Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28

Tor publication IN this department must De
addressed.
The Y. NJ. G. Association are holding
Gospel temperance meetings in this part
Of the county at least, two Of them from
Painesvile coming here last Saturday
night and remaining over the Sabbath.
The meeting at the NJ e. church on Sat
urday night was rather thinly attended for
this town, but think those who stayed
away missed a rare treat in the temper
ance chalk-talk on the blackboard by Mr..
Walter Tisdale-as understood the name
Which was well worth going miles to see
and hear. Those who claim that nothing
new can be said upon the subject, had bet
ter attend one Of those meetings and see
for themselves how many phases this same
temperance work has, and see how one
thoroughly imbued with the spirit Of the
Master, can, out Of the treasury, bring
forth things new and old. Mr.. Branch
followed this ohalk-talk with an address
which had the ring OF the true metal, hope
full of the final of the temperance cause.
The article below is from the Advocate
and Guardian OF New York, 1t explains
itself, and reveals a phase OF che work
needed there that we know nothing about
IN Ashtabula county, yet as temperance
workers we know no north, no south, no
east, no west, but wherever intemperance
reveals its blighting work, there we should
seek to apply the remedy, and so far as
lies in our power should prevent evil, as
well as labor for its banishment when fair
ly in our midst.
RESCUE THE PERIsH1NG.
"In the annual report Of our Outdoor
Relief Committee we find the following
statement and appeal, which deserves
special notice:
"There is a class of women constantly
applying for advice and help for whom our
hearts ache. They are tied to intemperate
husbands, ana know not how to get away
from them. Many Of them have families
Of children and are working far beyond
their strength to feed them, and rather
than have any disturbance in the crowded
tenement which they call home, also feed
these brutal specimens Of humanity.
What is to be done? Is there no redress2
If one-tenth Of the time and money wasted
in partizan legislation were employed in
making wholesome laws to compel these
wretched bummers TO work for the sup
port of the helpless ones who belong TO
them, what a change would be wrought in
the face Of society. Our soul burns with
Indignation day by day as we witness the
ruin brought 10 many households for want
OF such laws, or even for lack Of the en-
forcement Of such as already exist Many
a mother would gladly lie down and die
were it not for her little ones. No won
der ambition is gone, hope almost depart
ed. Oh il the doors OF all these sad
homes could be opened and the thousands
of poor, broken hearted, half-starved
wives and mothers brought out before the
eyes Of the men who make our laws, it
Z at ina ha
Oh, that the women Of our land would
arise, and give no rest to our legislators
until some measures are adopted to re-
Ieve these oppressed ones. II men must
be licensed to sell poison, and entlce men
to drink IT,, we would beg that they alone
may suffer, and not be allowed TO drag
down the innocent. We claim that these
poor women should have the repose that
God and nature designed for them, and
not be obliged to spend whole nights in
quieting the drunken orgies OF the demons
who call themselves husbands. 1t is high
time the community we're aroused TO their
duty in this matter, when every day help
less women and innocent children are car
ried to the grave In consequence Of their
neglect and cruelty.
In addition to this strong appeal we
would draw attention to the appalling rec
the year 1879 in which the mortality Of
children under one year Of age is stated,
amounting to a totaLof 1871. Picture i'll
Over seven thousand little collins ranged
side by side, piled one upon another! And
this only Of children under a year old.
Then add the deaths between one and ten.
What an aggregated And do we consider
that the majority OF these are undoubted-
ly sacrificed to this Moloch Of ours.
Through the habtual lntoxication Of their
parents many have no hold on life; and
multitudes that might live are murdered
by neglect, starvation, fright, abuse and
accident, all caused by drink.
We read with horror Of the murder Of
the two hundred innooents Of Bethlehem
by the cruel Herod; but greater than
Herod is here, right in our very midst,
staying not by the hundreds, but by
thousands and tens OF thousands, and men
and women calling themselves Christians
look on the awful holocaust with indiifer-
ence.
And when we add TO this wholesale mum.
ber OF children the slain wives, mothers
and,sisters, what a narrowing picture Is
presented Oh, why is not something donC
TO stya this tide of deathP