The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1915-05-27


ambition leap to more glorious heights
than to sing lullabies to the worlds
greatest genuises, chant melodies to
master minds and rock the cradle Of
human destiny?
God pity our country when the hand
shake of the politician is more graft
tying to woman's heart than the pat
ter of children's feet.
Woman ls Ruler Over All.
Why does woman chafe under re-
straint of sex? Why revile the hand
of nature? Why discard the skirts
that civilization has chung to since
the beginning of time? Why lay aside
this hallowed garment that has wiped
the tears of sorrow from the face Of
childhood? In its sacred embrace
every generation has hidden its face
in shame; clinging to it's motherly
folds, tottering children have learned
to play hide aud seek and from it
youth learned to reverence and re-
spect womanhood. Can man think of
his mother without this consecrated
garment?
Why this inordinate thirst for pow.
er? Is not woman all powerful? Man
cannot enter this world without her
consent, he cannot remain in peace
without her blessing and unless she
sheds tears of regret over his depar-
ture, he has lived in vain. Why this
longing for civic power when God has
made her ruler over all? Why crave
authority when man bows down and
worships her? Man has given woman
his heart, his name and his money.
What more does she want? -,
Can man find it in his heartsto look
with pride upon the statement that his
honorable mother-in-law was one of
the most powerful political bosses in
the country, that his distinguished
grandmother was one of the ablest
filibusters in the Cenate or that his
mother was noted warrior and her
name terror to,the enemy? Whittier
are we drifting and where twill we
land? "a 4s1s3
God Save us;sFrom a Hen-Pa2ked
Nation. =, a 4
l follow the pillow for a living and
my views may have in them the smell
of the soil; my hair is turning white
under the frost of many winters and
perhaps / am a little old-fashio ned,
but | believe there is more moral in
tluence in the dress of oman than in
all the siatutc books of the land. As
an agency for morality, l wouldn't
give ny good old n others home
made gowns for all tie suffragette's
constitutions and bylaws in the world.
AS a power for purifying society, l
wouldn't give one prayer Of my sanity
mother for all the wpmen's votes in
Christendom. AS en- agency for good
government, 1 wou !dn't give the plea
of mothers heart for Righteousness
for all the oaths { office in the land.
There is more power in the smile
of woman than in an act Of congress.
There are greater possibilities for
good government in her family of
laughing children than in the cab
met of the pres ident of the United
States.
The destiny Of this nation lies in
the home and not in the legislative
halls. The heart hstone and the fam
lily Bible will eva n remain the source
of our inspiration and the Acts Of the
Apostles will eW n shine brighter than
the acts of Conf ,ress.
This country is law-mad. Why add
to statute b ook, already groaning
under its own weight, the hysterical
cry of woman ? If we never had a
chance to vote again in lifetime and
did not pass. another law in twenty
five years, could survive the or
deal, but NG! lthout home. civilization
would with e. and die.
God sa ye these United States
from becc n ng a hen-pecked nation;
help US k ee sissies out of Congress
and forbid hat women become step
fathers Try g overnment, is the prayer
Of the f arm ers OF this country.