The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-17
WOMAN'S MISSION.
What She Must Know and What She Can
Do In the Alliance.

What She Must Know and What She Can
Do In the Alliance.
This subject is of far more impor-
lance than our limited knowledge is
able to set forth either by sentiment,
precept, or example. But if woman
has mission for any purpose how can
she perform any important part of
that purpose without knowledge of
what that mission is. Then if woman
has mission to the Alliance COT which
there are a wide difference of opinion)
how can she devote her time and
energies to that mission without know
ing what her mission is for, or what
she ought to do. Well she can't find
out at home, by giving thought only
to her own domestic affairs. She
must know what the Alliance and all
of its declarations of purposes are;
what it is trying to accomplish, and
for whose benefit it was organized,
and who will be benefited more than
all others if it accomplishes what it is
aiming to. Inform her on these points
and the instincts of her nature are keen
enough to soon see and understand
that she has an important mission in
the Alliance; and she will be will
ing to aid the stronger sex in any
way she possibly can that will advance
its cause. What can she do? That is
with the Alliance. Let us 90 back
and brush the rust off our memory;
let us look at the first colonization of
the new discovered land. then what it
cost to make that newly discovered
continent free and independent ma
ton of it's own, with it's declaration of
independence, equal and just to ALL
not limited to the colonies alone that
then settled few little counties, nor
to few individuals that ought to bask
in luxury at the expense of others, but
for all of the inhabitants that were
ever to populate the then independent
United States. Now let us look at the
present condition of our independence
as the farming and laboring class of
people know, that the woman has to
help Dear the burden of oppression;
then why should she not give her I'M
divided efforts in trying to secure
better condition for the farmers? Does
she not know that she will receive
more benefit from the Alliance victory
than any other class.
What can woman's mission be? She
can devote as much of her time as
possible (and consider it her best spent
hours)to study the present condition
of the laboring people; and what it is
that has placed her where she has to
take her hoe, or something else, to
work with, and toll all day until her
strength is exhausted; and then she
has to want for many of the comforts
of life. This toilsome part of life is
not because husbands, fathers, broth
ers and sons have any less love for
woman now than they did thirty years
ago; for they have to labor until if
there was not some sacred tie that
bound them to duty, many would have
given up long ago. Woman can, and
should, help to bring about a change.
Human nature has given woman a
wide influence, and if she will use that
gift for a good purpose she can accom-
pllsh far more than she has any idea
of. Look at the condition of the gov
eminent of Kansas and what the la
boring people have accomplished. It
is said they owe their victory to
woman's influence. If the alli-
ance was organized to better the
condition of the laboring people; and
woman forms a large part of that
class, and also possesses an unlimited
influence; then why should she not be
a member of the Alliance, and go with
the masculine part of her family, and
encourage in everything that will aid
in pushing the Alliance forward? Read
and study the Alliance literature; give
her ideas of the same, and encourage
her family and friends to do so. Never
allow any personal feelings of any kind
to conflict within the least the Alliance
on her part. Stimulate her energies
to as much home economy as possible
so as to once more gain home indie
pendence. If man has a mission in
the Alliance. then certainly woman has
too; for mans interest is that of his
family and of course he desires the
unity of his own household.
MARTHA BRYsON,
EaStanOllee. Ca.