"how To Save The Men From Saloons."

Mr. Editor :- The time has come that not only a few highiy educated and dis tinguiahed women shall daré arise to de'end the right, and redresa the wrongs of er sex ; but that every woman of any pirit and sensibility must come forward rmed and equipped for the battle, since he is to bo assailed on every hand by a ertain class of pinched-up souls of the raasculine portion of society : one of whom is the author of the one-sided article in your last week's issue, under the above title. It is not enough that woman must give striot account for erery word and deed of her own, but alack ! she must become responsiblo for man's weakness and depravity! Verily, may God help her thon. Poor weak man does not possess strength, hrinness of good principie, love of the moral and refined, sufficient to save him from falling iuto the chain-gangs of the drunken, gambling, profane rabble, as it marches along to tharutumery, from which emanates the fumes of its foul contenta. Tour good brother is well aware of the fact, and aa he can flnd no other excuse Lor your weaknesü, he attempts to throw the blame and responaibility upon the shoulders of wives and mothers ! He solemnly propounds the question : How far are women responsib e t. r the dissipated course of men ? Not in the least are they. If woman should undertake to justify her errors by the evil doings of inen, their hands would be upraised in holy horror, and man'a laws would o y out : " Seud her up for sixty days [" Of course we know not, only u e have a right to judge, what kind of a dreary home is his ; but this we boldly assert : that he speaks falsely, orfrom a very limited scope of knowledge as regards the homes of others. Since he has been go generous, we also, admit there are exceptional cases among women. But as far as our knowledge extends (and it Las often been repeated), the kindest and most faithful wives are nnfortunate in having recklesB and dissipated husbands. It is inore the want of a due appreoiation of the Tirtues and good qualities in the wife, than it is the laok of her benign mfluence, if she is to be mentioned in the case. Sorue of the poor have never had the íneans to beautify their hoines, and as a consequence, if the husband drinks to oxoess, the wife i driven to the task of going out to work by the day to earn food and raiment for hurself and ohildren, and, perhaps, help clothe her lazy, drunken husband, for pride's sake. Justice ought to shove him out of the fatnily oirole, and tell him to be gone. But no, woman suffers on, for fear of man, powerless to escape her doom, but forever hoping for a reformation in him she has taken, "for better or for worse," until toil, privation and grief, has extinguished the last spark of love and life, and the cold grave is the end of her trials here on earth. On the other hand, the man of money, and once steady, respectable and prospered in business, marries a refined and intellectual and industrious wife, who does all in her power to make her home ploasant. The husband provides well, and all is bright aud happy for a time. By and by he has enough and to spare for pleasure, aud he ie hailed here and there to come in and have a gay time. And he justifies himself in so doing, saying : I get in y wife all she needs, I havo got her a nice home, where she is couifortable and might be happy ; why noed sho find fault if I do spond my evenings at the saloon with my friends? ür, what is the harm in going in to get a free lunch, occasionally ; or in taking a glass of sherry or champagne, three or four times a dy, if I don't get drunk, and my chum pays for it F Mr. such a-one, and this one and that one, takes it too. And ia the morning, a glass half-full of Bourbon filled up with sugar and milk is good for the health, he says, no matter if the wife does tremble and proteet against it. Of course the idea is absurd that he will ever be a drunkard ! So, when his customers make a trade with him, they invite him to go and take something to drink, and he onnnok ty no : then, to keep his trade, h troats in return. All this in not becauso hehas no enjoyment at home; it is beoause man ia prone to evil, and oannot resist temptation and the allurements of vice. Again, why do sods go astrny ? It i8 yot to be proven that tbe fault lies at the mother's door. You niay as well declare at once, that the soul-thriliing Hong, " Home, sweet home," is all a lie. It is thu wicked tempter on every side that blinda his senses to everytbing but the fscinating vico. ïho saloon keeper a not satiafied with the downfall of the f,ither, but he seeks to destroy the son also' He invites a few yoimg people into his pnrlor at home ; there stands the card table, and refreshments are served with "" aB oeverage offered him. That tnay be the first step, and who can teil where it inay end. Is the mother responsible for that P Fathers and sons do not always heed the timely warniug and advice of those they love best. Let men the nobleat work of God, as they cali theinselves, prove themselves sucli, and choose the better way and walk therein, and by their noble extimple, kind admonitions and encourageuient to do right, bring up their sons and daughters to be iemperate in all things, and there will be but few mothers and wives behind in their duties.