Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-31
8 X "Ceptions Taken to "St. Paul and
the w. C.. T. u

| Ed. RegisteT-It seems that we have a
modern Ahasuerus dwelling in our midst
Vashti the w. c. T. ~ has offended his
majesty by asserting her rights and must be
dethroned, "Lest this deed shall come abroad
unto all women, so that they shall despise
their husbands in their eyes when it shall
be reported" And this grave offense is,
that 'We recommend that in the w. C. T.
U. WORK our women shall use their own and
| not their husbands s."-RESoLUTION
XIV.
| Now, would ask, what harm is there in
| that? When women marries she is requir-
ed by law to give up half of her name.
Is not that enough? Should she be COM
PEELED to give up the other half that her
parents gave her at the baptismal font? Our
modern Ahasuerus quotes from st. Paul's
writings to show that woman should be in
subsection to her husband and keep silence
in the church, as we'll as elsewhere (where
1t interferes with his sentiments or his des-
potic rule). We believe in equal rights and
st. Paul justifies us in it when he says,
Husbands, love your wives as Christ also
loved the church and gave Himself for it."-
EPH. ", %. Christ's precepts were, "To
do by others as you would that they should
do by you, and neither do nor say to them
what you would not take again." His maj
esty also says that st. Paul was bachelor.
He must be a wiseacre to make such an as
sertion as that, for the bible nowhere assures
us that such is the fact. He also speaks of
the women in New York "who would resolve
to go out of the church if they were not ad
mi oil hou
that consistency is jewell" (alas how few
practice it) and since the denomination to
which these women belong has for the last
generation, at least, been supported and the
work carried on by the help of about five
women to one man, and her voice has been
heard in prayer and services nearly as COM
mon as that of the minister, it is indeed in
consistent, as well as unjust, to turn them
away, being sent there by the vote of their
respective churches. His "highness" also
assumes that the w. c. T. U. would "rule or
wreck" which is a gross injustice, and no
man would say so but the one whose wife
has already got the halter around his neck
and he feels it pinching so tight that he
thinks all the women i'll the land are pulling
at it. so he means to give them all a kick
while there is yet a little breath left. Sisters,
be encouraged! The more you hear of his
kicking, the tighter you may know is grow
ing the halter. All will soon be over. Poor
mani. No one can deny that the w. C. T. U.
are trying to do good work, and, thank
heaven, there are many noble men engaged
in it, too, who have taken the lead for the
last half century; but they are not the ma
jority of men. If they would take hold of
the work of abolishing Intoxicating liquors
in such forces and with the same energy of
the w. c. T. U. there would be no need for
the women to come to the front; we would
gladly stand back and cheer the men on;
but such men as the writer of "St Panl and
the w. G. T. u" show plainly the spirit of
the "dog in the manger:" he won't do any,
thing himself nor let any one else, If he can
helpit Y.