The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-04-13


Harrison's family ever since his
marriage, and that is, family prayers
in the morning and evening. And
it is said that neither the President
nor his wife have any intention of
omitting this regular observance in
the executive mansion.
In letter to a prominent officer
of the National w. C. T. U. Senator
Blair says:
The sentiments of women more
than the opinions of men, influence
nations, and control the course OF
history. Until something touched
the hearts Of the women of our
country with a live coal from the
altar Of renewed life, however the
heralds cried peace, there was no
peace. The Union was restored
when the women of the North and
Of the South assembled together as
one, intermingled their prayers and
tears over the sorrows of their COM
mon country, and forgiying, if not
forgetting the past, consecrated
themselves to the new crusade,
"For God and Home and Native
Land" Lawyers assert that to be
certain which can be rendered GER
tain, and in the same way it is true
to my mind, that when you and
Frances Willard clasped hands to-
gether for your respective sections
of the country, irreversible causes
were set in motion which will yet
accomplish the full restoration OF
national unity and peace.
The w. C. T. U. is larger than its
name. Beginning as mighty pro-
test against the greatest Of all con
crete public and social evils, organ
izing primarily for its destruction
the work Of the Union has broad.
ened, until now it really embraces
in its forty great departments, every
form of holy exertion against every
evil in the world. The Union is
Christian womanhood organized as
one harmonious force, including
and assimilating all societies, sects
and denominations in one grand
"army of the Lord" fighting with
weapons Of love the great battle
for the salvation of the human body
and soul.
All through the North we recog.
nize the transcendent importance
and ennobling effect Of the work
which the women of the South have
done, and are doing, for our com
mon country and for the world
We cannot forget the terrible sac
rifces and trials through which you
have passed in the earlier years Of
our generation, for woman is always
the chief sufferer in war, and in the
North, as we'll as in the South, she
mourns even yet her frstborn, and
refuses to be comforted. But you
and yours were among the shot and
she'll, and oftentimes the altar and
the homestead became but a desc
late memory. =
The cause of education to the
masses of our people, as well as the
destruction of poisonous beverages,
is specially dear to me, because Il
is all important to our prosperity
and even to our existence as peo
pie. And l wish now to thank you
and all the noble women Of the
South, for your and their unfilnch
ing and invaluable efforts in its pro
motion. I believe that the time
will soon come when your long Ia
bors for the Education Bill will bt
crowned with success. Let US pu'
forth every possible exertion unit
| it is a law, and every child in ou1
country is blessed with the oppor
tunity to obtain common schoo
education, and so have fair chance
| in the race of life.
"BY nature, the boy baby is every
whit as good as the girl baby, bu
the social restrictions thrown
around the girl all the way up Y
womanhood shield and protect he
from sin, while the social loosenes'
which surrounds the boy and tn
young man tend to corrupt him. !
is no wonder that the average young
man becomes more corrupt an TIM.
than the average yoang woman. 4
men we're prohibited frona using to
,acco. from swearing aad from tn
Sc of liquor as wonaen are, It toel
hope to be recognized at all as be
ing respectable, then we could e1
pect men to be as good morally 9
an average woman. But when yo.
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