The Press., 1891-03-19
". c. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
THE DRINK WOLF AND THE FAITHFUL Ho,

THE DRINK WOLF AND THE FAITHFUL HOUND.
 Dear Union Signal The following is an extract from Miss Willard's speech at the Congregational church, Washington, D. O.. February 15, 1891:
 Some men went out hunting in an east ern state in the earlier days. It was their first experience; they had hound with them and soon wolf was started. The men had not bargained for this and were considerably alarmed :; not so with the dog 1; he, sighted the game and bounded in pur- suit. He was valuable hound and the men feared they might lose him, but he followed fast and followed faster after the wolf. Pretty soon he was deep in the woods and the men came along as best they could, far in the rear. They tried to call oil their dog, but he pursued the trail. They said 1t would have been better to come mp on the other side, to have sur rounded the wolf in some way, to have waited until they had stronger force. They yelled to the dog (wasting a good deal of time and strength that way). but on and on he went. Then they cursed him with curses loud and deep. but he was too far ahead of them to hear or heed. He knew nothing except the trail, and he cared for nothing save to kill the wolf.
 The yelp of that dog disturbed the men as he ran on crying out the louder, and final. ly, when they caught up with him, he was ln the desperate grip, tooth to tooth, blood tor blood, life for life. He was desperate ly wounded, but the throat of the wolf was severed, and the dog victor that wolf would haunt the chicken GOODS no more.
 Thinking upon this story, I am re- minded of wolf that prowls around the homesteads of this land. The great hunt is going forward. There are loud halloos and vast confusion and behold there is a hound that has broken from the leash of centuries and taken to the trail it's yelp is in clear soprano key it follows fast and follows faster; men are afraid that harm may come to it they think another way might be better than this they won- der if somehow the territory of the wolf cannot be hedged in they fear that harm will come to combinations with which. their ambitions are bound up they are forcall- ing oil the dog; but it has scented the game ; it's nose is on the trail down close it's steps are swifter than the wind. it knows only one thing-to follow the wolf. No mortal can stop it. You cannot per suade--you cannot coax-yon cannot fright an, the dog has gone beyond your reach, beyond your voice. . Voters of this au. dience, you we'll know what mean. The liquor traffic is that wolf : the VIC. T. U. has started in pursuit wherever the wolf goes, there we shall follow. He is en- trenched in social custom, away we follow after him with the total abstinence pledge.
 He IS barricaded in the peoples ignorance away we go after him into the public schools with 8 Thus saith nature, thus saith reason, against the drink habit. He is fortified by law away we go after, him into the legislatures. His favorite thicket and hiding place is politics away we go to national and state conventions, and nc matter how much of contradiction we have to endure. no matter how much galline fire of harsh criticism, not easy for gentle hearts to bear, be it remembered that there is nov on the track of the liquor wolf, g hound that does not know how to be afraid that has not sense enough to retreat, tha
 makes of this great chase thing of lift and death. and will follow the wolf unti
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 last drop of blood sprinkles the snows of | tuk,s &oN Nsv1