The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-01-17

ceivCd as prcposterOus Joke and treated
with utter contempt aud outrage was the
petition Of tens Of thousands Of tho moth
ers. daughters, and wives Of the land
that the one petition which they received
aud dropped with utter indifference was
the petition against intcmporance-thc
petition that seeks TO tighten tho heavy
load OF degradation, misery, murder that
lies upon the land and most heavily upon
the hearts, the lives, the homes OF wo-
men.
In its minimizing uttercnce. The CaPi-
tai OF Sunday was perfectly correct when
il said: The ladies managing the bust
ness managed it badly III they had en-
ploycd the female lobby or sent IN o del
ecation OF pretty Treasury clerks. the
venerable S0lous would b1vc soitgucd,
and throws open their d0oga gs readily 0r
their hearts DO seems an uucrcciaus
thing to say; but it Is the truth. The
woman who wins her way with the ma
iority o. these men is not the plain
carncstcycd woman, with q email knob
OF native hair at the back Of her head
10 is the siren Of the gallery and che ante
room who sends iu her card and her in
vitatiOn to the senator at his desk. She
never talks Of rights" She cares FOR no
cause but her own cause Of ease and
pelf She shakes her trosses, banged
and usually blonde she lifts her allur.
ing eyes. and nine times out OF zen mgkCs
him do as she listcih
No wonder, when the earnest appeal Of
honest women reaches his hands. hC has
neither response, honesty, honor, or jus
tice 10 give It. The Grnphics Pelcg Ark
right was quite right when he wrote:
AIS long as men are bosses,
There b. reason 90 declare,
MumCn's work viii bc problem
still Of lips and eye aud hair"
We can wait-as the stars wait IN their
spheres, as God waits
One hundred years from now. if .Iay
came back from some distant world TO
this little earth, ] shall not find upon 10 one
son 81 woman willing 20 believe that but
one cycle back there lived a man uuwill-
ing that his sister should have an equal
chance with himself; a man who, because
he was q man, offered indignity, tyranny,
injustice in the guise Of protection TO
one daughter or mother Of the race
Has woman nothing TO do with this
sure rCsult2 Everything Man TO DAY
is what a long line Of weak, ingloriouB
women have made him. Remember that
thou woman In tho humhlcst home
You arc the mother Of q son; you lay
your hand upon the dome OF thought to
shape the mind Of q man. Shape 10 TO
something larger aud finer than the mind
Of the best man you know. II will be
your fault il that man lives % sncer az
the sex that give him his mother,
20 Queen awake 90 thy rln0wn,
require what IT'S man wealth 60 give,
And comprehend and wear the crown
90 tuy pissed UUI0..IfINri
who iu SO ihNfEOuU'a uafup Hf IHu..f
with ulud songs come 60 nbllcafc
Tie gross Tt-uiify OF strength
Must yet iu THIS thy praise uhTtH,
That through thine crriug humhlluCHr
And disregard 90 thy a.-.fte,
Mainly, has man 1rslI A. much fr.l
T1iur FfF h'f Ffi9frshfu frfft firr
ID lgh Thoughts had shaped the foolish brow,
The coward had graspci the hrrus swUGl,
The Villrf bad been great, hadT thou.
Just % TfiNsTLF, been Worth b reward"
WAsuTsGTor, y. c., Dee, igih, 1877.