The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-13
1--WE BALLOT TO
] MOTHERS, HIS PLEA
..d,.4 protestant Minister In Ser
mon says They Are Bearing
the srunt OF the Great
War.
THEY CONTROL DESTINY
.,.,,d Lives Of Men Fitting Them for
Usefulness and Progress
other Churches OBJ
serve Day.

.,,otbers who are bearing the great.
i, burden of this awful war should
e esro voice in the government under
which they live 800
ments made in an ADDRESS on ue
Mothers Influence, Sunday Dy Tue
Row s C. Benninger, pastor OF the
Methodist Protestant church. IWeiItn
and Exchange streets.
His was one of several mothers. gay
sermons preached by ministers OF the
e e Nearly all the clergy made rel
arence to the occasion and wn1te ana
colored carnations were in evidence
in thousands Of buttonholes, during
the day.
Mould Lives Of Men.
.With or without the ballot, women
control the destiny OF the human
rsce for the mothers are influencing
and moulding the lives Of men ana
fitting them for usefulness and pro-
gress.n said the Rev. Mr.. Benninger.
other points in an able sermon
which we're brought out by him were:
The Story OF Moses.
Moses was OF lowly origin. When
the daughter OF Pharaoh found him
she said. 'This is one OF the Hebrews
children" That meant Moses was
horn at time when the mighty mon
arch OF Egypt had issued decree
that all Jewish male children should
be put to death; that mo Jew was per-
mitted to hold Office, not even that OF
task master; and that the Jews were
so oppressed that they had no time
for gaining knowledge.
when Moses became a man he
was filed with hatred OF the Injustice
and cruelty his people were suffering.
Finding them horde OF slaves. with
out political freedom and with weak
ened minds, he delivered his race
from the cruel bondage Of Egypt.
Moses is acknowledged to be one OF
the greatest men Of history. Out Of
this brutalized and flliterate mob he
founded a nation, and the laws which
he established are the foundation
stones of modern civilization.
When eulogizing great man, we
must always trace the influence OF
the mother. Women played a promi-
nent part In his career. His mother
was too much OF a heroine to sur
render. such a promising child to the
Egyptian government to be killed, his
sister made the proposition that she
call nurse. and this nurse proved to
be his own mother. Pharaoh's daugh-
ter adopted him, he was reared in re-
fnement and given every advantage
Of the age in which he lived. We have
TO acknowledge that women are more
moral than men. that they have finer
sensibilities, clearer religious intui-
lions. and deeper insight into the
spiritual
Bachelors Unfortunate.
Did YOU ever hear of a colony OF
bachelors making a success of any
venture? When the Pilgrims came
to this country they brought their
wives and families with them, and
their colony was a success from the
start, because they had the refining
Influence and the wise counsel Of the
women.
Society may tolerate an old bache-
Tor here and there. but aScolony is I'M
thinkable.
The men who landed at James
Town were bachelors, and they had
hard time from the first, and 1t was an
indian woman, Pocohontas. who first
came to the rescue and made life en-
durable. Later England sent one
hundred Of her most beautiful and re-
nned young women to jamestown,