The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-10-14
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Tho Evil Of Intcmpe RI ncc-Womcu to
Crush it-And They Must Have tho
Ballot.
. Zosox1A, PA,, OCT ]. 1869.
EDITOR JousNAL.-From your Is
sue Of the 16th ult, I cut tho following
frst.rato notice Ply y
Mrs. Harriet f. Bishop. of this State,
read q speech at the Womau's Suffrage
Convention in Chicago, on Friday, in
which she said that she Was not
in favor Of womau's suffrage. She
worry sensibly thought that many evils in
tho land, such as intemperance, claimed
the first efforts of woman.
Ne wonder. the people of, Chicago
talk Of building edEl.aqg .,veeond tunnel !. s1f
the metseorio displays of genius ever did
OF could set rivers on fire, the Chicago
river must have famed up on the de-.
livery Of this, profound sspseoh Of tho
profound Mrs. Bishop; and not only
tho river, but a considerable porto 10, Of
tho water in the reservoirs have been
excited to emulate the brilliancy of the
display !! :iYes, certainly Chicago must
require another 1iser;, while, the won
derfql astutsn ess j Of. your comments
makes me anxious for the upper Missis-
s;ppi. Perhaps it did burn, and; that
a beuef6cent Providence sent that great
rain as, a, new supply of the aqueous
fluid! But do you be careful, for if
Mrs. Bishop should keep on oleotrify-
ing the world, and you continue to act
conductor Of tho subtle fluid Of genius,
your lakeland wall be, nothing but a
"burnt district and the world: itself
before the end of the year take rank
with the moon as 9 burned out globe.
Suppose Mrs, Bishop should take it
into her profound head to visit the dirty
part Of St. Paul, and thereupon write
out and read speech "pot in favor:
Of the women there having supply Of
water and mops and brooms,, because,
forsooth, they had failed to cleanse their
dwellings without! Suppose she should
urge an amendment to tue Constitution,
ttorbiading women to use sewing ma
chimes, because they have not made
proper use. Of tho needle and making
it penal for one with an uukempt head
to get possession Of a;brush,, because
she had not kept her hair glossy with a
fragment Of . coarse, horn comb
Suppose she should conceive the idea
Of laying an embargo on the use Of all
improved machinery and modes Of living,
until such time as all the results pro.
posed to be accomplished through Their
agency should have been achieved
without them! All this would be nc
more than consistent with her position
Of denying to woman the use Of the
ballot until she has brought about,
without its agency, the. results she seeks
through its potent power. Mrs. Bishop
and thousands Of. other good women
have been seeking, for, half b I. a century.
to kill the hydra Of lntemperance BY
mild cmetics of moral suasion, and the
creature has fattened and grown great
on the regimen, They have stood
pelting with grass tufts the thief who
has been stealing the fruits Of thei,
labor and the happiness Of their lives
while no sits laughing and munchina
away. Now, when q, demand IS: made
for club nth which to knock out thu
brains ofthe monster, for stones to dis
]
lodge the: maurader, Mrs.; Bishop
puts iu her protest, because the only
means at hand have been inadequate t.
accomplish the desired result .r
/ 1t is long: years since the ablest apos
ties Of temperance have been brought
to the conviction that the most efficient
weapon that can be, used on its behalf
is, the ballot. Thousands :; Of person:
who would oppose woman's enfranchise
ment on every other ground, agree IL
its favor an account of the greater eff
cheney it would give her in promoting
temperance. Nay more :. it is loue
since it has been pretty generally be-
lieved among that portion of::the. com;
mauity; who think; that drunkenness nev'
er can receive any considerable checi
until women. meet it armed with. thu
ballot. No efficient law can be enacted
and enforced against: the business o.
making !drnnkards, until the men who
make md execute laws are obliged K
render an account to the women whose
homes are made desolate through; thei,
present. habit Of pandering to the de-
PRAYED appetites Of 80 large "a. portion
of our voting population. 49, ,<... 4:
Woman is as powerless, in the con
test with intemperapee, without tn
ballot, as in a fight with q, rattlesnak;
minus a weapon, Nothing but vote
can reach our. dramshops, and to den!
these TO- woman and hold, her response
bic for tho continuance gof 7intemper
ance Is an ahsurdity which: could onl!
be pardouable' in genius of the. river
burning tvpc. "a YOU are q pood.nature,