The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-11-06
INTEMPERATE TEMPERANCE.

Women who devote their talents to
the welfare of their race, are entitled
to the greatest respect and considera-
ton. Whether it be in church work,
in the missionary field at home or
abroad, in the temperance cause, or in
labors of love of any kind, her influence
for good is great, when her course of
action is governed only by desire to
do good, and balanced by christian
charity and common sense. Unfor-
tunately there are many women and
men too, who are drawn into public
life simply by a desire to become
conspicuous, and because they are
somewhat allied to the genus ''crank. >
And of this latter class striking in
week and sthis, for several days the
National Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union was,hcld in Philadelphia,
the eleventh annual convention.
The President of this Union is Miss f.
f. Willard of Chicago, and on Friday
last in addressing the convention she
gave utterance to some most remark
able language. In the course of her
annual address she said
Crimes against women seem to be on the
increase everywhere. 1t is not by the vain
attempt to remit o6uce the exploded harem
method of seoladrG women that they are
TO be saved. When we remember the un-
avenged murder of Jennie Cramer, of New
Haven, The acquittal of the ravishers OF a
cultivated illinois school teacher when
hot ba y,,H f1H "a
law is framed to allow men to outrage girls
with impunity tnat in Massachusetts and
Vermont it is greater crime to steal COW
than to ruin a giIl that in Illinois seduc-
ton is not recognized as a crime, 1t is a
marvel not to be explained that we go on
the even tenor of our way too delicate, too
refined, too prudsh to make any allusion
to these awful facts. We have been the
victims of conventional cowardice too
long
AS to our relation with politics we do
gains that the Democratic party is the
open ally of the liquor oligarchy in the
realm of national politics. We want
the Democratic party to bite the dust. The
saloon is entrencbed in politics even more
firmly than in law. We can write aud
speak and pray for the only party that de-
clares ''the saloon must 60"
What the lady says of the social
evil is true and deserves the
hearliest endorsement, but the lang
uage Immediately following that, clear
ly indicates that she is republican,
and is endeavoring to run the National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
as an auxiliary to that party. Her
charitable character disappears, and
she displays her strong partisan bias.
She has no word of condemnation for
the party in the state of Connecticut,
more frequently republican than
democratic, where the murder of the un.
fortunate Jennie Cramer has gone un-
avenged. She has nothing to say
against the republican party in the
strongly republican state OF Illinois
where the ravishers of "cultivated
school mistress were acquitted, and
where Seduction is not recognized as
a crime" No comments on the strong
republican states of Massachusetts, and
Vermont where sit is greater crime
TO steal a COW than to ruin a girl
But when she comes TO speak OF the
liquor traffic, she at once awakens to
the fact that ''the Democratic party is
the open ally of the liquor oligarchy in
the realm of national politics. We
want the Democratic party TO bite the
dust" In other words she wants the
Republican party sustained notwith-
standing the fact that in states controll-
ed by il seduction and murder are not
crimes, but the Democratic party must
be held responsible for the great crime