Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-03-25
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.
EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS BY
MRS. LEONORA BARRY LAKE.

generations that have come and gone
since the Savior of the world cam to
US to prepare the way for the saliva
ton of the children ofGod have failed
to make this day and age selfdenying
and self sacrificing. This is the very
principle, the fundamental element of
our moral life, and it is because we
have so little of the character of the
meek and lowly Naz arene who came
to show US how to live and teach us
| how to die, that the legalized saloon
appeals to the greed and worldliness
of the men and women and so claims
it's existence among US as it does
to-day.
Where did this selfishness creep in?
| Where did irreligion become part Of
| the business of our land? How is it
that men to- day who are otherwise
| honorable and good men, believe
there is no place for God or the sacred
| teachings of Christ, or the principles
he came to earth to give US, in the
business of to-day? I believe the
| very seed of this selfishness, the very
| seed of this worldliness that has cast
God out Of the business of the land
and created this desire for wealth and
gain and fame and striving for posi-
ton, that makes man override every
law ofGod and man for the fulfillment
of his ambition; [ believe, I say, the
seed of all this evil has been sown in
the homes of our land.
The homes of our land! They have
not been builded on Christian princi-
pies; they have not been conducted
according to Christian teachings. The
pride Of the world, the desire for gain,
the desire for ease, the desire for lux
ury, the overriding the rights of the
people, have been engendered and
fostered in the homes of our land.
The home is the cornerstone upon
| which national superstructure is
builded, and without Christian homes
you will never have Christian nation.
Without Christian fathers and moth
ers united-not for social reasons, not
for financial reasons, not for name or
for place in the worlds honors, but IN
the fear and love of God-you will
never have a home that is worthy the
name of Christian home.
Now men are condemned, and right
", for much that they have done and
are doing. Men have made laws that
are vicious laws; men have made
laws in which there is neither Justice
nor equity; men have made laws
which may seem to be expedient for
the hour and the time, but without
that consideration which every law
should receive, looking into the future
and studying it's effect upon the COM
ing generations, rather than upon the
generations of the present, for God
Almighty made men the trustees of
civilization. But [ am going, in
measure, to take some of the blame
for the things that are wrong off the
shoulders of men, for after all, when
we come down to the exact and
honest truth of the matter, men are
largely what we women make them.
And when the women of the world,
when the motherhood of our land, at
least, shall turn more of their atten-
ton to to the building of character in
their children than to the establish
ment of social standard which they
may enjoy, when the pleasures of life
shall be given over for the care of the
n itc fro ,iHo
the nursery shall become the place
where the woman desires to shine in
all her beauty, then will the child be
better fitted for a place in the nation
and its affairs.
Give to womanhood her need of
credit. Do not make Of her either
toy, the plaything of an hour, or
something without common sense and
judgment, to be humored in her
whims, patted on the back, told that
she is pretty, that her dress is becom
ing, that she has good figure, and
when she wants to talk common
sense, do not put her aside and tell
her that is too troublesome for her to
vex her pretty head with. Give to
woman the right to know the affairs
of the day. Shield her from the
temptations that you have surrounded
her with. You have done it, men!
She has aided you. Women are the
makers of society; men are the
makers of law. They frame the stat
utory laws of the land, but no law that
men ever made stands as immovable
and unalterable as the laws which
govern society, of which women are
the trainers and makers. And when
c0oiotv woman Cbo11 ctoyo tho;y