Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-03-20
TIE TEMPERANCE C.r~spt

Mrs. Swisshelm SAYS; Men alone have
| assumed the responsibility of government
/ Let them hear 1t alone OF acknogio,!Ee they
cannot. If they feel they have been lesi>-
latmg themselves into GruukaIl'~ graves,
and cannot do otherwise let tnem l,ok for
the cause ; and ii they find that the Crea-
tor was right when he SAID. ''li i not good
for man to be alone. and gave u man and
woman a Joint dominion over the earth. let
them call on their natural, heaycn-appuint-
ed allies; let them restore t. them their
equal dominion, which rcn have ielnuiOus-
ly taken away and say, - Help a. and
yourselves join with u in preserving our
children from the rum tend Help u to
save the world evil bear the bruut in
physical war, you on the moral hattie field
United we staEd. divided We fall Io-cth-
er we can face and conquer all the powers
of darkness Come with u. no. a oar
property, bat u our partners. in time and
eternity, in joy and in sorrow, in conflict
and in yirtory!" When they are ready to
do this they viii iilt women ready to re>-
pond hut unIil they are. let them do their
own II shtIng wlth the creature OF their own
creation. and the carnal weapons of phySi-
cal force which OF right belong To them.
The uprising o. women against the great
tst enemy t. their happiness Is 4 movement
whose motives are entitled To the most
thorough respect and to the most careful
study. Even the irregularities which have
characterized the ' crusade ought to warn
all well meaning Men 10 consider, as they
have never considered hIw vast i the evil,
how terrible the wrongs. how Outrageous
the abGs, :. that have cnkindlcd among gen
tie, accomplished, modest, home keeping
women such frenzy of re>istlesS cnthu>;-
assn. Look at the mo, ,eiuent in Its most ru-
favorable aspects, and TIE very cxceSses and
irregularities that have been developed cut
Of 4 righteous zeal ought TO he trumpet
tOngued wa. ningS TO all good men. Out of
the depths OF terrible individual experiences
has come this wild, yet methodical, deter
mined, though desperate. last expedient for
suppressing the evil that is more wasting
than the pestilence, more tyrannical than
slavery and more destructive than war. The
work begun in Ohio will not end until at
least all the good influences that can be raj
lied will be welded, as they never before
have been, against our great national sin
~ Y. Mail
The present religious awakening Is no.
likely to experd its force in mere emotional
exeitation. 1t has taken on a new and very
notable practical form. In the West it has
identified itself very largely with a move
mcnt to eradicate intcmperance, and saTe
men from perdItion in this world, and pro-
tect wives and children from the untold
miseries and degradation that drunkenness
entails. In this city and the East it is con-
Meeting itself with efforts TO relieve suffer
ing and provide for the poor. Ii Is charac-
teristically new enthusiasm OF humanity,
not as opposed to or distinguished from re-
ligion, but a. the natural outcome and pro-
r, I'D .t1,f
characteristic which invests the present re-
viyal with peculiar interest, and makes it
specially deserving of secular sympathy and
CO cooperation. We have had the rule of
clubs long enough to show the brute force
cannot eradicate evils and reform the world.
Ii is time that hearts snould have fair
trial Graphic.
Some of the experiences Of tie women's
praying bands are interesting. One of
them one day formed line in front of sa-
loon and struck up vigorously the hymn,
Shall We Gather at the Rivcr?" The sa-
loon keepers wife from an upper window
shouted: Yes, yes, gather at the river,
and 20 away from here" In the surprise
which followed a pin could have been heard
to drop. Ii was u rolling-pin. and it drop
ped very close to the best bonnet in the
band.
Some of the Cleveland women will not
raid until they are properly arrayed. and
are having praying Costumes made.
The Cincinnati Gazette has returns from
sixty-one cities, towns. and villages in Ohio
and Indiana. showing the results accom-
plished in those places by the women $ tenn
perance " crusade" up to about the Goth oil
February. The returns comprise hity-hve
towns in Ohio. In these places 2i5 saloons
have been closed 9l drug stores have sign
cd the druggists pledge, and about Il, GOO
persons the total abstinence pledge. On
the other hand there are $50 saloons still
open. In Indiana 0 saloons and drug
stores have been closed. and ,2S3 persons
have signed the pledge. There are So sa
Icons still open. In the aggregate 254 -
looms and 100 dug stores have been closed
about l6 900 persons have signed the pledge.
There are GlS saloons still OPEN