The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-05-19


Legations, and charged Mrs, Kicks, who had
n,tigutci the inquiSiton, with base and
unwomonly motives. The discussion pro
and con was animated and cxtended.
Finally decision was reached that would
mo discrcdit to Il Galesbury jury. The
prcpondcrapcc Of evidence was on the side
of their accuscrs, and the reverend man
and his affinity were acquitted Of all wrong
doing.
1t i, said by Il gentleman who claims
to be in possession of the facts that certain
oycr-2calouS temperance people in the
Fourth ward are supplying minors with
money and inducing them to purchase
drinks with it, that the vendors may be re-
ported to the grand jury and indicted. Such
course, we are sure, will not be approved
by the community, and least Of all by those
who have the cause of Temperance sincerely
at heart, II is compromising crime; and
no amount Of punishment inflicted upon
those who violate law in selling liquors to
minors will compensate for the evil done in
making boys an agent to secure such IN
end. The temperance people to win must
rely upon the abstract justice OF their
cause and sound public opinion To sustain
it, They can not afford 10 do a mean act to
accomplish any purpose, however worthy
or desirable it might otherwise he. There
should be nothing done that could he con
,trucd into persecution OF any person en-
gagged in a business recognized and licensed
by the law, of the state and city in which
they live.
For while yesterday the town was
shaken to its very center with anxiety and
fear. The usually amiablc and gentle old
girl who directs the rays of the lcyce lumi-
nary was on the war path, There was fire
in her aged eye and the hot blood of youth
seemed to mount again upon her wrinklcd
chops; every particular hair of her chignon
stood erect, and the awy condition Of her
pul-back indicated the incXtricuble coniu-
sion of her mind. She understood that
gentleman of the city had spoken slight
ingly Of her at the Reform Club room on
Friday night, and TO yindicatc her good
name and fame she sought him out. Not
content with verbal statement of what he
said. she insisted that She must have il
down in "black and whitc"-in writing.
The cause Of all this agitation was the
statement by the gentleman that in Cairo. as
in Rockford, the Democratic papers were
found in the ranks of the friends of
reform, while the Republican papers
Of both places were not. II will oc-
casion surprise to every intelligent person
that the statement Of so plain fact n This
should rifle the old Girl. Our objection 10
it is that it did not 90 far enough. 1t j.
/. fact we presume no reasonable per-
son will dispute that the Democratic papers
as well rs in Cairo and Rock
ford, represent the moral element of their
communities. The ignorance which en-
shrouds The average Radical editor, ;ogrth-
or with his natural aversion to the truth |
render him incapable OF representing pco-
pie who are both intelligent and truthful. |
Consequently this elias, have to turn to
Democratic papers and Democratic editor, |
Tor aid in spreading needed reforms, The
old Girl was all wrong; she should keep !
her gown on. She has been too fast-not |
in Il really bud scnSc-but in her manner of |
attempting TO right fmcicd injury. Cat
nip tea and ycrmitugc-n equal doses and
at the proper timc,-will Sooth her un>trung
system, and we prescribe them.
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