Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-07-16
safe for the degradation and misery
that 1t brings upon the human race.
Apajn il is urged that if YOU license

the business you make III Respectable.
That is Just what We do not want to do;
We do MT want to give the shadow of
re reliability to the traffic. Ii is de-
grading i'll its every branch, and we
want it branded as infamous by every
citizen OF the Republic.
He then made an eloquent reference
10 the Women's Movement, and point
ed to the healthy sentiment that had
been created by it. Here in our coun-
ty, he instanced that liquor sellers now
received heavy fines, and 20 days in
the county Jail, for violation of the liq-
uor laws. 1t won't do to regulate a
traffic that despises all laws.
We don't ask for more legislation on
this question at present. We want,
however, to have the public sentiment
now enlisted against this crime to be
kept up that the laws may be enforced.
We don't want to be thrown back
twenty years by granting license and
be compelled to fight the weary battle
over again.
He said he had heard that some
Temperance men intended to vote for
license. He thought that course would
be very wrong. By 60 doing the pub
lie sentiment, will be lost that Dow
grants to the villaios who sell liquor
boarding in the county Jail.
The religious part of the community
should take prominent position in the
warfare against the traffic. There is no
other influence so against christianity
as the liquor power. The advocates of
| the liquor traffic are infidels and drunk
ards. 1t is not only conflict between
Temperance and IntemperaDee, but it
is also conflict between Atheism and
true religion.
All good citizens should vote against
Licenss to reduce the expenses of the
country. Our Courts are now engaged
one-third of the time by suits growing
out of the liquor traffic.
He said that the robbery of the peo-
pie in dollars and cents, by the traffic,
was nothing in comparison to the suf-
fering and sorrow that has filled our
land with graves and so many homes
with broken hearts and darKened lives.
The liquor traffic he said was the
great sponge that wipes up the reve-
nues of our country, and you cannot
secure the public peace and prosperity
if the crime is licensed and permitted
to go on.
through several States that had license
laws, The temperance people of those
States had informed him that the IL
cense laws were failure. He referred
to Kentucky as License State and de-
picted its demOralized condition. He
spoke of it as. the garden spot Of the
world, and said if Kentucky had the
money invested in other manufactures
that she had i'm intoxicating liquors.
she would be far in advance of what
she now is.
The statement that crime still exists
should not deter US from making ef-
forts to check it. Suppose we tear
down our school houses and our
churches, society would be in terrible
state before long. But by licensing
crime we make it more potent for evil.
Speaking of the public sentiment
which had been aroused upon the SUBJ
Iject of Temperance, and of the infu-
ence it was eXerting, he stated the fact
that there were SO liquor sellers less in
Belmont county now than there was
a year ago, while the wholesale traffic
had been reduced 80 per cent.
He did not consider the liquor traffic
Iinvincible. Slavery was the giant curse
of its day. You know the history of its
destruction.
If you could bv some power wipe out
the liquor traffic you would thereby
wipe out four-tifths of the crime and
misery in our land, and we would have
almost an Eden. ask you, as you ex'
pect to make your homes in this cOun
try and pride yourselves in its moral
social and industrial prosperity, to con
slider the importance of the question
now presented to you.
Upon the conclusion of the address
\ of Col. Poorman, number of the la
dies whose whole souls have been en-.
gagged in the battle for temperance
f were called upon, and in short, point
, ed and pithy remarks gave their views
upon the question at issue.
Mrs. Rev. Rhodes, of Hendrysburgh
spoke of the plans taken in that place
for the suppression of the great evil
|, Prayer, song, persuasion, and the
strong arm of the law, were brough
into requisition, with wonderful eff
E feet. Some of their prominent Liquor
dealers were now boarding in the st
Clsirsville Jail as the result of it. Sht
thought moral suasiOn was good in it
place, but some of the saloon keeper:
! ''WOuldn't suade." She said she wa,
glad to welcome foreign born citizen.
to our shores. There was room enough
here for all, but she did not think W.
should permit them to impose theil
atheistic beliefs and obnoxious custom!
!, upon us without our most decided pro
test. She advised young ladies to lnol
well to their company, and give colo
shoulder to young men who were
walking demijohns.
, Miss Belts, of Zanesville, was tht
next speaker. In her remarks she
portrayed eloquently the curses of thu
rum traffic, and said that there wer'
many widows wfo were never mar
ried, because of the curse of intempe
rance, and intimated that a leaf from
her own personal history might revea
a case of this sort.
Mrs. DIR. 7. C. Rowles, Of Bridge
port, spoke Of the progress of ihe TEN
4 perance work in that place, and sait
that they had many obstacles to over
come, and met With many discourage
ments, but that they had been success
full in high degree. No cessation
= OF nOStliltleS WGulu De dilOWeu-
Miss Jane e lgertoa of this place
who has been an iadefatigabie worker
spoke few words 0! encouragement
= = and remarked that she had often won
= dered why the men permitted In
work of death and destruction To go OIL
!, so long. a.
Rev. Marshall, of Barnesville, re
= ported on the work in that place, ant
: said tnat they bad been victorious
!, Public sentiment had been aroused ant
the people were determined to prose
IS cute the liquor sellers, as long rs on
is remainea in their midst.
+ Mrs. Rose Wood, OF Martins Ferry
e said that owing to their close proximi
y ly to Wheeling, many difficulties wer
D encountered in their work at tina
place, but they were determined t
,aI nusb forward