Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-06
HOW KNIVES AND MAD DOGS

/ Are Just alike we cannot understand why
/ a mad dog should not be killed. We can
/ not help crying IL only one to every one
! thousand human beings is let loose IN ouI
! streets. These things are too high for US
/ We cannot find them out. 1t is not our
/ blame. 1t is our nature, and we dare to say
/ that through the pure and unsophistiCated
nature of the human mother, Gods argu-
ment against any use of alcohol, except az
I q 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, fed trembling
into Hungary, and, with her infant in her
arms and her royal crown upon her head,
appealed for the protection OF her kingdom,
to her loyal subjects there, those stalwart
Hungarian mobiles rose in o mass, and, lay
ing their right hands upon the swords at
their sides, sWore in shout whose heroic
ring echoed down the years Moriamur
pro rege nostro, Maria Theresa ;"
And how they did die all the world
knows. 1t is not for rhetorical effect still
less for the excitaion OF the = tenderest
sympathy" that I revert to this we'll
known historical incident. It is that I may
call attention to the argument IN the cry
of these mentor suppose mans cry
may be counted as an argument | wish
to beg you to notice those words. rege nos
tro. That expression of those Hungarian
nObles-our King Maria Theresa, instead
Of our Queen, Maria Theresa-has been
interpreted to represent an idea in their
minds to suit the mind Of the interpreter
Womans rights speakers have made
them an acknowledgment on the part of
those most masculine men that here was
a woman that was more of a man than
any one Of them, or all together; i. e.,
more able TO command them by having
more that was kingly in her. Hence pro
rege nostro, rather than pro regina nosTo.
cHIvALRoUs KNIGHT ERRAETs
Of our day make this expression to indi-
cate the most refined and splendid chivalry
in those Hungarian mobiles, as if they had
said to this threatened and trembling
mother, clasping this future King in her
arms: Never mind now. You shall be
inst as much a sovereign as if you were
King yourself We Will die to make it so :;
pro rege nostro."
Now, make this expression to mean
neither of these things. l believe that these
strong and straightforward warriors roared
out these words ss the simplest usage to
express their most instant and impulsive
expression for all that men as
patriots should die for / believe that this
resentative of their nationality, their rights,
their honor-summing up in her person, as
did the ruling sovereign of those days, their
country and their country's cause. They
formulated in their expression rege nostro,
the sentiment which Louis XIV. taught in
the words l. e'at, c'est moi. They proved
this, for they fought and many ofthem did
die; and men do not deliberately die for
beautiful loving woman, though they love
to swear to that effect sometimes unless
there be some worthier object to be gained
by their self-devotion. But whether my
idea of this be fanciful or not, whether it
be calm and logical, whether it be good
criticism, l dare not affirm. DR.. Crosby
will know; but 1 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 protection Of her kingdom, the home,
carries in her cry an argument, and dare