The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-21

DCRdu W cDC8I DuL blE piOOlCIAs BA III
are men, who have the power Of voting,
not only for yourselves but for US,
you cannot keep Your peace any longer.
You have the power to dictate TO men,
that they use their power to save men. I
was born in New York. but raised upon
the broad p~rairies Of Wisconsin. Ny father
was a politician. | know some think that
a politician cannot be a Christian, but my
father was a Christian, and when he came
home in the evening he would bring the
papers and read them to my mother, or my
mother would read them to herself, for she
liked to know what was going on in the
world. She liked to hear how men voted,
and sometimes she would ask my father
how he was going to vote and what was
the vote about. sol" he would say, "it's
just road tax" OF whether the new road
shall run north and south or east AID west, .
and of course mother had no interest in
such matters. But here is a question in
which every oma has an interest, the
question of temperance reform, a home
question. The saloon bids for the boy. the
home bids for the boy, and women claim
the right, by what they have suffered, to
keep the boy for the home. They have
this share in the ballots of men, a right to
protect the boys, for whom every breath
is a prayer. Every n Of you here hold
one of four positions. When | studied
rhetoric | was told that every dilemma had
two horns, but / give you a dilemma with
fonr horns-ignorance, apathy, opposition
or completely. On one or the other of
these horns you are impaled. Sacramento
City was cursed with gambling. The city
fathers said, this thing canno 90 on, the
gamblers rule us. 1t is true we cannot
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can at least regulate it. Well put such a
high license on gambling dens that the
thing will be subdued in part and the
finances of the city greatly benefited. But
the newspapers of the city raised such a
how Of Indignation that the city fathers
were fain TO retract the means. The
papers said it was bad enough to be ruled
by gamblers, without making the rule
legal. Yet a law legalizing the liquor
traffic exists in all but seven States, a law
TO grant license to a certain number of
saloons upon the payment of a high tax.
The saloon is the hot-bed of gambling and
every other vice, yet it is free to work its
will upon the payment OF money. You
will not legalize gambling, will you vote
to legalize liquor? II you are not in pro-
fest against the saloon you are in favor of
it. once visited an opium den. | think
it was the most fearful place ! was ever in.
Would any OF you vote TO legalize an
opium den? You say opium is very bad.
How much worse is opium than liquor?
This matter is a sort of Battle of the Boyne
affair, whenever YOU see a head hit it,
| protest against high license IN the name
of womanhood and in the name of man
hood. Our Saxon ancestors conquered the
world. We, their descendants, rave our
world to conquer. If you should read In
the morning paper that the Gar of Russia
had been converted you would say, "Oh,
now that's gotten up but if a few days
after you should read thai the Gar had
shut up every saloon in his dominion you
would say, Il guess that report was true
about his conversion The Gar rules
with an iron hand. but every mans vote is
a part of that autocratic Gar called ma
jority.
Ispoke before a committee of the Senate
and Louis Schaade appeared for the brewers.
l did not feel like being hard on Louis with
his German parentage and education. He
said he represented the vested interests of
the brewers. Their money was in this in
dustry and be demanded protection. l
said that We women had also vested in
terests in the boys of our homes and Of our
4OFC ia EuobGLu dilU ia ali our 4Uftu bHts.
We claimed protection for our boys against
the saloon. Richard Golden says temper
ance reform stands at the back of every
reform.
Very early in life I held by the hand a
young sister, and the time came when we
saw that she must cross to the great IN
known. Ny father said: MARY, if l should
say that God is coming for you what would
you say ?" She said Il am so young. /
did not think / would have to die SO
young l said: "Mary do you feel Christ
near you ?" She said 81 would like to
feel him nearer Then | prayed that
Christ would come nearer to her. After a
little she said Sister, you need
not pray any more, Christ is here.
He talks to me-" and the light that
never shone on land or sea broke over her
face and she wen out into the place pre-
pared for her. But before she went she
said "Sister, / want you to tell everybody
to be good" 1t was a child's thought,
but it has been my oriflamme through life.
Be good, as Christ was good. Do good,
as he did. Uplift the cross and Christ that