Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06
Snow at Bismark Oct 3oth
''ouR RLEcAcY,.

A'oi Vel1 aC 'tne M. E. Church sabbath
morning. Among other things no
spoke OF the hardships, and suffering
ana sacrifices of the Pilgrim Fathers
,hen the battles for freedom from the
tyranny of the mother countrv-,rd =
che blood bought liberty of the slaves
OF the south and later the heroic ef-
1orts IN behalf of the slaves of rnm
and especially the prohibition Of the
liquor traffic in our own state. lie in.
sisted that 1t is the duty of everv good
nan to "stand on guard" because everv
effort was being made, quietly 70
bring about resubmission of nrohihi.
1lon IN South Dakota. Practical SER
mons on the issues of the dav arc
what the people need, and who ran
betCer give the alarm than those who
proclaim Gods messages. Give MS
some more,-Bro. Norvell. We heard
woman summing it up something
like this. eyes he told the truth but
only half of it as is the usual custom
of speakers and writer's. lie forgot to
mention the sacrifices of the Pilgrim
MOTHERS. The hardships must have
borne heavily upon those WOMEN who
landed on that bleak shore. Then
that "tea party" in Boston Harbor
meant considerable for women who
loved cup OF tea lis we'll as their
daughters of today. We have never
heard but that the women folks bore
their share of the hardships as bravely
as the sterner sex. One thing we
never did read that is that the women
had to have holes bored in their ton
CUES to keep them quiet as history de-
clares was done with some of the men,
1t also tells how some of the men haa
to be whipped to mike them attend
church but not word aboutsuch pun
ishment for the women -d1dent need
1t you see. And as for religious free
dom the same year Roger Williams
was banished because of his l,elief
Mas Annie Hutchinson, a womat of
considerable ability. preached and lee
tured, and talked for religious liberty
until the General Court pronounced
her las bad as Roger Williams if not
worse" and compelled her to leave the
colony. Several telling strokes of wo-
mans pen and hand awakened righ-
teous indignation in the hearts OF good
people against Africanslayery and real
ly was the pealude to Lincoln's eman-
cipatlon proclamation.
And first and foremost a wo-
mans really discovered America.
and we intend to have her statue at
the worlds fair. II Queen Isabella
had not sold her jewels to furnish the
wherewith. Columbus could never had
made his remarkable voyage. And
vet men, young and old, will tell of
the wonderful exploits of men, which
are indeed great. but there has been a
woman standing beside almost every
man who has accomplished anything
worth note, and still we women be-
long to the silent seven''-Idiots,
Criminals Traitors-Insane. Children,
Heathcn, chinese, and WOMEN. Why
do YOU know that one church in So
Dakota was reported at the NJ. E. con-
ference at Sioux Falls. by a woman de-
legate. because not MAN belonged to
that church except the preacher and
I suppose that preacher used the old
phrasology "Brethren' when address
ing his congregation. and it may he
voted against women delegates to the
General Confe renee. Yes, l tell you
we woman are beginning to feel these
things keenly and some fiue morning
the country will be astonished at
general rebellion among the women
folks 1t wa, proven that men can't
get along without us when the Vlr-
e,nian old bachelors sent over to Eng
land and had ship-loaG of women
shipped over, for which every man OF
them paid 12O lbs of tobacco. and tob-
acco was worth 75c per lb then too.
can imagine the anxiety for the ccm-
xIyhn