Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-02-17
Woman'S PoWer-Rev. DR.. Tall
mage breaches a Sermon
Upon Wifely Am bitiOn.

Upon Wiiely am DltlOn.
New YORK, Feb. u. Mr.. Tai
mage preached this morning on Ma
both's giuey ard and wifely ambition
We are told," said be, THAT female
suffrage would correct two evils-the
rum business aud the insufficiency of
woman's wages. About the rum
business | have to say that multi
tudes of women drink and it is not the
unusual thing t. See them in restau-
rants so overpowered with wine and
beer that they can hardly sit up,
while there are many so-called re-
spectacle restaurants where they can
60 aud take their champagne and hot
toddy all alone. Mighty temperance
voters those women would make
Besides that, the wives OF rumsellers
would have to vote in the interest of
of their husbands business, or havea
time the inverse of felicitous. Besides
that millions of respectable and refn-
ed in America would
I
because they do not want
to 60 TO the polls, and, on the other
hand, womanly roughs would all go
to the polls, and that might make the
| womaGs vote on the wrong side.
There is not,i my miud much pros
pect of the expulsion of drunkenness
by female suffrage
"As to womau's wages 10 be cor
recled by womau's vote | have not
much faith in that. Women are hard
CT ca women than men are. Mas
culine employers are mean enough in
The treatmenJ of woman, but II you
want 10 hear beating down Of prices
and wages In perfection, listen hCw
some women treat washerwomen and
| ana dresSmakers and female servants
Mrs. Shylock is more merciless than
Nj Sbylock. Women, | fear, will
never get righteous wages through
! woman's vote; and as TO unfortunate
wCnanhood, women are far more
cruel aud uuiorgiving than men are.
/ After a woman has made shipwreck
ot her character men generally drop
ner, but women do not So much drop
her as nurl her with the force Of a
| catapult clear out and off and down
aud under. l have not much faith
that woman will ever get merciful
consideration and justice through wo-
man suffrage, yet, like experiments,
and some OF my friends III whose Judg-
ment have confidence, are 50 certain
That ailevlation would, if | had the
power, put IN every woman's hand
the vote.
mo Oae can SO inspire man to
noble purposes as noble woman,
and no one can 50 thoroughly degrade
i man as a vile Of unworthy tenden-
cle5. While ia my text we have an
Illustration OF wItely ambition EN-
ployed ia the wrong direction, socie
" aud history are full of Instances 9
" mere witely ambition gloriously Jri-
umphed IN right directions. Oh,
woman, what Is your wifeIy ambl-
tion! Noble or lgnoble? Is it high
social position? That will then prob
ably direct your husband aud be
will climb aud scramble, and slip,
aud tall, and rise, and tumble. and on
what level or IN what depth or on
| what height be will after awhile be
found | cannot guess. The contest
Tor social position is the m ost unsat-
lsfactory contest in all the world, be-
cause 1t is so uncertain about your
getting it, and so insecure q possess
IGN after you have obtained it and SO
unsatisfactory even ii you keep it.
Tnc whlsk Of lady's fan may blow
it out. The growl Of ore bear or the
believing of on bull one Wall street
may scatter it, Is The wife 8 ambi-
tion the political preferment of her
hcsb md. Then that VIII probably
direct bin.
What forsaken realm is
American politics those best know
WOO have daboled IN them. Many a
wife hAs not been satisfied till her
husband Went into politics, bat would
atterward nave given all she possess
ed TO get him out. Some Of Us could
tell oi woat iahaeace upon us has
been 3 wifeiy ambition consecrated
10 righte BUSINESS AS my wife is out
of Town, aud will not shake her hend
because | say ii to the public, | will
state that in my own professional
life | baye often been called by God,
as / thought, 30 run into the very
teeth of public opinion, and all ontsid-
ers with whom | am advised told me
| had better not, it would ruin me
and ruin my church and all tho time
was receiving nice little letters
threatening me with dirk and position
and person it persisted in attacking
certain evils OF the city. until the
Commissioner of Police considered it
his duly 10 take his place in our
Sabbath services with forty officers
scattered through the house for The
preservation Of order; but in my
home there has always been one
voice to sny:-'Go ahead and diverge
not an inch from The straight line.
Who cares if only God is on our side.
Aud though sometimes it seemed as
| If was going out against 900 iron
chariots | went ahead, cheered by the
domestic voice"