The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-09-18
THE "XACHINE."

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friends has she1yed him. forth present
lie was i. burden to lis party I'm til
Soutntsan4 Ais ligAtssy6tessh0ws tlla
his strength WAS greatly OYer-estimat
Ell. lie was the candidate OF the rim,
politicians Of this part of tie State
and the general masses OF the peopl
enthused very little over his candidacy
many OF the best men in the Southwes
preferring Pillsbury to him. He wa
led into the tight by his friends, who
had they, possessed more sagacity an,
cared more for their professions of hos
.tilityest0 ,athirdsatermisn,,- ~might-lm.v,
foreseen his defeat and turned thel
forces to man possessing greater poi,
ular condolences; and right here we wan
to disabuse the minds of the people il
regard to any perscnal a,tagonism o
our own TO Wakefield. But that h,
was weak candidate, for Southern
Minnesota to put forward in Il fight
against the desperate elements Of tie
ringsters of st. Paul, the work Of tie
convention shows, and some OF his per
sonat friends foresaw it:
We are glad to see the Reporte,
speaking so: frankly OH the subject
What 1t says was apparent to MS
months ago and we pronounced Wake.
field the ''maclIine" candidate. his
BOOM was Wholly movement OF tie
Land officers, postmastcrs and politici.
ans of the district and not ut all i,
movement OF the people. We think
him Il man Of fair ability and he has
matte good ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, bnt
ii stronger man had, been brought
out, we think that Southern Mime So
tn might have had the Governors place
on the ticket.
WE'RE THE APOSTLES MARRIED MEN?
Some of the highly cultivated Boston
people WHO have il theory that entirely
to- much attention is paid to women
III this day of civilization, are coming
to the flolt with some. pnZzling facts.
They want to know whether any of the
twelve apostles ever married, or Wlleth-
er there is any record in the Bible or
lstwhere Of amy Of their children. Ii
there WAS Il Mrs. Matthew, Mark, Luke,
or John nobody evty heard of her.
They point to the fact that Christ had
brothers and sisters but no wife or
daughters; there is no woman in the
Trinity. Women were not permitted
to speak in the early Christian churches.
The Bible takes no more account Of
women generally that the Koran or any
otherorirntal book. The ancient Greeks
were the only people who gave women
III those days Il partnership in the at
fairs OF lifc-and they were p:gans and
in 10 I1Sy Fx,s.
and the ladies should call an i,idig,ln-
ton meeting in every city in the land
They might establish the fact that one
of the apostles WAS u married man. for
we are told that one Of the relatives of
on Il certain observation-disclosures GA
Zette
1t is undeniably q fact that through
out the Old and New Testaments wo-
man is regarded as mans inferior and
slayc. This of itself is enough to con-
denim the Bible in its external sense
and effect us Il man-nlale book colored
by the barbarous notions and preju-
diceS of the Jews, who never could lie
for Il moment compared to the splen-
did Greeks for advanced culture and
civilization. AS to tie spiritual revela-
tions Of the Bible, that is another mat
ter altogether.
And yet women who are still suffer-
ing from these old barbaro,s Jewish
ideas, worse than heather if the Greeks
were heather, so on Worslliping the
Bible as all inspiration. worshiping the
church which gives the book Il narrow
interpretation, and worshiping the
priest who keeps them in mental slav-
cry. Poor creatures called women!
The blacks Of the South never needed il
a liberalor more than these poor wo-
men do. The very chains about their
neclls are symbols Of their ancient con-
lition Of slavelloou. The bracelets OH
their arms are relics of the hand cuffs
and manacles which they once wore
and still wear. And not one in Il
thousand knows it. They flaunt the
silken ropes and rattle the golden
chains that bind them, and frown up
on every God-inspred member Of their
OWN sex who braves public opinion to
set them free.