The Seward gateway., 1916-07-12

their volubility to be equal to the Falls of Niagara, grew intoxicated with one idea.
 q am old and stricken in years; my next birthday will make me eighty years of age. have raised a large family of sober sons, who have passed the drug store and the saloon every day of their lives in their way to school and to office and in the larger work of business men that has brought them out into the country, in educational institutions, in commercial activities, in illegal action and in liter ature.
 oOme people say: Doesn't God pronlblt everything that Is cwE Aren the Ten Commandments full of pronlDltlon? les, the len Com mandmcuts say. Thou shalt not steat put the len Commandments do not hide away in the bowels of the earth everything man can steal On the contrary, the Ten Commandments place temptation in your way and in mine, and say to us. resist or take the consequences. The Ten Command ments include, Thou shalt not kiii,' but you shall not take everybody and shut them in the pcnintentiary to pre- vent 1t because now and then some person is killed. What you want to do is to place all the safeguards of protection you can around every in Jividual, however high or low, rich or poor, teaching him that he who con quereth himself, takcJh a city We can never have temperance in its tru- est sense until we have raised men and women who are willing to aid by the rule of self-protection. If We are to cure the evil of intemperance, let Us be rational, let Us Ec reasonable. When a man becomes afflicted with the smallpox, We send him to the pest-house and put him in quarantine; but we don't put all the rest of the population in quarantine with him. We stay on the outside and do all that we can to cure or at least relieve the suffering of the man who is afflicted. Just so with the drunkard who hasn't stamina to control himself Let Us take charge of him, but let Us not compel everybody else to go to the pesthouse because he must. Let us not compel all the men in the land to carry crutches because now and then one walks lame. This is not phiIos- ophy, that is not common sense, and l speak the convictions that come to me through long experience.
 california will not destroy the grape industry by voting prohibition. oregon's duty is to decide that it is not wise to destroy the hop industry which enables thousands of women to get money to pay taxes and educate their children. Let us be sensible, let us be temperate, let us be logical, let us be free, and remem- Der that our first duty is to see that everybody registers to be able to do their part in the great climax that is before us. Common sense will pre- vail. Education, opportunity knOwI- edge, liberty-above all things liberty is what is to enable us to raise fami- lies of seIf-supporting, self-sustain- ing, self-protecting men and women"
 When a pioneer Western woman Of the calibre of Abigail Scott Dunniway speaks, at her advanced age and with her vast experience and knowledge of the world, in the cause of temperance as above, it might be time for the younger pioneer women of Alaska to consider her words and adyice.-Fair- banks News-NIiner, May 20, 1916.
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