The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-05-20
Fer the Palladium.
The Crusade.


variations by our enterprising indie
pendent daily for some time past OF
course, it only judges by appearances.
However much the wish may be IA
ther TO the thought" We suppose the
desperate attempt of that sheet TO
carry water % on both shoulders,
have hardly entitled it to the conf
dence of the Woman's Temperance e
League
I When the women entered upon this
work, no special plan of operations
was adopted, and the work of each
day was arranged for the time being,
and as the leaders seemed to direct.
The work has continued now about
twelve weeks. 4 survey of the field
will show what has been accomplish
ed. OF course, much remains inyisi-
BILE to mortal eye of these three
months work, but of what can be
seen, We may count the progress of
the work as follows:
When the work commenced, thirty
two places where alcoholic liquors
where dispensed continually, were re-
ported to the ladies-only one of
which had license OF these, ten
have been closed entirely; and not one
of the remaining twenty-five, except
the licensed saloon and the wholesale
stores, keep their front doors open.
They have hidden their liquors down
cellar, or in some other dark hole, and
furnish their customers with private
keys to supply themselves with the
means of their own destruction. These
results may fairly be attributed to the
women's movement.
But it has become the fashion to
attribute good many other things to
the woInen's crusade; indeed, nearly
every thing that has happened for
three months, is directly or indirectly
charged to the women
Well, it is something to find out
how much power, Preserved power,
hitherto), may be welded by the wo-
men. We shall miss our guess if this
is not only the beginning of greater
development of woman's influence;
but we hardly think the dry goods
business, or the butchering business,
or any other business has fallen on
dull times because of the woman S
crusadel A fair inference would be
tb,t Tho ,onpnx, savaJ frou, l,;,l- an1
expended in the necessaries and COM
forts of life, would make trade better,
and, no doubt, it is better than it
would have been but for the crusade;
but people must remember We are at
the close of a long, dull winter, and
the paralization of business conse-
quent on the panic, left very large
number of people in bad shape to
make both ends meet. The effect has
not by any means disappeared yet, and
hence the dull times 1t is a difficult
motives when their appetites and
pockets are both involved. Men who
are perfectly willing to acknowledge
the fightlul effects of the liquor traf-
1ic, are yet fond of an occasional glass,
or esteem their business interests in
jeopardy if they publically espouse
the right. They are getting along
smoothly in business, when here
comes a reformation that stirs up the
guilty quiet, and here they ALBRIGHT
in one balance APPETITE and sell in
chance, and so A B. and c., despite
their votes as a rebuke to the onward
march of truth and sobriety, and hon
or and decency, and it is called re
buke to the extremists" Oh! miser-
able subterfuge of miserable men!
When will men become true to them
selves, to God and the right?
Then, another cowardly appeal is
made: The weapons of the whisky
interest truly are legion. Here are
men, openly violating the plain law of
the land every day of their lives, i'm
pudently. daringly tramping the law
and the rights of the people under
their unhallowed feet. The public
mind, stirred with the enormity and
frequency of the violation of the law,
proceeds to ADMINISTER the law in it's
plain and obvious force. What do
we hear next? They are creating i'll
feeling and strife among neighbors!'
And pray what have these whisky
sellers been doing for 10 these many
years? Absorbing and devouring the
substance Of the wives and the chill
dren OF their customers; bringing
poverty, and woe, and sorrow, and
toll, and misery into the homes of
many, where the only partition be-
tween woe and joy, was the very mon
ey expended for their horrible wares |!
In all this, women has been the chief
sufferer. and it is a wonder she has
kept silent SO long. The law of this
great land should protect the hum
blest and feeblest of its subjects If
it does not do that, it does nothing
worth the doing; and no man has a
right to pursue a calling that brings
into jeopardy the peace or security or
happiness of the humblest woman or
child between the broad oceans. If
the law does not interfere to protect
the rights of these. there is the clear