THE WHISKY WAR.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1823, 9 June 1874, Page 2

THE WHISKY WAR.

The latest intelligence respecting the American whisky war is contained in the London ; Times' Philadelphia' correspondent's letter published on March 11.. By; this it would! appear that the, praying sisterhood, although sometimes'successful, do not have it quite all- their own way; In Indiana, says; the; (wrrespondetijti , cc the work goes on bravely, and the' first large town' has been attacked, the crusade : heretofore -having been confined 1 only to small places. This town is Jeffersonville,* on the Ohio River. The\women, to the number of a hundred, on the 16th of ; February visited eight saloons, an enor- , mous crowd following them and blockading the streets', a strong police escort beingj required^for the : protection of the praying sisters. The saloon-keepers received ' them kindly, but none yielded. . The next day a deputation of 3000 persons, mostly Germans, came over from Louisville, on the Kentucky bank of the river, to watch the proceedings, the women supplementing their bar-room visits by temperance meetings in churches and public halls: All the ■week the same process continued,.. .but ■without perceptible result, the latest tele- " gram announcing: that 'thirsty souls absorbed their benzine as usual. Yesterday, |the crusade began at New Albany, Indiana, and preparations for the movement are announced from Princeton, in the same State. An innkeeper in the former itown threatens, if the praying women come to his place, .that 'he will hold thieir husbands responsible, if they have any? . .-'.• On Long Island, some of the 1 women invented the -plan of fighting alcohol by per<jjuading the railway managers not, ."to* jttanspbrt ifc. ' The durectprs'did nbt grant' |j? ■the request completely, but they raised ' 'the, tariff, for carrying, liquors to. four jtimes the ohurges for other goods; ..There^ ■ is not. any perceptible decrease; in- the • ■-. jamount transported, but the* motives of ' > the managers ought not to be questioned < when they adopt a plan to prevent the sale of liquor which quadruples their own revenues. In Jersey city the , crusade x began last week, but the crusaders artf •not very strong in numbers, .their being 1 jonly 16 i of them,: led by a veteran' Metho- . dist exprter^ * Brother', Adams.: '.\ ". '.: '.. '. '' s i, The campaign has opened, on Staten Island New. York city, butwijbhpooriSucQßss, . ; . ; ;At Morrow a desperate innkeeper has . shown fight, and has filed- a declaration against 160 women, setting forth that he ' has been damaged to the extent of lOOOdol by ; the of h|s. business, and '.'*■ the Court has grauteiLan .injunction^ '"At; . Piqua . 40 ladies aret carrying on, the/war.> ;-; One man offered topour : his -liquor into the gutter on the receipt of lOOOdol, but '">" the telegram says this was ' mildly though IS?| firuilyrejeoted.' Another claims that the ■$$ excitement' caused is making his business 50 per .cent, better, arid 'he wants the ' women to , keep it up ■ Uyely.' In the larger cities of Ohio yery little progress, if made; ' Then in Dayton, enthusiastic meetings are held, with Van P^lt,'/tlie:r reformed saloon-keeper, as a permanenii' feature, but no bar-rooms are closed," In Xenia^: it is said, almost every woman in town is' in the crusade,, but it does not generally succeed.* >; The: saloon*- - keepers have ceased- to resist, however, arid allow the.; women to'- hold" their prayer meetings ; inside the bar^rbonis;" Arid so i ye i might go on, i but enough has been 1 said ; to show what t is the' character of tins mo veraent,, and h|ow precarious its' success. How any reasonable person could expect substantial success from it is one of the thiniga. not to be understood^; If every saloon in the towns affected were closed one year, each would be open the nexty . and in the meantime there; would be sly : grogselUng. And it is difficult to under* stand how the spectacle can be conceivedwithout a shudder, of hundreds of w6ine£sjlr fors iking their,. homes, their duties, and^ : their children, to create what is no more than 8 streetiidisturbance... The publicanf was right when he said " their husbands, if they had any." And to speak of theipv street exhibitions, as "-praying'Lis little, ~ less than blasphemy. . ... _-„ „ The University -Boatjcace resulted uT favor of Cambridge, after one of the best contested races. rowed for many, years. The Prini)© of Waleß viewed tftfroW the umpire's boat*