The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-28

The members Of the Kings County Won.
ans Christian Temperance Union object
to being called extremists" and "fanat
les" The corresponding secretary gave
out letter defending the association and
urging for a look into the evils they fight
from their point of view
These good women are too sensitive. II
they are denounced as extremists and IN.
natics it means that they are doing effect
i've work.
The Union had under consideration the
Subway Tavern, where whisky and gin and
beer are sold by polite barkeeDers. and
where the forms of responsibility are
thrown around a new rathskeller. where
men and women are invited to congregate
and fill themselves up to their eyeiashes
with the same brands of wet goods that
are sold from the Bowery to the Bronx
The drunk comes from too much drinking
in this rathskeller as surely as from a gin
mill in Cherry street The after effect i,
lust as bad The chief merit claimed BY
the Subway rathskeller promoters is that
they do not sell wood alcohol or counter
feits for straight, unadu,terated drunk
compelling liquor.
The temperance women opposed the new
idea, and then they objected to being
called fanatics.
They should take courage. They shouli
seize the epthet as badge OF honor
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it's way whose first movers were not de
nounced as fanatics.
1t is the tribute that fear and a stupid
opposition to change pay to those who
would make the world better when the re
formers find themselves called fanatics.
Peter the Hermit ran up and down En-
rope preaching the first crusade. Two hun
dred years of war followed The war,
brought about mental activity that KEEP
Europe from sinking into barbarism, with
er it had been drifting since the transfer
of the seat of the Roman Empire from th'
banks of the Tber to Constantinople.
Peter the Hermit was fanatic. Th,
men who wrung the Magma Charta from
the unwilling hands of John were de
nounced by his tiunkeys as fanatics
The men who threw the boxes OF to;
overheard in Boston harbor were called IA
natics by the kings officers and by the
dough-hearted Tories, who feared to trus
themselves in self.government.
Washington and his freezing. hungry ant
half.naked army Of men that hung arount
Valley Forge were called fanatics by tn
big-stomached officers and royalty lover
who spent the same winter under the Brit
ish flags in New York and Philadelphia.
When Thomas jefferson. returning from
France, found New York under the spell
of Hamilton drifting toward monarchy--o
rather toward an idea that the ruIlni
classes SnOuld De made up from tne rlC'
and the eX-Revolutionary ottcers-he mad,
a declaration for the plain people ans
was denounced as ''howling fanatic
Andrew jackson swore ne would destro,
the United States Bank The men behint
the bank and their friends Just like tn,
trust magnates to-day. called him a fanatic
Robert Emmet Is even to-day called /
fanatic, but he showed the world that lib
erty is worth diving for.
Lady Mary Montagu was denounced a,
a fanatic for advocating incubation FOL
smallpox.
Antiseptic surgeons were called fanaticl
by the Old-line doctors who still though
bleeding was a good thing under all condi
tions, but time has shown that the sur
geon's knife cuts a way to life, instead o.
being, 1t was once, an instrument o.
death.
Major Gorgas was called fanatic whei
he began to clean up Havana as 4 means o
destroying yellow fever There Is no teve.
there this year, and Gorsas has moved or
Panama.
Edison's fellow teiegraphers called him ,
fanatic when he kept on trying to MAXI
funny things in the operating room. Hin
light makes New York when darkness fall
as ulain a. day.
So let the good women who want peopl,
to quit getting drunk be cheerful. lie,
them be content to be called fanatics and
continue to try to make the world a bette.
place in which to live. They are in dis
tinguished company York Journal.