The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-11-16

'The call for compulsory arbitration
/ resulting from the Pullman strike will,
If it is but needed. BE- worth to this
\ country all that the strike cost financial
| ly and every other way. Peace and
bitratiOn are the Watcn word Of the white
ribbon movement"
he position taken by the labor unions
! in deploring the dispositions Of those IN
4 authority 10 Increase and centralize the
number Of state and federal troops, to
multiply costly and Medieval armories,
] thereby making more heavy the burden
of taxation which at the last must be
borne by the producing classes, was
heartily endorsed.
J ''As John Burns says we must revo-
! lutionize by reform. not seek to reform
! by revolution. We make a great ado
about the anarchists. but the public
4 house is the headquarters Of the an
archists and alcohol Is the worlds dyna-
mite.
1T Is probable that we have not in this
country d more skillful specialist on the
! labor question than Mrs. Josephine Shaw
( Lowell of New York, chairman of Dr.
Park hursts committee or women she
Z believes there is no remedy to be found
for the workers except organized unity
OF action, and that labor and capital must
com bIne IN adjusting their di fhculties
Boards of Cancellation and arbitration
viii, she thinks, supply the missing link
for which We have looked So long.
''W have had the Christianity Of sen
timent of theology. Of clesiasticisiD,
but the present age has the happiness to
witness the Christianity of conduct We
are learning that real religion is not the
acceptance of any dOgma, bat the recog-
milton of Christ's life in the heart and
home, In society and the state
a law is pending ia Great Britain
which ought 10 be duplicated here, by
which industrial homes for '.lcoholites''
are to be established by the government.
We are rapidly approaching the time
when drunkenness viii no longer be toll
Grated, for It Is becoming understood
that the danger involved IN hArboring
the drunkard in the home is As great
if he were lnnatic. The
state must relieve the home of
this untolerabIe bondage, must
relieve the drunkard from the OvertOwer-
ing temptation and must set him at work
to earn his own living Every State
w. c. at. Z. is. urged to petition the
legislature for an appropriation 10 this
end
Halfway measures blur the straight
line Of ethical perception and set back
movements that can only be carried to
success by OUT and out methods. The
w. G. IT. I. is the old guard that never
surrenders- 1t is not DeguIled by high
license nor by tax; by the Iowa mulct
law nor the South Carolina dispensary;
BY non partisanism nor the Scandinavian
The w. g. r. e. il forging forward
with the years along lines Of preven-
tion, and except the department Of her
edity there is noae that goes nearer the
root Of the matter than the department
of scientific cookery. Mrs Ole Bull and
her coad1 utOrs have laid broad founda-
tiOns for this department. Until the
.happenstance' OF cookery is changed to
the circumstance Of scientific diet
we can hope for nothing helpful IN
this regard. and I am free TO say that I
lock forward to the time when cooking
shall be conducted as carefully as the
most i'm mpOrtant chemic processes of the
laboratory and shall be wholly in the
hands of scientific experts.
The work ot women is the most
unique feature Of the recent great cleo
tiOns- 1t is freely admitted that they had
much to do with the downfall Of the
Tammany ring-it was largely a case Of
"the lady and the tiger with no doubt
as to which came out Of the contest
ahead. Tn Illinois the women voted by
tens Of thousands; in Colorado the Pro
hibttiOn party was raised from ]. 100 at
the last election from seven to ten thOus-
and; and IL is the universal testimony
that the presence of women at the polls
led TO a much larger vote by men and
secured the best order ever known
The Republican party did itself dam
age by assisting the Democrats to vote
down the enfranchisement of women in
Kansas, but illustrated its rOgressIve !
tendencies By putting a plank ia its plat
form in favor of woman suffrage in the
states Of California, Idaho and Utah"
In conclusion the president said:
Il remember that no one subject puz-
zled or vexsd me more in my youthful /
days than why IL was that men could /
range the whole world at their viii,
and then have the home beside, while
women did not have the world but the I
home only. 1 did not think this fair,
and never have aud never snail, and I
1 think those early broodings over the (
subject helped to determine my voca- /
tIon. for I resolved to build in my life !
to help make the world 50 hOmelike I
that women could freely go out into It
everywhere. side by side with men,
and also help to bring it about that men
should share in larger measure than they
have ever yet done in the hallOwed min
istrations of the fireside and the cradle /
side, through which as / believe they are /
to reach their highest and h0l{est develop /
menL
To save the holy land of home.
w e make oiIr d gh cIusa 81,
Our leader Judah's lion heart
on whom trust IS stayed
In the course Of her address Miss VII |
lard referred to the non partisan ". e. /
a. T. and sent il greeting with the wish /
that the two great bodies may come to-
gether- This expression was endorsed
by the convention
Again when Miss Willard spoke of the
announcement of Breckinridge and the /
reinforcement OF Tammany tiger, the /
applause was tremendous. Ine mere I
mention Of Lady Henry Somerset evoked 4
u storm of applause
After a vote of thanks to Miss Willard. !
Mrs Alice Harris. national superin ten +
dent Of music. sang the verses. Throw /
the life line" the audience joining in the /
chorus.
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