| Show A WATERY RECEPTION IT is all I 1 right for women to sup support port the prohibition mo movement verned wives and mothers suffer more than ahan anyone else from the consequential effects of the liquor traffic personal violence and the pangs of poverty are endured by many of them through the encouragement we at given to pernicious clous habits by dram selling belling homes aro are rendered miserable and women are driven to desperation by the sorrows that thai come through h the demon of drink and I 1 jt it is proper that women should use une their influence la ii endeavoring to repress an evil that atiat beard so heavily upon them and their children but there have been movements for the destruction of the liquor traffic which cannot be defended from the standpoint of law and order it is wrong policy to attempt to suppress one evil by another the raids made upon saloons by psalm singing and property destroying women are wrong and reprehensible and are often worse because they are law less than the mischief they are intended to suppress when women who so demean themselves meet with vi violence blence in their unlawful and unseemly seemly nn excesses 1 they wily oily o ily reap what they sow now while they defeat their own object exhibit intemperance in their own conduct and destroy the sympathy for their cause which prope proper agitation might secure A short time igo apo nearly a hundred of those intemperate female advocates of temperance raided a saloon at ells worth 1111 illinois they smashed every bottle and spilled all the liquor they could find dad and as muaia to their per or mance sa sang ng in ce concert lacert give us water water the outraged saloon thought he would woul d I 1 respond aimond to their choral petition and turned the hose on them drenching them to the skin the water fa fanatics naties shri shrieked elred with such vehemence that a crowd of citizens came to their rescue and the man with the hose came pearly nearly losing his lite in the melee all such outrages in the name of temperance are shameful and those who engage in them deserve to meet wita worse rebuffs than a watery reception cep tion the saloon man was their superior they made a criminal assault on his property while he be simply accommodated them with what they asked for A good cause la frequently damaged by the rashness and excessive zeal of its active but senseless sup por teis |
