The Monitor., 1889-04-12
w. C. T.U. DEPARTMENT.

and Poland under Christian rule.
Young girls even preached crusades to
Christian princes.
One of the three best ancient copies OF
the scriptures is the work of a pious
Greek woman.
In China, about the Sth century, an En-
press invented that greatest of all eduea-
tors. the printing press, but no man was
/ smart enough to find out how it was to be
used aud 50 it was suppressed. Think OF
such stupidity Aud as our W. T. Z. A.
sends its messengers for temperance
abroad. let us remember that we owe them
all, indeed, to women.
In olden days, in even India, educated
women were placed on equal terms with
educated men. In China the men became
alarmed at womeus superior ability, and
fearing lest in time they would rule over
them, invented a novel check, which they
wear TO this day, namely, the iron shoe,
and placed it ON their girl babies the king
| dom over.
Down through the years. let us come.
Can history point to masculine Joan of
| Areo See Maria Theresa stand before the
lords of Hungary appealing for help.
| Could a man have aroused them as this
woman did, and saved nation?
In spite of fewer opportunities, and
weaker physical, not mental organization,
women have outrivaled men in every thing
| that they have undertaken, but far out
| riyaled them in truth, christianity and pur-
| ity.
Woman was the latest of Gods creation,
and step by step, ever higher, this great
creation went on, up, up, up. The last step
the nearest Him, because partaking more
of the divine, possessing the most perfect
creative functions, and in searching for
great truths, the god of man, treason,
often misguiding, is replaced in her by the
God endowed gift of intuition. Why don't
you reason ON this great temperance ques-
| ton. ask men. because we do not need
to reason, we know what is right, comes
the answer straight and firm from woman's
lips.
On July A, 1916, i'll Philadelphia rang out
the grandest Declaration of Independence
that the world has ever heard-proclaim-
ing over the globe that governments
derive their Just power from the consent Of
the governed, and that taxation without
representation is tyranny"
By our country's laws then framed and
later added to, ''the people" have a
right to VOTE and do not women form half
ssthe people?' Then again where the
word ''men'' is inserted in our Constitu-
tion, all laws but voting laws recognize
women under the masculine pronoun-she
can be fined, sentenced, hung under it,
SO why cannot sine vote under it?
We use the one bible, yet here we accept
with men the masculine pronoun. .'What
ye would that men should do to You, do
ye unto them
Men tell us that 's95 per cent of the un-
chaste are men; 95 per cent of the drunk
ards are men; 90 per cent of the criminals
are men; 70 per cent of the paupers are
men, and yet women, good women, claim
TO fear the demoralizing effect of woman's
ballot.
| want to ask this emphatically, was
right ever secured ever made right by
committing a wrong on any class or race
or sex? Was a race or sex ever elevated
by keeping it down? Were the freed slaves
: fit to vote, when they were given the votes
Did not giving them the ballot prove the
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pairing them for ii? and indeed was it not
the only way? In five years can an ig.
norant foreigner be fitted for the ballot.
yet he has it and helps rum to rule the land
while Americas daughters, strong and
pure and true, sit at home and weep
and kneel and pray since fathers, brothers
, husbands deny to them citizens right
the ballot.
tell you that equal rights Is the mos
needed reform of our land to-day-sexua
distinction in politics undcrlies all thi
, great social evils.
For instance take the domestic seryc
and social purity problems, which at Cas-
bic Garden become united.
England, Germany, France, Denmark
Sweden, Norway and other countries sen,
t to us young girls as household help, an,
: they are urgently needed. They land il
@ purity, trust and innocence; to them Amer
lea means a land where oppression no
wrong cannot live, where evil does not
cannot lurk, and they are easier entrapp
S ed by employees of men, on pretence o.
g domestic service, for which they have come
e into lives of the foulest sin and shame
, Mems laws do not prevent it, and tweLt.
thousand in one year were thus entrappe'
ill New York City alone, thus being ren
dered not only unfit for domestic service
f but being stain upon our land as WELL
Women not needed at the ballot, yol
D say? Women not needed to protect sucl
! as these? If the motherhood is not needed
what is?
? In China, in India, in Russia, young
f girls of ten or twelve are bought and sold
to be shipped here for the vilest of pur
f poses.
; In England, Germany, Denmark, IIol
I land and Sweden hy advertisements con
r tanning false promises of domestic employ