provisions are rigidly en-
forced. You cannot ignore plain law
prohibiting the sale OF intoxicating
liquors which is violated in 1900 in
stances in the city Of Cleveland, and by
an official manifesto prohibit small band
OF ladies from assembling in front Of a
liquor saloon doing an illegal business
without al least being guilty Of q glaring
inconsistency. With a plain, straight
forward liquor law entirely ignored, q
Sunday ordinance quietly wInked at, and
dozen other laws OF vital Importance to
the moral welfare ol the city steadily vio
lated, this little sp9sm OF virtue Is not very
impressive.
The crowd that insul:ed and abused
the women made great mistake, as those
who commit violence always do, for the
effect has been 10 bring out very strong
and determined public sentiment in Clcve-
land in favor ofprotecting the women en-.
gagged in the Temperance movement
upon the streets. We Judge from the
leader of yesterday that the excitement
runs pretty high among the people. 1t
has an editorial calling upon the citizens
to"keep COOL" II bewails the disgrace.
tul scenes" last week, as it calls them,
and says that
"The spectacle OF noisy, drunken,
violent mob assailing Cleveland church
in which party oil Christian women
were assembled to pray for the relief Of
their race from the terrible vice OF drunk.
enness, Is one for which the press and
people OF the country were not prepared"
On Saturday and Sunday meetings
were held In Cleveland by both sides,
those opposed and those in favor OF the
temperance movement. The Anzleger
newspaper calls the Women's Crusade
ian uprising Of the old Kuow.Nothing
party,n The Leader replies that the Ger.
man Lutheran and Evangelical Churches
are In the movement, and that this fact
does not look like Know. Nothing Cru
sade.
Whatever may be the final result OF the
demonstration, the women, nothing de-
tered by their set back Of last week, are,
it seems, mastering in increased force for
operations this week. The Leader says
that thesituation, briefly stated, is this:
THE ladies, after consultation with the
best lawyers Of the city, have determined
TO avoid any infraction oil the letter or
spirit the ordinance 10 which attention
Is called in the Mayors proclamation, but
will steadily pursue their work to the ut
most verge within legal limits. The
crusaders begin today vastly augmented
IN numbers and melted by the memory OF
last weeks outrages to the highest pitch
OF zeal and enthusiasm. The work is to
be carried on, no matter what obstacle
may be interposed or. what the conse.
quences. Whatever opinion may be en-.
tertained regarding the wisdom OF the
undertaking, however hazardous 1t may
be, the ladies are not to be deferred from
the work and the struggle Is Inevitable"
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