Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-11-13
w. C. T. U. COLUMN.
Conducted by the Ladies Of the W. C. T. O.
Anarchy and the s.Ioon-A Comparison.

AS the public mind comes back to
the normal, after the days of intense
excitement through which the nation
has just passed, les it be called TO the
attention of thinking men that the iiq
uor traffic with all it's train OF evils is
| still here. The reins of government
change hands, men and measures are
superseded, parties gain power and
lose power, the nation triumphs or the
nation mourns, prosperity smiles upon
US or the clouds OF adversely gather,
but the saloon and It's curse 60 on,
seemingly forever, the one unchanged
feature of American life.
The nation has been overwhelmed
with grief and has gone wild with in
dignation, because, by q senseless
criminal, the life of all eminent citizen
has been taken. But the saloons con.
tinuOus homicide, from sunrise to sun
rise, from years end to years. end, has
gone on and goes on, butchering our
fellow citizens, striking down often the
bravest and the best, the most brilliant
and the greatest hearted, robbing the
nation of their usefulness. the public of
their value and their friends and fami-
lies of their love-not alone killing
them, but transforming them, while
they yet live, into objects Of disgust
and hatred, and sweeping them under
at last, not amid nations praise and
benediction, but with the shame and
contumely OF society.
The American people have opened
their hearts In sympathy for the grief
stricken woman who followed that en-
shrined casket in the heart of the great
professions that made their way to
Canton that week. God pity and com
fort her. Bereft of the love and tender.
ness that have so long hedged her
about, she deserves the natiou's sym.
pathy and she has it. But while she
weeps, the widows of the liquor traffic.
by the thousand. take up the burden of
widowhood, and alone, almost without
sympathy, unknown, unbefriended,
turn to the waShtub and tue scrubbIng
brush to earn, in paltry shillings, by
the hardest labor, the money that NAV
pay the funeral expenses that buried
away their shame and sorrow, and keep
life in the little ones that are left to the
awful heritage Of a drunkard's children
No enwreathed columns of the daily pa
pers tell them OF public sympathy, con-
gress votes them no pension; unknown,
uncared for, forgotten OK all save God
they carry the burden of their awful
sorrow.
Tho nations intelligence is finding
expression, in sermon and editorial, for
suggestions looking to the protection of
the lives of our Chief Magistrates in
the future. Politicians will plan and
statesmen will discuss how, by law and
with ceremony, we may so hedge about
the men who serve US to protect them
from the tendish insanity of the little
handful OF men and women who call
themselves by the name of Anarchists.
But while we plan, the saloon, uncheck-
ed. reaches out its aims to strike down.
with the murder of both body and soul.
the unprotected men and women and
children of the nation by the scores OF
thousands. Its very existence, of neces-
sity, provides that husbands and faith
ers shall be turned into brutes; that
with mothers the unspeakable miracle
OF hell shall be wrought and they shall
forget their children; that young men
and young women, boys and girls, shall
be trapped and shared into a fouler
slavery, doomed to yiler life and gwen
over to more sure damnation than