The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
MISS CLEVELAND.

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MISS CLEVELAND.
What She Has to Say Concerning the Lip
uor Traffic-Her Reply to DIR. Crosby on
the Question OF Total Abstinence.
The New York San of recent date
published communication from Miss
Elizabeth Cleveland, sister of President
Cleveland, in reply to Rev. DR.. Howard
Crosby, on the question of total absti-
nence. Miss Cleveland commences by
quoting the following from DR.. Crosby:
81 do not wonder that excellent women,
whose husbands or sons have become sots,
should advocate total abstinence for every
one. We have heard a good woman whose
boy had cut his finger nearly off with knife
WISH that there were no knives in the world,
and if she could have her way she would have
them all destroyed forthwith. 1t is natural,
and woman's Cry on such an occasion ex-
cites our tenderest sympathy. But who will
count that an argumentY
Miss Cleveland then SAYS:
The above paragraph from "a Calm View of
DR.. Nelson, by Rev. Howard Crosby, ID. D., in
the Evangelist of March II, has most pertina-
ciously haunted me ever since the perusal
above any other paragraph should
most impress itself upon the impress
sible mind of one emotional woman
in particular, or of woman as an emotional
creature in general, will surprise no man. 1t
is, as the doctor says, natural; and am GER
tain that multitudeS of women besides myself
are to-day Smart!ng under these calm words,
against the imputation of which every fiber of
the Woman'S nature rises up in revolt.
The male animal is very fierce; the female
OF ali genera is comparatively and in general
uncombative. But the same science which
tells us this tells us also that the mother
among beasts 0afpnGn n ic
the fercest of all Lying creatures. The lion
eSS, under ordinary circumstances, is quite
easy of conquest, but the lioness robbed of
'her Wnelps no man or beast cares to encount
er. Both these phases of the female nature
are undoubtedly natural They belong as
Bishop Butler said of certain so-called super
natural phenomena, to the natural of which
there are two cause.-The one ordinary, the
other not supernatural still less supefhuman,
but extraordinary. You see, Mrs. Foster.
that this mad dog" you talk about is to be
put, by a calm view of the thing as it is, into
the same category with cutlery. You have no
more real right to "cry" about this Embossed
beast because it may meet your children on
their way to school and may bite one or two
of them than you have to cry out against the
manufacture and sale of knives because your
boy cut himself once The perfectly clear
thing 's, if you only had head enough to see
it, that the manufacture tby fermentation,
not distllat1on) of the mad dog (notvery mad,
only some mad) ought to go on, and that one
mad dog (of this good kind) for every one
from the bullets of hydrophobia-haters.
This calm view of the EVIL" which, because
ofsome, in fact several, cases of hydrOphobia
among us has come to be called by unthink-
ing people mad dog" is proved by concur
rent Testimony OF experience, science, scholar
ship, sound philosophy, and, above all, right
ly-read Scripture, to be a good creature of
God. The calmly Christian thing for you to
do ION such an occasion" is not to go up and
down "crying but TO stay at home and teach
your little boys and your big boys how little
mad dogs bite is good for them, but a big
mad dogs bite is very bad for them.
You ought-if you would only dc the thing
you ought instead of the thing you like-to
mix up little wine and water for your little
boys at dinner, so that they may early learn
the difference between true Temperance and
this miserable parody on true Temperance
callAd 'tOtai abstinence" and may re pre-
pared to make manly protest against drunk
enneSS when they shall be grown an 1t is
simply silly-yes, while we feel the tenderest
sympathy for your sorrow, we must say tit
is silly for you to refuse to see that knives
and mad dogs are equally dangerous. 1t is as
ridiculous for you to demand thAt all alcohol
shall be banished from the beverages of man
kind, because the fiery liquor is b2rning out
the manhood (in more ways than by its con-
SUMPTION of the world. as it wCdld be for
you to demand that all the wcAs should be
dried up because men lose their lives by
drowning.
Alcohol and water are exactly analogous, if
you could but see it, you foolish woman.
Your cry is no argument; itwere better you
should stop your crying.
DIR. Crosby, we can notify we ever so
hard--We can not defy or deny nature. God
has made us crying genus. We can not I'M
derstand how knives and mad dogs are just
alike; we can not undA stand why mad dog
should not be killed. Are can not help crying
if only one to every one thousand human be-
ings is let loose in our streets. These things
are too high for us; we can not find them out.
1t is not our blame. 1t is our nature. And
we dare to say that through the pure and un-
sophisticated nature OF the human mother
Gods argument against any use. of alcohol
except as medicine is given to the world to-
day.
When the young Queen Of Austria, pressed
on avery side by the ruthless oppression of
the great Prussian King, fled trembling into
Hungary, and with her infant in her arms
and her royal crown upon her head, APP
pealed for the protection Of her kingdom
to her loyal subjects there, those stalwart
Hungarian mobiles rose in a mass, and
laying their right hands upon the
heroic ring echoes down the years: "Moriamur
pro rege nostro, Maria Thercsa!" and
how they did die all the worla knows. 1t
is ndt for rhetorical effect, still less for the ex
citation of the ''tenderest sympathy. that
revert to this well known historical inc dent.
1t is that may call attention TO the argument
in the cry of those mentor suppose mans
"cry" may be counted as an argument. i
wish to beg you to notice these words "rege
nostro.' That expression OF those Hungarian
nobIes our King. Maria Theresa, instead of
our Queen, Maria Theresa has been interpreted
to represent an idea in their IN nds TO suit the
mind of the interpreter. "Womans rights"
speakers have made them an Acknowledgement
on the part of those most masculine men
that here was a woman who was more man
than any one of them, or all together; more
able to command them by having more that
was kingly in her. Hence 'spro rege nostro''
rather than PRO regina nostra' Cl1ivalrous
knight Grants of our day make this express
sion to indicate the most refined and splendid
chivalry in those Hungarian mobiles as If they
had said to this threatened and tremDlng
mother, clasping the future King in her arms:
Never mind. now, you shall be Just as much
sovereign as II you were King yourself We
will die to make itso: pro rege Dostro.
Now, make this express. on TO mean neither
of these things. / believe that these strong
and straightforward warriors roare1 out these
words as the simplest usage TO express their
most instant and impu!sye eX preston for all
that men as patriots should die for. believe
representative of Their national ty, their
rights, their honor, summing up IN taeir per
son, as did the ruling sovereign OF those days,
their country and their country cause. They
formulated ntheir expression, 'rege nostro.
the sentiment which Louis XIV. taught IN the
words: 81 'Etat c'est moi They proved
this for they fought, and many of them did
die: and men do not deliberately die for a
beautiful, weeping woman, though they love
be some worthier object to be gained by their
self-devotion. But whether nay idea of this
be fanciful or not, whether it be calm and log
fcal whether IL be good criticism. | do not
aflrm-Dr. Crosby VIII know; but / dare
affirm that the American mother, who to day,
being pressed on every side BY the aggression
s3 King Alcohol, eonfronts American men,