The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-05-06

| Our ranks are GideOn's band. every
soldier armed and obedient to the heaven
ly Commander. There are no powerful
wealthy conservatives backing us whom
we have to fear and conciliate. You cal
repeat the message clear and plain: 10
| tai abstinence in the individual and ma
ton; personal purity for man and woman
alike. and the enfranchisement of wO
man.
| "We have given hostage. not to for
tune. but to humanity. We are build
| ing better than we know. We stand moi
| only for the cause of temperance, but for
the diviner womanhood that shall ere
| long bring in the era of 'sweeter manners,
purer laws We stand for the mighty
! forces that level up, not down, and which
shall draw manhood up to w0man's
standard of purity in the personal con-
duct of life.
We are the prophets of time when
the present fashionable frivOlities of wo-
men and the money worship of men shall
find themselves confronted by Gods
higher law of complete humanity re-
sulting from
"Two heads in counsel; two beside the
hearth;
Two in the noisy business of the world
Two in the liberal offices of life;
Two plummets dropped
To sound the abyss of science and the
secrets of the mind"
For the world begins to see that
"'No lasting links to bind two souls are
wrought.
Where passion takes no deeper cast from
thought
SIN all the wondrous battle let our
motion be 'Womanliness first; after
wards what you will
"Let us follow with unchanging devo-
ton the cleaning cross of Him who Is
hottest among the mighty and mighticst
among the holy
even that loving Christ whose gospel
raises woman up, and with her lifts
towards heaven the world. Willard.
rs victory far away? Is it nearer
than when we first believed? Hear the
lesson of the the Alpine avalanche:
Far above human habitation, in mac
cessible solitude, the ice and snow accu-
mulates through seasons and ages. In
icy cliffs they grip the granite walls of
the mountain, with frozen fingers that
may not relax. The sun rises higher and
higher as the season advances and beams
down with radiant smiles and pierces
through with the direct shafts of light.
With daily persistence II h0neyc0mbs
that immense cold ice mountain, and its
destruction comes suddenly. Up to the
very moment of its fall it looked solid,
frowning Obstructive, impenetrable, but
the last beam needed pierced it through,
and with great, thunderous rOars it
crushed down the granite sides of the
eternal mountain into the ravine below
and swells the rushing mountain torrent
as it shouts on its reckless course to the
ocean.
"The preventive work among the moth
ers that every child has a right to be
well born. with no alcohol or impurity as
its inheritance, with the educational
work that is forewarning and forearm
ing nearly every child in the land through
the public schools; with the growing de-
mand in every avenue of business or la
Dor for men who abstain, putting an I'M
mistakable premium upon clear brains;
with the. legal idiots that as school
masters are teaching the people by law;
this avalanche of evil is being percolated
by sunny, persistent truth, and suddenly
we shall hear the awful crash-perhaps
here, perhaps over yonder-but we shall
hear it, and roaring, bowling down the
granite sides of eternal truth this danger
Gus mass shall fall into the shouting tor
rent below, and be hurled hastily, reck-