Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-03-30
A FEW REMARKS FROM A NEW ENG
LAND MISSIONARY.


not more charmed with my Temperance
Talk the other cvening,-its good sense"
logic" truth, "eloqucnce," and all
those other nice terms, So well-considered
and carefully weighed, which newspaper
men sometimes apply to the efforts of
ministers, and which are 50 much more
valuable as reward for their tolls and
sacrifices than the bits, halfbits and but
tons that are bestowed upon them through
the contribution box. Perhaps though,
the devotion of two columns in your ex.
cellent paper to exposing the wickedness
of myself and ancestors ought to be con-
sidered still higher compliment. The
man who came to get our Sancho the
other day-you see l have a liking for
dogs, especially canine ones-said he
had rather have one good dog than
three bad women" So l suppose one
honest bark from the STANDARD should
count for more than three puffs in ordi.
nary papers.
You do not say, however, tenth part
as many bad things about the lecture as
could say myself; and one of these would
be that l succeeded so poorly in making
you understand its meaning. Instead Of
the two remedies for the ills of intemper.
ance you speak of, the points really sug.
gested we're these:
LIST. The influence and example Of the
individual man, planting himself openly
and squarely on the side of temperance,
and contributing all his weight of charac-
ter to the formation of a healthy public
| opinion.
End. Temperance societies, training up
the children and youth to right principles,
encouraging aud sustaining each other
with the warm clasp Of brothers. hand,
and surrounding the drunkard in his first
hard struggling steps up the long steep
way Of reform, with all helpful sympathy
and social influences.
Sd. Providing for the young, and indeed
for all persons, something that will offset
the attractions and fascination of the
liquor saloon pheasant rooms, with socia-
bility, reading matter, and good whole.
some amusements.
4th. The power of law, either prohibit
ing altogether the sale Of Intoxicating
drinks, or what is better, making the
seller responsible for all the evil conse-
quences, a help designed especially for those
poor fellows,-and oh how many of them
there are right here in Olympia,-who
want, with all their souls, to break away
from the bondage of the intoxicating cup,
but who Cannot, absolutely cannot with its
temptations appealing daily to the horri-
BILE appetite within them.
And now honestly, Mr.. Editor, with
your good sense and practical judgment,
and your sympathy, which We hold in
common, for some other branches of reform,
do you think these measures are 50 very
chimerical," especially when you put
into them good nature and a warm true
sympathy for the men and their families
who have come under the bondage of
strong drink.
My suggestion as to the way in which
the attractive hall should be paid for was,
that in places whore we now have half a
dozen churches aud ministers, half.filled
and half-starved, there ought to be only
one, large enough for the whole community,
and with the simple gospel Of Jesus
Christ for its platform; and that the rest
of the money, used at present for the sup
port Of SO many, should be employed for
this other building, equally handsome and
open for the instruction and amusement of
all classes six days every week.
As to my Fl" narrow and bigoted political
creed" is any thing which, stretches out
far enough to take in "old John Brown
of glorious memory" so very contracted
Libcrality does not ask whether a person
belongs to my party, or MY sect, or my
race, to admire him, but whether he is an
honest, high-souled, conscientious man,
acting up to the best light God has given
him and my book Of heroes contains
many name, Stouewali Jackson's on one
side, as we'll as John Browns on the other,
that hold as glorious, though with their
actual course 1 may have only the
smallest sympathy.
In regard to political ahusioss, dragging
up the dead issue of slavery. aud the like,
it is a question simply Of using history
Its lessons to live man never die. It is
by the light Of experience from the past
that We are to walk safely in the present.
So long as gigantic evil Of any kind ex.
lists on the face Of this earth men will &c
back to the days of American slavery for
illustrations of its power, aud so long as
men fight evil, go back, also, to the great
American war for examples Of the hero
ism, the selfdenial, and the triumphant
success with which it can be overcome
My good Presbyteian brother, for instance,
who opened this course, devoted all the first
part IF his admirable lecture to paral-
lei between the tyranny Of intemperance
aud that of American slavery, giving us
out of Uncle Toms Cabin some fearful il.
lustrations of this terrible evil, now, hap.
PLY, become such dead issue.
| So with illusions TO che common mat
tiers Of our everyday life. Perhaps you
have heard of the man who liked the
j nrincinles of the Gospel we'll enough. but