than that of the men. When the women of America say to the saloon,
You go! the saloon will have to go. The moral and political measures
of any people are easily traceable to the sisters and wives and mothers
of that people. You and I and every ordinary citizen of our country had
as well try to escape our own shadow, as to try to escape the responsibility
that rests upon us for the drunkenness of our people. To help us to do our
whole duty in our day and generation in this matter is the purpose of our
message.

II. BEWARE OF THE SOCIAL GLASS.

The first and least thing that one can do to destroy drunkenness, is to be
a total abstainer. Beware of the social glass! But quickly one replies,
"Why should there be any social glass?" "Why allow sparkling, attractive
springs of refreshing poison to issue forth in all of our social centers, and
then cry to our sons and daughters, to our brothers and sisters, Beware?"
My friend, we must deal with facts as they are. There should not be a
social glass; but what has that to do with the fact that the social glass is
here? You answer, "Why allow these fountains of death to exist?" while
we cry to our loved ones, "Beware!" We do not advocate the presence
of these fountains; but while we seek to destroy them beseechingly we
cry, "Beware!" The social factor in the liquor traffic is its Gibraltar of
defense. Rare is the young man who has the intellectual stamina and
moral courage to resist the invitations to take a social drink. And in our
frontier and foreign towns many of our bright and respected girls use the
social glass. But in its use is the beginning of a fateful end. The subtlest
thing in this world is sin. Listen!

"Sin is a monster of so frightful mien;
To be hated needs but to be seen;