Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-03-04
The Women's NOyemeEt-NO
enc Knows 8OH Long IL
Will LAST

W hlseacres are telling the country
that the women's movement against the
liquor business will be Of an ephemeral
character; that in few months ct most
it will have passed away. Such de
claration must be taken at its face
value. II IS guess.
In practical sense, If it happens to
come true as prediction, it will DO as
well as If those who made it had vol
umes of precedents to sustain them in
their declarations. Az guess, 1t may
or may not "hit."
There are no preceteEts from whIcl. to
star, sach declarations. The history Of
the past presents no movements of
similar character. The books contain
no record to console them IN their
guess-work. If the past presented
some precedent, or land mark, from
which to reckon as to the perseverance
the ladies' will bring 20 bear in the
movement, an excuse for the conceited
declaration that il cannot last, might
be conjured up. The movements of
our own sex have been so varied that
when q new one is venture1 on, we look
to the past to see how our fathers acted,
and on their recorded actions base our
opinion as to how We may succeed.
Womaukind, in the past, has had DO
voice, excepting through the private
chambers of her husband, 10 shaping the
public mind. She has never had the
opportunity to organize. TIE strong
counsel she has given, as represented
in individual cases, in which she has
risen above the so-called natural weak
ness Of her sex, are no more exceptions
than are the works of the powerful and
brilliant men Of our sex exceptions.
Womanhood has always held an in
ferior position. We go to the Eastern
countries 10 fnd the status in which she
has been held. Her condition there is
as near akin TO slavery a, it well can
be. Even there individual cases rise
above the hsrem, and the abject SER
want by her superior tao, aud judgment
makes herself felt. The reading pub
lie know the condition of the "squaw"
of the North American Indian. In
these brief and hasty Illustrations may
be read the past condition of woman
kind. She is just emerging from her
state of bondage to a condition of true
and equal companionship, in which her
comfort ard we'll being are to be con
sidered as well as those of the opposite
sex. The spasmodis caresses and
gaudy decorations that men as often
bestowed on their dogs or horses as
they did on their women, is to give way
TO kind and just consideration for
their comfort, which will result in the
formation Of pleasanter society and
haDpie, homes.
Womauklnd has held such a condi
tion in society that she could never as
sert and express herself 10 an organized
way against the frivolties and vices of
husbands and sons. She has been com
PEELED TO witness the meaDest debauch
cry, and been dragged through the
deepest recesses of private distress and
destitution without once daring to lift
her voice iu protest. Our present civ
iliratiOn is giving her an opportunity to
assert herself and express ter disap-
probation Of the vices of our sex. ln
the new movement she advocates moth
ing but that which is for our good.
Can not cur sex rise above its arbitrary
rule, and treat her as a companion
whose comfort AMI we'll being is to be
considered as we'll as our own7
Nc one knows Row long the women's
temperance movement will last. II
man does not exercise the rule of the
despot; if he be civilized enough to
allow woman a voice on the questions
that affect the family, its happiness and
prosperity, it will be of the most endu
ring character.