The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-05

7 p'-Ns'O's a<hi audithttS dlltiuth
both evenings and 1t is considered the
temperance event of the year.-From
The Union Signal of Feb. 1910.
80 For full information concerning the
staging of "Columbias Congress" ad-
dress Mrs. Don p Blaine, 1903 Third
st. N. w. Washington, d. c.
Mrs. Mary Harris Amor made an
address at the Florida State w. G. T.
u. Convention on How to Win the
Fight That Is On. This is part of her
receipt: Get informed; know the ture
nature of alcohol; know the Bible;
know God; talk and work and pray"
The first Y. p. b. of Wood county.
Ohio, was organized in Eagleville
sJanuary Is with twenty members.
The new organization has been named
- the Slater Y. p. b. of Eagleville, and
promises to be very live society
The Union Signal of Feb. 10 1910.
~ GOVERNOR OF COLORADR DE-
FENDs WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
1.-The daily press quotes Gov. John f.
Shaffroth of Colorado in the following
Nreply to recent attacks upon suffrage
and its results in his state:
The Rev. DIR. Unerhill is quoted as
@having said at the City Club in New
York, February 6. that he indorsed
>, from personal observations an article
by an unnamed woman to the effect
u that suffrage had demoraliZed the
women of Colorado, and that 10000
women of the underworld controlled
the elections in the city of Denver.
q We wish to denounce the statement
of the Rev. DR. Underhill and of the
unnamed woman as untrue, unwar-
sranted, and unjustifiable. The char
acterization of the conditions found
: ia the red light district in Denver as
prevailing generally throughout the
city and as being characteristic OF
!. the women of Denver we cannot per-
init to go unchallenged. The wives.
daughters and sisters of Colorado
men are the equal of any woman on
earth in refinement, education, and
feminine graces and none of these
qualities has been damaged in the
slighters degree by their fifteen years
participation in public affairs, while
a the government of the state has been
improved immeasureably by such par
q ticipation.
~ The women have been on the right
side of every moral question. Eighty
per cent of all the women entitled to
vote I'm Colorado cast ballots at the
last election and of the 10000 women
who voted in Denver last fall not
more than 4400 were connected with
any underworld
The defamers of suffrage in Colora-
do, it would seem, are only exceed
ed In mendacity by the defenders of
the liquor trade.
- 1t Is good TO hear the governors
word that Colorado women have not
been deprived of refinement, educa
tion and feminine graces" by fifteen
.syears of the franchise, that eighty per
I cent of them vote, and that they
have been on the right side OF
every moral question" Not that we
ever doubted these facts but we are
ssglad to have the public hear 1t in the
\ governors voice.--The Union Signal
.1.of Feb. II, 1910.
rN If we are faithful to the instinct OF
I motherhood. we should be willing to
vote; II is not a question of choice,
but of duty. If we can better con-
4ditions, we should do it-Viola ID. Ro-
mans. National Lecturer w. c. It. u.
"a INDIANS FOR PROHIBITION
: Chief Special officer William r.
johnson of the United States Indian
Service, when the election in Nez
<yPerce county, Idaho, was called for
May 8, sent this telegram to his agent
nstn Lewiston: ''If Nez Perce county
: votes dry, the government will not
y Withdraw its right TO suppress the
:. liquor efforts with renewed energy In
8 -co-operation with local authorities. A
dry vote will be considered an endorse
ment of our efforts 10 protect the
Indians from whisky peddlers and OF
our efforts to protect the taxpayers OF
Nez Perce county from expense at
tached TO outrages arising from this
traffic. You are authorized to make
this telegram public" The reservation
covers about hah the county, and Mr..
Johnson had previously driven out all
the saloons and "joints" from the
reservation. The Nez Perces are
among the most advanced of the
Indian nations An Anti-Saloon Lea
que has recently been formed among
them. and it is said that a majority
of them will vote for a dry county.
THAT, says Western paper, "shows
90 pretty high state of civilization,