Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-07-20
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very hard for them to do right and
she had sometimes wondered why
it was SO hard to make men under
stand this. The reserve fund in
treasury at Washington is hedged
about by law and enactment that
the credit of the nation may be
preserved, butthere is little legisla-
ton to protect the boys, and what
few laws there have been designed
for that purpose, are too often poor
~ enforced.
Mrs. Unruh stated that
there are 100000 licensed saloons
in the United States, an equal
number of gambling dens. and a
myriad of brothels from all of
which go forth a declaration to the
effect that it shallbe made as hard
as possible for the boys to do right
and easy for them to do wrong.
Is this right? she asked. The boy
who stears through all this temp
tation and comes to a pure, clean,
manhood has a lot of moral stami-
ma and there are comparatively few
such.
North Dakota was highly COM
plimented by the speaker because
it had outlawed the saloon. She
said it had done better than most
other states. II have often seen
in other states a drunken beggar,
I have never sec one in North
Dakota;;' was one Of her observa-
tions.
Mrs. Unruh bore down on the
men rather severely. She accused
them of being Indifferent concern
ing the welfare of the boys and of
sitting astride the fence onthe liq-
uor question for fear that if they
take a decided stand their business
might. suffer. eff I was a whiskey
man." she exclaimed, "I'd be a
whiskey man, and if I was a tenn
perance man I'd be one. I would
let the world know where I stood"
If any of the men present wanted
to get on the fence they would
have to wait until more fences
were built, for every rod Of it was
already occupied.
The gamblers and tobacco users
also received attention from the
speaker. She found gambling ev-
erywhere, she said, and she con-
fessed a lack of hair-splitting
to the extent that had never been
able to distinguish the difference
between progressive euchre and
other forms Of gambling.
The W. G. T. u, she declared,
doesn't like tobacco first hand, it
doesn't like it second hand,
it doesn't like to be
smoked. She wouldn't argue
against the tobacco habit from an
aesthetic standpoint, however, but
on the ground that it harms the
boys. It destroys fine perception
of sight and vitiates the taste to
such an extent hat the con-
frmed user of tobacco can hardly
distinguish the difference between
soap grease and creamery butter.
Mrs. Unruh also touched upon
the social evil, saying that she
would have the man who is a NOR.
al leper subjected to the same
disgrace and punishment that is
melted out to the woman who is {
moral leper. The woman il
scorned, denied admission to de-
cent society, and the man ought t.
be treated in the same manner
The idea of the world seems to be
that sin in a woman is to be con.
demned while sin on the part of 6
man is to be condoned.
Mrs. Unruh held the close at
tention of the audience from The
beginning to the close Of her ad
dress. She will speak again mex
Monday evening, subject, "Tha
Old Bachelor"
There was no speaking in tn,
auditorium last evening, but a fin,
concert program was carried out b.