Connecticut western news., 1915-09-23
SHOW YOUR PRINCIPLES
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little unimportant social activities and l get busy on something of real vital inn portance to the towns moral progress and welfare. Listen to this: Women do have a tremendous influence on pub- lie opinion. An aroused public opinion can get to the point that a wet town becomes an impossibility. What have we women done to arouse public opinion in all the three or four years that Canaan has been a reprOach to us |? Apparently nothing. Our solid silver principles as much as the mems need taking out of their snug tissue paper society wrappings and cleaned up bit. | We, at least ought to have pride enough to rebel by monster petition against living in rum town year after year. Now, Dry voter, emulate your Wet comrade. Get busy. He commands a certain sort of respect for he keeps hil solid brass principles out in the open and polished up the year round. Get out your real good stuff, polish it up. Remember the only business that IS helped and promoted in wet town is the rum sellers business and the
 
 souls and bodies of men-your brothers and destroying the happiness anG welfare of countless thcusands of women-your sisters-and the child ren in the homes that men, the voters. have promised to protect and care for !! Get ready now for a contest of good principles against bad; of Right against Wrong. You can win if you really want to. Is public opinion dead or only sleeping?
 cannot help, MT. Editor, although this article is perhaps trespassing on your space, appealing to the public conscience. Why do we so consistently dodge the vital issues? Oh women ]! Why do you persist. winter after win ter, in this everlasting round of sa J . ness. Little futile stabs at uplift in totally wrong directions. while moral character is being ruined right under your nose, and slow but constant de. terioration of principle and fine ideals among our keen-sighted young people of both sexes iF going on all about us. while we mature women play at things, just as little girls play at keepi lg house, with bits of broken crOckerv and china. So busy! oh so busy, vii h the importance of make believe import ance and the neTve-rackIng tragic flu tility of struggling to make the trivial and unimportant seem so very import ant. We live Ill rum town, gamb- ling town. Glaring proof of what a steady deterioration of principle will do to town, coupled with the supine indifference of public opinion, of which women comprise fully the half, is evinced in the dreadful incidents that occur from time to time. And still we play with paper doll issues, and tie mission box rattles with pennies for the poor heather, and the hard pressed good principleG men rattle around in the business box trying to secure the money to pay their mothers and grand mothers, wives, sisters, daughters and aunts' dancing masters
 Dry voter, 1 sometimes don't blame you for letting your solid silver princi- pies get little black from disuse. If money is all we women want, why should men fight for principles, or good or bad
 Will the town go wet? Has there been single voice or pen raised in protest against wet town since last October? What do the no license peo. pie do from year to year to rouse that sleeping liOn-all powerful and potent when roused-The Paolic Conscience :?
 Canaan, Sept. Is. No License.