Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-17

a wife, if she had little encourage
ment, would have brought that little
brood through all right, but she had TO
| fight it out alone and fight against
your Indifference. No wonder they
have gone. Many a man, when he
| lived In the country, ad some relig-
ion and some sense, hut now he has
come to town and lost what religion
and what sense he did have. Ont
there he worshipped his God, but he
has come to town, gotten into Il
| neighborhood OF no account, and the
neighbours children want his children
T. to go here and there. and the first
thing you know away they have gone.
He will say: well wife. we can't
exactly keep our home against this
tide. We didn't do that out in the
country and well have to let them go
here His boy wants to stay out
nights and carry night key. When
lever you do that and let your boy
carry a night key you are opening the
I. flood gates and he is Eon the road to
hell about as fast as he can go. Why
don't you say: No. you can't [
tell you as long as my children stick
their feet under my table and eat the
food that my sweat provides and
wear the clothes I earn the money to
buy (and they can stay beneath their
fathers roof as long as they want TO-
and hope they may neve go) but as
long as they stay-if my boys stay
there until they get whiskers down
to their knees, they will have to mind
their pa Why don't you say mo,
you can't do it. You can't so with
that crowd know where they spend
their nights. hanging around pool
rooms and saloons, listening to dirty
stories and learning to smoke cigar
cts NO, sir, you can't do it.
When your daughter says, Pa,
nice young man brought me home
and wants to call Tuesday evenings
and see me-" Why, don't you say, "he
/ can't come here, l know him, he is a
bad one. / know what they say about
him. No, sir. Il will not allow my
daughter to compromise her reputa-
ton and her good name by keeping
company with a young fellow like
that Your daughter. says: why
papa, he is rich and when his father
| dies and the will is probated you will
see what he will get" If you only
knew the character of a lot of these
fellows you would just as, soon let
your daughter play with a lot of rat
| tie snakes
a Brave Mother.
| like to see a brave mother. |
| like to see mother that will stand
| by her daughter. Somebody says:
"Mr. Sunday, you aren't going to
talk about womans rights are YOU'RE"
| | think we have had enough of
womans wrongs, don't you? You
don't believe in women voting and
holding Office. do you? Why not?
You say they would make an awful
mess out Of 1t. If the women of ILL
nois can make morse mess than the
men have made. | would like to sec
it. You say, "Why, Mr.. Sunday. who
would take care of the children while
she holds the Officer" The same old
geezer that takes care of her chill
dren while she goes to the court house
to pay her taxes. There is many a
woman VINO has to pay taxes and
support some old fellow who could
not earn money enough to pay for
1, the suit of clothes that covers MN
I think it is mean. good-fornothing
low down. dirty sinking law that will
let a good-for-nothing whiskey-soaked
black legged degenerate walk up tc
the polls to vote and prevents g
decent respectable woman from vot
ing. 1t makes ME boil when I SEE
some old son of predition vote just be
cause he has whiskers and breeches
on. And then some good, bright, keen
intelligent, decent woman can't vote
God pity country that is so dominat
ed by a lot of iackass politicians tina
prevent her. that is all have to say
II will never hedge for any of them.
If my memory serves me right We
at one time had war on account 0
taxation without representation. W.
threw some tea overheard. l think
Women to the Front
u was never more interested in m.
life than | was in watching the news
| papers when the state of Colorado
!, passed the constitution to ALLOW
!. women to vote and hold office-an