St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-05

plished by allowing women the ballot.
Mr.. +. q. Adams, secretary OF the Kan
sas Historical society, says:
1T is no longer question of whether
women want TO vote. This is proven by
the fact that they have voted the first
opportunity given them. They voted
with an intelligent, Jealous, earnest in
terest for the good of the community in
which they have their homes. If the
issue involved in the election in any
town was one affecting merely the local
material interest of the community, they
voted with good judgment and for the
as TO better school management, they
voted for tho best; If it was for street,
sanitary or other reforms, they voted
prudently for what it would seem the
good of all demanded. If it was for the
change of an administration VIGOROUSLY
involved in speculatiOnS with water
works or other corporations, they voted
to deliver the city from such corrupt
ENHANCEMENT. If political parties, con-
trolled by saloon influences, put up can
didates with the Odor of whiskey on
their garments, the women rebuked the
party managers and voted for candidates
who would better promote the welfare
of the community. In every instance
they voted for home and fireside, for the
freeing of the community from those
demOraliZing influences and tempta-
tions from which every good woman
would deliver those of her own house
hold"
Intemperance i'm our land, like hor-
rible demon, is working his way Sc
cretly or openly to destroy our inhabi-
tants both mentally and physically.
Many good people are opening their
eyes to the terrible destruction threaten
ing our country. They want to stop
this deplOrable course of things, but
they do not use the right means. The
have been working twenty-fi or thirty
years. Many thousands have joined
this society, and have labOred i'll cause
which taxed head and heart, soul and
body, neither of which have they spared.
God bless them for it, What have they
accomplished? Their power was linn
tied, they were hampered, as they could
not vote to obtain and secure that for
which they labored, and without their
vote the majority was on the liquor
dealers side.
To try the experiment a few years
ago in Rockford, ILL.,, city of 1900
inhabitants, they passed law per-
uniting both sexes to vote upon the
saloons in that city. Over 1000 women
voted, and only two east ballots for IL
cenSe, but as they were not allowed
municipal suffrage the male citizens
elected the license ticket, and the coun-
Gil at its first session repealed the home
protection ordinance and made the eX-
pressed will of the whole people of no
effect whatever.
In an article on this subject by an
other divine find these words: There
never will be adequate legislation on the
great cause Of temperance, and in sup
preston of RIGHTEOUSNESS. seduction
and other crimes until the moral power
of women is felt in the choice of legiSla-
tors. The liquor dealers are organizing
to control the legislation OF states and
of the nation. Does it not show what
their conviction and fears are, that they
unanimously and decidedly oppose
woman suffrage? Ought Christian min
listers and papers to give strength to such
party as thiS?' While good Christian
people behold this tide of iniquity roll
ing over our land and lament that they
cannot check it, they throw away the
only means by which it may be accom-
pliShed. Not SO with the manufacturers
and vendors of Intoxicating liquors.
| They understand perfectly we'll where
their danger is. AT large national con-
ventiOn of brewers held in Chicago this
resolution was adopted unanimously
'ResOlved, That we oppose, always and
| everywhere, the ballot in the hands of
wOman-for wOman'S vote is the last
| hope of the PrOhibitiOniStS."