Nebraska advertiser., 1874-03-26
FR05z LINCOLN.
LINCOLN, NEB., March %, III.

some ttiey are auiOlltSu, WLSH tii0.
remain from one to four hours, &C
> cordiDg to the crowd they attract anC
the interest elected by their prayers
: singing and exhortations. But it i!
becoming monotonous, and / doub
not the women engaged in it heartily
|. wish the spring election was over, a:
it is we'll understood that the whole
movement is gotten up to manufac
; ture public sentiment which will con
troll and influence the popular judg'
ment in the choice of city officials
AS yet have observed no noticeable
result of the crusade. and feel salts.
fed that the cause of temperance in
this city has been damaged by it. In
surrounding and placing an embargo
on saloon doors they attract such
crowds as results in forbidding in
gress or egress to and from contiguous
places of business and the consequent
irritation of those whose trade marts
are thus blockaded. Then on one oc-
casion the ladies went around to the
several business houses with petitions
to the proprietors to close their stores,
&C., between 10 and II each day and
attend prayer meeting. This move
Tnent caused O reaction to set in
against the crusaders and merchants
said that while they could look with
complacency and see saloon keepers
annoyed they would not consent to
share a corresponding annoyance.
The women had to abandon this
course of tactics. To my mind the
plan pursued here and elsewhere can
not result in good. Were they to ap-
proach liquor dealers aud their pat
rOns with reason and sing some of the
many fine, stirring temperance songs,
irstecd of besieging them with hymns
having no bearing on the question,
and appealing to them in the name of
Jesus to neither touch nor taste the
msddening bowl, the effect might be
good, but for lot of Methodist wo-
men TO invade Roman Cat t'!oIic's sa-
loon and there sing hymns and quote
scripture, or into the saloon of Ger
man free thinker, who has no faith
in Jesus or his existence, seems to me
to he the height of folly. 1 submit to
any one, not religious fanatic, If |
am not right. If there is potency in |
prayer-aS l believe there is-it is
from that addressed to the ear of the |
Almighty, not constructed into finely |
rounded sentences for the ears of hu-
mans, and that Gods ear cannot be |
secured save from saloons Is not in ac-
cord with my idea of Omnipotence.
David Butler is one of the apostles of
here. With him in the
van and Doc. Holladay
leading the Grange host, surely the
mellenium is near at hand. But
enough of this. L simply submit
these few remarks for the benefit of
any masculine women in Brownville
who may feel disposed to visit saloons
there. | remember one lady visited
5 saloon in your city once, which re-
suited in her breaking the glasses,
1nd Marshal Campbell and one or
.wo others getting up from off their
packs In Main street in a battered
condition. Women will make hustle
wherever they are, and whenever
hey undertake it, but hope none In ,
3roWnviile will so unsex themselves f
IS TO turn crusaders. S
From all article which appeared In :
he Journal Of this city the other day,
nd seemed to be written by authori-
y OF DR.. Converse. | conclude that d
5Fewnviile and Nemaha county are
gain doomed to disappointment r
ouehing the completion of either tho t
J., Ft. K. d p. r. r. or the Trunk a
g. r. Suits of injunction are pend .
1g against the Midland r. r. in Ian -
aster and Seward counties, and the s
rticie alluded to says that unies these II
lits arc withdrawn the company now l'
presenting the Midland will dis W
i've and all contingent interests dis ii
Dive with it. AS these suits aUiW not e
withdrawn the threat is significant u u
inaction. This is hard on Brown ~
llle. Peru and other portions of Ne d
iaha county. but especially severe on M
10 active rail road men of the coun- y
:, those who have espoused every Y
roposition looking to the develop ia
ent OF the county and basing their al
'nfidence on the plighted word of ll' no
'ofessed capitalists risked their rep m
alton for veracity In endorsing their th
putations. No one feels this blow d.
Nemaha more keenly than the u'
ritter, who has labored in season and to
1t OF season, and spent his own mon fu
at various times to secure what CO
emed to be all that was necessary G(
insure success, and 1 know that | "a
duced many to vote railroad aid up by
unconditional assurances that the gil
] asked for would result in the tel
Hiding of road through our limits. sh
nave been deceived, but never an
lowlngly deceived others, and l feel fol
as l write, being impressed with WI
conviction that so far as railroads 80, ,ne
concerned Nemaha county will ly,
out In the cold and wet apothar pre-
ar. Oh, for the good old days of ne ne
lanias and Sapphira. ths
Iore anon. q sin
8 ~ - on
i any one wishes TO libel, defame tro
4 scandalize Deighbor. that most WI