The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-16


and cordially with men Of very differ
ent tastes and characters, provided
only there is work in them. Nor has
he allowed mere forms and technicali-
ties to stand in the way of success.
Under his administration the number
OF Temples in Wisconsin, increased in
one year from 100 (the No.>of Kenosha
Temple), to 1872. This would show an
increase Of 52-a glorious work for
one year. How many families have
had their comforts and happiness in
creased? How many hearts have
been made glad by it?
Yet amidst this general success we
must acknowledge that we have ac-
complished but little in the greatest
city in our State-Milwaukee. In this
also, our commercial metropolis is but
a type Of most Of the other great
cities Of the Union. 1t is sad to think
that the temperance reformation has
done SO little for these great cities,
which, with their hundreds of thou
sands Of population, have become such
a mighty power for good or evil in the
Republic. There is good reason to
believe that the forces working in
them for evil predominant. The thous-
ands of mechanics and laborers that
inhabit them have amidst the greed
of speculation found but little chance
to obtain homesteads. But the thous-
ands of gilded saloons, beer halls, and
low doggeries open all hours of the
day, and all days of the week, have
given them abundant chances to
squander their money and demoralize
their characters. And so vast num-
bers of them live from hand to mouth
in rented houses, with nothing laid up
for the future. When hard times
come, and employment and wages can
not be got, with want staring them in
the face, need we wonder that they are
ready to laise the cry Of the commune.
ans engage in any desperate enterprise.
On the contrary, had the securing of
homesteads by men who toll been en-
couraged, had wholesome laws restrict
ing the liquor traffic been passed and
enforced, had the respectable people
pushed on the temperance work
how different might the result
have been. The, great majority of
them might out of the prosper
Gus times that succeeded the war have
acquired homesteads of their own, had
sufficient to beautify and adorn them,
and many Of the more economic had
some resources laid up against the
contingencies of the future. Men who
acquire property by their industry, are
of all men those who take most pride
III it. They soon become conservative
in that they wish for the enforcement
all just and wholesome law. They de-
mand of right that their property shall
be protected, and they are willing that
the same protection shall be extended
to others. Hence we should have a
laW-abiding people, whom no dema-
gogues could mislead into reckless,
revolutionary enterprises.
Life and property must be protected
law and order must be maintained, or
our great Republic will perish. Should
the moral forces Of churches, and all
temperance and other reformatory or
CARNATIONS be SO invigorated that they
shall accomplish the great work, what
a triumph it will be.
But should physical force be requir-
ed and the army called on to do the
work, who knows when and what the
end may be.
The central principle of action in
the Temple Of Honor is faith in God
and man. Faith in God as the friend
and patron Of every good cause. Faith
in man as a moral and responsible
being, and not the slave of circum-
stances In proof of this we point to
many thousands Of poor boys who have
had the evils Of hard poverty SO burn
ed into their souls that they determin-
ed to escape from,it and in the strength
Of that determination of the mind
have overcome neglected education,
want of friends, want of means, and
achieved success. We can point to
reformed men in our Temple who ap-
peared to be the slaves of liquor, all of