The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-21

covers its victims with halo of glory,
but the drunkard is buried in oblivion
and shame. The inheritance Is not one
of patriotism and credit, for 1t under
mines morality, ability and statesman
ship. what are we doing to prevent
this condition of things?" she asked,
earnestly, "and what can we do to rem
edy the evil?" Man is not alone to
blame, for he has his complement in
stubborn womanhood, for men are
largely what we as mothers make them.
Women are also largely responsible
for the habits and customs of society
over which they have a controlling in
fiuence.
Women who look on the comedy Of
politics at the present time cannot help
but feel as the two Irish boys did when
they met to compare notes on the cat
echism that they were studying.
Said Mike unto Pat, Faith, and how
far have you got?"
"Och, Begorra," said Pat, I'm in the
middle of original sin. An bedad where
might yez be?"
"Och, sure, I'm beyant redemption"
This, Mrs. Lake opined, was the con-
dition of leading political parties 4
the present day. License does not make
the traffic right; in fact 1t is an ac-
acknowledgement that 1t Is entirely
wrong. There can be no compromise
| between right and wrong; God and the
devil can never be reconciled, and no
license on earth can wipe out the wrong
that those who give II are guilty of. Old
topers who can drink all the days of
their life and not become drunk are like
the fish that was fed all the whisky that
II would hold and then could swim
straight. She said 1t was called a
"mullet head" and as to the man who
claimed that he couldn't get drunk her
| audience could draw their own con-
clusions One man that she had met
claimed that he would drink alcoholic
drinks until he could find it forbidden In
the ten commandments. Less than so
per cent of our population are church
members, and so per cent Of the church
members are being swallowed up In
the vortex of unbelief and agnosticism,
said the speaker. We are doing all in
our power in this land today to devel-
op intemperance she said, and she gave
as an instance the style of refreshments
served at fashionable parties, being
chiefly Roman punch, brandy drops and
brandy cherries. The drink habit is
growing among women according to
DIR. Cyrus Edison and the speaker read
statistics to prove that treatment for
dipsomania among the 400 is a very
common thing at the present time. An
other fact brought out is, that France
is heavy wine drinking country; five
sixths of the women's complexicns are
ruined by the excessive use of wines,
a 70 nf Mt
goes on France will soon be nation Of
drunkards and imbeciles. Business
men are afraid to touch this question"
Mrs. Lake said, they are so timid and
easily frightened. Politicians are afraid
of 1t; they are Weakened and knock
kneed and the newspapers are in the
same boat. We are wanting in the
material that martyrs are made Of and
all the temperance cranks in the coun-
try are needed to bring about integrity
forces should be united, Catholic or
Protestant, in any work that has for
it's object the uplift of humanity"
Mrs. Lake declared that there was
nothing in her church that forbade a
Catholic from joining hands with
either Jew or Gentle in any humani-
tartan work. She pleaded for single
standard of purity for both sexes, and
it will come in the home when mothers
shall stop talking silly love twaddle to
their children and men refrain from
vulgarity in the presence of children
and keep away from the saloons,
spending the time with their children,
instructing them in the things they
ought to know, then, and only then,
will true character building be a sue
cess in the home and our children be
properly schooled in virtue and right
eousness, the crowning elements Of
character that should adorn each boy
and girl, man and woman in the land.