The Press., 1897-01-07
- w. C: T. U. Miss WiIlard's Address.
PART II.

:--.- .H. PART II.
 Changing conditions create new prob- lems of finance; brought about by swift inter swift transfer of ideas, large ingenuity of invention, by the great on-moving of democracy. No hu- man being knows what is best, and I have heard the wisest say so that I have met anywhere. We are all stepping for ward tentavely, and it grieved me to the heart when the papers that came to me in England rang the changes on the "immor- ality" of those who held certain view. I do not know how you feel, but I have a warm regard for Major Mckinley and MT. Bryan Gapplause]. My deepest affection is for Lowering and Bently, but contend did four men stand out facing the people in such splendid white manhood as those four presidential candidates. It was the of Great Britain, which is not a great admirer. It was the thing most frequently spoken to me about there Bryan, with his wife always by his side; Mckinley, loyal and chivalric to the ten der invalid, who would have been by him if she could, and the four men having such an outfit of personal habits as that, if every man had risen to their level, Heaven would be in the midst of us this day.
 Now, concerning Mckinley, who is in power he will have my truest loyalty and good will, and yet there will always be in my heart state of preparedness to vote the prohibition ticket [great ap- plause]. think there is one woman that ought to come to the platform, and will ask her to wend her winding way hither, and that is the one who said we ought to ell, who has come all the way from the lonely mountains of Idaho, where men have just given us the ballot [applanse]. Now, sisters, I want you to put it in your note book. perhaps you have already, but had not; and it came to me in the gloaming, (when I was awake and ought not to have been) that it is very strange thing about this womans' ballot that it has all broken out in one place in this country; that men were not frightened by it in Wyoming. for after twenty years trial men put it in the constitution, for the women could not have done it alone. Then men in Colorado saw that the wo- men in Wyoming had been good, friendly, motherly women, just the same az ever, and they put it in their constitution; and then the men in Utah saw the women had been friendly and motherlike women. and they put it in, and Kansas came with the municipal ballot for women; and now in Idaho they know it is a good thing by what they have seen, These men do not have fine twisted theory promulgated in hours of pessimism, like the good Bishop of Albany, who has just written diatribe against us, but they see that the ballot in woman's hand is good thing, and they want their women people to have it. As area where men have seen for themselves that it was good. And if tender grati- tude, which is so sweet a blossom in the human heart, has led some of those wo- men to vote for the political parties that gave them the ballot just at the beginning, let us not on that account change one whit of our faith in those women; wher- ever they got a good chance to deal a blow to the saloon they have done so, and they are doing it to-day even as in Australia and New Zealand. I am told by the leaders, who came from there to attend the convention in Great Britain, that tho women are true as steel, and that the abomination of desolation of the liquor traffic is going to be gotten rid of through their ballots.
 Abraham Lincoln said, Nobody is good enough to govern another without his consent" Matthew Arnold, man of altogether different mold, said, No cul- tivated and rational mind can help want ing to have share in the government of | the nation to which it belongs" Under those two specifications come all the wo.
 men that have got head on their shoul-
 ders; and there are more women that
 have heads on their shoulders, instead oi
 cabbages, in this generation than in all the generations past. put uO not WISH
 to pursue that favorite theme of mine, SC
 perfectly at home has it become in all
 your hearts and all your lives. I desire
 rather, to proceed with the thought oi
 why did not have a prepared address
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 had begun to dict ate little slips of it
 when all of a sudden the savages of tht
 Sultan put the knife to the throat and the
 big bludgeon to the head of the Armeni
 ans in Constantinople, and soon after VI
 heard of the refugees in Marseilles, with
 out shelter or food. Then something saic
 to me, Why, those ,Armenians stand fol
 your ideas, the, white ribbon ideas, tht
 sanctity of home life, the faithful loyalt,
 of one man to one woman; and they hav'
 illustrated this like no other nation on tn,
 face of-the earth; they lived it centurie:
 before Mohammed had ever conceived hii
 vile religion, which degrades manhood
 puts lust instead of love and. makes wo
 man bond-slave of man in the hareln te
 which he has consigned her.
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