The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-04-14
W. U. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. l.. HOBBS.
A Home Protection Weapon.
MARIE c. BREHM


thousand men fill drunkard's graves
every wear, victims of the liquor
tr..flic. To keep up the procession
his army Of saloon patrons is being
recruited year after year by the boys
from the homes where mothers gave
them birth, watched over their beds
turing childhood's period, invested
heir best efforts, yea, invested
themselves, that these might have
advantages better than their own
Tor what? To become drunkards?
Ask any mother, ignorant or cul-
tured, whether she sacrificed during
he years in order to furnish boys
ior the saloon to flourish and to
make drunkards Of, and she will
tell you mo.
/. is not strange, when we stop to
think of it, that during the crusade
he women who responded to Gods
.all to battle should 90 directly to
The saloon and endeivor to close 1t.
1t would be strange, however, if in
the light and Knowledge which sub
,equently came to them, they had
Continued their work along that
line. As the women came out iron
heir homes to pray and sing and
plead for the salvation o. their loved
)nes and the protection OF thel
ZONES from the liquor CURSE, they
learned some important and very
PRACTICAL lessons.
They soon learned that the sa
oon was but the visible outcroppint
if the liquor system, protected by
law and lntrenched in politics, and
the very center of governmental lite
As they waged their peaceful wal
ior God and home and native land
hey learned that all great mora
questions become political questions,
which, in republics, come to the
ballot box for settlement As the
rays Of gospel light penetrated the
darkness of the problem more and
more, women began to see quite
clearly that ''power behind the
ronen did not compare with be-
ny on the throne itself, with power
to legislate this evil out of exist
,nce, aad as the lessons are learned
me by one, so the women OF Amer
,ca demand the ballot for themselves
md their children, their homes and
their country.
Many women need, first OF all tc
,e emancipated from their own
,elrishness, who, so long as theil
)wn homes seem to be SAFE, lift moi
finger, speak not word for the
lou,e cause.
Women are more easily converted
20 the idea of Prohibition Of tn,
quor traffic by politics and women
,a!lot, than men. The reasons art
many; two, only, need to be men
ioned. The first is that women
ave not been identified with tht
political parties, as have men; ths
,ther is that women 60 to church
more and to the saloon less than
men; consequently are more opel
o ,nviction, as their brains art
not stupefed by drink, nor theil
minds filled with partisan pre-
judices.
1t is doubtful whether ''prohibi
ton will ever prohibit" with only
m.n as executive power behind 1t
As the same represents the top OF
civilization, and the saloon the bot
tom, prohibitory law which aims
to annihilate the saloon must have,
back Of it, the power Of the home
which means mothers as well a
fathers in government.
1t is a maxim in war to Away
do the thing to which the enemy
particularly objects. Whoever
heard OF rumseller, brewer or .
distiller pleading for the ballot fol
women?
On the other hand, whenever and
wherever women have sought to
gain the ballot for themselves, the
liquor hosts have been their most
determines opposers. Liquor deal
ers in their conventions, and brew
ers in their congresses, unanimous.
" resolve that they "are opposed
to woman suffrage everywhere anc
all the time, for woman's ballot i
the last hope ofthe prohibitionists.
May we learn the lesson which
the enemy so clearly teaches, AM
work and pray for the enfranchise
ment OF women, as we work anC
pray for the prohibition of the liq
uor traffic, remembering at all time
that politics is one Of the power
God hes given to make the world a
the Lord Jesus would have it, and !