The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04

Ira0o In BOYS. frOmDtIioulSIS tdkc uP
the challenge and reply: Protection for
the Home-no trade at all in Alcoholic
Poison"
We have before us vivid illustrations
Of the difference between Republican Pro-
hibition, as in Iowa, Kansas and Maine;
Democratic Prohibition, as in Georgia.
Mississippi and Tennessee; and Prohibi-
ton as represented by Fish and Brooks
and the million men who will vote for
them this fall. The crack of the party
whip silences all but the last.
Good Albert Griffin, who, despite his
kindly face, is a regular Grifin's head to
his party, not to say a skull and bones,
sits meekly in his delegation and makes
no protest against the utter silence of the
platform from which he prophesied SO
much. The anti-saloon boom goes out of
sight even before the weakest of the nine
personal booms has disappeared, and the
platform is as unanimous" as one of
Nasby's Democratic primaries. Prohi-
bition Prohibition is the only genuine
article, twelve inches to the foot or six
teen ounces to the pound, because 1t alone
mas the environment of success, the back
hand is down deep in the saloonkeepers
pocketit cannot cry out against him, and
so long as every other breath among the
delegates gives beer and whisky tokens no
temperance plank can possibly go in.
The head and front of our offending is
that we are "a one horse party" Well,
so far as the white ribbon women are con-
cerned they are pretty good judges of the
equine animal, and would far rather have
one horse that will go than two that will
only go-the other way. To us the sit1-
alton is q reminder of that other crisis
when the tariff was whipped up to cover
the Wing partys retreat from tho anti.
slavery question. Then, as now, q white
and black horseswere harnessed together
-oue representing Christian manhood,
the other wild eyed and balky steed
that belonged to the blackness of dark
ness in figure as in fate.
We women want to bring our scissors,
shears and carving knives to cut the har-
ness that binds this uncongenial pair and
speed the white horse forward alongside
of this lone horse" now often laughed
about, for then you will see a splendidly
matched team that will go pounding along
the firm highway of civilization at a ire
mendous pace "Wait for that wagon and
we'll all take ride" One million votes
for Fisk and Brooksl That must be our
aim. Nothing less is worthy of the out
look and the emergency. Whatever you
may think, my brothers, women will have
more to do with gathering in this harvest
of pure ballots than anybody else, for
more and more as times go on it will prove
true. You WIN or lose, you rise or fall
with us. But imagine a woman speaking
ia this fashion: my son, your first vote
will come next fall. l beg you, let it be
in favor of the Monroe doctrine;" or a
wife, thus appealing to her husband: MY
dear, beseech of you to change your vote
to the party that will protect our Ameri-
can fisheries or sweetheart speaking
thus: "Adolphus, l cannot IN conscience
favor your suit longer unless you will
promise to declare by your ballot in No
vember for the rehabilitation of our mer-
chant marine" On the other hand, who
does not know that oil over this land to-
day, motherly women, sisterly women,
sweet, pure girls, are saying already to
their nearest and best: won't you please
vote for the home; won't you represent us
at the pollss" And they will be saying this
at thousand polling places next autumn,
and best of all, our prayers are for you,
noble brothers, no less than our sympa-
thies and work.
It is easy to laugh at sentiment" but
such laugh is very cheap and very heart
less. The heart rules the world, and no
man or woman not well endowed with
sentiment has ever moved the world or
any considerable fraction thereof. The
mighty movement for protecting the
home by outlawing the saloon was born
of woman's tears and agonies. The
prayer of the gentle has now become the
purpose of the strong; the plan Of the
White Ribboners has become the pro-
gramme of a party; the hope of the de-
fenselsss has grown to be the oath of the
defendants. Through this great audi
forum tonight surges the spirit of the
crusade, that wondrous Pentecost of God.
and
She is launched on the wave,
The good ship Prohibition,
The wave of Humanity
Boundless and free
In monarchical governments women NAV
attain the highest power, and we see
Queen Victoria ruling the most dogmatic
OF all nations for more than fifty years,
her daughter practically guiding the des.
TIMES of woman despising Germany for an
hundred days and the princess regent of
Brazil freeing the race her noble father
has all his lifetime vainly wished to free.
But in free and progressive America we've
changed all that and but for the large
minded behavior of the Prohibition party,
woman is almost nowhere heard of in pol
itics. Certainly it has never occurred to
any party except ours to give them a po-
sition so honorable and distinguished as
TO make them members of the committee
t0 motif ;a1