The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-03-08
w. C. I. U. COLUMN.
The Women of Lathrop Town.


OF course you all have heard or read.
About the women OF Marblehead!
How ole Floyd Errlcson, fur s ard hart,
They tarred and feathered and rode in cart,
But have you heard of the women of Lathrop
town?
How they sent the whiskey pouring down
Through the cutters and sewers of the town.
One hundred strong, in broad midday,
They boldly marched upon their way,
Each armed with hammer, axe, or broom
Until they reached the big wareroom,
Where countless treasures of rum and gin,
Were safely stored tn e walls within
The big barred doors. soon down they beat,
Hogsheads and barrels dragged into the street,
And soon their contents went roaring down
The cutters. Hurra for the women of I,athrop
town.
May their spirit grow and still increase
For after come calm and peace.
In this topsy-turvy world of strife
Upside DOM sometimes doth seem the wool of
life;-
But VIC find in the present as in the past;-
Things right side UP get turned at last.
Twas they doubtless thought OF, when
They put the drink where it puts men,
Down in the gutter, more to rise,
Till the fadeless stars fade from the skies.
Forth from their homes they marched, to meet
This new Goliah in the crowded street
Women's hearts compose the crown on his hide
Gus head,
And his hands, with children's blood, are reeking
red:-
Shall we trembling sit in our homes and pray,
That his dreaded step may not pass our way
Or shall we 90 forth to trample him down
AS did the women of I-athEpp town.
Hurrah hurrah for the wooden of IIathrOp town.
Some one has said LET the men drink il
they want to and let them take the conse
quences." Yes, but do you notice my friend
that it is nearly always the men who do the
drinking and the women and children who
take the consequences.
"Y0u will not object if l say that | am
Democrat. Democracy and drunkenness
are not the Same thing. Do not harbor the
mistaken idea that to favor temperance is
to oppose Democracy Both parties fear to
sntagnnz. the liquor vote. Shut up the
dram shops and you will soon bear no more
talk about the race problem. If this were
done it would soon solve itself. As long as
the licensed groceries are running full blast.
there will he riot and boodshed between
the races. - Senator CoiquHt.
The movement against the saloon gathers
strength as it proceeds. Everywhere
throughout the Union-East, South and
West-the people are rising in rebellion
against the rule of rum. Restrictive legis-
ation IN various forms and constitutional
prohibition are the principal lines along
which the warfare proceeds. During the
| present season the legislatures OF no less
| than twenty one States have been called
upon to consider the drink evil and take
| ton toward its suppression. In nearly every
one of these States something has been done
to check the growth of the saloon and cur
tail its power. High license laws, local OPP
I tion and prohibitory amendments are the
order of the day. Never before in the his
| tory of the TEN perance cause has the feeling
against the liquor traffic been so deep, SO
wide spread, so earnest, SO determined as
| now. That most powerful of agencies, the
press, has at last ARA yed itself against the
traffic; many of the leading journals of the
| country had adopted tone OF bitter hostil-
ity to the grcg shop, and are attacking it
with all the force and ability they have at
com III and.-Nep York Observer.