The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-04-17

THE FIERCEST OF WOMEN COR
RESPOND DENTS.
SHE THROWS MISSILES VIOLENT.
LY AT SEVERAL PERSONS.
STAND FROM UNDER OR DE
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CRUSHED.
DEAR BULLETIN I'll have been reading
"Peggy's' article in tho sun 1t pleased
me. think it is the most sensible thing
Peggy" has written yet.
l, TOO, would like 10 SEQ the liquor Ii
eense raised to a thousand dollars, and
then perhaps there would be fewer trap
doors Of damnstion in Cairo; or, better
still, would gladly hail the day when
Cairo would have a city council OF men
who would dare to vote down any liquor
license. l have lived in Cairo nine years,
and year after year / have watched the
men who have been elected to FIJI the
office Of mayor, and during that time we
have never had mayor who had gri.
enough TO enforce the Sunday law of clos
ing the saloons. We hear men promise
great reforms when they are candidates,
but when elected they are afraid to open
their mouths for fear they will offend
their party. Such men are only footballs.
| would like 10 SEQ one man elected in our
| city who would dare 10 do right; who
would dare TO DO true in the sight Of God
irrespective Of party.
l did think one of our prominent Official
men. who is also a pillar Of one Of our
churches, was temperance man and one
who feared God, but what was my aston
ishment to learn from a person OF rolia-
bility, that they had drank brandy to-
gether several times in levce saloon
But am not willing to believe there are
no men TO be trusted in Office.
We are now on tho eve of an election
in this city. notice from the announce
mcnts there are three or four good candi-
dates. / am sorry Mr.. Mttenhouse was
"bamboozled' into leaving the council to
such men in the coanci. AZ it lie, / can
scarcely say who is the best Of the two,
Rittcnhouse or Blake.
AS it is the aim Of the whisky clique
here to elect men in the council who will
lower the liquor license, l trust the tenn
persnce men of Cairo will open their eyes
and rally TO the polls on next Tuesday
The whisky ring is going to run man
who hangs half ia the church ana half in
tho saloon. hape ho will DO defeated
heard Il minister on last Sabbath, in his
sermon, say he thought men should go in
secret prayer and ask God to guide them
in voting. That is my idea exactly. We
wanted to encore that preacher. If wa
man | should cast my ballot for an hon
est man, be he "a Black Republican or {
, Rebel Democrat.
Mr.. Editor, l trust in my remarks
shall offend no one, yet | must tell tho
truth. A fow years ago "Irish whisky
was tho banc of America, and lrishmon
with this whisky were looked down upon
and Gas Roman Catholic Bishop in his
appeal to Irishmen in the Academy OF
Music in New York, said the Irishmen
in America had degraded themselves by
drinking; but now wha. do we
see? The lrish, as natl n
arc seeing their condition, and
like men are going TO work TO redeem
the past. Temperance organizations are
started in the Catholic church, and the
sons of Erin are rising up.
But something else has taken the place
Of whisky. | refer 10 beer-the curse
of our fair land. i am friend to the
| III n
right to homo in America, the land Of
refuge for all nations, tongues and people.
Our country is dear to every Americans
heart-"The home of the brave and the
land Of the Free but no one has a right
| to come hero and commit murder, and
that is what every dram-soller does--slow
murder, Americans drink bser, whisky,
poisonous compounds and make worse than
beasts OF themselves, and free, glorious
America to-day bids fair to become ma
ton of drunkards. And yet some folks
lift their hands in holy horror, because
tho greatest sufferers from this curse are
up and at work to quench this evil.
say trOu Dltss INC HOUle women oil ONO
who started the temperance revolution,
If they don't succeed in closing tho sink
holes Of sin permanently, they will at
lcast bring the Temperance question for
chilly before tho minds of the people and
set them to thinking. Lager beer and
whisky arc at the root of every known
evil, DO away with the saloons and we
will have less houses of prostitution.
There Is another channel whereby in.
temperance receives powerful i'm
pe.us, and that is drug stores
where the best wines and liquors
arc seld. Often they are termed
aristocratic Saloons, where gentlemen who
would not visit u saloon for kingdom
may go quietly in and select their drains.
1t is very convenient place for some
physicians to write prescriptions. The
proprietors OF these drug stores are some-
times men Of high standing. Are they
whit better than the barkeeper of the
vilost den In my opinion thoy are far