Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-08-10

NOT that loved that flag. Nay, verify loved
the slave too we'll not to desire its downfall but
then, so many brave hearts bled for it, SO many
gentle women wept, that could sincerely be sorry
for their grief and yet be loyal to an emancipated
race and my own glorious North. When the
troops were mustered out in 1868, we little
dreamed that less than ten years later the home
guards of the land would be mustered into the
war of the Crusade God bless the Crusade State,
the veteran of our army. M
At the sequel of that mighty movement Gods
Pentecost of power upon the nation, behold the
women, who only a year ago, went to the polls to
persuade men to cast their ballots for prohibition
in Oregon and Texas, in Michigan and Tennessee.
If the voters Of the greatest party are true to us as
we have been and will be true to them, ten years
hence we will help those who were beaten in four
States that stood for constitutional prohibition
in 1885, with our guns that are ballots, as we
now helping with our bullets that are ideas.
l never expected to speak with pride about the
''Solid South as such, but surely | may do this
now that it is becoming 'solid'' for the 'dry
ticket" and you who dwell there may be glad
that the Northern heart is "fred' once more,
this time with the same war-cry as that which
fires the Southern, and it is 'protection for our
homes.' That is the s'spell to conjure by" That
is the rallying call of North and South, of Prot
estant and Catholic, of white and black, of men
and women equally. Bourbon Democrat and rad
ical Republican will seek in vain to stde this swift
swelling chorus, that sChorus of the Union,o for
which great Lincoln vanly prayed in his first in
augural. Do you not recall his marvellous con-
Guiding sentence q quote from reeoection):
"The mystics chords of memory, stretching from
many scored hearth and patriots grave, all over
this broad land, shall once more swell the chorus of
the union when again touched, as surely they will
be, by the better angel of our nature" Thatangel
is the temperance reform, and the fulflment of
that phrophesy we have lived to see.
The greater party stands for nationalism as
against sectionalism it stands for the noblest
aims and aspirations of wage-workers as against
monopoles that dare to profane that holy word,
''trust;" it stands for the future in politics as
against the past, the home vote with an educa-
tiona test as against the saloon vote with beer
breath as its credentials and best of ALL it stands
for the everlasting and absolute prohibition OF sin
as against any alliance between sin and the gov
eminent For while the greatest party will never
hesitate 10 be the champion OF these causes good
and great, so closely linked with its own central
purposes, neither must it fail to put prohibition by
law and prohibition by politics so far in the lead
that no candid man can for a moment question
the august supremacy of these overmastering
issues; or we are firmly persuaded that the sepa-
ration of the people into two distinct armies, one
voting for men who will outlaw the poison curse,
and the other for men who will legallze it, must
come, and that such separation cannot come too
soon. We are not here to speak harsh words OF
armies rallied under other ensgns, but simply to
declare that in this great emergency we canuot de-
pend upon them. Party machinery and the am
bition of party leaders today stand between the
people and their opportunity. We would clear the
track for prohibition. We are bound to do it.
For this were we born, and for this cause came
we into the world.
When | think of Lexington and Paul Revere I;
when | think of Bunker Hill and the dark redoubt
where Gen. Warren died; when | think Of Wash