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


would interfere with party, or personal ag-
grandiZent, buying himself with money and
power, which is liquor. The pleadings Of
mothers, the anguish OF wives, the suffering
destitution of children, the burdenirg taxa
ton upon the land, the wasted resources of the
nation, or the debauched condition of its peo-
pie moves them not; self interest ia 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, ''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 his conquer
ing army. How can all this be neutralized!
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, g
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 op-
posed to the education, and action of the past;
| while to the eye of God and of humanity, wo-
mans trophies of goodness, her quiet gains Of
| goodness, 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 worlds
| history, God has ever 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. sure
| ly as 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 the
| brow of many women who have shed addition
| al lustre upon their nations glory and blessed
the age in Which 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
| been defiant. Some have been Indifferent,
some have partially yielded, come made laws
and rescinded them. Iowa has
| granted prohibitory amend
ment, which must be ratified by another leg
islature, and agaiR by vote of the people, be-
| fore it 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 I'M
ceasing agitation of the subject, and diligence
at primary meetings, and the ballot box, but
| all these laws, through amendment of constitu-
tious or local option, must become operative
by the will of the people. Against all 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, 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-
cnfth ~ lov sa.o
or their tools, who usually victims of the
drink habit, and for this reason Vermont's pro-
| hibitory law is almost dead letter upon her
| statute books. That though the law of major
| ity right may obtain, women ask this privilege:
Woman asks not for Office; not for emoIument
but she cries aloud for pure cOmpanionship
at her freside for the salvation of her child
| rem, and the children of the naticn-that her
| land may no more be called "desolste and for
saken, but Hepzibah and Beulah
"a city sought out ana not forsAk-
en-" The Lord has called, 10, 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 q
| home of this land, and boxing in one direc-
ton, see man pass in and out with unsteady
| STEP who, not many years ago, married one of
the brightest and best of the village girls. That
| Outa ozad If mis- h Ia
existence with him, because drink held domin-
| ion then.
After seeking livelihood in mental service,
| he being 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, is
| moulding the sentiments of the people, q Gull
| 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 flor God, and home, and native
land?"
| / can look in another direction, and find one
who hes been brought to 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, a 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 q state of intoxication, for
which cause he had spent the Sabbath in the
lookup, and plead for this right 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 man
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 committed
| a crime SO heinous that the church of which
| she was member labored with her to turn
| from him, but she replied after consideration:
Il cannot do it, not child, or friend will take
| him in, and l cannot the father of my
children in the poor house, / must endure
| to the end. Three nights before she died, as
| 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 NO 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 were growing up around
her. Would it not be on the basis of science
the survival of the fittest, and on the basis of
| religion the survival of the hest Ohieati ans