The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-31
COUNTY OPTION.
A Letter from the w. g. T. U.
Urging the Support Of the Rawlings
Bill.
HILLsBoRo, O., March "a.


we 80 desire, to say something in tho
cause OF temperance, which, although tD
some may be very uninteresting, and
seem to have been worn threadDsTe, is
nevertheless living issue, which tha
women. who are the greatest sufferers
have no notion OF giving up, as long a.
the men Tor least many OF them) OF Hifls-
boro seem 30 Indifferent TO the pray ers
and entfeaties OF their wives, mothers
aud sisters, and what is still more won-
deriul, the mute, awful, appeal Of the
besotted look, with the bleartd eye. ard
bOated face of their own offspring. We
said, seem to be indifferent. We think
it past belief that you really are iDdifler-
ent abOnt the welfare OF your children.
whose immortal souls God has entrusted
to your care awhile.
1t must be that you are so engrossed
with the cares aud duties OF lie, that You
have not had the time to consider .Ae
subject as you should have done, and
thinking there was no avenue of escspe,
the best thing for you to do WAS to hear
it as philosophicalIy as possible. 1t such
Is the case we want TO arouse you to q
| sense OF your responsibility now, when
there is, as we think, one OF the best
CHANCES to save our sons from this dread
ful curse that has ever been offered to u.s.
We refer to the Rawlings County Optiop
Bill. Would to God that we bad the elo-
quence that the cause demands to plead
with you to consider we'll this golden op-
portunity and to assist the women in get
ting out petitions and securing signerp
by the thousands. If we could only act
you good temperance men to become ss
much interested as your wives are in
| this great and good work it would be ac-
complsbed. RI only you could have
heard the prayers of the broken heart tsd
| mothers at the w. g. T. U. room yestes-.
day and could have sesn the tears that
were shed by your nearest and best
| friends, feel sure you would heed Que
| appeal. We do not pray to God to nut
this evil from among US, without your
| assistance we know He can not do IL, tor
| 1t is through His creatures IN rules this
| world. But we do pray God that by any
| and every means you may be brought to-
see your duty and responsibility. God
| has warned you in His holy word that
when the wicked beareth rule the people
mourn, but when the righteous are in
authority the people rejoice.
| II this bill now heiore the Ohio LcCis-
islature should fell, before another such
opportunity comes it may be too late to
save that darling little boy who is pratt
| tling by your side in all its beautiful
iaith in papa to shi.ld it from all harm.
And it will certainly lie too late to save
that noble boy who has already started
| on this road to CERTAIN and everlasting
destruction. Notwithstanding, yon have
| spared no sacrifice in order that he may
De finely educated and equipp, tor fiif-
| log any station in life, yet like thousands
of others You will have to look helpless.
ly and agonizing at the crushing of all
your hopes and aspirations, and see shas
darling boy come down of the throne Of
u magnificent intellect, and like Me-
| bechudneZsr of old get on to q level
with the brute, even the wine, to waliow-
in the mud. Oh, the agony of such q
thing is beyond description. Every par
ent has reason to tear this awiul calaini-
| ty, while an open saloon coptronts them
every steps made as enticirg and fasciDa-
ting as the ingenuity and machinationa
| OF the devil and his emissaries, the
saloOn-keepers, know how, and thus they.
are drawn into it and begin their DOWN.
ward course by looking upon The Wina
cup, which the devil has made 81 entic-
| ing that God in His mercy and wisdom
has warned us not to eCen look upo2gT
(nuch less handle), knowing that in 80
doing we would be in too close contact
with the great enemy OF our souls, to
whom he has warned us to say, "Gee
thee behind me, Satan." Now, to our
dear pastors we naturally look for aid in
this work OF getting out these petitions,
and we beg you to remember that non6
OF US are women of great leisure and to
| take all this care upon ourselves would
be too much, but we ask and believe wo,
will have the assistance of all our tninis-
ters and good people, and We pray that
the unions of the whole county and the
ministers of every chuch in the countY
will provide themselves with petitions
and see that they are presented to every
voter for signing, and that they maka
strenuous efforts to induce all to sieu..
We would urge them, that unless they
attend to 1t the people will be sura tn
neglect 1t. though they might be an xfouat
to save themselves from this uDtOwasde
generation. Below We give what en-
earnest third party Prohibitionist, MY.
Charles 81. Rust, says on this snnjscs,
which is copied from the Weste7n Grist-
ian Advocate. He says: :
"Locsl option is founded upon prohl-
bitiOu, which Is the entering wedge tor
statute and constitutional prohibitiou.
Let every temperance man take OF his.
coat and roll up his sleeves, planting Wig
orous blows upon this wedge till the
gnarled old saloon oak is split uidd
open. Let Republicans, Democrats, Pro-,
hibitionlsts, Laborites, every body who
loves God and hates the devil, lay aside
all differences of method, and In solid
phslanx move forward for county option.
1t ia Democratic in the true sense, giving
the people q chance to break away lrom
the tentacles OF this saloon octopus and,
in harmony with the Old ma K i'm in COM
mon law, the welfare Of the people ~
the supreme law When the king OF
Persia found himself unable to snhjngate
Greece, he devoted his strength in array
ing the cities of Athens aud Sparta
against each other, so that when they
were exhausted the whole country wOuif
fall an easy prey to bis dominion. So it
Is with the saloon in fomenting strife be-
tween the different branches OF tba tenn
perance army. County option gives the
Tallying ground for united effort
against the saloon. Apathy and indiffer-
ence now are criminal Let every man
aNd woman awake from this lethargy.
Roll in the petitions to the Legislature,
and exert all possible personal influences
to secure the passage of the Rawlings
County Option Bill. Don't delay SINGLE
moment. Now is the accepted time.,"
Here it is, and it fills the bill much
better than anything we could say: at
| uivas ma the oraotest n1aasura tn wr;ku