Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-10-31
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l am glad you asked a woman-fol
we women have learned many things
since we learned to read, and are glad
to have a chance to tell them.
l read an article not long since from
the pen of a very able writer. | an
told, that said: 1.-THE way to secure
temperance legislature was for the two
parties to elect legislators and then we
must petition Them Did you aver
notice on whatever else our two parties
differ, they agree exactly in wanting
and working for the whisky vote? In
fact they agree SO well, and when we
consider the benefit the Congress Just
adjourned was to the liquor traffic, we
women have almost gotten the notion
in our heads that the great issue of the
day was not tariff but whisky. The
American women have been in the De-
tition business for some years and have
learned that it will not do much good
to petition any sort of a legislative
body, unless there is some one in the
legislature to watch the bill after il is
introduced from first to last. know
a worker who once upon a time, when
she was a trifle more verdant than she
is tonight, carried a petition for better
temperance legislation (signed by 10,
600 women of her State to a friend in
the Senate and asked him to present it.
lie declined. why, Mr.. B." she
said, II thought you believed in tenn
perance9" "Oh, l do" well, DOM
you think it is a good bill?n Eyes:
just between u.s." "Well, then, WHY
will you not present it?" "Why, nv
dear friend, am a politician. don't
expect to stop here; I am headed for
Congress. Now, suppose 1 present this
bill and champion it; some of my
friends will not stand by me when the
next race comes off," but we women
will stand by you, every one, and here
are $4,000 of u.s." Here he broke into
a loud laugh: "My dear madam, did
you say that ironically? Its capital if
you didY"
ironically? Indeed l did not. What
do you meant"
49,
oh, well then; you are more limo
cent than I supposed. My friend, how
much do you suppose your Is, 900 wo.
men would weigh in an election scale
against two German votes? Suppose
these $4,000 women wanting this voting
well done could have done it them
selves and 80 have neutralized 10. 900
German votes; would that gentleman
have declined to present, plead and
vote for that billY 1 think not. AL
though most of US women allow the
missionary society with its ten cents a
month to consume us to such an ex.
tent that we have no time for other
work, forgetting that God has said to
us, "These things ought ye to have
done but not left the other undone.n
We are also learning that we will make
slow progress in Ch~ristianizing heather
nations as long as the United States
unloads $4,000 barrels of whisky in
foreign ports every time the church un-
loads one missionary. And think how
Inundated our poor missionary must
be when laboring with the heather ru.
Ter about the debauch of his people to
have the chief ruler say to him: "Your
country should have sent the God man
here before it sent its shame water and
when the Chinese ruler says of revenue
ret one dollar will l take for that
which causes my people w%retchedness.
ls 1t not time we had some Chinese
revenue missionaries sent to us? When
we, grieving over these things for which
we were not responsible and were help
less to avoid were awakened to the fact
that our Christian sabbath was in
danger of being ignored by our own
people in our own land before the ewes
of all heather nations at the Colum.
bian Exposition we decided all we
could do to petition Congress to help
us remember that we and also the
strangers within our gates are COM
manded to remember the Sabbath day
to keep it holy. AS we walked miles
and miles to get names to our petition
we were kindly but firmly assured by
our brothers that we were wasting our
energies, and throwing our time away
by getting the names of the good wo-
men of this land on our petition-as
law makers recognize no names on pc
titions except voters.
And when W. petitioned our last
State legislature to pass a bill entitled
IAN act to provide the study of physi-
ology and hygiene with special refer
ence to the nature of alcoholic drinks
and narcotics, and their effect upon
the human system in the public schools
of the State of Tennessee and read as
follows:
BE 1t enacted by the general assem-
bly, of the State of Tennessee that Pro-
vision be made by the proper authori-
ties for the study of physiology and
hygiene with special reference to the
of alcoholic drinks and mar
cotics and their effects upon the hui
man system, and that this be made a
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