Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-01-11
ANOTHER SIDE OF THE CRUSADE
Some Further Notes OH this Notable
Movement

movement
To the Editor OF the Free Press and Times;
There is another side to the womans cru
SADIE In Ohio than that which the incidents
narrated in my letter Of Monday last show.
This other shows that if the women and
workers were cnthuscd in their work they
were deliberate in considering the necessity
for it and calm and cool in planning and un-
dertakiug it. We have in fact learned of no
campaigns, General Grants, or others, skilled
like him, more deliberately planned and
resolutcly undertaken than were many in
this crusade movement that SO swept over
Ohio and into the states adjacent. This
would clearly appear were | to detail the
facts In the case at llillsborough, Highland
county, where the movement began Dec
rs, 1873. Here was campaign planned,
forces enlisted, leaders and commanders ap-
pointed and all human things necessary pro.
vidcd. So in London IN Madison county
of which wrote in Mondays letter, 50 also
of New Richmond, Clermont county where
l was several times and spent several days,
also Greenfield in Darkc county and many
other places in which observed the worl;
and gathered up the facts. To tell one is
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then of Oxford in Butter county.
Oxford was then town of about 1000 in.
habitan!s near the center of Butter county
on the western side of the State about mid
way north and south. 1t was the scat Of
OF university, several popular schools and
akind of intellectual and educational center
for that part of the State. 1t was noted fol
It's intelligence, enterprise and thrift. Bu
1t was, like many other places in central anC
sou h western Ohio, cursed by
large local liquor traffic. damag.
ing the educational advantages de-
flaming aud degrading the place a score
OF lq or shops were then doing their work
OF death. Report said that 200 students
there had become addicted 10 strong drink
AT any la'c the destruction of strong drink
was opea ID apparent to all. What should
be q ne y meeting was called to consdc
what ought aud what could he done. Thi
resulted in, 1st, the circulation of "Citizens
Pledge" the common total abstinence pledge
oOth to pledge as many as possible to to,a
abstinence aud ascertain the sentiments o
the community, 81. The property holders
pledge, that the holders of real estate would
not sell or rent to he used for liquor traffic
Sd. The druggists, physicians and lawyers
pledges, pledging druggists to sell only foi
strictly medical purposes, and on the certif
n ~ VI phys'cIau' rhY sic'ahs 70 prescribe
in ouIy Ill c"ses ot necessity ant
i ia" 80 nut W uciehl the lquo
I,i, pul Sl,c Tlcir influence against II
n .,. "a Woulans league was formed tt
r mfrn, nos loa week or month, pnt uatl
icno'ii was securcu' ON. mass meeting
was neA. caueu 10 u1lly anu cmoody IN
s ,Lia ,n. aleauy calleu OUT roilo"lnl
t,i9, p!cusc Wos presented 10 all me llquo
u ,naeia " ~ quut uGu c!ose 'he'r unlawiu
elaliic' iney refusing, otGer measures were
euCr.eu upon, Two Puollc dallY meetings
nIoi ulnE anu evening lor prayer ana consul
ta, ".le otsuh auu 'he woman Leagu
r nlousut 10 more uc,lvG work Inc leagu
n iusleu tnG leSponsllliIy OF recommending
"G,' tMecullnG measures 10 make 1t mos
.in Nv " 'ic president ana secretary. Q
tnc iea.ur. Ioi'oWlnE 'heir order, prayln
ua'''s "e'c seal gu. 10 Work from haIt-pas
sen d. H. W nNc T. ~; each oand havn
al appo'nteu ie"'er ana chorlster' lhre
q. iour pauuT were sent out at th
"a nc .inie; Esca Que was relieve
ln we iIa'''I VI tne Gay. BESIDES lheIr o,il