The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-08-05
W. g. q. u. Column.
The Difference Between House
Keeping and Home Making.

home, do not admit the drunkard.
Where he lives is hell"
But somebody says, "this is not true,
for We do pity these wretched women,
and we would help them if We could"
Well then how have you shown your
pity? What good fruit has it brought
forth? Man you will remember is to
be rewarded according to his works.
Down in Chilli two sailors of the
United States were killed in riot that
commenced in a drinking saloon. The
effort has been made to PROVE that
these men we're not intoxicated, but
they have not attempted to clear away
the fact that the riot begun in tavern.
And what do men coDgregate in such
places for? The great plying heart Of
the country was stirred to its depth,
the dignity of the nation was in peril.
Chill must apologize, Chill must be
taught to know that our men are not to
be slaughtered on her shores, il we have
to kill several thousand more men and
use up millions OF the taxpayers money
in teaching her the lesson. And so
$4,000 was spent in telegraphing be-
tween the two countries, and s., 900, 900
it is estimated in preparation for war,
all of which may be set down as the
out growth of a dram shop in Chill and
who pays the bill?
More wives are murdered in cold
blood every day by hands nerved to the
CHASTITY deed by the same maddening
bowl that melted the riot in Chill and
nobody grows excited about it; nobody
is asked to apologize; the powers that
be, do not have bad spell Of pity on
their accounts; women escape pity as
the boy escaped the measles, because
there is not enough to go around news
papers are not filled with rumors of
war because few women are daily
slain, their is nothing in that to hurt
the Governments dignity; and it goes
right on in the even tenor of its ways,
accepting revenues, and paying salaries
to men from the price of womeu's
blood.
When the floods swept over Johns
town destroying the city and burying
hundreds of citizens in the watery
ruins, what wall of DISTRESS filed
the country.
Sympathetic hands simultaneously
went down into pockets for money to
send to the relief of the homeless sui
ferers. Government came to the rescue
and the people were ablaze with in
dignation at the few gentlemen, who
for their own pleasure owned the dan
gerous dam that caused that dreadful
loss of life and destruction of property
1t was beautiful Christ like pity that
was evinced for the victims of that
dire disaster; hut every year sixty
thousand souls are lost in the food tide
of iutemperance, leaving behind far
more sickening array of restitution
than was found 10 the wake Of the wild
F rolling Conemaugh. Thousands lose
their lives by the fiery drink, to where
hundreds do by food or fire, or famine,
yet the nations spasmodic heart bubbles
up like wet weather fountain, in
tenderness and helpfulness to these.
and lets the steady tide of death and
destruction roll on UNDECIDED.
How we strain at gnats and swallow
camels We censure the gentlemen who
owned an insecure fishing pond for
personal amusement, and legalize the
drink demon that caters to the most
depraved taste, and lures the young and
the innocent into degradation and
misery that is far worse than watery
grave. Over in Russia millions of the
peasantry are suffering and dying from
famine but the whiskey business is still
Furnishing there. Our pity and help
goes out to them as it should and a
prompt response 10 their appeal for aid
was given and generous contributions
of grain and other supplies was sent to
the afflicted districts.
i In all cities not a stones throw from
the great highways where wealth and
luxury abound, there are countless
families destitute Of every comfort of
life and perishing for the want of food
they have not money to buy, and dying
by slow and sure stages from the foul
air and crowded condition of their
wretched quarters; and nobody appeals
to theGovernor to issue proclamation Of
mercy for them. Charity begins in
Russia, and the women and children 10
the slums of our own cities who are