Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-06

polls and vote. There il no time To IN
lost before the city election.
There II terrible battle vapinc amons
our fathers and brothers. II h a va,
OF determination, and a whole army ar,
swept away. three times as large as ,hs
entire United States army, every year
"nat vail would 90 up from our be-
loved countrv IL in y general campaiop
our whole army should be slain in foo,
montas. What stirring speeches acains,
the common foe. What recruiting Of
noes. to pat down his power, WHAT ns-
vieswauid be built and garris1ns manned
10 resist his encr0achmenis. In such a
war there would be gallant deeds TO re-
cord, grand hero'sm e. boast. and maDy
\ mother would rejoice t. know that her
son died With his wounds all in front.
fighting for a noble cause. There would
be grand monuments Inscribed with gal
liant deeds, and costly memorials setting
forth wonderful self sacrifices that, in
some slight degree, would atone for the
loss Of friends and homes.
But, my friends, We have encamped
within our own city. at sur very hearth
stones, foe that sweeps away every
year three United States armies-6O, 600
nien-sweeping them away in the hesom
OF destruction, filing their homes with
pennry and suffering, covering their
names with the lasting Disgrace of a
druukard's ruin, With no ameIioratine
influences to lessen the infamv, and no
excuse for the war except the passion
that pleads before the bar and the greed
that urges from behind it; a greed that
drinks the hearts blood of 100000 souls
each year! Yet the recruiting Offices are
not crowded and the popular sentiment
II apathctic. While husbands, fathers
and sons are mOvn down day by day.
When Rome was young her lonely sons
invited the neiehborinQ Sabines, with
their wives and daughters, to a fe ast,
and stole the daughters for wives. But
after time the Sab:nes made war upon
the Romans for their daughters, BOW
h2ppy as Roman matrons; aad. while
the battle ragged, the daughters rushed
into the thickest Of the fray and with
outstretched arms besOu2ht their fathers
and brothers ON one side and their hus-
bands on the other to cease the fratri-
cidal fight that was making them or
phans and widows. And the arms of
love won the day.
Woman Is now enfranchised in Wash
ingtOn Territory, and We call upon her
70 enter tho thickest Of the fight. whore
dear ones lie bleeding from liquors do
inRs, and, with their arms of love and
the bullets Of the ballot-box, plead with
their husbands on one side ths bar and
their fathers and brothers on the other
to cease this disgraceful war, which is
ruining 90 many homes, making 30 ma
ny orphans, that steals the hard earned
money Of tho laborer and snatches the
crust from the starving child; that shuts
out the light Of heaven and destroys the
hOliest joys of earth.
Two Ohio regiments were encamped
together in the late war. One was called
into . deadly action while the other
stood by As a reserve. Nobly they
fought, but against fearful odds, and a
large majority bit the dust. After hours
Of impatient waiting, the Colonel Of the
reserve, choking with grief at the deadly
havoc among his brethren, cried oat in
agony: 20, God! why don't they call
for reinforcements!'' Thus have the
women stood waiting for the privilege
Of action and pleading for chance TO
prove themselves. Today Washington
calls them ont rs reinforcements to save
their brothers lives.
Shall the call csme in vain?