The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-17
in the interest of prohibition, home
prOteEtIOn and salvation

in the interest of prohibition, home
protection, and salvation.
What is this graeiQns object lesson of
manhood magnanfmiy fitted to teach?
Much every way. but to my thinking
chiefly this: Women are more to blame
than men that they are so discounted
in Church and State to day. A major
ity OF men in this country and this age
have so far outgrown the false notion
OF their own inherent right to rule over
women, that if we but had the courage
OF conviction and that sense of dignity
which ought to mark US as daughters of
the Lord Almighty, men would, within
twelvemonth, seat as beside them
selves upon the throne of government
in Church and State, governing the
world Jointly as He meant they should
when Ito them He gave dominion"
From the day on which they were
called out into the crusade work,
baptism that was nothing less than
"newness of life'' has rested on the
women of Illinois. Their very first
general petition lowing to the peculiar
nature of our local option laws) asked
for the ballot on the license question;
their second convention declared that
woman ought Ito have the power to
close the dramshop door over against
her home" They always took it as
their major premise that man and
woman were to work on side by side,
shoulder 20 shoulder for the prohibition
Ct the liquor traffic. and that this
meant going together to the polls.
Gently, but with the persistence of
| gravitation, they went to mems con-
ventions, wrote their resolutions and
| placed them in the hands of some good
man who was always there ready and
glad to 'help these women" stead
lastly they reasoned of righteousness,
temperance, and judgment to come"
they utilized post-otfice, dress, and tele-
graphic wire; pulpit and platform al
ways saying Prohibition first. woman's
ballot afterward; both are parts of one
| tremendous whole; what God hath
joined together let not man put asun.
DER
Truly I'VE have what we take the
most pains for" and women must be
up and doing, if in these days they ex-
pect the cooperation and fealty of
men in politics, ecclesiastical or secular.
Wherever they have done this, the
ruling power represented IN the maD-
hood of Church and state has said. ut
shall be as you WISH" wherever they
have meekly kept silent or mildly
yielded the ground, they have found
| themselves left out. Concert of action !;
pre- arrangement of plan; sweet rea-
sonableness in debate; patience in de-
feat invincibility in purpose. these on
The part of women command not only
the respect. but the brotherly good
will of American men. There is no
other way out; there ought to be no
other; and so my brain plans, and my
heart pleads, and my purpose strives
with women, that they pray devoutly
and then hammer away stoutly, speak
ing unto the children of Israel, that
they 60 forward, and tarry not in all
the plain. And in all this, no earthly
inspiration comes to me with grester
charm, that when l think of my great
hearted prairie state brothers. and the
response they have given to the call OF
that Illinois voter, whose voice rang
out in one of our cam oaign songs of
the early day:
| Rally then, rally then,
| Ye men of Illinois:
Give women Home Protection,
And save that tempted boy
May this chorus re-echo through the
nationi
FRANCES E. WILLARD
REST COTTAGE, May 81, 1883.