Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-04-02
Mans love is Of his life thing apart,
Ills wOman's whole existence?

Mans love is of his life thing apart,
Ills womans whole existence"
Have you never seen mirrored in
her care-worn face, the blishtel
hopes and unrealize6 aspirations of
her rcseate youth. If the eye, whose
love-lit glance once held you cap
tive is sometimes dull and fearful
if the lips, whose responsive kiss
once thrilled your soul with.keenest
delight, now quivers with an un-
spoken anguish; if instead of the
sunny smile, the love-freigEted kiss,
the look of alteration, you are greet
ed with an expression of fear, per-
haps loathing, can you hold your
self blameless
True, she promised to love and
honor you, but has your life been
one that she could honor? Can she
love the man whose promises are
daily broken, whose very presence
Inspires her with fear, who Las prov
en- by his constant associations that
he prefers the society of drunken
men and impure women, to that of
his wife an1 children? Is there any
thing lorable, any thing honorable, in
the man, who is likely at any time
to be carried into her presence in a
state of drunken insensibility?
O, husbands and fathers, there
is double duty imposed upon you,
for not only does the social glass rob
you of wife and children, the COM
forts OF home and the respect of
friends, but by that immutable law
Of transmission, you are leaving, with
every glass of wine you drink, sad
legacy to your unborn children.
How can you expect your boy to
comfort you in your old age. if you
have created within him the Wine-
cursed appetite which is destroying
you?
Then by the memory'of your early
love, of the sweet low-voiced moth
er, at whose knee you lisped your
infant prayer, "Lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from evil"
by the memory of all that was once
noble and good within you, resolve
to-day to be men again, brave, noble
men, honest and steadfast in your
desire to do right and unrelenting
in your efforts to crush this greatest
Of all evils-Intemperance.
Members of the League, throw
aside all personal feelings. Forget
that we ure not of one church, one
political body; forget the social dis
tinctions which have long divided
you, and unite in one great loving
prayer to the Father of All to save
earth's children. 1t is time that all
pure-minded persons come to-
gether, armed and equipped to bat
tie against our greatest enemy-In-
temperance. Let the cause be first
in your hearts. Do not stop here,
satisfied with meeting every Sabbath
day to talk of the evil wrought by
alcoholic drinks, but carry your no.
BILE work with you into your churches,
your assembly rooms, to your ballot
box. Employ no minister who sips
his wine at dinner; send no repre-
sentative to your Legislature, or to
Congress, whose brain is ever stupi-
fed with drink; vote for no man
who spends his salary in saloons, or
who does not favor Prohibition, and
the aark cloud of intemperance
which has oyershadowed our sky
like funeral-pall, causing such
wretchedness and woe, will be so
scattered as never to be able to re-
assemble, while the warm sunlight
of peace and goodwill will gladden.
our hearts evermore. Go on i'll
your noble work, dear members of
the League. Gladly do extend
the hand of fellowship to each and
every one of you, as bid you fer
vent, heartfelt, God-speed.
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