Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-05-04

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censed it and protected it, and no wo.
mans love or thought was invoked
to save her child. 0 sisters. lift up
your eyes and behold the fields are
already white to the harvest. You
need a sickle. Use all your woman's
arts and arguments to gain possession
of one, so that at that great day you
may come rejoicing and bringing
your sheaves with you.
Do your utmost to make this world
a cleaner, safer place for your children
to live in, and never, never doubt that
your own woman's heart kDows what
is wcmanly work better than any
man or any fend alive can tell you.
Never, never let the absurd heresg
enter your brain that it is more wo-
manly to dance and dress and play
and fiirt than to do the worlds work.
Relegate from henceforth that pernic-
ious doctrine to those precincts which
are at once the exponent of its value
and the natural outcome of it's accept
ance-the harems of the Orient and
the brothels of the Occident, just
now the world is convulsed by the
horrible infamics exposed by the Pail
Mall Gazette. infamies which are rife,
too. in our own land. Sisters, with
out liquor, manhood could never be-
come 80 debased. Those horrid,
crawling things, that Shiny brood OF
infamies, are all hatched and nurtur-
ed by the traffic We oppose Now We
will be told, "Oh don't mention such
things-really, now, women ought
not to know about them" You have
all heard that kind of driyel, and yon
have all seen the lock of mock mod
esty creep into some foolish woman's
face as she simperingly said, "Oh, |
never do; | won't even open the pa
pers.n Sbame shame when her
whole woman's soul should burn With
indignation against this awful busi-
ness of making offal of the daughters
of the land, aud desire to save the in
nocent ones. Queen Victoria, the
model ruler, the cbaste wife, the
faithful mother, the noble daughter
of kiDgly line is not ashamed to put
herself on record against the crimes
before the world, and her written
| words borne through the streets OF
London, and yet another to the long
list of her virtuous examples. Right
here again a woman's hand is needed
in law.making No mother, with
true motherly heart, but would rather
see her tender little daughter drawn
and quartered in the street before her
eyes that 80 her pure soul might es
cape from her tortured body to rise
unstained to God; far rather would
she accept this fate for her daughter
than that other fate of inexpressibie
pollution, the author of which-by
the laws we live under-is held as
committing no crime, no ofense.
Listen to me dear sisters, ponder
what say. Your little daughter
almost baby yet-whose Twelfth
birthday you celebrated just yester
day-whose trusting. confding sweet
ness is the delight of your heart:
to-day the lawful prey of any villain
who may entrap her. He will wall
your streets unwbipped of justice
Wake up! Rouse ye! Why vii
ye sleep! The world needs you
your children need you. This demon
of lntemperance leading by the hanc
the demon of Sensuality is stalking
through the land blighting the bud o
every pure affection, and substituting
therefor impurity and all thing abhor
rent. Let US remember those word
of awful significance. aye are tn,
temple OF God. If any man de6lt
the temple of God him shall God de
stroy.D Let US teach them to oul
children, and teach them that when
into this temple is introduced the
fieDd of Intemperance all things pur,
and holy fee apace, and quickly
swarm in dark shapes Of evil and sen
suality and brutality till no bosom
can be found strong enough to sweep
it clean again.
Dear sisters. we are often warned
to avoid the filthy pool of politics
Now what is politics? +? 1t is the
process of making and administer the
laws. Do you called that unclean
" hen Jehovah gave code to man
be folded Mount Sinai in the conse
Grating mist of His visible presence
and on the morning of that angus,
day there were thunderings and light
nings and thick clonds upon the
mountain, and the voice Of trumpet
Aud the awed mountain quaked be
meath the weight of glory. Anc
Moses went up there into the midst
of the glory to receive the law which
God with His own finger engraved
upon tables of stone. Thus was Civ
en- to man The foundation of all right
eous law. In such sublime majesty
was framed the Immortal code. Ther
aud there Jehovah passed His judg
ment upon law-making; and whai
God has declared pure that call no,
thou common and unclean. Politics
is no filthy pool. 1t is rather the
burning bush, and the voice come:
from it, Take off thy shoes from of
thy feet, for the place whereon thon
standest is holy ground" So should
he approached the place of the law
maker-the place where God once
deigned to stand But when men
wailow in filthy pool instead of be
ing obedient to the heavenly vision
then come laws worthy Of the pool
Laws licensing crime and degradation
laws which give the innocent a
prey to the crafty-laws which op.
press the widow and the fathcr,ess-
laws which are o delusion and q
snare
When the hundreds of thousands OF
Christian women of America shall
rise from their knees and go forth to
vote as they pray, think you the
home will be forgotten ? Think you
the saloon will long live to menace
the home ! Think you the little
daughters will be forgotten L? Think
you the house Of her "whose steps
take hold On hell" will be allowed in
close proximity 20 our home and
places OF business, aud that she viii
bail our young sons on our public