St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-28
SHE DOWNS THE PREACHER.

SHE DOWNS THE PREACHER.
Miss Cleveland on Temperance, in
Reply to DR.. Howard Crosby.
The Article characterized by the Sim
cere Belief of the Writer.
NEW YORK, May 27.--The Sun pub
fishes this morning communication from
Miss Elizabeth Cleveland sister Of Presi-
dent Cleveland, in reply to Rev. DR..
Howard Crosby on the question of total
abstinence. Miss Cleveland commences
by quoting the following from Dr..
Crosby: 81 do not wonder. that excellent
women whose husbands and sons have be-
come .sots should advocate total abstinence
for everyone. We have heard Of good
woman whose boy had cut his finger nearly
off with. a knife, wish that there were no
knives in the world, and if she could have
her way she would have them all de-
stroyed forthwith. 1t is natural, and a
wonlan's cry on such an occasion exciteS
our sympathy, but who will count that an
argument" Miss Cleveland then says:
''The above paragraph, from "A Calm View
of DR.. Nelson by the Rev. Howard
Crosby, d. D., in the Evangelist of March
II, has most pertinaciously
HAUNTED ME- ~
ever since the perusal of the article last
evening. That this, above any other para
graph, should most impress itself upon
the impressible 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 I am certain that multi
tudes of women besides myself are to-day
smarting under these ''calm" words,
against the imputation of which every fibre
of the woman nature rises up and revOltS
The. male animal is very fierce. The fe-
male of all genera is comparatively and
in general very uncombative, but the
same science which tells us. this tells us
also that the. mother, among all OF the
beasts, in defense of her young is the
under ordinary circumstances, is
quite easy of conquest; but
the lioness robbed !, of her
whelps no man or beast cares to encounter.
Both of these phases of female nature are
undoubtedly natural. They belong, as
Bishop Butler said .of. certain so-called
SUPERNATURAL PHENOMENA
to the nature, of which there are two courses;
the one ordinary, the other not super
natural and still less superhuman. but
You see, Mrs. Foster.
that this ssMad Dog" you talk about is to
be put by a.calm view of the thing into the
same category with cutlery. You have no
more real right to cry about this unloosened
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 him
self once. How perfectly clear this is,
if you only had head enough to see it, that
the manufacture (by fermenting, not distill-
ing and the mad dog mot very mad but
only some mad) ought to goon, and that one
dog (of this good kind) for every 1000
people ought to be protected by law from
the bullets of hydrOphobia haters.
DR.. Crosby, we cannot, try we ever so
hard, we cannot defy or deny nature. God
has made us crying genius. We cannot
understand how knives and mad dogs are
lust alike. We can't understand why a
mad dog should be killed. We
CANNOT HELP CRYING
if any one, to every 1000 human beings, IS
LET loose on our streets These. things are
too high for us. We can't find them out;
it is not our blame, it is our nature, and
that though we are the pure and unsophisti-
Gated of the human mothers Gods argu-
ments against any use of alcohol except as
medicine, is given to the world to-day.
When the young queen of Austria, pressed
on every 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 on her head, ap-
pealed for the protection of her king
dom to loyal subjects there, those stall
wart Hungarian mobiles rose in mass
and laying their right hands on the sword
at their side, swore ina shout, whose heroic
ring reaches down the years. The Moria-
mur pro rege nostro, Maria Theresa" and
how they did die all the world knows.
There are American mothers who to-day
are being pressed on every side by the ,ag-
gression of King Alcohol, confront Ameri-
can men. the infant in her arms, her only
sceptre, the mother had on her brow, her
only crown, and cries to them for protection
of her kingdom The home carries in her
crv in argument and 1 dare affirm, for
thank God
TITS A SPECTACLE
which all may witness-that stalwart war
riors, pulling from their scabbards their
trusty swords admit the cry to be an argu-
ment by their answering shout: We will
fight for our king For we all have king.
Even doctors say there is majesty OF
right, royalty of truth, which in manifold
forms claims your allegiance and argues its
claim. God sees in the fearful cry OF the
bruised and baffled mother, sister and wife
his own argument for toe utter extinction OF
Intoxicating beverages, and the suppression
root and branch of the liquor
traffic, and in that cry He makes
His argument to men. ChanceilorS s
philosophy, grasping in the mighty sapience
cults and scenes which we poor women
can't even name has as yet failed to appre-
hend that chemistry OF heaven, which
distills from Christian mothers tears
the first drop of that mighty gathering
storm whose full and final outbreak
shall sweep away forever a ref
uges of lies which sincere or in
sincere form the bulwark of the liquor
traffic and the'children Of Israel sighed by
reason of bondage and their cry came up
unto God and God heard their groaning and
God remembered his covenant and God
looked upon the children of Israel and had
respect unto them" Signed, Elizabeth
Cleveland.
studious to a Great Degree.
Chicago Ledger.
s.I've heard them say that Mosby's wife
is a very studiOus woman"
ssWeil. Iguess you'd think so yourself if