The Ocala evening star., 1915-01-21

INSANE, criminals anu women. IN -.
Dakota a great part of the population
is Indian and in 1905 the government
decided to give suffrage to the Indians
but cultured and refined women are
not allowed to vote. The whiskey peo-
pie paid the governor one thousand
dollars per month, IN addition to his
salary to defeat woman suffrage but
the next week after the election they
were into new campaign.
"The delegates from Montana
marched up with victory perched on
their banner. The women of Montana
followed the advice of Francis Z. Will
lard and drove their own team and
were rewarded with victory for equal
suffrage in the recent election. The
men said that if the women got the
ballot that they (the women) would
drive liquor out of the state and they
are in hopes to meet the liquor-men's
greatest expectation in this respect.
In Ohio the saloons are each taxed
two dollars per month to help fight
equal suffrage making $600,0 raised
in this way last year. At a public
meeting the men had exhausted all
their arguments and finally had to
give way to a woman speaker and she
just got, up and said ''I wanted to
give you a message, but see you
have got nothing touching her head)
to carry it home in"
'In S. California the women secur-
ed 10000 more names than necessary
to call the election. The young people
had tilling week to help raise money
for the temperance work, but the
scare about the grape wine industry
caused the loss of the election. Tenn
perance should have won as women
have the ballot but the saloon men
stopped to every deception to carry
their way. Some good laws were put
through, among them the anti-prize
fight bill.
''The new law in Colorado will not
allow the use of any alcoholic liq-
uors for medical nor sacramental pur-
poses. The drummers or, travelling
men, are the best helpers in the tenn
perance crusade for they say they can
make better sales and better collec-
tions in dry territory than in wet.
ARIZONA is the baby state in the ma
tion and the first thing she did when
admitted to the Union was to dis
franchise ignorance and to enfranchise
the women. The temperance forces
could only raise $1,000 while the whis-
key people used 100000 in the fight,
but because the w. c. T. U. stood
solidly together in the work, they were
able to defeat their enemy in spite
of their money. Every minister in the
state was with them and even the
Mexican Catholics voted for temper
ance.
"In Colorado the women visited
81, $40 homes, which no doubt helped
to carry the state dry last November.
One man said that now his wife can
march up to the polls with him and
vote which is much better thar hand
ingout doughnuts and coffee on cleo
ton day like his mother used to do.
One procession two miles long of
temperance men headed by ministers
and business men was one of the
sights on election day.
"There are more federal licenses
sold in New York City than alto
gether in 36 states. Some say tha:
there is no place in this world for the
! w. C. T. u, that their energy and
money should be directed to the church
work, but the w. C. T. u. is the
church in action. Take a box and
! fill it full of cannon balls, represent
ing the churches, then fill in around
them with musket balls, like the Sun
day schools, Epworth Leagues and
Christian Endeavors, and then fill the
box full of fine sand, meaning all the
rest of the church societies, and af
tel the box is seemingly as full a:
can be, pour in pailful after pailfu
J of water, meaning the w. c. T. u.
) which is absolved by the rest, there
by purifying it and binding all to
eether, and notice that it has con
siderable grit to it, too"