The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-21
LOIS STRANGE EVANGEL.
Remarkable Scene at Mrs. WaisbrooE1-
er's Lecture Last Night.
SEVENTY YEARS OLD and DECREPIT.

SEVENTY YEARS OLD and DECREPlT.
She Stands in the Shadow of States
Prison for Preaching Doctrine Too
Boldly That Government TabOOs.
Last evening a bent and physically
feeble old woman stood before an audi
ence of fifteen men and thirty women,
many of whom had not yet reached their
twenty-ffth year, and said things that
most people fear to talk about
1t was the eve of the SEVENTEEN birth
day of Lois Waisbrooker, who is to be
tried next month for publishing and
sending through the mails matter held to
be improper. though its purpose was an
honest one and its mission was to elevate.
Her friends regard Lois" as messiah
come to preach free womanhood, saneti-
fed wifehood and rightly conditioned
motherhood. Strangely enough she does
not advocate the ballot for women.
The meeting last night was largely il
the form of donation party for woman,
penniless and almost alone, aged in the
work that she has devoted her life to. She
prefers to live in poverty and write upon
1t than turn her pen into more profitable
channels.
Her lecture last night was on the ain
efficiency of Present Theories and
Methods of Reform" She said
There is more than poverty destroying
the nation. The children of the poor are
often better conditioned for life than the
children of the rich.
There are two things that must be
done to get rid of the liquor traffic:
First. free your land where it is not oc-
cupied. When you find a man who
owns more land than he can handle him
self take the surplus away from him and
LESSONS other man use it To support him
self and family. Free your land and
then say TO your saloenkeeper, GO to
work, aud stop this infamous business or
we will make you Applause
Second-Motherhood aud the condi-
ton of woman is the foundation of char
acter. Give your child good birth and
hewill never be a drunkard. All the
evils of the nation may be traced to the
present system of motherhood and its
abuse. Free the woman.
IL am not talking suffrage. l wouldn't
east one vote if had twenty, Your So
cial and economic sy5tem is so rotten
that it is not worth saving. The.
mothers of this nation gave their
life blood through four hundred
thousand of their sons in the
late war to save this country from dis
mem berment. What a mistake it was
Better twenty times Acknowledgement
than save it for such monarchy as now
sits in Washington Mothers, uever say
war again to save a country where
women cannot speak the truth without
being put under heavy bonds rs your
speaker has been. But in the end those
bonds will be my glory. can afford to
go to prison better than they can afford
to send me.
"All reform is useless until woman is
given the rights her motherhood de-
mands. Remove causes of incompetence
and it will die natural death
"The mother hungers for proper focd
proper conditions and pure love, not
ownership. The child inherits this long
ing if it is not satisfied 1t inherits the
craving for something, it knows not what,
and intoxicating liquors nearer satisfy it
than anything.
There is another evil in the reform
business. This cry that is preached from
thousands of pulpits all the tims-'Salva-
ton, Jesus, and Him Crucified' What
good would that salvation do the hun
CRY. Will it feed them? Look at the
thousands of women dropping into early
graves In this country year after year,
victims of lust not love. Come to jesus
the preachers say to them"
Speaking of fallen women. Mrs. Wafs.
BROKER said: "You can't do without this
class of people in your present economic
and social system. You make them
just as naturally as the carpenter makes
sticks.
"Let the purest angel from heaven be
reincarnated aud come to earth to live
under this system, aud how much angel
do you suppose would be left in them?
They would go to the iails and to the
asylums, and some of them would be
huug up by the necks because they
would tell the truth.
"Oh, mothers find yourselves. Women
learn yourselves. Be women and moth
ers In the right way. Don't imagine you
must do what men have been doing hith-
erto, 10 elevate yourselves. Woman
can't aspire and look to man. Man
doesn't stand above woman in auv wav
except in the power of the brute
"1ou may call me a howler. / wish
could howl to the farthest corners If
hell and heaven, too.
"Religion makes you selfish. makes Won
tremble, makes you towards. Humanity
Is the question. Oh, for backbone. Oh
for self respect and when this comes
then the race will triumph.
Civilization has gone as far as 1t can
till woman gets her rights of mother
hood. Think. There is more power in
self respecting, demanding thought than
In the ballot
"Our brothers are not all bad. It is
simply their love of power that holds
you Ia its grasp. They call you angels
Put they love to rule the angels.
Tomorrow begin on my seventy first