The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-04-27

duty Of all to labor to hasten the day
when BY the free consent OF the people
the law shsll say, no deadly poison
like this shall be. sold under the coun-
tepsuce and license OF law To this
end Jet cur constant, prayerfnl labor be
unremittingly directed. sg.z7h -. -.
lam not here to abuse the druukard,
this will do no good. II / were drunk.
ard, l think there is one power under
God that could save me. 1t is the
power oflove-loye oil a friend, love OF
q woman, mother, sister, daughter,
wife. Love. love, nothing but love,
even in these. I am not here to laugh
ut the drunkard. We have laughed
too long; deep feeling does not laugh.
Satire works no ennobling conversion.
No, i. is not a time to laugh but to
weep and agonize as in the throes Of
revolution the travail Of moral re-
generation. I am not here to abuse
the saloon keeper. We have said he
may sell, and taken pay for the license.
The price of the evil is in our public
Golfers. We charge higher for the
liberty than for any other that we grant.
A saloon is the institution OF the State,
and the profitable investment we make
in the soils o cur citizens and in the
degradation, the prostitution OF our
public virtue. The historian who
studies the character OF people seeks
for it in their laws Behold our neral
likeness We make revenue cut Of
licensed debaachery and social and
domestic corruption Will not the
Judge Of all the earth require it at our
hande.
No, l am not here TO abuse the ga
loon keeper but I sm here ID turn
him form his traffic, to make him pro-
Queer and not destroyer, to work OF
the destruction of his business, not for
him or his property, but Of the evil that
comes from rum.
know what can be said, what has
been said about the destruction OF reve-
nue., the suspension OF industries, &c.
1t is the old argument ofthe Ephesians,
Hit is wrong to nse shrines 10 idolaIry
| it ia wrong to manufacture shrines. 1t
is the old argument against the intro
duction OF machinery. The loss to q
few is only temporary and always less
| than is imagined, the benefit to all is
lasting and immense. Arguments like
this put the lock upon all progrese, we
could not improve our streets becaus we
must tear up aud throw away the old
| to make room for the new. We cannot
20 into the details. 1t would be easy
to do so, and expose the shallow
sophistry that underlies all such reass
oning in political economy and in
morals.
l pass to the question OF the present
movement OF our fair sisters, for l do
not forget, ladies, that am by special
courtesy your orator this afternoon.
What do / think Of your movement
You discover that think il ought to
be sustained by the men. I look upon
it as voice q signal voice of providence
1 calling US to repentance from our
lethargy, our criminal indifference and
neglect on this great subject and woe
to US if we do not heed it. When PLATE
was recklessly drifting into acquiesence
in the Ssviors death it was his
wife, a woman whose moral instincts
cried out as from the horrors OF a dream
See thou, have nothing to do with this
| innocent man. And 80 now 1t is the
| instructive cry OF women, that rises up
warning US to wash our hands OF this
licensed evil. You have seen it and
felt it, as no one else has or can. 1t
has entered your soul as sharp iron
and you have done what it is your
strength and privilege to do. You
have cried for help, cried to man whom
God has made your protector, and to
God who has given you the right to
CRY and to be heard. Petition Is The last
refuge Of the dependent.
Your movement is extraordinary,
and the circumstances that have pro-
voked it are extraordinary. 1t must
not be judged OF as q normal state OF
things. In all ages the logic Of events
has justified and approved of actions
in your sex as heroic, which under Or
binary circumstances would have been
condemned as unwomsnly or wrong. 1t
was the circumstances that made illus
rious a Viltoria Collouna, a Madame
Roland, O Charlotte Corday. 1t is not
ordinarily a womsnly thing to put on
armor and lead the van OF battle, but
when a Joan OF Arc raises the siege Of
Orleans, crowns a king at RHEIMS and
terminates war that had ragged for
lis years. with the liberation OF her
country, la pucellc is not unwomanly but
sublime. Its ordinarily, not womanly
to mould bullets and load rifles, but
when in our infant Frontier life,
;hesnob!e mothers aud daughters
OF that rough time 90 stood by their
husbands and their sons, who shall say
they overstepped the bounds OF woman:
lily delicacy, who in this audience to-
dsy is ashamed that that heroic wo-
mans blood flows In their veins.
Woman is different from man, her
methods of work are different. She is
a creature OF faith, OF enthusiasm, Of
| inspiration. Man, OF reason, Of judg-
ment, of calculations. Let US combine
these great forces in this holy work
and bring to bear upon it all power IN
US, and in our complement, our help-
mate, woman,
Is it right to 60 upon the streets in
prayer? This cannot be answered by
yes or no. / thank God we are not
limited to the letter OF moral rules in
the impulses Of our Christian work. !
said that woman is a being OF faith, Of
enthusia II, of inspiration, and in this
case, it is emphatically true, that what
soever is not oil faith is sin. Let your