The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-12-12
TO TIE WOMEN OF NEVADA.

that If the women get the ballot they
will have to 20 10 bed supperlcss on eec-
tlon day. But it never occurs TO them
that there are hundreds and thousands
OF wives and children who go to bed
snpperiess every night in the year
through the effects of some OF the laws
which these very nrn have helped to
enact. And who 90 to the polls every
election day and vote for and help elect
men to office who are so lax in enforcing
laws which have tendency to-
ward improving the moral condition of
our county. Oh, Justice when will you
gain supremacy. Not while the women
of America in Ayhom il contained the
majority and greater quantity of all
good and morality is held subject to an
element which has openly declsred itself
against us. An element which knows
full well if the power of the ballot was
placed in the hands OF the women of
this land that it would be the first to
feel that power. | refer to the liquor
traffic or combine. We'll do they know
that the W. G. T. U. as an organized
body of earnest aud determined women
are already a power i'll the land even
with hands tied and public opinion,
even legal opposition, to contend with.
And to think that, that old and GLORIOUS
party, the party which contains many of
onr best and grandest men, the party
which has brought about SO many grand
reforms in the condition of our govern
ment. They who were the first OF all
the political parties to take us by the
hand and say ''women nj America we
recognize your right and endorse your
cause"
Then for the patry sum OF few dol
lars with which to carry on their cam
paign they sold us out to that element.
Sold their mothers. sisters, wives and
sweethearts into bondage, as it were, in
order that few OF their friends mi ght be
elected to Office for tine lew short months
or years which they are entitled to hold
it.
But the in iustire they have done the
women and children OF California will
outlast their tenure OF office. 1t may
take years oil hard work ON The part of
those brave and earnest women who
have enlisted in the cause OF equal sui
frage to undo the harm they have done.
Oh men OF America, where was the
manhood? Men OF California, where
was your boasted chivalrlp l lear YOU
have fallen from the high pedestal you
had been thought 10 stand upon. When
you endorsed our cause and inserted AN
equal suffrage plank IN your platform,
that was guarantee, promise, thai
you would stand by us and vote for our
cause. You failei to keep that promise /;
you delivered US into the hands OF the
enemy. 1t il an evident fact that the
liquor traffic is an enemy 10 every wo-
man who has husband, brother, son
or daughter.
1t has acknowledged its position by its
course prior TO last election. 1t has been
the policy of the suffrage cause not to
antagonize any trade or class, but when
a combination of business men openly
declare themselves against us we must
take up the gauntlet. The very TACT
that the LIQUOR combination has declar-
ed war against us should be an argu-
ment conclusive to every good anu hon
est man and every womay who has the
welfare of society, her family and the
preservation OF her home at heart, that
it is high time the women have voice
in the laws by which they and their
children are governed.
hen an element which we know is
pernirious in its influence to any aud all
who come in contact with it can set AT
defiance Il majority OF the religious, ed
ucational ami pontical bottles ot any ont
state, it is ample iluue that VT look into
the matter, study up on the subject and
find where we stand. IL is time we find
t.,. cau-e OF tns class % business ueii :
i ,tl .,ni,,di. lheg yer, We'll knoS fi'at
5ne lniurnre and Strength of the women
.oJers woul be in drect opposition to
aeir NEGATIVE bu u-lac4- aiid II /, IA case
u dollars aua rraJ5 ~itn then regard
less OF the morality and prosperity ot
she people.
We have only to 20 to any large city
ana note the ''si ie cntrances" to many
4aioots and places where liquor is sold
md see the number of women, young
)oys and girls who en,er these place,