The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-04-22
WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, APRIL


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On last Wednesday night week
there was rousing meeting at Ly
ceum Hall, to which we barely allu
ded last week. We find the follow
ing graphic sketch by Mrs ID. NJ
Jordan, of our city. in the Indianapo
lis Herald, of April L:
'Beadle. the lively correspondents
the Cincinnati Commercial. was callet
on for speech. and came from his re-
porter's desk very cheerfully. He
said he couldn't think why they
should ask newspaper man to make
q speech, as it was his business to ge.
1t down on paper for others to read.
But he was reminded of one Perkins,
a reporter, who struggled into prayer
meeting. thinking it was convention.
One of the aged brothers, noticing
him, supposed him to be stranger.
and he wanted to take him in" So
he said. I'VE observe brother in our
midst who is stranger; we would be
glad to have prayer from him"
Perkins was slightly astonished, but
he got up and said, although it was
out oi his line he didn't object to pray
ing few ''sticks full" And Beadlc
proved that he can fill sticks" as fast
and we'll in that way as he can with
his pen. He gave us many racy incl
dents of his Western travel, and the
different manners of alluding to drink
ing liquor in the Far West. In Ne
vada. when a man wishes to treat
friend, he says: We'll, nominate
your poison In Texas they call it
'tarantula juice In Utah they say,
Will you bury one of your wives?'
or else. Designate your family dis
turbance" All of which goes to show
US that We have advanced far beyond
these heathens, as our men allude to
the operation as simply taking a
smile, and a CHASTITY smile it often
proves to be.
The Crusaders are not whit less
hopeful than they were six weeks ago.
They are becoming 'broazed veterans.
They have born the march, the picket
duty, the active service. They have
been baptized in clouds of tobacco
smoke. stood half-shoes deep in filthy
beer slops and tobacco juice, heard
volley after volley of abuse and slang,
been jostled from the pavement by
bowling inebriates.
There is no better temperance
speech that we have heard of than
that beastly, cowardly, bowling, swear
ing pack Of hounds that gathered
around little band of praying women
in Dayton, Ohio, the other day. Lay
ing aside all private convictions as to
the rropriety of women waging war
fare so publicly against this crying
evil, there can certainly be no law to
prevent them from doing it if they
choose. If the noble women who
have furnished the country its sol
diers-who have seen, perhaps, the
best and brightest go down in the SOL
emn ranks of the dead who died to
maintain our liberty and freedom
desire to do what they can toward stay
army in it's best days could have been
they have the right to work in any
way they choose.
One of the ministers in attendance
at the Whitewater Presbytery, then
in session in our city, made the fol-
lowing eloquent allusion to the pray
ing movement of the woman, In abol-
ishing drunkard manufactures:
1.-Two thousand years ago a wise
philosopher said, Give ME lever
long enough, and place to put my
fulerum, and / will move the world !!
Time has gone on, and Archimedes is
dead; but the lever and fulcrun have
not been found, and philosophers
seem to have concluded that man cam
not move the world There has grown
up in our midst gigantic evil, SO wide
spread-so permeating every class and
grade of soeiety-that it seems almost
a world in its iInmensity. For scores
of years, moral philosophers have
sought the lever that would move this
evil from our midst. The Washing
tonian lever was tried, but it snapped
like a reed in their hands. The Maine
law failed to do the work the Sons
of Temperance. and the Good Tenn
plars have failed and our Baxter law,
if it had not broke, was at least bend
ing and cracking under the load. But
woman HAS FOUND the LEVER She
has placed the fulcrum in the saloon
door and extended the long lever
away up to the hand that moves the
universe, AND THE EVIL MOVES!
And by the grace of Almighty God,
this lever of prayer WILL move it out
of our land.
Miss Charlotte Cushman has writ
ten letter to New York dramatic
critic, declining to give performance
for charitable purposes. She thinks
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