The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-04

rom tOWu W tOWu, uhy otci ooyt w.
after week. When it attacks q COM
mupity it seems to seize upon almost
everybody in it at once. There is o.
meeting in a church, speeches are made,
resolutions are passed. purse for exs
peuses is made up, praying band is
appointed; and il it be large town.
halt q dozen praying bands, each NUNS
bering az many % q hundred women,
are appointed. and the working district
Of each band marked out. Then comes
grand assault in force, all along the
line. Every stronghold Of rum is in.
vested frst one and then another
cham picu ranges up before the propri'
stor, and offers up special petition for
bin; ne has to stand meekly there be-
hind his bar, under the eyes OF q great
concourse OF ladies who are better than
he is and are aware of it, and hear all
the secret iniquitiss OF his business di-
yulged to the angels above, accompa-
MED by the sharp stipg of wishes for
his regeneration, which imply an
snoupt Of need for it which is in the
last degree uncomfortable to him.. II
he holds out bravely, the crusaders
hold out more bravely still-or at least
more persistently; though l doubt II
the grandeur OF the performance would
not be considerably heightened If enc
solitary crusader were 10 try praying
at a hundred rumsellers in q body for
a while and pee how il telt to have eve-
~ body against her instead OF for her.
Would you consider the conduct Of
these crusaders justifiable =? / do-thor-
oughly justifable. They find them
selves voceless in the making oi laws
aud the election OF officers to execute
them. Born with brains, born in the
country, educated. having large inter-
es,s at stake, they find their tongues
tied and their hands fettered, while ev-
erv ignorant whisky drinking, foreign
born savage in the land may hold office,
help to make the laws, degrade
the dignity Of the former and
break the latter at bis own sweet
will. They see their fathers, husbands
and brothers sit inately at home and
allow the scum Of the country to as
semble at the primaries" name the
candidates for office from their own
vile ranks, and. unrebuked, elect them.
They live in the midst Of a country
where there is no end to the laws and
no beginning to the execution OF them.
And when the laws intended to protect
their sons from destruction by intem'
perauce lie torpid and without sign OF
life year after year, they recognize that
here is a matter which interests them
personally, a matter which comes
straight home to them. And since they
are allowe to lift no legal voice against
the outrageous state OF things they sui
fer under in this regard, think It is no
onder that their patience has broken
down at last and they have tried to
persuade themselves that they are JUS
tifisble in breaking the law Of trespass
when the laws that should make the
,resspass needless are allowed by the
voters 10 lie dead and imperative.
The present crusade will. doubtless,
do but little work against iutemperance
that will be really permanent. but II
will do what is as much, or even more.
to the purpose, ! think. think it will
suggest to more than one man that II
women could vote they would vote on
the side OF morality, even if they did
vote and speak rather frantically and
turiously; and it will also euggest that
when the women once made up their
minds ths, it was not goodto leave the
all-powerful primaries" in the hands
OF loafers and thieves, and pernlclout
little politicians, they would not sit In.
dolently at home as their husbands and
brothers do now, but would hoist theil
prsying banners, take the field iu force
pray the assembled political scum back
to the holes and slums where they be-
long, and set up some candidates tit FOL
decent human beings to vote Tor.
dearly want the women TO be raised tt
the political altitude OF the negro, the
imported savage and the pardonec
thief, and allowed to vote. 1t is oul
last chance, think. The women vii
be- voting before long, aud the.
Lii a B. F. Butler can Still
continue to lord it in Congress
the highest offices in the land cal
still continue to be occupied by perjurer
and robbers; ). if another Congress, lik
| the Forty-second, consisting OF fitteer
honest men aud two huunred ane
niuety-six OF the other kind eau ono
more be created, it will at last be time
| l fear, 10 give over trying to save tn
couatr by human means, and appea
TO Providence. Both the great partle
have failed. wish We might have
Women's party now, aud see how !
would work. l feel persuaded that, IL
extending the suffrage to women. tbI
country could lose absolutely nothing
and might gain great deal. For thirt
centuries history has been iteratln
, and rslterating that in 3 moral hgh
, woman is simply dauntless, and We q
know, even with our eyes shut ppo1
Congress and our voters, that, Iron
the day that Adam ate of the sppl
and told Eve down 70 the present day
man, in q moral fight, has pretty uu'
formly shown himself to be an arran
!. !. coward. u.
l PITTSBURGH.