The Worthington advance., 1876-08-10
ADDRESS or MRS. J. G. OGLE


ADDRESS or MRS. J. G. 0GLE
At THE UNION TEMPERANCE MEET.
.... NO. 81. SuND5 81, Sfsn&1na' 1s4s: 3 JULY =.
It's With much rehcta6ce attempt
to speak1ven for a Very short time tA
y0ussto-l night. Owing to- my hnrrie
flfeland distracted attention. .tfiavihl
little leisure for preparation, what Isay
will be desultOry; and were it not that
several have asked my position, and did
l not believe it was woman's duty to
take a more positive and emphatic
stand on this question, would not haye
consented to do so. ----------~~,----.,~-~-- So
Ihave not attended any of your tenn
perance meetings, hence some have
opined was uninterested. am deeply
and earnestly interested in it, and, per-
haps, there is no question WlIicll Should
so much interest the women of Ameri-
ca as this very topic, tliat which per-
tains to her most vital interest and
happiness. so: re@s,, 49,. :,
l had supposed until very recently
that the effort to maintain this tenn
perance community had been an easy
and tranquil one, sailing, as it were, on
calm and placid sea, but to my sur
prise learned that here, as elsewhere, it
had to be cOmbatted, and that intem-
perance, that hydra headed, Unsuitable
fiend was on the alert, and ready to
make its onslaught. Where does it not
attempt to make an inroad? &c..
When l first learned of the project
to found Colony on strictly temper
ance basis, and that a thousand certifi-
Gates had been issued to those who
were sworn to maintain it as. such, to
me it was q grand philanthropy, real
there would be an absence of degrada-
tion, of wretchedness, misery, vice and
all the ills of life that follow in the
train of intemperance; and my: prayer
was, may God preserve it; and 50 we'll
has the enterprise succeeded that in
conversation with one only q few weeks
since who has travelled extensively in
in all parts Of the United States and
South America, and who is retained in
one Of our principal cities as reporter,
one upon whose judgment and observa-
tion we can rely, and who, perhaps,
eXcels any one to whom have listened
in his powers of delineatlon both of
scenery and character, after expatiating
on the beauty of different noted places,
the salubrity of climate, the prolific
fruits, the social and.hospitable features
OF the various places i'll which he had
sojourned, asserted that in all his tray
els he had not seen or known such Il
place as the National Colony, such /,
sense of perfect security and such an
absence OF vice OF every description.
He descanted at length upon New
Mexico and many places Of which we
have heard so much, where there is all
that can ravish and delight the ear and
eye, yet, owing to the condition of soci-
ETY., it was unsafe to travel unarmed,
and one felt his life was not his own.
It arrested my attention fOrciLly, and
led me to query, to what shall we at
tribute our condition Of affairs? At
the risk Of disturbing my clerical breth-
rem, claim it is not owing to the great
spirituality OF the churches there is.
in a measure, dearth Of spirituality.
Nor is it to the boosted morality of tile
people, but, believe. to the temperance
basis on which the Colony is founded.
It IS ever the handmade to virtue and
religion, and if such has been and is
the result Of the project, it behOoves
all not to relax their diligence, but to
be constantly On the watch tower.
Let us not cry peace, peace, when there
is no peace, nor rest Oh fancied security.
| Appetite had bound in it's fetters
many strong ones in our midst, and
here they have found a haven; let us,
in the name of humanity, maintain the
community as such. Let us, however,
maintain it nationally. Moral sllasion
to those who are unable to control or
master their appetite, but legal coer-
cion to those who sell. Legal coercion
to those auho sell. My experience and
observation prove thtt, is the only way
effectually to reach them. remember
during the noted crusade i'll Ohio, Of
travelling from. the Western Reserve to
Pennsylvania, by way of Cleveland and
Alliance, and remaining at different
stations on the route, in order to learn
Of the work and results Of those who
were engaged in the effort to overthrow
the power and dominion OF the fell
destroyer listened to prayers and APP
peals whose pathos and eloquence,
whose power and feeling were beyond
human effort. God gave it. 1t was an
inspiration from the Deity. Their
work was the same throughout the
State. They met day after day, urged,
protested, implored and depicted the
certain ruin, moral, physical and intel
lectual, temporal and eternal; yet those
in human form jeered, ridiculed, and,
in many cases, grossly insulted those
whom all should regard us the true
mothers of our land, for claim those
are our true mothers, who have forti-
tude, intelligence and philanthropy to
battle for tile common good, whether
in the sanctity and retirement of home,
by precept and influence, or i'll the busy
li;lunts' of men-not those devoted at
the shrine OF fashion, nor those who
while away the time in frivolous gossip,
oDlivlOus to the good which might be
accomplished around them. God make
rs q nation Of true mothers! .,:
| How, then, / appeal, can you reach
such men? Only legally. Legal coer-
cion, then, to those who nuke our
drunkards. If there is class of hu-
manity that deserves censure and Op-
pr0bium, it is the liquor vender. 1t IS
the most degrading and selfish, the
most baleful of all yocatlons, and des-
titute OF all those finer attributes that
constitute manhood. Indeed, l do not
believe it to he possible for |. man of
conscience, Of moral integrity, and,
above all, OF Christian principle, to en-
gage III such a business; to dispense
that which he is conscious will produce
misery, suffering and wretcledness.
Slowly numbering, for time and eter-
nifty, TO accomplish their own aggrand-
izelnent, they are meanwhile de:.uened
to every sensibility. II you had visit.
| ed as have done. the aDOdeS of bow