The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-08-06

all, the Lawmakers, who fostered this
hellish business and licensed it and pro-
tectedft, and no woman's love or thought
was invoked to save her child. o sisters.
lift up your eyes and behold! the fields
are already white to the harvest. You
need sickle. Use all your woman's
arts and arguments to gam possession of
one, so that at that great day you may
come rejoicing and bringing your sheaves
with you.
DO your utmost to make this world
cleaner, safer place for your children to
live in, and never, nerer doubt that your
own woman's heart knows what is wO-
manly work better than any man or any
fend alive can tell YOU Never, never
let the absurd heresy enter your brain
that it liz more womanly to dance and
dress and play and iliri than TO do the
worlds work. Relegate from hence
forth that pernicious doctrine to those
precincts which are at once the expo
nent of its value and the natural outcome
of its acceptance--the harems of the
Orient and the brothels of the Occident.
Just now the world is convulsed by the
horrible infamies exposed by the Pal
Mai Gd-ette, infamies which are rife.
too, in our own land. Sisters, without
liquor, manhood could never become SO
debased. Those horrid, crawling things,
| that Shiny brood of infamics, are all
Matched and nurturcd by the traffic we
| oppose. Now we will be told, ooh |!
don't mention such things -really, now,
women ought not to know about them
women ought never To read about them.
| You have all heard that kind of drlvel,
and you have all seen the look of mock
modesty creep into some foolish woman's
| f.,on Sl,n ci, npin ,l,,c
or do; | won't even open the papers,"
Shame! shame! when her whole wo-
mans soul should burn with Indignation
against this awful business of making
ofial of the daughters of the land, and
desire to save the innocent ones. Queen
Victoria, the model ruler, the chaste
wife, the faithful mother, the noble
daughter of a kingly line is not ashamed
To put herself on record against these
crimes before the world and her written
words borne through the streets of Lon
don, add yet another to the long list of
her virtuous examples. Right here
again Il woman's hand Is needed i'm law
making. No mother, with true mother
| ly heart, but would rather see her tender
little daughter drawn and plartered in
the street before her eyes that so her
pure soul might escape from her tortured
body torise unstained to God far rather
| would she accent this fate for her dough-
ter than that other fate of inexpressIble
pollution, the author of which-by the
| laws of which we live under-is held nc
committing no crime no offerse
Listen to me dear sisters nnnJar what
I saw, Your little dauphter-aimost a
h,hy v.t-wboso twelfth h;rtbJoy Won
crIebrotcd inst vesterlav-yhose tr,st :.
in% confidino Sweetness is the dei;%ht
of Vour hearts today the lawful nrav
or any villain who NAV entran her He
will wwoli vour streets unwb;nned nr
instice' Wake mi Rouse nm, Whv will
W. sleen, The world needs von2v"rr
children need Won This demon az In.
temperance leading bv the hand tha
demon of Sensuality is stoIkipU thronoh
oHoct;on and SubSt:tn,;no tharof,yap ;,,,
nuritv and ali th,nos ahhorrant I OF ne
rememher those words of awful S,nn;f; "s
mace Eva. ara the tamnIa of CO !,
onv man defile the tomnle of cod him
ShoIl Cod DESTROY Iat no teoch than,
tn nur cb,ldren and teach tbom, tLnt
w. 49, into this ,anrIa 10 ;,,trnduni ti'n
ell nf Tntnnnorarco oil ,h;n"S so
nnI hoiy aen apaca and au;nI,IHS s,u pu,o
an, inrI shonas Of evil o IdIN sy smI,i,
49, hr,,toi;tr I'm no haso,,, oo,' I'm ea.,a
"'.u -, anr9h - ao'' - la I, VIC iGuiiu
e't Nnar o a;Starn " '" we f :. n'0a aun
-; o thn t;Ith'v "" WOO; ' Of '' nnI;t M'e
,at ~ noI;t;nsp II ;S th, p prncnSS &c mTm
in" and pJministar;nc the Ia v,s n 10 ,, wn,,
naIi thot mnrInan9 When Iebova H. o oU Uo
a nodn TO man ha fnIded Mount Ga
:; in tho consacr,t;ng mist of He ,,;S;hi.
nresance~and ON tha morn;na Of tba,
auonst dav there were tbnnJar;pos and
mountain and Tho voice of n trn,,nnt
And the awad maintain 0nated bomaoti
tha waight of glory And WosaS ,Uon,
mn there into fhe midst of the 1iorw ~ r.
raceive tbn law which cod viii III,
own finger ongroved mon tohlos nfs,nnn
Tins was given To man tbe foundat;nr
of ali r;ybteons law In sncb snhi;n,n
majesty was framed the Immortal code
TLSn and there Jaboyah nnsSna liz.
iudoment unon Iaw-making and Who,
GoI has declared nure that call NOT tbnr
nncommon and uncIean Pni;tics 10 NO
filthy nooi II is rather the Lrrnin n"
hush. and the voice comes from II
"Toke off thy shoes from off INV foot e.,
the place whereon thou standest is RoIv
Sround," So should he annrcciated To- + wy
Mace oftbe Iaw-maker~tbe Mace wbere
God once deirned to stand But when
men wallow in a filthy nool instead oi
beino obedient to the heavenly vision
Hen Come laws worthy of the p6ol. Laws
I;cnnsino CRIME and daoredation-J ws
which give the innocent n nrev to fine
cr,fYyHIaws which onnrhss tho widow
and ihe fatbcrless-iaws which are q
dnlusion and a snare
When the hundreds of thousands N
rbr;St;an women of America SLaII r;So
from their knees and qo forth to vote az
thnv nrav think Won the home will bo
fnraottanp Think Won the saloon will
ion1 live IN menace tho bomao THU
,nn tho l;ttIa danchtars will no forant.
80 Tb;nL vo,, tic house nfhor st,,Joso
Stans tota hold On hell" will ha olInwod
in Close nroximitv to orr homes and
niocea Of business and that che will hail
nur vonno sons on orr nnhi;c frenuantad
thorongbfares. and flannt the INSIGNIA al
her shame in the ewes of orr vouno
dauobtarsp Nav. verify
Under the fostering care of orr nres.
sent law makers. the saloons have mnlti.
i nI;ed fiji the drink hill of this nation
fnots nm each vear nine bundred mil.
E"ms ~ doIiarS o'' h'"' ''o''oio' i'iii'
Let tb;nL Oft Trv 70 oor,nrobord
;, e ,,on 'an Nine bTpJrad n,;ll;ons 81
dollars worse tLan wasted Than trv
to think how the blessed miIlenninm
would he FASTENED on if instead of that
vast SIM being spent in The destruction
of nil that is best i'm humanity. if MIGHT
ba t,,rneJ to ito Observation-Disclosures to The
Christianizing and educating of the chill
drenwto the snread of religion and arr
and science. How clean and safe and
beautiful our cities would become. How
colleges would multiply and fill. How
empty the tails would be. How few
suicides would occur. How crime would
creep and stink into by-ways instead OF