The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05

whether she has examined deeply into the
onestion or not. u ItOAt6iti0nit at heart.
She wants the drink and the misery it
entails to come to an end, and, though she
may moi say so, she welcomes every glim-
mer of light that promises the dawn. She
may not say So at the polls. she can say SO
in the home. She may not be called to
talk it on the platform, but she can talk
/ it to her boys around the evening fire, or
when She steals into their rooms and leaves
the benediction of her goodnight. The
time has come when no timidity on her
part. no dread of domestic disapproYal
| should hold back any woman from declar-
ing her hope that the good cause may go
on. What shall She differ from her hus-
! band? - Not necessarily. but if conScien-
tiously she does differ, she should not be
afraid to have him know the truth.
'.Peaceable' she should be, certainly, but
first 'she should be pure and while she
hides, for any reason her honest conviction,
She misses something of the purity of truth.
The day has passed when men--or women
either count it a sin that others do not
agree with them in opinions and ideas. 1t
is only mockery of freedom that does not
permit a woman the utterance of her views.
1t is worse than lack of courage that keeps
their sealed lips dumb. 1t is a mistake
that her speaking her convictions in the
home will iniure the cause i'll the minds of
those opposed If She speak gently and i'll
the spirit of love; if She neither rants nor
raves; if she is reasonable and just and
| fair nj the same time steady and firm.
these qualities all have their power. Here
and there a man will oppose her attitude
with scorn and anger and abuse: then is
she chosen to suffer for the cause. and if
men revile and say all manner of evil against
her falsely. She ought to rejoice. But far
more frequently the silent power of her
conviction. if never Extensively paraded, Will
be felt 1t may not be acknowledged. and
| it is not vote, but in the great summing
up of things. let us assure you. tinid and
hesitating women. it will count. If the
honest desire of all these women in these
| United States who wish for the overthrow
and destruction of the interest OF liquor
could be expressed by their signature to a
memorial that embodied that desire, such
signatures would not be votes. bnt they
would count Could such a canvass of the
homes begin. and every woman be persuad-
ed. by the love of her home, by the fear for
her children. by the never-silent voice of
! (n,,l in hpr In bar
ing and desire. her utterancc would lack
the force of the ballot. but in the grand
summing up of moral forces. that, after
all, shall move the world. who shall tell
how acts like this would count
1t is indeed time of solemn significance
to the women. no less than to the men of
the land. The men who have entered the
ranks of this grand crusade to protect and
save the children and the home, look as
did the knights of old. for sign and token
of approval for inspiration and cheer It's
a weary journey to victory; its a war that
will tax honor and courage and strength
/ What should we think of the women who
when her house was threatened by flames
to the flames and frowned codly on the
firemen strainng every nerve to save her?
| Yet Just that is what multitudes of women
are doing The oil they had is that of
helpless acquieseence, of soothing consent
to the drink habit in husband or son
! They fancy they are pouring this oil ON
troubled domestic waters, but in fact they
are preparing fuel for the flame, under
| which soon or late their fair hopes will
/ shrycl and die. 70 the women who have
/ been through the fires intemperance kind
| led in their homes. who have sat in sack
cloth and ashes mourning their slain: to
the women whose calm lives this sorrow
has never yet touched to the women who
have seen their dear ones saved from the
habit that cats into soul and body alike; to
mothers who hope. mothers who watch and
! pray, mothers who tremble and fear-it is
/ for You that the ranks are filling and the
army of voters is moving--tor you. Its
/ banner is one that shields the cradle Its
I fight is for God and the Home.
Let it not 90 into this campaign uncheer-
/ ed or disheartened for lack of anything wo-
! men can do. It's home conflict do not
( expect to let it 90 on without the inspira-
tion and benediction of Home -4mericaa
/ Rtormd.
Mrs l.. Il. Barrett. Of Boston. for years
the able and faithful leader of the w. c. 7.
l.. in Massachusetts, died May cath at
Somcryile Mass. She was the founder of
the first Union in the State and has given
her time to the work since-over ten years.
Mrs. Mary A. Lvennore in the Temperance
Cdusc. says of her last illness I'm her CON
scious moments her thoughts We're inces-
sanity occupied with plans for the contnu-
ance of the work which has dropped from
her folded hands, and one day, not long
before her death, there came to her the
strength to rise from her bed. and the IN
SEPARATION to pen to the members of the Mas
sachuscttS Woman'S Christian Union the
following brief letter. The chirography is
irregular and confused. but the thought is
clear. and the language concise:
'.StaudinO ON the threshold of thp better