Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-04

drink or howosoon you are under the
groundT said one of the men.
You don't eh? Don't any of you
want to give me some advice ?"
!" No, sirw
Don't you feel sorry because I
am degrading my brilliant intel.
'lect ?"
Brilliant bosh! You never knew
anything, anyhow"
"Won't any man here pity my
family?"
"No, sir"
"Nor shed a tear over my degraded
condition?'
Not a shed! You'd better be
going-we want to hear a hog story. "
"Had you rather hear hog story
than to try and save me?"
"You bet we hadr'
"Well, now, you hard-hearted
and selfish minded old liars, I know
that am worth more than any hog,
and I'll prove it, too! II you won't
save me I'll save myself-banged if
1 don't! Yes, sir, I'll keep sober
from this day on, and I'll show you
whether I'm of mere account than
any of your hog stories or not! You
needn't pity me nor advise nor talk
with mel can run my own gro-
Gerry after this"
The account goes on to say that
no man has led very sober and
Industrious life, since the day that
his salvation was not deemed of
sufficient importance to suspend the
narration of q hog story. That there
are Just such men in our midst need
not be told to any intelligent OBJ
serving member of our League. If
Capt. Wilkenson can reach such
mer by moral suasion, I will GER
tainly bid him Godspeed in the
good work, but 1 haye little desire
to make the League serve q no higher
purpose than to be an instrument fol
tickling the vanity of any individual.
When u temperance mans tell me
that his efforts are successful as a
persuader to sobriety, I do not
want him to waste his ammunition in
any effort he does not approve Of,
much less to dishearten, by harsh
criticisms, those who have labored
just as earnestly, just as faithfully,
just as efficiently in other fields of
labor.
have but few words to add, as
to the inexpediency of turning our
League into a crusadinS band, and
they are pointed by the results
of some Of the most noted incidents
of our local history. I can give you
an inside as vel, as an outside view
of the effects of the crusade in this
place, few years ago. Soon as il
was known abroad that every Sunday
afternoon prayer-meeting was helG
by the ladies in front of some one
of. our then many saloons, people
focked from afar to witness the
unsual scene. They were general,
ly of the class of people who nigh
be benefited by salutary temperance
training, but what was the result
They congregated IN the saloons
where they could hear without being
seen; and while prayers and singing
were the order of the hour outside,
drinking and card-playing were going
on inside. 1t turned Sunday into
gala day for the saloons, anf
sometimes more money passed ovel
the bar during the hour of religious
services, than had been taken il
during the six days of Legitimate
traffic. 1t will be remembered thai
this effort eliminated in the estab
lishment of - Temperance Home
for young men, which was placed
under the control OF notorious
reproba,e, who violated esery prin
ciple of honor and turned the home
conceived under such pure and hol,
impulses, into literal he'll, where
almost every vice was encouraged II
the name of philanthropy aud char
tn. Even now this seeds then soxI
are springing up like briars anC
thistles IN the pathway of som'
of our young men. | 10 not ;hiul
n Il necessary tD do no. O than mere