The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-04-23
THE LADIES' WAR
Nine. Hyacinthe writes to the New
York Herald as follows

Nine, Hyacinthe writes to the New
York Herald as follows @
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 33, IA
Will you permit me to use thescolumns
Of your journal to give o word of appre-
citation, counsel and encouragement to the
women Of America who have enlisted IN
the temperance war There is no doubt
that incompetence is the greatest evil in
our beloved republic, and destroys what
IS dearer than government, wealth, educa-
ton or liberty-the happiness. prosperity
the lives and souls of her people. 1t is
enough to fill the mind of every thinking
person, surrey of all who love their fellow
men or their country, with alarm at tue
thought that an entire army of American
youth 60 trooping into perditiop every
year~by the use of intoxicating liquors.
More hearts and hearths are made desc
late to-day throughout tn land by drink
than by our late war, fer every wife who
lost her husband and every mother who
lost her son in that struggle for national
life IS consoled in her loss and proud in
her grief but the wife or mother who
follows her dear ones to the drunkard's
grave, or sits with the ghoul by the fire.
side, suffers and weeps in shame which
nc mourning vail or vestment can hide.
Dear sisters, it is hard bat a holy war
you have inaugurated may it end in vic
tory. If you cannot do all you would,
remember you will be blessed if some are
saved. The evils is so deep that it will
take a generation, at least. to cure it. But
you must succeed, for your cause is God s
justice and your arms divine only let
your prayers be MISUNDERSTANDING .
for prayer alone viii not sufice-it must
be followed by good works. Search out
the cause of your SORROW. which is not
alone with the seller of intoxicating
drinks, but with the appetite that de-
mands. lt a.., ......4a.f .st -.
The great American malady is the ma
lady of the stomach. Conscientious PEG
pie become dyspeptics non-conscien-
tious people become drinkers. Bear in
mind this fact, that the appetite for
drink is not necessarily MADE by drink
ing, hut in nine cases out of ten it is crea-
ted and cultivated at your tables--in your
children-by the use Of 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.
The cry ia depraved appetite, and in
famed stomach is always for something
stronger. The use of soup, milk and sal
ad, prepared with good oil, should be
cultivated. In 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 de-
mand by correcting the appetite, and
stop the supply by preventing manufac-
ture. Any legislator who does not see
and acknowledge that the use of poison
Gus drinks, as in England and America
is not public evil. corruption of soci-
ETY. and civil danger; that should be
dealt with by law, is unworthy of the
place that the intelligent people ofAmer-
lea give him. Instead of rye for whisky,
raise grapes, that pure native wine may
be used wheL needed. Distillesles are
slaughter houses of men and should be
dealt with as such, and money gained
from selling liquors is blood money. and
should never touch the palm of an honest
man 4~
Be not dismayed by insult nor discour-
aged by defeat; but with Charity for the
culprit and pity for the victim, 90 Oh,
pray on, work on. God will bles you.
Yours, most sincerely.
EMILE j. LoYsoN.
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