Telegram-herald., 1888-02-07
THE REV. ANNA SHAW
sHs ADDRESSED 4 FULL HOUSE.
Wsnasa Are Mere Moral. Temperate
Fs4essbte, EcssoB1ess, Keitzisass
Lava biaf1g sad Better Flttsa TO
Kun ths G0ssraEaent Ehzn
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tie third sad las u her series Of leet Tres st
ths UniyeEsalist Church last evening.
When the hour arrived lafge snd brilliant
audience had assembled 70 listen - the
speaker Who opened the evening with an
eloquent PRAYER. which vas followed By
the song. ''rne Battle Hymn OF the Repab-
| lie"
Mrs. s. G.. Ketchum introduced the speak
i er ia 4 few we'll chosen words. Miss Shaw
| spoke substantially As follows
Wish 10 apologize for being late. ! was
pastor Of q church soI seven years and never
| Was ate once. bat now after having been
| in Grand Rapids for two DAYS only, | md
| myself late on the second day. The subject
OF this evenings lecture Is "Womail's BAL
| lot TO the Government.
In studying the history of a republic you
will observe that there is a similarity in
them all. They rise and progress IN about
| the same way.
In noticing republics YOU will notice that
| these which have failed ana died have been
masculine in their character. III you put IN
| a republic the feminine eienent you will
| find that the government will be what 1t
should oe. Senator Ingalls, says that women
are different from men and always will be.
| and on that account should be disfranchised
| You never find perfect humanity In man
| alone or in woman alone but the two to-
/ gether. We find only the perfect man in
| the one Jesus Christ, and He had the fem
| inine characteristics as well developed as
| the masculine. Senator Ingalls, says that If
| young women were enfranchised the vote
| would be the same; women would vote just
/ the same. No matter what the voters are,
| good. bad or indifferent. they are elt in the
| government So that if women are al
| lowed to vote they will make themselves
| felt in the government and If their natures
| are so different from men that difference
| will be seen. do not think the laws have
been made TO do us injustice but il has been
the result OF men attempting TO represent
| women.
/ think there is not grander race of
| men on the earth than the American men,
and our nation is the pride of the world. As
| far as our external government is concerned
| we have become a great and mighty people;
but look at the internal condition, look at
the feminine element that has been ignored.
| Proud, self-relisnt women Don't tell
us that God never me lat a woman
to vote. We have begun telling you that
He did intend Us TO vote, and we will
never stop telling you. You can never stop
us. That is one of the things that cannot
be done Now we know that man can
never keep house. If house be slicked up
and put in perfect order just leave q man
there two weeks and see what it will be. 1t
i plainly impossible for him to take care OF
house. Nor do l know of a single father
even, who provides food for his family. He
| provides the -four and the meat but it is the
mother who makes food of 1t. Her hand
prepares it for the children. Now there
| are three classes of work in this world. i,
| Work that men can do and women can not.
2. Work that women can do and men can
not, and 3. Work that they both can do to-
gether better than either can do alone and
that is in the government. Women nle
conceded TO be more more moral than men
and if they are allowed the right
they will make their morality
felt. In Wyoming this moral influence
is already felt. When a man is nominated
in caucus If the women object his name is
stricken off because the men know that the
women will not vote for him if he is on the
ticket. The women may not take active
part in the elections. but they are mighty
particular as TO who is elected. We all know
, that the young men are not required to be
IS moral as the young women, and If theil
immortality is felt in the government then
the morality of the women will be felt.
Women are more temperate than men
To be sure. the papers said that Mrs. Saltei
had been elected Mayor of a town in Kan
: sas on the rum ticket. Well. that is true
but how was it done? Why, the rum mer
put her name on the ticket simply TO daridt
; the women and to make fun OF the w. G
, T. O., of which Mrs. Sater was President
Mrs. Salter was at work at her home or
Monday doing her washing when delega
; ton of ladies waited on her aDc informed
her that the rum men bad placed her or
, their ticket. She said, Very we'll go ahead
and elect me and I'll do my best" 81
along in the afternoon all the good meu
who had kept away from the polls in th'
morniug and all the women went dowr
| and elected her. so il wasn't the rum mer
that elected her at ALL The results seer
there today. You can not get even a smell
| of whisky in that town. Women are NOR
! peaceable than men. The men who ssl
, that women cannot fight are the men wht
. | had business in Canada during the re
/ | bellion. The veterans that served il
the war do not say 80. Whel
woman fights, she fights all over, from tn
crown of her he ad to the sole IF her foot
teeth. nails and all bat IL is the glory o
every respectable woman that although
able she won't fight aud nothing can max,
| her fight. They are also more economical
than men. Now don't look around at tn
ladies' bonnets. In q mans opinion il j
economy when money goes up in tobacc
n smoke, but extravagance when it goes q
bonnets. To illustrate that woman vii
. do to economic. II there is handker
/ ever
woman goes Hovn early so as to avail hsr
self of the fret pick. and the result is sue
a crowd that the police close the store door
lock L. letting one woman out at a tim
Z and another one in. And there on th
# walk those women will stand, perspirini
iostled by the crowd for two or three hour
waiting for chance TO get in and buy
couple Of hand kerobiefs at Two cents of o.
: each one. When . young couple are maj
=. i I. = =
posed 10 save. At the end OF . h5ng li'
: al nc has earned and al she has saved b.
longs by lss to him. Very encouraging fo
her 20 save. Women srs more religion
and II they we're enfranchised the nsfio
would become better. " hen nation 70,
gets God it dies. Women are more lap
sbiding, as orr Stssss Prison records vi
.hor. When visited tbs Kansas Psniter
= | tiarv recently / asked the Warden no
msnv prisoners he bad. and he sn-usre
= q5a % these $50 we're men and nine wer
women. IL Asssach usstfs, fsv years sg
ls~ vas passed whicb read s0rnethi1
ike this Any woman found on the sfres
/ after u o'c'ock a. night. uns1is 70 give
I xr,oG sni sasScs=ut rsason for ~ bein|
+ should be arrested. Saed or im1risone
& We Al thousht that good i&v. 3.
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snv wowas. Ne vent % Re Legis'stG
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