Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-30

A great concoufse Of people Assem-
bled ut the south end Of the University
building on Thursday evening to listen
again to the voice of Miss Willard as she
should present IN her clear, concise,
and sharpcut words additional afgu-
mentative facts out Of her long expert
ence a. one of the leading champions
of prohibition. Picture after picture
did she draw with such bright, clear
lines and penciled shading, 80 true, as
she voiced them, that every one could
not but see another paint the perfect
likeness. Among them was this: Two
bridges-the ono solid, massive struc-
ture; its foundation and its piers
and arches we're of granite rock. and
with bolts, bars and timbers in every
vay il seemed enduring. And on that
bridge, with true and steady step came
four noted ones in history's past leading
the van of the great temperance host
that followed on. Then came but
step behind the "Washingtonians" of
our fathers early days; then two more
whose lives and words still live in Neal
Dow and John B. Cough; hard by, and
keeping step, come the Good lem.
plafs, (" ''Sons Of Temperance" clubs of
the Red Ribbon" and the Blue"
while next, ribbons white of the "WO-
mans Christian Temperance Union"
and the children of our bands of Hope. !"
The other bridge ia one barely balanced
ON three weak piles, across from each OF
which are narrow planks. While press
ing ont upon them are they who, pre-
50 ming upon their steadinees, beckOn
With hand and voice for those behind
70 follow, and, a. on they tread, feel
not unsafe until the fatal moment
comes-when OF they're pressed into
the abyss below! And. a. they sud
denly sink into the perditiOus gulf, We
recognize Byron, Burns, q Webster,
and Yates, and with them multitude
Of each's contemporaries and those Of
later days.
The speaker told rs how that in a
81 are hour in Portland, Me-, two years
since, Neal Dow gave at her request a
brief account of the origin of the prohi-
bition movement:
"In that same room where then they
sat, thirty years before had sat himself
and vie one winters eve, when q rap
ON the outer door, responded to, brought
| into their presence poor, broken
hearted woman, whose appeal for help
| to rescue her dear husband from the
| rumseller's tolls had only once to be
uttered to reach the heart of, and cause
prompt action from him to whom the
appeal was brought. The saloon de-
scfibed was found; the errand for which
he had come was in Mr.. BOWS own way
presented to the man behind the bar,
Who directly ordered out Of his pres
ence and his shop him who on such an
GRAND came; for the poor, half stupe-
fed soul, to whose rescue Dow had
come, was the best customer the saloon
man had, and sell HIM the rum be
would till his last cent was gone. Fooled
in his attempt to save, Mr.. Dow went
home determined ever to devote his life
his voice, his purse. to the cause of pro.
hibitiOn."
SO still, 90 quiet, sat or stood that
crowd on the campus that every word
of Miss Willard was heard distinctly by
those the farthest away. So eager die
every one seem tn be to catch each ut
terance that fell from her lips that M
other one was heard among thos<
thousands, and 80 Seattle, in honorinf
Miss Willard, has honored herself, and
she who comes from that most quiel
and orderly of the towns of the interi
or, Evanston, ILL.,, finds in our rough
frontier city of Puget Sound one of the
stillest and most perfectly orderly as
semblies she ever addressed.
Their thanks for her coming and pres
ence were expressed in a grand rising
vote in which all were brought to theil
feet.