The Portland daily press., 1874-04-20
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solitary crusader we're % iry praying Al hun
s sie1 lam-seiiers In a body for while, and sse
stead Of for her.
would you consider the conduct Of these
sausaaers .ishs l1sunableP do-thoroughly Ius-
n@o'e; ina Ihey Md themselves voiceless in
-, ..a.ss ~'.~s oi avs and the election ofofhcers
70 70 execute them. Born with b-ains. hor,, I'M
the country, educated, having lsrgs in,..ssa.
AZ stake they lind their tongues ti,,l ana ,h..ir
nands iet'ered, while every Ienoran, ,.h,sL.'
drinking, toreign-bOrn savage In ,hs ia',d -.
hold offiee, help 10 make the laws Ssass.,s
the dignity OF the former aud break ths 7s,,s.
at MS own sweet WIZ. They see their f.t,,ers-
husbands and brothers sit namely Al homss
and allow the scum OF the country to assemble
at the primaries" name the candidates for
Office from their own vile ranks, ana, unre-
buked, elect them. They live in the midst Of
a country where there is no end to the laws
and no beginning to the execution of them.
And when the laws intended to protect their
sons from destruction by in
temperance lie torpid and without sign OF
life. year after year.they recognize that here is
matter that interests them personally, a
matter which comes straight home. TO them.
And since they are allowed to lift no legal
voice against the outrageous state of things
they suher under in this regard, think it Is
no wonder that their patience has broken
down, at last, and they have tried to persuade
themselves that they are justifabe in break
ing the law OF trespass when the laws that
shoulc make the trespass needless are allowed
by the voters to lie dead and imperative.
Ihe present crusade will, doubtless, do but
little work against intemperance that will be
really permanent, but it will do what is as
much, or even more to the purpose, [ think.
L think 1t will suggest to more than one man
that if women could vote. they would vote
on the side OF morality, even if they did vote
and speak frantically ard furiously. and it
will also suggest that when the women once
made up their minds that it was not good to
have the all powerful ''prilnares'' in the
hands Of loafers, thieves and perricious little
politicians, they would not sit ndolently at
home as their husbands and brothers do now,
but would hoist their praying banners, take
the field in force, pray the assembled poli.i-
cal scum back to the holes and slums where
they belong, and set up some candidates fit
for decent human beings to vote for. / dear
ly want the women to be raised to
the political altitude of the negro, the i'm
poIted savage and the pardoned theft, aud al
lowed to vote. L t is our last chance think.
The women will be voting before long, and
then if a b. F. Butler can still continue to
lord it in Congress, il the highest Offices in
the land can still continue to be occupied by
perjurers and robbers; ii another Congress
like the 42G, consisting Of fifteen honest men
and 296 OF the other kind can once more be
created, it will, at last, be time, fear, to
give over trying to save the country by hu-
man means, and appeal to Providence. Both
the great parties have failed / wish we
might have woman's party now, and see
how that would work. feel persuaded that
in extending the suffrage to women, this
country could lose absolutely nothing, and
might gain great ceal. For thiity ceutu-
ries history has been iterating and reiferat-
ing that in a moral fight woman is simply
dauntless, and we all know, even With onr
eyes shut upon Congress and our voters,
that, from the day that Adam ate OF the
apple and told on Eve down to the present
day, man, in moral fight, has pretty uni
formly shown himself to be an arrant cow
ard.