The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-03-30
TEMPERANCE T COLUMN.
written by special correspcndent)
SUPPOSE TIE WOMEN WERE TfPPLERs
AND DSUNEAEDS

written by a special correspcndent)
SUPPOSE THE woMEg WE'RE TrPPLERs
| And DSUNEARDs.
Yes, suppose they were Don't
iyou know that we the strong minded
portion of the human race-we
men-would make the domestic at
irosphers rather too hot for our
wives to live with US I? Every session
of the district courts would find an
army of enraged men praying for H
divorce. The fact is, the men would
not tolerate it. We compel the
women OF our state and nation to
submit 10 q system OF oppression that
if applied to our male population
-Tould not only insure domestic rap-
ture but would terminate in political
! rev volution even at the swords point
Thiuk of our wives being oat late al
night, drinking, and earousing, com
ing home drunk-wly one demon
stration of this kind would make
most every married man in the land
go into the dsaso!jshiseg as well a. the
abolishing business. Men wauid
/ look at the drinking habit from quite
different standpoint.
| Look here sir! If you take hber-
ties that You deny your wife, you are
50 far an overbeafing 1Trant. Who
invested you with the T;yh: TO prac--
tlce what is s. recognized vice, and at
the same tine deny to your coD,-
panion the ss;ne privilege. T;s
granted the rules Of society on the
whisky basis dose. 1t ia the women
that holds the domestic circle aud
maintains the purity of our family
slters-that too, right in the face OF
all The hell born license laws that
have been conceived-brought forth
and backed up by the superior wis
dom, intelligence and high toned
| morality of our legislators, state and
| national. There are some startling
statistics from the pen Of G. It. Stew,
art that opght to furnish a pabuIum
for reflection to any honest man:
It is estimated that within the last
Gfty years, in the midst Of all the
wonderful efforts and achievements
cf the temperance reform, more than
| three millions of American citizens
have been destroyed by the liquor
traffic, and n.c:e than seven millions
Of women s1f children, under our
Wanted flas Of protection, have sent
mp their cries of want, and shame,
and woe, by the graves or murdered
husbands and fathers, to The protect
ing and avengine God Of the widow
and fa@hnr:ess Every year hun
dred Thousand new victims are add4d
to the sacrifice, and new cries from
broken hearts end blightei bomes 60
up TO heaven. And out OF all This
ocean of tears and blood the Gov
ernment draws s yearly revenue Of
over 6ily nillione of dollars. Tn
other words, the Government cell.
The lives Of it's citizens, 10 the open
market, to its own chartered mur-.
defers. at about Eve hundred dollars
a head. Looking at these national
affairs Of human sacrifice, smoking
with their slain heca,ombs of a hun
drcd thousand year, We can see the
fearful reality oflboos "most ecte.-
soc soils" predicted by the fathesz;
and then, turning TO the pauper-I
houses, idiotie and insane asylams,
jails, prisons, penitentiasies, and gal
lowses, cverEwhese crowded with
the wretched victims OF this infareal
traffic. We hear f.um official reports
the old ard oft-toid story that more
than four-fths Of the ignorance,
vice, poverty, and crime OF the nation
fow from this 'pern;cious' source.
And to this the vast pecaniary loss
to the people aud the productive in
dustTy of the country, estimated at
over y thousand millions Of dollars a
wear.