The Red Cloud chief., 1885-06-19
CLEVELAND.

What She Has to Say Concerning the Liq-
NOR T~rsnlc-ier Reply To Dr. Crosby On
h Question IF Total Abstinence.
The New York Sun Of a recent date
publish d a communicate on from Miss
Elizabeth Cleveland. sister of President
Cleveland. in reply to Rev. DIR. Howard
Crosby, on the question of total abs.i-
Miss Cleveland commences by
quoting the following from DR.. Crosby:
- do not wonder that excellent women.
whose husbands or sons have become sots.
should advocate total absts hence for every
one. We have heard IA good woman whose
boy had cut his finger nearly of with n knife
wish That thcro were no knives N the world.
aud II sire could have her way She would have
Them all destroyed forthwith. II is natural,
and u womsn's cry on such m occasion ex-
cites our tcndcrest sympathy. nut who will
count that an
Miss Cleveland then says:
The 0GSe paragraph from "A Calm View of
Tr. Nelson" by Rev. Howard Crosby. u. d.. in
the Ira, gc'ist of March II, has most pertinn-
c'1usfy haunted me ever s nee the Ierusal
of this article last evening. That this
above any other paragraph should
most impress itself upon the impress
S.blc miEd of one emotional woman
creature IN general. will surprise no man. IL
If. ~ the doctor says. natural: and I am GER
1iin fi.at mutt tudcs OF women Scsi,ies myself
IRE to-day smart ny under these calm words.
againsb tho Imputation of which every fiber OF
the woman = nature rises up In revolt.
The male animal is very fierce. the female
NncOmbaiive. But the same science which
t.iis Us this tells us al-o that the mother.
among all beasts. i'm defense of her ,oung. is
the ftersest OF all living creatures. The lion
css. under ord nary circumstances. ~ quite
easy Of conquest, but the lioness robbed of
her whelps mo- man or beast cares to- cncount-
~ IlAl. 49,. .t.a,a xr e.. T.r~.. .~.a,.--
arc undoubtedl, natural" !hc, belong. as
Bishop butler said of certain SO called super
natural Phenomena. To the natural of which
there are tive causes"-thc one Ordinar, y, the
other not supernatural. stiIl less sulerhuman.
but eNtTaord nary. You see. Mrs. Foster.
that this mad dog YOU talk about II 10 be
put, by a cain view Of the thing as II Is. into
the same category with cutlery. You have no
more real right 10 cry" about this unloOSed
beast because IL may meet your children on
their way TO school and may bite one or two
Of them than you have to cry cut against the
manufacture and sale of knives because your
boy cut himself once; The perfectly clear
thing is. IT you only had head enough Ia see
lt, that the manufacture tby fermentation.
not distllaiionl of the mad dog tnOs very mad.
% "n'y some d"@ m m"a th G.s roo % k,nI on t smo . tsI, S "nc
thousand people ought To be protected By law
from the bullets al hydrophohia- haters.
of snmea in facf several. onsss of h.drophob's
among us h0s come TO he called by unthink-
ing people u mad dog" is proved by concur
shin. soanS Philosophy. and. above all I'n right.
iy-rcad Scripture, to be u good creature Of
God. The calIaly Christian thing for YOU to
down ..crying." hut to stay ut nome aud teach
your little boys and your big boys how 4 little
mad dogs hite is good for them. hut Z big
mad dog . b e. Is very bad for thcsn.
You 0ugbt-if you would only de 1he thing
you ought INSTEAD of the thing you ike-to
mix up q little wine and water for Your little
boys at dinner. so that they may carly learn
the dife1cnce between true Temperance and
this miserable parody on true Temperance
called total abstinence" and may he pre-
enness when they shall be grown up. II Is
simply Siliy-ye>, while We feel the onderest
sympathy for your .sorrow. we must say tit
rs silly for y0N to refuse to see that knives
and mad dOgs are equally dangerous. 1t is as
ridiculous for YOU IA demand that all alcohol
shall DO banished from the beverages of E,Ap-
kind. because the fiery liquor is burning cut
che manhood tin more ways than by its con-
sumption, OF tin, world. ms IL would be for
you TO demand that all the wells should be
!. dried UP because men lose their lives by
owning
Alcohol and water ere cxactlv a~naloeous, Il
you could but see il. you foolish woman!
Your cry ID nc II were better yOu
should stop your crying.
DIR. Crosby. we can not-try we ever -
hsrd-we can NOT defy or deny nature. God
derstand how kni' Is and mad dogs are just
alike: We can ncf understand why = mad dog
g sn0 0u, not De De a,l ses " We can NOT a. ns,p orsins
inRs IL let loose IN Our streets These thinGs
are too high for US: ne can not hnd them out.
We dare to saw hat throuss the pure and an-
sophisticated nature OF the human mother
Gods arRume against any use OF alcohol
except as . medicine ID given To the world to- |
When the young Queen Of Austria. pressed !
on every side By the ruthless oppression Of
Hungary. and. with her infant i'm her arms
and her royal crown npon her head. ap-