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would be impossible. A like temperance and 

 purity on the part of manhood would give us a 

 civilization as far superior to the present one as 

 ours is superior to the dark ages. 



A single standard is the crying need of the 

 hour. Its enforcement and its upbuilding in pub- 

 lic sentiment lies at the foundation of all reform. 

 Young men can never be induced to live pure The Crying 

 lives, nor young women be protected, until theHour. 

 law of chastity is made equally binding upon both. 

 Young men will not abstain from smoking and 

 drinking as long as these things are deemed re- 

 spectable when indulged in by a gentleman. The 

 saloon and the brothel, together with the poverty, 

 the pauperism, the epilepsy, the feeble-minded- 

 ness, the insanity and the crime they cause will 

 continue as long as public sentiment is dominated 

 by the double standard. 



The double standard will yet be outgrown. No 

 self-respecting man can afford to live beneath the 

 ideal he holds for woman. Everywhere I go I 

 find hundreds of noble men struggling to rise 

 above the dictates of the propensities that they 

 may enjoy the larger life and liberty which come Obey More to 

 to a man when he feels that he is master of him- ^^ More * 

 self. My thought is that the day is not far dis- 

 tant when the mass of men will learn to obey 

 more, that they may enjoy more. The time is 

 soon coming when a man guilty of acts for which 

 a woman would be condemned, will be ostracized 

 from society. 



It would seem that woman is to be the principal 

 factor in establishing the single standard. As 

 God saw fit to use woman to bear His Son to the 



