Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-09
W0MAN'S RIGHTS.
THg SUBJECT OF A LENGTHY ADDRESS AT
MOUNDSVlLL8 YESTERDAY.
Rev. O. s. Works Discusses the Question in All its
Phasss-OtAer Services Of the Day
and How Conducted.

at the Prohibition Assembly meeting al
Moundsville yesterday The rains Of
the day and night before made the at
mosphere somewhat cooler than usual
At ga. IN. the w. c. T. L. held their
regular half-hour service. and moth
ers Meeting" was conducted by Mrs
Or. Kendall. At 1900 a. m. f. c. Din
widdle, OF Ohio, spoke TO an apprecia-
tive audience with much affect. In the
afternoon at 2:3O o'clock Rev. C. S
Work, d. D., of Ohio, delivered a
lengthy discourse on the subject Of
ssWOmanS Rights" One thing that
has been noticed during this series OF
meetings is the infrequency with viii Oh
the speakers allude 10 what
would seem the most important
and paramount of all questions,
the Abolition of the Liquor Traffic.
Other speeches and good ones too, have
been made upon different subjects,
while that has only received secondary
consideration. But that fact only tends
TO make the meetings more interesting,
for while the subject surely gets us
share of attention there IS that diver
sity 20 make it pleasant.
At the opening of the meeting yes
.terday afternoon the Quartette beau
tifullv rendered one of their most pOpu-
bar Prohibition songs, "NOte the ticket
straight" Rev. DR.. Work then APP
peared on the platform aud said that
The text he proposed 20 talk upon to-day
was not found In the Bible.
After giving a history OF the abolition
of slavery from the time It was hrSt
advocated down TO the beginning OF the
war. he showed that the abolition of
the liquor traffic was tending IN the
same direction. He said: The rights
and privileges of citizenShipin It's broad
Est sense. refers 20 more than the right
10 vote. 1t refers 10 the rights and
privileges Of more than One-hali OF the
citizens of the United States. Thirty
millions of whom are women. A great
many men think that they are the pro-
tectors of all wOmenkind. Where do
Won yet such stuff. 1t is not in the
bible. God did not make woman out OF
The foot of man that ne might stand on
her, nor out Of his arm; she needed his
protection, but tie made her out OF the
side of man and God put
men and women in this world TO stand
side by side. Voting is not the question
at all: 10 is q struggle for citizenship in
fact and in principle. Rights and
burdens aud taxation aud representation
must equal each other. Politically
woman hasn't any more rights than
horse out i'm o field. They are COM
peNej 10 obey laws i'm the making OF
which they didn't have one word.
The term ''man" used in the Declare
ti0n means woman as we'll as man.
Idiots are deprived OF the use OF the
ballot because they haven't the sense TO
use il. But you don't dare to say that
Is the reason that women are deprived
of the ballot because she hasn't the
sense to use it, for your wife is in the
audience, and il wouldn't be good
for YOU when you went home. Every
decision against woman suffrage is con-
trary 70 all the principles OF law, and
there is rot a man in the audience that
can stand up ana give a reason Tor his
votiuuo but what woman can stand up
aud give the same reason. Now one Of
You stand mp and can prove it by the
women present.
Why. / know o woman who pays taxes
ON one-half q million of dollars, and the
colored man who takes care OF her
horses has more 10 say about how she
spends her money than she has herself.
That's taxation without representation.
i believe i'm woman suffrage, L believe
i'm women preachers.
I believe in woman speakers. Give
them an equal chance with the men In
ANYTHING they are fitted for. There
never would have been slavery II women
had been allowed their places. Mrs.
jefferson was opposed to slavery
Would that Mrs. Jefferson had been in
Congress instead of Mr.. Jefferson. One
of the most efTectual ways TO eXterml-
nate the saloon would be to turn the
mothers OF the country loose on 1t. A
vote was then taken as TO who were
ready 70 act on the question, ana ABOUT
half of the male portion OF che congre-
cation arose. The ladies were then
asked II they wore ready to act should
they be afforded the opportunity, ana
the entire portion arose en- maSSe.
EVENING ADDRESS.
AT night the largest audience that has
vet been assembled, gathered 10 listen
to Rev. j. ii. Hector who was on the
for an address. Every body
wore o smile of contentment and came
with expectation of hearing feast OF
words from the noted cOlOred divine.
At the opening the Ouartette sang "Ho!
for the Strong" and in response to an
encore sang, "There's q Good Time Com
ing"
Rev. Hector took for his subject the
problem, 1.-THE Slavery OF Strong
Drink" There is dead parallel be-
tween drink and and slavery, said ne.
/ am going TO make you mad tonight,
and when You get mad You show II.
don't. When you get mad you get red
in the face, and there is where l have
the advantage OF YOU. l can't get red.
The liquor traffic is worse than slavery
because il rObs father and mother Of
their natural affection for their young.
Slavery don't, and you legalize it.
The LIQUOR traffic is not an industry.
ID 81 is why didn't the brewerieS have
rbeir products on exhibition at the Cen
tepniaI? They should have all the
drunzards and buns on exhibition and
showed them as their stock in trade.
The trouble is they don't sell anything
oenuine. The only genuine article sold
Is champagne, you drink sham at
night aud get up with q pain in the
,,,orrinp What we want is TO
bave more backbone, and do right
So,ne neonle want TO curtail it-that's
,l,s Democratic party. Some want 70
curry the tail Of it-that'S the Repuoli-
cam party. But what we want Is to cut
of the head of this death-dealing demon