The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-09-17

WOMAN IN s'EVERSBODy's WAR
What Woman Hsas Done fer Prohibition,
MRS. FANNIE Il. CARR.
Listening to Col. Bains' account of the
Prohibition victory in Iowa, I ~realizet
afresh how much the success thereof was
due to woman. The whole campaign
graphically illustrates the fact that the
temperance reform is indeed Everybody
War" and that whilst in actual warfare,
women and children are exempt, in this
crusade against the modern sum of all viii
%lanies, viz; the legalized liquor traffic,
neither age, sex nor condition can plead
immunity from service. Another emphatic
object lesson taught by the above move
ment was that all degrees of capacity were
laid under contribution. AS in yeritabIe
warfare, all could not be officers, com
missioned or otherwise. There had TO be
what the s'boys in blue facetiously called
"the high private in the rear ranks, (say-
ing nothing of the commissary, medical
and quartermasters Department.. so in the
campaign in Iowa, few could be Col.
Bains, or j. Ellen Fosters, but, all the
same, every degree of talent was utilized.
There was no putting Of square men or
women in round holes, but great dis
elimination was shown in putting ''the
right man OF woman in the right place"
Those who did not possess the golden
mouth OF Col. Balm, or The liquid speech
OF Mrs. Foster, may have had great exec
utiYe ability, whilst again others, who
were deficient in the latter quality, could
make a good cup of coffee, o: bake an ex-
eellent loaf Of bread, Che latter being util-
lied on election day in feeding the voters,
and il The way to a mans heart be
through his stomach, then did the latter
class play no inconsiderable part in bring
ing about the desired consammation, and in
the present campaign no one can ~ellectu-
ally compute what woman can accom-
plish. The persistency of the sex is pro
verbal, and the fact that she has no POI
litieal axe to grind. y is itself a powerful
be with idiots, paupers and babies,
(assuredly not calculated To initiate herr vet
indirectly, yea directly, she may influence
a large number of votes, By the circulation
Of pertinent literature, direct appeals, etc.
When prohibition was trembling in the
balance in Kansas, it was one woman's APP
peals and influence that carried the day,
and not two years since in the bill to in
tpnl,Iaa fngTr,oA:ap n1naaaasDy tIaa a4f-a4
of alcohol upon the human system in
our public schools, it Was owing 10 the
shrcwdness and pertinacityu of the temper
ance women that the measure carried
men devoted to gospel suasion,' who
have hitherto held aloof from the legal
side, ia fear of being charged with unwo-
manliness. As this age eminently de
mands demonstration, suiIer an object
lesson illustrating the supreme need of
women being active Prohibitionists. A
widow left with two small children to sup
port, spares neither labor, nor effort in
rearing them. Tolls until the small hours
of the morning that they may be comfort
able. Her son, a specially attractive boy,
points to the time when he will be able TO
repay this great devotion. Grows to be
the very JOY of her heart. In an evil honr,
enters a saloon, gradually becomes a fire.
q%uenter. In a certain brawi. this son,
infamed with liquor, strikes a blow
which ends in death. Naluables are
parted with to procure counsel. Neither
freebooter, distiller, nor saloon-keeper
stand by the poor fellow. But the moth
er, who, during summers heat and
winters cold, had toiled unremittiugly,
that he might be properly raised, is at his
side during all the weary hours of the
trial. and when the verdict of guilty is
rendered she visits his cell, and when the
last tragic scenes are enacted it IS tho
mother who stands by the seaifold, and
who, in consequence of the blunder of the
executioner, secs the boy fall, and with
the blood streaming from him, hears his
last words, my God, mother, tell them TO
be quick The above is no fancy sketch.
II happened in Kansas. Traly, With
such an instance, it goes without saying
that women should earnestly present the
objective point of the reform, namely pro
hibition Of the liquor traffic.