The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-24


continue their meetings and their Visitings,
and al though they have. not succeeded in eff
fectually closing any other saloons than the
one mentioned last week, yet they have Sc
cured pledges from number to sell only ac-
cording to Law. They are usually well receiv-
less courtesy, though occasionally there is one
where they are scoffed at and insulted. Their
nightly meetings are well attended, Orchards
Hall being usually filed to oTerAowing, and
many having to 60 away unable to obtain ad-
mission. The bands who do the visiting have
varied in numbers from 80 to lOS, and the in
terest manifested so far seems unremitted.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
The meeting at Orchards Hall was unusu-
ally crowded and the enthusiasm of the ladies
was great indeed. Speeches were made, hymns
sung and prayers offered, and everything was
proceeding harmoniouslY, when Mr.. Momony'
an early resident of Fremont, but more re-
Gently from Port Clinton, and who keep sa-
loon on Croghan street, arose and referring
to a temperance organization of which Mr..
MeCulloch had spoken remarked that he had
been member Of the same, but when he
went to the Mexican war had got in the habit
of drinking. Had sold liquor a great many
years and did not think he was doing any
more harm than druggists. Thought the
present movement all wrong. Should have
commenced work on the distilleries and stop
ped the manufacture of liquor, then they
could not get it to sell. Felt that he was do
ing legitimate business.
When he ceased speaking several ladies in
quired why, if he was doing a legitimate
business, he kept screen behind which he
did that business Mr.. Momony replied it was
to hide from view those men who encouraged |
this movement, and who yet came in at his |
back door to get their drinks. "Tho are theyf" |
"Wbo are they?" was asked by a number, and |
one lady moved that committee be appointed |
to request the saloon keepers to remove their
screens. Mr.. MomOny expressed delicacy
about giving names-he preferred not to, &C.,
&c.
MUCK more was said, and we would like to
give a full report, but our space forbids.
We will only say in regard to Mr.. Momony's
charge that men who are encouraging this
90 in at his back door to get drinks,
that it is of piece with other ISLANDERS retail
ed about the movement and the ladies'. c,
that the visiting band get $500 per day each,
and those who stay in the hall and pray get
81. 80 each-base falsehoods manufactured of
whole cloth. If there are any men playing
this double game, Mr.. Momony, for the sake of
the business he is engaged in, and which he
calls legitimate, should expose them for the
sake Of public which he claims these men
are deceiving and misleading, he should un-
mask the hypocrites. If, as Mr.. Momony as
serted, there are such men, and they 60 to his /
saloon to drink, he could not strike more |
deadly blow at the crusade than to expose |
them to the public gaze, that their insincerity, |
dishonesty, dupicity, and double-dealng |
might be made manifest. Bring them to the
light if there are such, that their cloak of hy- |
pOcricy may be stripped from them and they |
may stand before the community in all the |
hideous depravity of their moral de-
formity. Do this, Mr.. Momony and
you will confer favor upon the commu-
nifty You have taken upon you the onus of
making this charge in public meeting, and
you must come to the front and sustain your
charge or stand confessed before this same
community as a vilifer of other mems charact-
ers-a SANDER of the meanest kind, who when
called to face the music skulks away behind a
profession of delicacy. Deticacy would prompt
to refrain from making charge which casts
suspicion. Out with the names, Mr.. Momony.