San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-04-18


are very strongly, and properly, opposed
to reprint, but what l send is 50 new, noble
and convincing, that / am confident 20,
will make room for it. If our brethren o.
the clergy would ell take q position as pro
gressive rs this young minister, the reigt
of Christ in government would not long be
delayed in this gospel land.
Yours for Christian ballots,
FRANCES E. WILLARD.
AT the Baptist ministers meeting, Chi
cago, February 25th, paper on "Woman's
Suffrage" was presented by the Rev. H. s.
Taylor, of Englewood. 1t showed the
writer to be o valiant defender of the move
ment. 1t was prepared in reply to DR.. P.
s. Hensons advocacy of the other side of
the question at previous meeting. In
concluding his lengthy argument Mr.. Tay-
lor said "There is at least one great wo.
man in this country, whose greatness nc
one will deny-that is if attitude and great
ness are synonymous. She 0wells, but
does not live on Bedloe's Island, New York
Harbor. She is mighty woman and a
mightier paradox. She is French by birth,
and American by adoption. She represents
Christian country, but is clothed in the
Pagan costume of Greece. She stands for
modern enlightenment but holds the vel
lum and stylus of antiquity. She is a wo
man, but is vestaI of liberty in land where
women have no political privileges, and she
braudishes her torch towards old England,
whose women nre far in advance of ours in
! oil civil rights
Il an no artist, but think could i'm
prove her highness of Bedloe's. l would
change her posture, at least. l would spin
her around on her pedestal and let her face
inland awhile, and I would say to her,
Madame lit your torch little higher and
| look around you, You will see a great
army of American women, the wlsest, most
! cultivated, and best women on earth. They
are Americans, and with their brothers in
herit this peerless America from a great
and glorious estate built up by their patri-
otto fathers. These women have deserved
their high lineage and are worthy of this
great inheritance. They, like their broth
ers have lahored to preserve the Gncestra!
gift, in times Of peace they have worked in
the kitchen, factory and field. They have
shared the poverty and privations of piol-
eer life, and with benevolent hands have
helped to lay the foundation of churches
and school houses in the wilderness and
beclion civilization TO the West. In times
of war they have seized the plow abandon
ed by III ir brothers, and by hard labor and
prudent vigilance have made il possible for
armies 10 subsist. Or, animated by I'M
looked for daring. they have gone
10 In, field. ard as nurses, spies ard
sometimes with weapons, they have for
fatherland, put all on the cast Of die.
And Madame. o NADINE :" l would
say. these women are not greatly given to
polite hut they see their country and Il cir
very children in imminent peril Two
hun bred and fourteen thousasd saloons are
pursuing their sons and 80, ono brothels are
hunting their daughters. and with the mo-
thor instinct which makes even the timid
quail ruffis her feathers ard stand in defense
Of her yoruc. she asks tn, ballot for h,r
own aud t. r protection. In tie name of
CEri-,iau wr.lqGEn0i, ore member a
vh.c. bore tie infant SAVIOR igto the world
aui another announced bis resurrection.
tLgy have Asked Il % the Church only -
prove the reverse Cf the ruls. Ask and So
shal. reserve In the name Of Abics
Adams al Martha We hi-.tcn, they have
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