Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-06-01

tyranny which is upon US. If we could
punish the liquor-dealer like any other
murderer. by death or disfranchise-
ment, and take away from this occurs
ed traffic the power it has at the polls
we might hold it at bay, if not entirely
destroy it. But it votes itself into pow
er. The Democrats are voted out. The
retire in defeat. But this
traffic, as yet, holds the
key of victory, but we're not hopeless.
1t is opposed to all the civilization and
of the age, and it
must go down. The destiny of the race
is onward and upward.
American soil is the battle-ground of
mighty principles. This is the worlds
labratory of political methods. We
have made and are making grand ex-
periments for the world. We have
solved great questions; we shall solve
this. Political science, mighty prayer,
courageous voting will, in the future
not far distant, break the right arm of
our foe and relieve the republic of the
greatest obstacle to its progress and
freedom. But the church must be
aroused. Christians must not ask how
is your temperance work, but every one
must feel that it is their work, and that
they are individually responsible, and
contribute freely of their time and mon
ey for its suppression. Christian citi-
zens must be taught it is a crime to
manufacture or barter III the unclean
thing, or to rent building for the sale
of it, except as poison.
1t is no part of my purpose to enter
into an argument to prove the fact,
but the Christian church must Danish
it from the Lords Temple as a snare
and delusion, the use of which re-
fleets upon the foresight and philan.
thropy of our Savior; and that it is in
no sense the fruit of the vine, or rep.
resentative of his life-giving blood.
How far this corruption of one of the
sacred ordinances of the church may
account for the lamentable fact that
drunkenness is far more common among
nations profeSsedly Christian than
among those who have any other ma.
tional faith is a question which com
mends itself to the thoughtful and
prayerful consideration of the whole
Christian world. Archdeacon Jeff
reys, missionary in the East Indies
said more than twenty years ago, that
for one really converted Christian, a:
the fruit of missionary labor, for one
person born again of the Holy Spirit
and made new creature in Christ Je
sus, the drinking practices of the En-
glish had made one thousand drunk
ards. To abstain from intoxicating
liquors is cardinal point of both Hin
doc and Mohammedan religions. And
it is disgraceful fact that the tenden
cy of our influence has been to encour-
age their excessive use. And there is
in my judgement, another powerful in.
strumentality for the suppression of the
liquor traffic, to which | allude with
some hesitancy lest / shall be misunder-
stood. | mean suffrage in the hands OF
women. 1t is the bitterest scarcasm to
say to women, while suffering the most
exquisite torture from this murderous
traffic: ''Go, educate public senti-
ment; teach your boys to vote against
license laws, when we feel we have the
sentiment already if we were permitted
to utilize it. And / hold it to be the
duty of every woman, as she values
home and country, to labor for that
privilege; not from the standpoint of
woman's rights, neither TO facilitate
divorce, nor to antagOnize the sexes.
We fully realize the obligations we
are under to the good men of this land.
Are they not our fathers, husbands,
sons and brothers, and that to their
manly energy and enterprise we are in
debted for the comfort and abundance
which surround our homes; to their
philanthropy and liberality we owe our
public schools, and to their brains and
mechanical skill the machinery which
gives us leisure for culture and i'm
provement. And we would return the
obligation by helping them solve the
problem of the ability of the people for
calf uovarpmapf IL ouffraUo i'm tho
hands of men has made this nation "a
beacon light to all the nations of the
earth, and been means of growth and
to the race, why withhold
it from women? Not that think suf-
frage in their hands would be panacea
for all the ills of human society. But l
do think the moral forces of this ma
ton to-day are numerically in the hands
of women. They constitute two-thirds
of the church membership and four
fifths of the educators, and | take it
that nation whose perpetuity depends
upon the virtue and intelligence of its
C citizens cannot afford to ignore such a
factor in its government. Not but there
are bad women, but they are greatly in
the minority; and there are bad men al
so, and you can bring no argume
against putting the ballot in the hands
of womel which cannot be brought
with equal propriety against giving it
to men. Besides the all-wise Father
teaches that it is not good for man to
be alone, and our experience in our last
convinced us that politics
were no exception to the rule"
In conclusion Mrs. Wallace spoke of
the progress of the work and stated the
necessity of having the means to carry
it on successfully until they have reach
ed the goal for which they strive, pro-
hibition. AS Mrs. Wallace progressed
with the reading of her address she be-
came filed with the influence of her
subject and she found strong, ringing
voice with which to express her
thoughts. During the reading she was
often applauded, the points against the
present political parties being especial
ly pleasing to the audience.
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