Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-02
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expect or desire any mere
courtly compliments. You are striv-
ing to suppress one of the greatest evils
that atllict our race, and / can speak
only words of sOberness and truth.
TIE first truth that | would utter,
is protest against mans charge, as
pitiiul and ungallant as untrue. that
women caused all the sin and evil
there is i'm the world. Man had his
full share, if not the greater part. in
that causing. The Scripture ascribes
the sin of the race to Adam, not Eve.
"FOr as by one man sin entered iutO
the world, and death by sin. so. in
Adam all die" 1t is true that Eve
was first in transgressing, but listen
to st. Paul. 1.-The woman, being de-
ctiUed. was in the transgression, and
adam was not deceived "-what
then? The women fell unintertional-
ly, because she was deceived; but the
man was not deceiveh; he fell deliber
ately, with his eyes wide open to the
sin. he sinned. And from that day
to this. it has been pretty much the
same way. Few women deliberately
and knowingly enter into sin; almost
invariably they are deceived, but men
know the right and yet, undeceiveu,
choose to do the wrong.
God made woman to help man,
because he needed her help to do
righteousness, even when yet unfallen.
God did not make man TO help the
woman. and yet when she fell into
transgression, instead of trying to lift
and lead her back to holiness, he turn
ed from his own Righteousness to help
on her sin and give it all its deadly
power. Together man and woman
brought evil into the world; together,
by God-given strength, they must
overcome it, neither can do it single
handed. If uDfallen, man needed
woman's help, much more does he
need it, fallen. He may perform deeds
of daring, feats Of strength, intellect
uai achievements, without the help OF
woman, though the most and best of
these have been done under her in
spring influence.
But he can make no great moral
improvement, and overcome no great
evil in the world, without woman's
direct help. The great Master taught
us this when He made disciples among
the women of Galilee, ana so poured
Judea, that they prophesied in His
name and become deacOns, servants,
helps in His church. the great purify
ing agency in the world. Christianity
lifted woman from beneath mans feet,
and placed her erect by his side, his
helper in all that is good, and noble
and true.
What department of moral advance
can be efficient without wOman's aid?
Where the women are chaSte, there
men are generally frank md honest;
where the women are kind and gentle,
there the men are apt to be compass
sionate and merciful: where the wOm-
en- are sober, there men are most likely
to be temperate. Prison reform, hos
pital improvement, houses of refuge,
the benevOlences of the church-all
need woman's zeal, energy and refin-
ing touch to reach up to perfection.
None needs them more than the work
of temperance. Drinking men will
grow angry at the circumstances of
their fellowmen, but they will listen
to woman's pleadings, if they listen
at all.
You, ladies of w. C. T. u, have
come here to incite your sisters of this
city to exert their influence in the
great WORK Of temperance refrm,
and to help the men engaged in that
work. We need yonr help, the help
Of all-Of you who come among US rs
and you who live among US.
In no one thing thing are men more
apt to pursue the wrong while know
ing the right than in this matter of the
liquor question. / do not mean the
who are under the influ-
nee of Incorporate habits. but mean
the men who are themselves sober.
There is not one man out of hundred
VIII does not know and ack knowledge
the evils of the liquor traffic. They
know that it makes men drunkards
md mur'terers, breaks wOmen's hearts, |
mpOverisheS and degrades children,
Increases crime, increases taxes, and il |
/ curse to the community. The mayor |
will tell you that this is so, the Judges, |
he chief of police, the trial Justices,
he business man, will acknowledge it |
o be true, and yet they have not the |
moral strength to rise against it and |
rush it. The politicians. the rulers, |
he judges, the juries, and the business |
nen, are all afraid of the liquor money |
power.
a few weeks ago there was an earn
asst discussion in this city about the
leavy taxes, and the best method of
essening them. In the effort of one
ide to show that the taxes were not /
s high as in other cites, it was Incl
lentally but distictly shown that the
liquor Licenses were much lighter here
han elsewhere, and yet but Il single
'oice was raised to say. LAY the bur
len on the liquor traffic, and relieve
he honest, useful business of the
ity." 1t is only as God shall move
md use you, ladies, mothers, wives
ma sisters from, it may he, your own
al experience, perhaps your own
broken hearts, or from your tender
compassion and deep conviction of
moral right, to exert your full weight
II influence, that the men of the coun-
ry Will be aroused to meet the issue
md destroy the destroyer.
tio on then in your work: win the
women of the land tn your views and
10 your aid, and though the living con-
gressmen. Legislators, and aldermen
may mock at your efforts, slight your
petitions and defeat your bills, your
hands have rung the knell of the
liquor traffic. 1t is sounding from
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, from
he Atlantic to the Pacific. Your
will rise up an irresisti-
Die host and sweep the saloon and
he dram-shop from the face of the
.arth.
In behalf of the temperance-lov:n ing
people of this fair city of Charleston, /
bid you, ladies, hearty welcome and
IN earnest GOd-speed!
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