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

OtHCe-anQ | watched the newspapers
to see il any woman would be elected
to Office, and il SO, to what office,
and the newspapers told me that
woman named Mrs. Holley had been
elected 10 the house Of representa-
tives in Colorado. | watched the
newspapers to see if she would in
I.troduce any bill, and if SO. what kind.
L didn't have to wait long until |
| learned that she had offered a bill to
raise the age OF consent of a girl from
Ill years. as it was then, TO 81 years.
| Woe betide the man that shoots
quail before it has its pin feathers.
They hold up their hands in holy hor-
ror il some fellow goes out before the
game season opens and catches some
| fish. The age of consent in Delaware
was l years. Think Of it. A girl
II years of age, on the way home
from school, could be enticed into
some alley and on the pretext of CIV.
| ing her present that man will out
rage her person land then go into
court and say that she gave her con
sent
Well, | watched The papers and
they said that Mrs. Holley had intro
duced bill to raise the age of con-
sent from IL to q years. She stood
there, championing the cause of the
girls of Colorado, while vile men
who disgraced manhood, hurled cpl
thets at her which brought a blush
to her cheek. but she stood her
ground Little by little men took
their stand by her side, and when
the vote was taken they were com
PEELED to compromise and they put it
on the statute books at 10 years, as
it is today. said; "All right God.
if that is the kind of women they
/ are and the kind of laws they make,
throw open the doors and let them
come in. I like to see brave wom-
an, a woman that will stand by the
right and do the right, as sure as
God lives.
All that is noble and grand has been
led by a woman. The great tenn
perance cause that is growing over the
land was started in the w G. T. u.
They would make the politicians of
this country turn pale l like to see
brave woman. like to see a woman
like one l hear dabout. Her husband
! called in some companions and they
were playing cards and drinking, and
one fellow said. Its II o'clock" The
| husband said: 81 am julius Caeser
here, I run this ranch They crack
ed a few more bottles. and jokes and
took sky-limit on theSpot, and pretty
soon the folding doors opened and
| there stood little frail woman, with
| large brown eyes, raven black hair,
| line nj iyn IA i,,cr
geranium gown trimmed with ele-
plants breath and she said: ITS
time you were home with your fam
lilies. AS to Julius, I'll take care of
him. It's 1880, come on" and he
went
| like to see wife who will stand
by the right If she has to take fiat
irop and a rolling pin to do it.
like to see one who is going to
stand by right like to see mother
who will guard her children. In times
of physical danger you would die
if lion or a tiger should come 10
tear your child you would pour out
your lifes blood. Yes, but you let the
devil in the form of some spider-leg-
ged dude come into your home and
take your girl and you will never raise
your voice in protest, and there is not
a pastor on this platform-not q
Christian man or woman in this au
dience--that is not bemoaning the
great tidal wave that bears upon its
I bosom our young men and our young
women ~
Ottun1wa "Up and Coming"
For the first time during the revi
walls the audience refused to go after
the evangelist dismissed them last
evening. They sat and clapped and
cheered him for, several minutes after
the close of the meeting. Sunday
turned TO the assembled minister's OF
, the platform and said: Take Is from
me-this city's up and coming ANY
, old time a crowd viii sit and take {
dose like that and then cheer me aft
er licking them around the stump
J it looks had for the evil forces of {
: community"
The Choir's Work.
u Never before perhaps has man ex
n erted such an influence over Ottum