The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-04-29
THE WOMEN'S CRUSADE
A Word of Counsel from MADAME
llyaSlnthe 10y son.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND.
March %, 1874.

Geneva, SWITZERLAND.
March %, 1874.
To the Editor OF the New York Hernld:
VIII you permit me to use the col
umns of your journal to give a word
of appreciation, counsel, and encour
agemcnt to the women of America who
have enlisted in the temperance war.
There is no doubt that lntemperance
is the greatest evil in our beloved Re-
public, and destroys what is dearer
than government, wealth, education,
or liberty-the happiness. prosperity,
the lives and souls OF her people. 1t
is enough to fill the mind of every
thinking person, surely all who love
their fellow men ol. their eountiy,wIth
alarm at the thought that an entire
army of American youth go trooping
into perdltion every year by the use OF
hearths are made desolatc to-day
throughout the land by drink than by
our late war, for every wife who lost
her husband, and every mother who
lost her son in that struggle for ma
tional life is consoled in her loss and
proud in her grief; but the wife or
mother who follows her dead ones to
the drunkard' s grave, or sits with the
ghout by the fireside, suffers aud wceps
in shame which no mourning veil or
vesiment can hide.
Dear sisters, it is hard but holy
war you have inaugurated; may it end
in victeryl If you cannot do all the
good you would, remember you will
be blessed il some are saved. The
evil is so deep that it will take a gen
Grafton. at least, to cure it. But you
must succeed, for your cause is God S
justice and your arms divine; only let
your prayers be INTEL lligent-executivc
for prayer alone will not sufice-it
must be followed by good works.
Search out the cause of your sorrow,
which it not alone with the seller of
Intoxicating drinks; but with the appe
tite that demands it.
The great American malady is the
malady of the stomach. Conscientious
eutious people become drinkers. Bear
in mind this fact, that the appetite for
drink is not necessarily made by
drinking, but in nine cases out of ten
it is created and cultured at your ia
bles-in your childrep-by the use of
cotfce, tea, pepper, pickles, mustard,
spices, too much salt, hot bread, and
pastry, raw meat and grease, and,
atovc hall, by the use of tobacco. The
cry of depraved appetite. an infiam-
ed stomach, is always for something
stronger. The use of soup. milk, and
salad, prepared with good oil, sLoald
be cultivated In short. reform your
tables if you would reform your drunk
ards and save your sons. Cure the
cause, and TIE effect Will be but ma
tural Stop the demand by correcting
appetite, and stop the supply by pre-
venting manufacture. Any legislator
who does not see and acknowledge
that the use of poisonous drinks, as in
England and America, is public evil.
. corruption of society. and public
danger, that should be dealt with by
law. is unworthy Of the place that the
intelligent people of America give him
Instead Of rye or whisky raise grapes.
that pure native wine may be -uset
when needed Distilleries re slaugh
ter houses Of men, and should be deal
with as such, and money gained fror,
selling liquor is blood money, an'
should never touch the palm Of al
honest mani
Be not dismayed by insult nor dis
eouraged by defeat: but. with charit
for the cull rit and pity for the victim
go on, pray on, work on. God wi.
bless you. Yours. most sincerely,
ErtrI IyrT TnvSoD