The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13

our Queen, Maria Theresa, has been interpreted
to represent an idea in their minds to suit the
mind of the interpreter woman rights
speakers have made them an acknowledgment
on the part of those most masculine men
that here was 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 pro re@e n2stro"
rather than pro regina nostra.' Chvd.rous
knight Grants of our day make this express
sion to Indicate the most refined and splendid
chvalry in those Hungarian mobiles as If they
had said to this threatened and trembling
mother clasping the future King in her arms:
'NeVer mind, now, you shall be just as much
sovereign as if you were King yourself. We
will die TO make it so: pro rege nostro.'
Now, Imake this expression 10 mean neither
of these things. / believe that these strong
and straightforward warriors roared out these
words as the simplest usage to express their
most instant and impu!sve expression for all
that men as patriots should die for believe
that this crowned mother stood to them as the
representative of their nationality, their
rights. their honor, summing up in their per-
son, as did the ruling sovereign of those days,
their country and their countrys cause. They
formulated in.their expression 'rege nostro,"
the sentiment which Louis XIV. taught in the
words: "L 'Etat cest moi" They proved
this, for they fought, and many of them did
die; and men do not deliberately die for
beautiful, weeping woman, though they love
to swear to that effect sometimes, unless there
be some worthier object to be gained by their
sef-devotion But whether my idea of this
be fanciful or not, whether it be calm and log
ical, whether it be good criticism, L do not
afiirm-Dr. Crosby will know; but l dare
affirm that the American mother, who to-day,
being pressed on every side by the aggression
of King Alcohol, confronts American men,
the infant in her arms her only scepter, the
motherhood on her brow her only crown,
and cries to them for the protection of
her kingdom, the home, carries in her cry an
argument. And l dare affirm-for. thank
God! it is a spectacle which all may witness
that stalwart warriors, pulling from their
scabbardS truSty swords admit that cry to be
an argument by their answering shout: I'VE
will fight for our King" For we all have a
King, even doctors. There is a majesty of
right, royalty of truth, which in manifold
forms claims our allegiance and argues its
claim. God sees in the fearful cry of the
bruised and baff1ed mother, sister, wife, His
own argument for the utter extinction of in
toXicating beverages-the suppression, root
and branch, of the liquor traffic. And i'll that
| cry He makes His argument to men.
A Chancellor's philosophy, grasping in its
mighty sapience cults and sciences which we
| poor women can not even name, has as yet
! failed to apprehend that chemistry of Heaven
| which distils from a Christian mothers tear
the first drop of that mighty gathering storm
| whose full and final outbreak shall sweep
| cere or insincere, bulwark the liquor traffic.
And the children of Israel sighed by reason
| of bondage, and their cry came up unto God:
| and God heard their grooming, and cd re-
| membered His covenant; and God looked
! upon the children of Israel and had respect
unto them. ELIZABETH CLEVELAND.