Connecticut western news., 1915-09-30
A Woman's Appeal to the Manhood of
 Man

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 Man.
 Editor News: Permit, patient Editor, one more article to appear in the col umns of your paper on temperance. We shall endeavor to make it as short as possible. Of course the terrible recent tragedies of drink. fresh in the public mind, ought to awaken feeling of horror and disgust in the heart of every true man whose manhood has not become entirely calloused. We are re- ferring to the man who drank himself to death in a cellar hole and lay for days and days before being found.
 Then there is that truly dreadful thing where a young girl fights with a drunk -crazed brute of father 10 save her mother from being murdered by him and is herself shot. It should shame the manhood of all men and cause the rumseller to shudder with a feeling of blood -guiltiness, but these horrible rum tragedies of which the rumseller is primarily responsible are accepted as a matter of course and as long as the government and the laws of our country will not recognize the sale of liquor as a crime, we shall continue to have innum erable rum trs gelies.
 Now let us get down to the appeal of mans inherent manhood. First you young voter, don't cast your first vote for rum. Start right with your first vote, and so shall your young manhood be a help to the community, not curse; and your own conscience and self respect will applaud you. Now then, you men who want a wet town, we are going to ask very little of you. On Thursday night of this week Roman Catholic priest-God bless him-will speak in the Town Hall on the license question; there are no finer speakers on that question in the world than the priests of the Catholic religion. Loyal Catholics and all those men who expect to vote for license, go and hear him. Don't be afraid of him. Why should you be, if your conscience is clear? Show your manhood and let the public see that you are not towards; that you on the contrary are brave enough and willing to hear the truths of the other side even though you do not intend to live by them.
 Not all license men are drunken sots or even hard drinkers. A great many of them are only moderate drinkers and as many do not even drink at all. They care for and are good to their families, are good neighbors and citi- zens. To these we make our strongest appeal. Such men are their weak and fallen brothers keepers. To God, unless the bible and it's threatened judgments are lie-and who believes, or dares to believe this?-they must render an ac- count of how they have protected or cared for their weaker brothers.
 Now, No license men, stand up and take your dose. Get busy. Don't be afraid of spending little money in perfectly right and legitimate ways. License men win because they are in earnest, so much in earnest that they spend money hiring autos to go after rummies, some of whom look as if they had been dug up for the occasion.
 The writer of these No License arti- cles, with the right arm for the greater part of the time in a sling, has spared neither time, strength nor even money to help arouse, if possible, the public conscience. Literally, single handed and alone, as far as her sex is concerned, woman and non-voter has tried to do the little she could. and oh, you No License men who after voting right, yourself, turn in, for the sake of little money, and help the license men to drag in the decrepit rummies all day, Don't do it this year! No License.