Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-11-15
AlI's Well.

The following exquisite gem Is worth
preserving. We doubt If within, the
whole range of English literature, any
thing more beautiful or more touching
ly can be found: y = E...ssga5 g.ls
"Twelve o'clock at night and all's
we'll" .r
False prophet Still and statue like,
at yonder window, stand the wife. The
clock has tolled the small hours, yet
her face IL pressed against the window
pane, striving I'm vain, with straining
eye, to pierce the dark ness. She sees
nothing, she hears nothing, but the
beating of her own heart. Now she
takes her seat, opens Bible, and seeks
from IL what comfort she may, while
tears blister the pages. Then she clasps
her hands, and her lips are tremulous
with mute supplication. Hist! there
is an unsteady step In the hall; she
knows 1t, for many time and oft it
has trod on her healt strings. She
glides down gently to meet the wandee-
er. He falls heavily against her, and,
in maudlin tones, pronounce u name
he has long since forgotten Ito honor. -
Oh, all-enduring power or women's
love! no reproach, no upbraiding-the
light arm passed around the reeling
figure, once erect in Gods own image
With tender words Of entreaty, which
he Is powerless tO resist, IL he would,
she leads him in. 1t Is but the repeti-
ton ofa thousand such vigils! 1t Is
the performance ofa vow with hero
ism and patient endurance too common
every day TO be chronicled on earth, too
holy and heavenly to pass unnoticed by
the registering angel above. tE..rtss
I CATS well!"
False prophet! In yonder luxurious
room sits one, whose privileges il was
to be as fair as dream of Eden. Time
was when those clear eyes looked low
lingly into amother's s face--when kind
loving father laid trembling hand
with blessing on that sunny head
when brothers. and sisters voices
blended with her own, made heart
music around the happy hearth. Oh!
where are they now? Are there none
ther do condemn Thee --go and sin no
more" Must the gilded fetter contin-
ue to bind the soul that loathes il, be.
cause man Is less nierciless than God?
\ "All's WE'LL"
False prophet There lies the dead
orphan. In all the length and breadth
OF the green earth, there was found no
! shelter hest where the lonely dove
/ could fold its wings when the paren,
bird had flown. The brooding wing
was gone that covered 1t from the cold
winds of neglect and unkindness. Love
was its life and SO 1t dropped.
! "All's WE'LL"
False prophet! Sin walks the earth
In purple aud fine linen, honest power
ty, with tear bedewed face, hungers
aud silivers, and thirsts. 3''while the
publican stands afar Off" The widow
pleads in vain to the determined Judge
for Justice" and unpunished of heav-
i en-, the human tiger cIouches In his
lair, and springs upon his helpless
prey. t'8sa0 -i+,7a3 20 sf.4' 7
"All's well!"a f,n+ lrn ...s....sss..g &
''seeth the end Of the beginning" holds
evcnly the scale. Of Justice. D"Dives
shall yet beg of Lazarus" Every hu.
man tear Is counted. They will yet
sparkle as gems in the crown of the
patient and enduring disciple. When
the clear, broad light of eternity, shines
upon LIES crooked path, we shall see
the pitfalls FROM which our hedge OF
thorns has fenced us In! and I'm our full
4 grown faith, we shall exultingly say
"Father, not as I will, but as thou
wilt al ------L. I-u FEr
Train on Woman Suffrage.
Mr.. George Francis Train 10 stump
ing Kansas for woman suffrage, at the
request of Miss Anthony and Mrs.
Cady Stanton In a speech at Leavan-
worth he let fall an idea of its moral
4 operation. He said:
"IIow isit that man can break all
social sandrefnain respected while
If woman commits the slightest fault
she Is damned, driven from town and
ruined? Because man can vote, and
| woman can't. Give her vote and she
| will project herself We. shall then
have fewer divorces and bettersmor-
als.
Society Is unjustly or
ganized. Man escapes censure and
punishment for acts that damn the
woman. Is this right? mol Let her
vote aud the Arefornlation then be-
gins"
Thus the moral reformation that wo-
man's suffrage Is to bring, II not that
woman Is to reform man or herself, but
is to have the same impunity as man
/ In breaking all social laws, and is no
longer to be damned for acts that man
may commit and escape censure. y This
corresponds with our remark that II
women are brought into the political
strife it would be necessary that they
should have the same invaluable char
acter as men, and should be Judged by
/ the same moral standard, which would
not require absolute personal purity In
them any more than I'm men, rs re-
quisites to social or political stand
| ing.
1t is right, of course, that man and
woman should be judged by the same
moral standard; but the female advo-
Gates of woman suffrage do not look to
any latitude from this. They have an
idea that by some mysterious process,
letting women into the political ring
with men Is going TO refine IL to the
delicacy of the finer female manners.
And yet, inasmuch an woman has hith-
erto been infected rather than sanitive
when she came In familiar contact with
vice, what Is there in vote that will
prevent? MIR. George Francis Train
does not expect that 10 will prevent
His idea is that IL will give woman q
power that will enable her to sin with
the same impunity rs man. he seems
to expect that it will bring her down
to the same level as man, and that I'm.
stead of reforming his vices she 10 go.
ing to enjoy the same.
II would be right that woman should
be Judged by the same moral standard
as man, and that unsuspected chastity
should no more be required I'm her than
i'm him. The different penalties i'm so
ciety is raonstrous injustice; but wo
men seem to accept II as the natura
Ipenaltics upon this diverse Ssy stem
Would the p0wef to vote change, this:
Would not impure man, after all, have
the power to demand purity In woman'
Il And would he not fnd woman. as now
jealous TO enforce his demand? There