Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-01

greatest good of the greatest number If iE
would interfere with party, OK personal ag-
grandizent buying himself with money and
power, which Is liquor. The pleadiDgs of
mothers, the anguish OF wives, the suffering
destltution of children, the burdening taxa
ton upon the land the wasted resources of the
nation, or the debauched condition of its peo-
pie moves them not; self interest is paramount.
The one year a governor is to be elected, the
result of which election will determine the
Presidential campaign of the following year,
and they freely say, 1.-The foreign vote must not
be antagonized,' which means, we yield to the
demands of the liquor power, and the csptais
of our salvation calls in vain for bis conuCer-
ing army. How can all this be neutralizedl
How shall this reproach be removed from the
nation, and it be exalted through righteous
ness?
AS with longing desire these questions were
brought to the Lord, he impressed upon the
minds, and hearts of women, the words Of
Bishop Simpson, who after carrying from
home to home in the city of Cincinnati,
temperance petition, and finding
how much larger the number
and how much more willingly women signed
than men, said, 81 believe God will overthrow
our enemy by giving us stronger ally, even
woman with the ballot" Though this is OPP
posed to the education, and action of the past;
while to the eye of God ard Of humanity, wo-
man s trophies of goodness, her quiet gains of
gSdliness, her coronet of virtue, her sceptre OF
love, her music of home voices, her husband,
| and her children will ever be her glory, she re-
| cognizes the fact that throughout the world's
| history, God has called upon woman on
| occasions of signal necessity, and in such pub
| lie exigencies ha7 found her adequate to the
| performance of the duty laid upon her. De-
| borah was judge In Israel in her day. as sure
| ly Cd Samuel in his. Miriam was associated
| with her brothers in the leadership of Israel,
| Joan of Arc fought her nations battles. Marths
Glar, the heroine of Switzerland led 200 Wo-
| men to the CORY field of Frauen Buen in de-
fence of liberty. Diadems have graced tbs
| brow of many women who have shed addition
| al lustre upon their nations glory and blessed
the age in WATCH they lived. Necessity knows
no law, and God has made Gear TO us, through
experience, that the necessity of this occasion
will never be met except by woman's petition
| or ballot for temperance. Pressure has for
years been brouget to bear upon tho State legis-
| lature with but little effect. Minnesota has
some have partially yielded, some made laws
and rescinded them. Iowa has
granted prohibitory amend
| ment, which must be ratified by another leg
islature, and again by vote of the people, be-
| fore 1t can become operative; Kansas brings
| her granted amendment to the vote of the peo-
| pie tie coming November, and each State will
| In turn yield to the pressure, if there be IN
ceasing agitation of the subject, and diligence
at primary meetings, and the ballot box, but
| all these laws, through amendment of constitu-
tlous or local option, must become operative
by the will of the people. Against ali this, the
legiODs of darkness will be arraYed, and to this
lever so long used as political power, there
| will be tenacious grip, and woman, as factor
removed from these influences, is needed for
their adoption. A difficulty equal to that of
| the adoption Of the law without women, would
| be found in its enforcement. The fact that
traffic in liquor is made traffic for Office has
been the chief difficulty in Maine. The oppon-
ents of the prohibitOry law are low politicians
| or their tools, who are usually victims of the
drink habit, and for this reason Vermont's pro-
| hlbltOry law Is almost dead letter upon her
| statute books. That though the law of major
1ty right may obtain, women ask this privileges:
Woman asks not for Office; not for emolument
| but she cries aloud for pure companionship
at her Preside; for the salvation of her child
rem, and the children of the naticn-that her
| land may no more be called "desOlate and for
saken, but Hepzibah and BeulAh
"a city sought out ana not forsAk-
en-" The Lord has called, To- these many
years, to the Christian men, ministers and leg
islators to arise, and lead captivity captive"
but hearing not the tramp, tramp, tramp of
| the answering host has laid his hand on
woman, who has said "Behold the handmade of
| the Lord" and noticeable is the fact that in
| the States where this answer hath been most
complete, through oft repeated fears and
| doubts, and sometimes contumely of opposing
| minds, women have been kept so near to God
| that the gospel work has received multiplied
blessing, and side by side with her walk these
who have caught the light through the reflected
Christ channel, souls who sing this song in
verse with their redemption chorus.
| Bear with me few moments / pray you,
| while l argue the question. L can stand in
home of this land, and looking in one direc-
| ton, see man pass in and out with unsteady
| step, who, not many years ago, married one of
| and of he rla hat
woman dragged out dozed years of miserable
| existence with him, because drink held domin-
| ion then.
After seeking livelihood in mental service,
| he Seing the most onerous burden she bore,
she turned herself to the exercise of the talent
which God had given her, and the education
with which she had been blessed, and as a cor
respondent of some of our leading Journals il
moulding the sentiments of the people, cul-
tured, honored woman. Tell me, has not this
woman the right to drop the ballot, that may at
least cancel the vote of that man? Whose
vote would be "for God, and home, and native
| land?"
| can look in another direction, and find one
who has been brought to a low degree of pow
erty by this evil, and finding she was fast los
ing control over the many children that grew
| up about her, determined to break the ties
that bound her to one who brought nOught but
sorrow and shame to the home, and seek sup
| port for herself and little ones in manual Ia
Dor. When, few weeks ago, she came into
my home, and with agony known only to a
mother, told me that her child had been found
on the streets in state OF intoxication, for
which cause he had spent the Sabbath in the
| lookup and plead for this right as the only
| means of salvation for him and the younger
| boys, could L refuse to promise that woman
| my assistance TO secure for her this right?
Another scene, and am glad it is in mem
| DRY, that the sanity woman has entered into
rest. One who lived long years with a
whom she loved in her youth for what she sup
posed him to be, but who had brought her un-
speakable misery, and at the length ommitted
| a crime 30 heinous that the church of which
she was a member labored with her to turn
| from him, but she replied after consideration:
II cannot do it, not child, or friend will take
| him in, and l cannot see the father of my
| children in the poor house, l must endure
| to the end. Three nights before she died, az
| friends stood beside her the hours we're made
| hideous by the bowls of that man in drunken
frenzy, and as the lights of the heavenly
kingdom shone in through the gates ajar, she
| plead this right, that man be allowed to
touch the match that would light the torch of
hereditary passion that must burn in the chill
dren's children that growing up around
| her. Would it not be on tho basis of science
| the survival of the fittest, and on the basis Of
| religion the survival of the best. Objections