Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-16
LETTER FROM MRS. HALL.


CHE following letter was mailed at
Parker, Aug! 10th which we publish
with plea, ure-ED.)
Dear HERALD:-
! AS am to go into battle to-
night, not knowing what the Outcome
will be. / drop you a line, so that If
"fall by the way" somebody will know
what became of me. / am in Russia"
just as much as il / was outside the
limits of the Uunited States. Have
stirred up hornets nest among the
Russian NIinnonites, who own and
control this country. No one would
receive me into their homes, and l
would have been left out on the nrair-
lie but for an Irishman who had
brought me out, and who kept saying
don't be unaisy ma'am, I'll Stand by
We, and never lave ye AMONG such
haythens" and l assure you it was
comforting. 70 be honest; I really
preferred the piairie to the houses,
where the bread and the cats all took
refuge in the family bed, and such a
bed, the cat perched on top Of Il warm
loaf of bread, Minked dreamily. For
the first timb I began to waver. My
Irish friend finally found the one
American family. (and they were
making ready to leave) But escort
asked permission for the ''leddy what
talks temperance, and a perfect Teddy
she is from the crown of her head to
her fut" And fits not continued ye
air, its meself that will take We back
to my wife. Is il that We air afraid
of the hayhens? Not a hair of yer
head shall behurt ma'an." After as
surfing him that ! felt perfectly safe,
he departed.
When night came my American
friends started with me to the
meeting in the school house, as
the church had been refused me.
About half way we were met by a
wagon load of Russians who said the
house was full and wanted me to
hurry. One got out and came to me
and spoke low in german (they all
understand germany told me two
saloon keepers and a speaker had
come over from Hutchinson county
to talk against ME, and he thought Il
ought to know it. l felt sure of one
friend. After distributing the cam
paign song leaflets l took advantage of
their love of music and kept them
singing until 1 had their sympathy
to a small extent. when / asked my
opponent to stand up, and give his
reason for wanting to tax possession
of my meeting, he answered it "was a
free country and he came to talk
against prohibition because it was
never heard of in Russia or Germany"
1 invited him to take the floor. Here
fused, asked him it he now lived
in Russia or German?" "No." I said
neither do l. consequently I propose
that we all act like Americans. 1 told
him was sent out by the state, who
sends you? 20, shust some folks"
l said, II represent the home. with the
Lord, and good men and pure women,
and innocent children on my side, who,
and what do you stand for?" He was
standing 10y my side. blushing and
trembling when 1 turned to the audi
ence and explained the difference, and
it seemed that the Lord put words in
my mouth. Heads were noddlng as
sent over the house, and he went out
After l was through he rushed to the
front and began in German. | asked
him to talk in English, he fatty refused
but said anything didn't understand
he would interpret. | asked HIM to
interpret sentence I didn't just catch,
and he told me to keep still. You can
imagine how my blood boiled when he
went on with a TRADE of abuse and
rldicule of American women, and the
women-the women applauded him!
understood him all the way through,
anu you Call IcSC dSSuiSO Cl10U kunllh
establishment came over the faces of
the women when l got up and answer
ed him, and pointed my finger at those
women and said; | Gun make better
bread than you, can cook potatoes
and krout better, and if we Am erlcan
women do sit IN our rocking chairs, it
is because we are smart enough to get
our work done aud out of the way
We don't laugh at your odd dress and
dirty cooking, but welcome you to our
country, etc, etc. They dropped their
heads and said Idle yankee frau YER
stichen." chad said we were so lazy
we would in the rocking chair all
day with house SO dirty you couldn't
get in, and then the women laughed
He also said l better be at home ask
ing counsel Of my husband, quoting
Paul. I turned to him and told him
my husband died for this country
that you might have liberty, and then