The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-04-05
HE OUTPRAYBD THEM.
The Offering of a Saloonkeeper Befo!
Some Female Visitors.

The Offering of Saloonkeeper Before
Some Female Visitors.
lowing to the fact that our edition
containing this article has been entire
ly exhausted, we again publish it by
request-ED.
AT Detroit, Michigan, the "Women's
Temperance Union" or the women
crusaders and Salvation Army, visited
liquor saloon and tried by hard pray
ing to induce the proprietor to close
the place. The proprietor invited the
ladies to seats and asked them to pray
and he himself offered the following
prayer: Almighty creator in heaven,
thou who hath made the heaven and
earth, and created man after thine own
image as rulers of the earth, whilst ami
mails are living on grass and water,
thou didst teach thy servant Noah to
make wine and thou didst punish him
for making incorporate use of fain. At
the wedding of Cana, thine own son
Jesus Christ, transformed water into
wine when the juice of the grape was
exhausted, that the enjoyment of the
guests might not be disturbed. The
great reformer Martin Luther said:
llG WIN OlOCD lUU lON6 WlI6, WOuldll
aud song, remains a. fool all his life
long and one of the divine commands
of the book thou hast given us is, That
man shall drink no longer water but
shall use little wine for the stomach's
sake and his often infimaties.' All
great men of this earth have been
drinking of the wine thou hast given
thy children upon the earth. Oh, Lord!
we pray thee, have pity on the women
here, who even like the beasts of the
fields and compel them to drink water
like an OK, while they dress extrava-
gantly and lead their husbands by
other eXtravagancies, not tending to
our well being, to be bankrupt, depriv-
ing them of the pleasures of this world: /:
yes, driving them to suicide. Oh, Lord!
have mercy on these ladies; look upon
them. They wear not even the color of
the face which thou hast given them
but they are SHINING against thee, and
not contented with M t Ire, they paint
their faces. Oh, Lord, thou canst also
preceive that their figure is not as thou
hast made it, but they wear humps on
their backs like camels. Thou see'st
Oh Lord, that their head dress consists
of false hair and when they open their
mouth thou see'st their false teeth and
Oh Lord, just make note of the spinal
spring and cotton batting contrivances
they wear on their bosoms for no other
purpose than to make themselves vol
uptuous and to excite in man a much
worse passion than the use of wine and
for the same reason they have number
six foot pinched into a number three
shoe and number forty waist suueez-
p into number seventeen corset.
Oh, Lord! these women want men who
patiently accept all this without using
the power thou hast given to man,
that all women shall be subject to man.
They will not bear the burden of mar
ried life and obey thy commands to
multiply and replenish the earth. but
they are to lazy to raise their children
and Oh Lord, thou knowest the crimes
they commit. Oh Lordl have mercy
on them and take them back into thy
bosom, take folly out of their hearts.
give them common sense that they
may see their own foolishness and
grant that they may be good worthy
citizens of our beloved city of Detroit
Oh LOrdl we thank thee for ali the
blessings thou hast bestowed upon MS
and ask thee to deliver us from ali evil
especially hypocritical lying women
and thine shall be the praise forever
and ever, amen"