The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-03-08
w. TIC. U. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MIS-. NJ. /. noBns.
Politics And The Saloon.

a The question arises first, what
Q politics. Politics i the science ,
5 government. Then YOU ask, wha
+ and who does il govern? Why ia.
think il governs Us all; il j. IN
: government Of this beautiful land q
ours, the lana that j. ahead III ev
! cry other, in education and man
other things historians tell of: il
fact il is up with, or ahead of an
: other country in everything exccp
whisky, and believe it j. ahead ii
that too, because think | would Il,
saying the truth to say that there /,
more whisky distilled in the United
states than in any other country
Yet when the ladies OF the ". G.
| /. I. ask permission TO 90 to tn,
ballot box and vote for the govern
ment they are refused
Why is it? You say il i not a
tit place for lady, it is too vulgar.
II IN sowing wheat YOU sow bad
seed will il not grow and multiply
IT'LL il needs good seed to repair it?
SO with politics, if it j. not tit for a
woman to take part in, il cannot
surely be tit for her husband. ia
Their or son. Some one saws il i
not the place for a woman, YOU ask
them where woman'> place l. they
will say any place except the ballot
box; but they mean al home work
ING for their comfort. or bending
over the wa>htub, washing probably
the dirt that has been gathered on
their clothes, when they were on
their last spree, when Instead oi be-
ing al home in their beds thew We're
rolling in the gutter. They say for
a woman to let politics alone and
politics will let her alone. but il
will not. Do not women reap the
tares and sorrow that is sown in the
ballot box? Ii is sadly true that il
all men were as good To their wives
all OF the time a. they are when
voting time comes, all women
would be contented TO stay at home
md let their husbands do their
voting. When the woman asks Ia
90 ne says, No, my dear, It is too
1ulgar for YOU, would prefer that
Tou would not GO She WELD, Ia
lin and does not 90, but her pray
rs 60 with him. When he gets
here he forgets all about his loving
'ife and innocent little BOYS and
otes for the everlasting ruin and
estruction of his little sons. But :
'e can happily say that all men do !
OF vote that way, and those who
o, do not realize what they are do
lg, and we trust before il is too
tie they will fully realize the re- 4
alt, turn around and undo what
icy have done and learn the new
rinciple Of life.
The civil war, Of 81, was fought
n the freedom Of the body of the
egro. When we think of one be- Z
e slave to another and have no
ghts of the body at all-although
leir souls We're their own to give to
cd if they choose-there is no one
ut who would rebel against it.
Cd never intended for one race to
vn the other at all, we are all
one soul Just a. precious
the other. Surely then He did
,t intend for Us to be slaves to the
loon. For my part | would rath-
have my body sold to the mean
I man that ever was. than To- have
Y soul sold to the devil. Yet in
is land Of liberty neither has to
done, still you are voting and =.
lying the saloon-keeper so az to :
I place near the hottest fire in !.
III. But we are taught that God
all-powerful, He doeth whatSoe or
e will, and the time j. coming
hen the prayers of the ", ak women
III be answered. You remember
the late war everything was tried
fore war, to put down slavery.
It as the people Of the South
,uld give up their slaves no other
~, they went to war. Seeing the :.
vantages the South had over the -
nth, it is evident that if the Lord
ID not been upon our side the -
nth would have won the victory. !,
ne same with the liquor traffic 1,
e have tried and tried, and are -
II trying every plan that can he :
ought OF to put the liquor traffic ~
wn, and are gaining some ground.
I we will not be satisfied with lust
1T, we will have all or none. We
now engaged in war for the y
edom OF women, the freedom Of
lite as well as Of black, of soul AZ
ii as Of body, and we will win