The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-04-12
oUTpRAYED THE CRUSADERS.
A Kalamazoo salOonkesPer Completely
Routs q Party Of Ladies Who Hoped
to close the Place Through Prayer.

Routs u Party Of Ladies Who Hoped
to close the Place Through Prayer.
At Kalamazoo, Mich, the women cru
saders visited a liquor saloon and tried
by hard praying to induce the proPFie-
tor Of the saloon to close the place.
The proprietor invited the ladies to
seats and asked them TO pray, and he
himself offered the following prayer:
almighty Creator in heavenl Thou
who made the heaven and earth, and
created man in Thine own image as
ruler of the earth. Whilst animals are
living on grass and water, Thou didst
teach Thy servant Noah to7make wine,
and Thou didst punish him for making
Incorporate use Of it. At the wedding
of Cana Thy own son, Jesus Christ,
transformed water into wine when the
juice of the grape was exhausted that
the guests might not be disturbed.
The great reformer, Martin Luther,
said: He who does not love wine, wo-
man and song, remains a fool all his
life long. And one of the commands
of the book Thou hast given Us is that
man shall drink no water, but shall
use little wine for his stomach's sake
and his other infirmities And all the
great men of this earth have been
drinking of the wine that Thou hast
given Thy children upon the earth.
o, Lord, we pray Thee, have pity on
the women here who are not grateful
for Thy gifts, who want to make Thy
children like beasts of the field, and
to compel them to drink water like an
OK, while they dress extravagantly and
lead their husbands by their other ex-
travagances not tending to our well be-
ing, to bankruptcy, depriving them Of
the pleasure Of this world; yes, driving
them to suicide o, Lord! have mercy
on these poor ignorant ladies; look
down upon them; they wear not even
the color of the face which Thou hast
given them, but they are SHINING against
Thee, and not content with nature,
paint their faces. o, Lord, Thou eanst
also perceive that their figure is not as
Thou hast made it, but they wear
humps on their backs like camels; Thou
seest, that their head consists Of false
hair, and when they open their mouths
Thou seest their false teeth, and, o,
Lord, just make a note of the spiral
springs and cotton batting contrivan
ces they wear in their bosoms, for no
other purpose than to make them yo-
1uptuous, and to excite In man much
worse passion than the use of a
little wine; and for the same reason
they have a number six foot pinched
into q number three shoe, and a num-
Der forty waist squeezed into a number
seventeen corset. o, Lord, these
women want men who patiently accept
all this without using the power Thou
hast given to man that all women shall
be subject to man. They will not obey
the burdens Of married life and obey
Thy commands to multiply and replen-
ish the earth, but they are too lazy to
raise their own children; and, D, LOTdI
Thou knOwest the crimes they commit.
O, LOrdl have mercy upon them and
take them back into Thy bosom; take
folly out Of their hearts, and give them
common sense, that they may see their
own fOOlishness and grant that they
may be good and worthy citizens of our
beloved city of Kalamazoo. o, Lord!
we thank Thee for all the blessings
Thou hast bestowed upon US and ask
Thee to deliver US from all evils, espe-
cially hypocritieal, lying women, and
Thine shall be the praise forever and
forever Amen"
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