The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-04-16
THE LIQUOR WAR.
How cur German Citizens feel
about it.
A Clash Of Opinions, and feeling
Of Bitterness Prevalent.

D-nre and since the election the German
element OF ctr population have been ex-
ceediDsly troubled over the actions OF the
crusaders in attempting TO break up and in
| teriese with their apparently harmless beer
irinkius. They do not like to he put on
level With the whisky bloats" who line the
| gu',efs and bring disgrace on themselves
end abe cJmmuBiiy in which they live. As
a c.iss they claim to be Ieacsab!e, law sbid-
| ins citizans, AID argue that the mere fact Of
their INDUCING in a beverage, which to them
| is no more hudful than coffee drinking,
should ncl BRAID them as a
race OF csrousing drunkards. One OF
our most respectable German citizens
has handed us translation OF an article en- the
women's anti liquor war, clipped from one
! OF the German papers East which is so per-
linen, and has 80 great local significance
aad bearing Gia. We herewith present it for
tue earnest, p,ayeriui consideration of our
radical temperance friends. Speaking of the
xomen's crusade, i, says:
I'm view of the steady growth OF this
movement and its unexpected duration, the
question forces ltseil upon Us, whether there
Is Bol + substantial on, an actual existing
ev'I, v hici, has Provoked il by sort OF ne.
cessity. Here Is no doubt iha many homes
in tins couaIIv have been broken up by La-
biiuai drunEs ness. In thousands Of fami-
lies the wives and children suffer terribly
IRON tie diI.I.. nness OF husbands and faith
ers. Ii this S.le not so, Do Lewis and
Others like am would never succeed in
drawing Lnndre1s OF women after them in
their street CAMPAIGNS. 1t Is not in the mo-
tive. therefore, 10. in the object TO be &C.
emphasized, that this woman's movement is
wrong. II lis the means by which it is sought
TO be elected that are wrong sDd injurious.
"Wby do the women not soften the wild
temper Of their husbands ia the way Of
Mouika? Patricius, Of Tagas,e, was certain
ly not a man TO be easily cooled down. But
jhen II Is 80 mach easier t, pray two hours
in the cJld Of spring than to practice gentle |
ness So days in the year within the four |
walls of ONES hone he family lie OF great |
part OF the Americans is broken up. The |
women do not want to subordinate them. !
selves T. the men, instead Of stopping the |
source of this misery, which ia their own |
conduct, they want TO pray down the saloons. |
C.taTiy wrong relations in the family are |
thus 20 be put 10 rights by utterly wrong |
means. What Can be the result but still |
greater convulsio,.? The first result would |
be that line rroyerhiai respect which every |
man Ia this Country Is ACCUSTOMED to show to |
lie ladies will vanish A. soon a. it be- |
comes rule 10 Insult and mock the women,
as has been done in Fort Scott, Kansas, Full |
ton, Ohio, and other places, the esteem in
which the ladies' were held formerly will |
turn into contempt.
Another evil result will be thu. this move
ment will leave behind bi't-T fee'i-r h.
tween the native born \ nesic,n .ui ,ne
Germans. For while The g mans look
upon those cohorts of Amszons. and regard
the Puriaos that support and protect them
as enemies OF their property and their per-
sonai liberty, the Pari,ans and their numer-
ou4 adhersnis will at DO distant day de-
nounce the immigrants. and especially the
Germans, not only az drum kards,
but also as men who hold all the privileges
allowed 10 women in contempt. This is the
more painful a. il cannot BE- averted in any
way. Great social abuses bear
,lwsys steir bitter fruits"