The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-03-22

night comes. Then they need a watch
or cKaperone, anyhow
IT. THE white slave trafficker, has
woman as go-between, and when
a man decoys maid. he takes her to
where he has previously arranged for
her Imprisonment. al the home Of
woman.
Is. What is this 1 hear. daily, now
about low wages being the cause of
the downfall of women? Who started
that? VIII it pass in court, when the
young man says he embeZzles because
wages were low? Does the court let
the thief go, when he says wages were
low2 No--if he is starving-if his
family is in want-he is expected to die
on the side of law, and right Is a
man allowed to desert his colors, be-
cause he is scared, or to desert his post
because his family are needing him?
There is that flag, and men must die,
if need be, but it must not have dirt
flung on il. If a man must die for his
countrys honor. then what is a coun-
try, without pure womanhood? What is
the flag, TO her, if il is not her unbrib-
able, unapproachable virtue? Where is
there a throne for women, if it be not
her honor? Already this country is
staggering under the first real shock
of woman's incurable vanity-ambition
elfishness-weakness. The old book
said that woman was heIpmeet for
man God knew. Man is to build the
state and woman TO help. But wom-
an is unfit to go out and box, and
wrestle. She is unfit to go to war and
march and fight. She is unfit 10 go TO
the polls and scrap it out, with the
vulgarisms of the day. bar of pig
iron may not be hurt Dy the weather.
but it is not worth much. When heat
ed and beaten, till ii will make broad
axes, it is more susceptible, but more
valuable. When it is made into razors,
| its value is enhanced a thousand fold
or more, but exposure will ruin it.
When it has been hammered and refin-
ed and brought to it's best, in watch
springs, it is worth thousands of dol
lars, but that fine temper would not
| endure one night of rain or cold. Such
motherhood as we have-such wife
| hood-such daughterhood-such home
makers and keepers, must excite the
wonder of angels, and the approval OF
God, but men, forget that our women
| are what they are because woman
has been kept off the streets, un-
duly, and has been enthroned, accord
| ing to her nature, and Gods call, where
man would be as great a failure as she
1 will be at the polls, and tiptoeing
| around in courts of justice? When men
| give their approval to this which is
| contrary to nature, necessity, and
/ sense, we will be in such anarchy as
/ knows no throne, or seat of govern
ment, or place of retreat, or hill be-
| hind which we might reform ouI
| broken columns, or rebuild our fire.
| less affairs.
1 conclude by saying that women are
| folks, and men and women must come
| together, and in holy counsel, save ouI
| girlhood, first by teaching them that
| virtue has no price but death and
| resurrection: that hoehandle, or cot
| ton basket, is degraded if touched by
| the hands of easy or questionable
honor; that the washtub is still left to
her, and her alone, of inalienable right
| who can sing make and keep me
| white without, within; that Vashti
| with desertion, death, but Gods notice
| exceeds all the fattery of a wicked
unprincipled man; that sweet girl
hood home, well remembered, and
practiced, is one slice of heaven left tt
all.