The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-03-14
WAR on THE WOMEN,

WAR on THE WOMEN.
Our neighbor, The Democrat, has had
serious experience in deciding which side
of the women temperance movement to
espouse. He feels carefully round on both
sides of the fence to determine whether
the ground is yielding, but seems still I'M
decided. The amount of travail and pen
ance in sight of the rum ring has been
great on the part of our neighbor for the
little taur pas made in assisting the Elkton
license movement. Better make a clear
breast of it and say to their majesties of
the whisky ring who own the Democracy of
Maryland, that you are sorry and heartily
ashamed of the past.
The logic of the last article in The Dem
Ocrat on that subject is the most puzzlng
of any of its class to determine what that
great authority on morals, religion and
tipping is driving at. The farthingales,
meaning the praying ladies, are "gone
chivalry of the bar-room keepers are ex-
toled to the clouds, if not to the skies, for
not making the cutters run with the blood
of these praying mobs in petticoats, who
shops as praying and singing in the bar
rooms if the proprietors will permit them,
if lot, in the street within hearing.
''This question is a moral and religious
question. AS such it must be treated"
remarks The Democrat. That appears to
be the opinion of the ladies, too, for they
do nothing but pray and implore. Sour
blessed Lord was accused of keeping com
pany with publicans and wine bibbers,
quoth The Democrat. His accusers were
the Pharisees, Jewish Priests and other
high dignitaries. 1t is fair to presume
that Tour blessed Lord " prayed with the
"pubicans and wine bibbers," and the
women appear to be copying His example,
while The Democrat cries out like its pro-
totypes of old that this praying with
"wine bibbers" is stirring up sedition.
History seems to be repeating ITSELF
While the women following Christ's exam
pie are praying with the pubicans, The
Democrat follows that of the High Priests
and Pharsees aud accuses them of mob
law and melting the people to violence.
Paul's advice to Timothy is quoted, too.
Paul was eminent as theologian, but 1t
is evident he was not much of doctor,
for the Timothys which have been using
bis prescription for fifteen or sixteen hun
bred years might be numbered by the tens
of thousands and yet never one of them has
been cured. 1t is astonishing how many
Timothys we have afflicted with pains in
their stomachs and many other infirmites,
who are constantly trying Paul's prescrip-
ton, but they continue to grow worse, and
not one of them gets well, or even better.
But The Democrat tells us that Paul
"would have been unutterably shocked if
his son Timothy had taken his wine at
covered this fact we are unable to say, but
it is doubtless correct, for that paper is
noted for it's correctness in stating facts.
We cannot comprehend why wine should
over the counter of a "tippling shop" but
presume it does, as it fails to cure in every
instance, and this may be the reason why
the farthingales' are endeavoring to
break up such "shops," and The Democrat
ought rather to commend them for their
good work. We commend to our neigh
Dor Cobbet's advice in his treatise entitled
"Advice to young men," which is
81 beg you to regard as perveters of
Scripture and as seducers of youth all who
cite the Bible texts as an apology for the
practice of wine drinking in England"
The much abused saloon keepers whose
cause The Democrat champions so earnestly
seems to take the prayers and hymns of
the ladies very kindly, many of them join
ing in with them. To be told how their
husbands and sons come home drunk and
abuse them, appears to have powerful
influence, in many cases, over the saloon
keepers, and their families.
We do not find that the "publcans and
wine bibbers - that Christ prayed among
made any objection to his prayers. Only
the naughty theologians about the temple,
the Pharisees and hypocrites, the learned
aristocracy among the Jews, who in some
respects are represented at the present day
by the class of which The Democrat is an
exponent. These men said Jesus outraged
decency and stirred up sedition, by his
prayers among the people; our neighbor
charges the women in almost the same
language for initiating Jesus, with a SINH
lar offence. On the whole The Democrat
makes mess of a bad cause. We beseech
thee, neighbor, not to bark at the ladies
and squeel at the rum sellers in the same
breath. To use homely old phrase, 'be
either pig or pup