Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-02-03

men fear their constituents" Now women
to stake the bull by the horns" Ten thou
sand saints are praying day and night for
deliverance through existing parties. And
will any friend of temperance put limita-
tions to the PRAYERS and efforts of this con-
secrlted host, saying $50 far may you go
and no farther. If you attempt to cross the
Red Sea, you will all be swallowed up 2" No,
no let them cross. Perhaps it will be the
liquor men ssfolowing hard after them" who
will be swallowed up, like Pharoah's host,
while the brave women stand, like Miriam,
on the shore. and sing their song of deliv-
eranee.
Woman began this crusade outside of, and
with no thought of, politics; but she will
carry it anywhere to win. And if il takes
her into politics, let US believe that Chris
tian faith and courage will guide her even
there.
The conservatism which objects to wo-
man suffrage is in itself loya; to wOman's
highest good It intends safety, but still it
may stand in the way of victory by its TIM
id policy. How long is it since good men
feared domestic chaos if girls were allow
ed higher education, and then co-educationi
But is society the worse for these Has not
every advance been upward instead of
downward In all onward movements there
will be wrong-headed and discordant ele-
ments which injure the cause to which they
are attached, and ungenerous opponents
seize upon such facts 10 ridicule what thcy
may not be able to refute.
Women, like men, vary in mental and
moral constitution. To those women who
feel the weight of eternal responsibilities,
the inanities of society are an abhorrence;
and however much there may be of sweet
ness and majesty in the nature of those who
think beyond their fellow-women, they are
feared or eOntemned as "strong minded -
The few ''noisy and clamoring" fanatics of
temperance and woman suffrage are but the
drift-wood upon the Hood tide of public
sentiment, while the strong, deep, and i'm
perceptible under-current is in the same di-
rection. Some who have been on the mount
of vision prophesy that woman is to have
the ballot, whether for veal or woe is to be
seen in the result; but let US hope it will be
an educator, lifting her above the present
level OF her ambition, which is too often
merely for social position.
No radical change in the affairs of the
world but had its beginning under suspic-
ion and unpOpularity, and may there not
be a morbid and unvarranted apprehension
in the minds of protecting, chiyalrous mon
in regard to the effect voting may have up
on their wives and daughters Can they
not protect them at the polls as well as at
the theatre, or the horse show, or at the
race-course, where ladies' sometimes bet as
men, though only in guarded way4
Prejudice often makes "a distinction
without a difference" Do gentlemen think
Mrs. Gladstone unwomsnly for appearing on
the platform all through a political cam
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Who would think Mrs. Hoge of Chicago
compromising her majestic womanhOod in
casting a ballot for Temperance or any 9TH
er good cause, any more than IN presiding
over the Mission Board of the Northwest
And would committees of ladies on cleo
tion days be contaminated by such action
as that of their sisters at recent election
in a town in Dakota, which is thus report
ed 4:
The ladies' of WATERFOWL, Codington
county, Dakota, took a very practical inter-
est in the polls on November 3, They did
not insist on their right to vote; but in their
high-born srignt7 to please, gave very gem
eral satisfaction. They provided tables at
the polls with eatables and hot coffee,
which they distributed with enc hand, while
they gave out tickets with the other.
Was there any thing unfeminine IN this
On the contrary, it was a course which re-
fiected the highest honor on the brave and
noble woman who took part in it. The con-
sequence was what might be expected. As
the paper which reports the above says.
''There were no drunken men about, and no
political brawls." If women We're to take
the same stand elsewhere, would it not pIr-
Ify the .'slums Of politics., and elevate wo-
manhood itself in the coasciousn ess of he
roic effort for our country
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