River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-01-31
A Rejoinder.

port will have a tendency to lower
their tonei
DO not our boys and girls generally
have access through our papers to all
the scandal afloat, both of "high" and
low life, and isn't that paper the most
sought after that gets hold of the
most sensational of the delinquencies
in morality soonest!
Boys can find the Police Gazette
and many other papers of question
able character in barber shops and
many other public places, by simply
casting their eyes around to spy them
out. After our youths have arrived
at the age of fifteen, they are quite
wise lin ways that are sly and tricks
that are mean generally, and girls
have more knowledge of a question
able character than they are usually
credited with.
l believe that in this age of the
world, at least, girls need to know
about as much as their brothers; 40
be fore-warned is to be fore-armed. "
Innocence IS often weapon of weak.
ness.
Shall the horrors of the ''dive" be
shown up to the youth as well as 9th.
ers, by woman like DR.. Kate Bush.
nell, or shall they be left TO read the
enticing side (if there be such) writ.
ten up in French novels and detective
stories and many like books which
find paI antage in our own country!
VINO does not know that obscene
literature is sent to the young through
the mail, laws to the contrary not.
outstanding!
Many or our newspapers are full to
lUaLhlng of crime and debaucheIy, but
| good men, almost without exception
Iall 10 denounce them; indeed they
are daily visitors i'll many of ouI
homes, our SOILS and daughters get
LIng their first lessons III vice from
them often; but when a pure, educat
ed, christian woman ike DR.. Kate
Bushnell, out of love tor womdnkInd
and driven TO very desperation BY
thelr wrongs, raises "A cry, "cOme anC
help, christian men fling up thelI
hands i'll holy horror and tremble fOl
Gear the minds OF the youth be poIs
Onedi
Mothers, fathers, if your daughte.
a,e shielded by your loving Care fIOu
ali contamination with ImpurlLy, lei
them aud you thank God On DendeC
knee every day of your life. Bul
many daughters pure and innocent al
yours are To-, ced from nome by power
W, W gam their bread in another's
,.Ume; they hope To hnd shelter anC
Kindness There, but too often the enc
Is worse than death.
| LII women are weaker in mind anC
body, as SO many of our brother:
claim. should they not arise in thell
might aud protect US, leading u;
u higher places rather than 10 be, al
they sometimes aIe, our traducers anC
then, like the LevIte, pass 10y on th,
other side!
While recognizing the fact thal
many men ana women from pure sym
patny and love for humanity do gooC
as they nave opportunity aud often
make tne oppoI LunIty, yet appeal u
christian men aud women who dc
good I'm Ills name" should not chris
JIan Organizations be foremost III al
moral and social reforms that they
may lead the poor, oppressed and de
PRAYED out OF the depths, not by char
Ity alone, but by simple justice, a:
children OF the same Fdtheri
shall We settle ourselves back anC
see those who only profess ~ do good
through love OF their fellow crea
lures take the initiative, while WE
frame and adopt resolutions! There
Is a certain place paved with thOse.
Temperance and purity have {
wonderful affinity for each other
even IL temper ance is carried 50 far d:
To mean prohibition. If our officers
find most help from the z. p. in push
ing on our wOrK, why should il not bt
recognized in concerted action!
Though that party may never be al
the helm of the Snip of State, it is
already large enough TO be great ed
ucator in the line OF temperance and
affords men who cannot conscientious
ly vote for license, high or low, 4
chance to act in accordance with theil
principles.
But il it be of God ye cannot over
throw it, lest happy ye be found tc
fight against God"
Let the W. c. t. U. not be afraid OF
bringing all things to the light and
/ giving them their real names, and
| leave it to those who read if our work
does not compare favOrably with any
church or state reform work in oul
| country.
Every woman can unite in ouT
watchwOrds, Home and Native
Land, and with forty departments of
work to choose from, we can find
abundant work for heart and hand
As our organization is broader than
any church organization so we find
more opportunities for work for all
and many women who can not sub.
scribe to church creeds, can work
with us for the uplifting of her less
favored sisters.
Come and work in our Social Purity
Dep, orr Scientific Temperance In
struetiOn Dep, our Work among Lum.
bermen and other departments which
are taken up by our local union.
Don't let US be frightened out OF
our work by the cry of partisanship
We are neither of Paul nor Apollus.
but hope and believe we have the
mind of Christ as well as his spirit
and sisterIy love prevails among US
even if in our National there are
some unwise women.