The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-13

| ible to those who seek the worlds
amelioration, there is manifold tes-
timony that the religion of Christ is
making it's way. One indi cation of this
is the multiplication of organizations
and institutions for the purpose of
caring and providing for he unfortun-
ate. the defective and tile dependent
classes in the best 0OSS IDle manner.
and the growing tendency to help those
who are honestly needy and poor to
help themselves without Suggesting to
them that they are deg endents is a
! still stronger manifestation of the love
which is always kind. TIE Increasing
/ interest in the child labor problem. the
establishing of juvenile co hrts. the or
Sanized work for the news boys. are all
indications that the spirit of Him who
j blessed the children is flowing out
| through human Instruments Iities to
defend the weak and besE the inno-
! cent
THE question, Is liquor drinking
among women increasingly is hard to
answer. We surely hear more about
/ drinking women than form erly, perhaps
from the fact that the drinking habit
/ attracts more attention Il ran it did in
/ the days when nearly ev cry one used
liquor in one form or anoth err Speaking
or lntemperance among Wo men and that
much Of it comes throug the use of
J alcohol in medicine, Sir Thomas Bar
j low, physician to the king of England
is reported to have said. The only
remedy for the evil is total abstinence,
half and half measures are useless;
we must Danish alcohol ntirely'
Since nothing can al rest the prog
reSS of a true principle on its Way to
the heart of intelligent PEOPLE, it would
be strange if we could not declare as
we can, that the question of the equality
of women under the gospel and under
the law is gaining new ground and
new adherents. There is a continually
increasing number of women who feel
concerned in regard to the legislation
that affects all the people, whether or not
to he CO -
proportionately large number of men
who acknowledge the justice of the
equality of the sexes in all of those
matters which pertain to the interests
dear to womens hearts. those interests
which are connected with the home, the
church, the school, the state and the
nation
AS temperance women, we desire the
right of franchise because we believe
we could. thus armed, deal more effect
ually with the liquor problem, and the
fact that the liquor element is always
opposed to WOman'S suffrage furnishes
ample proof that we are right in our
belief. Those who think that women
should have equal opportunity with
men in the medical field have reason to
rejoice as little by little the barriers
: built up by custom. prejudice and super
stitiOn are being swept away. Those
who believe in woman's equality in the
church may rejoice as one woman after
another is being elected as deleSa te
to the general conference of the Meth
! Odist church with no possibility of her
being turned away because she is a
woman. Those who believe in the
: equality OF women in governmental
l affairs may we'll rejoice as they read
+, the statements of fair minded men liv-
ing in those communities and states
where the ballot with all its response
/, bility has been granted to women.
These are but a few of the discourag g
= ing prophecies of that better time
: toward which Christian civilization is
: leading.
f The national w. c. T. U. must be
+, in hearty accord with the movement
made by the American Peace society
e for stated interna tional congress to
1 meet once in every five or seven years
y to deliberate upon matters of common
4 interest to the nations and make rec
: concentrations to the governments