Year: 1875

moved her. Then said: "Mstilda,


love is good, aye, 'tis very god; it


sounds well, Matilda, and is the


proper thing for . wife to say; bu,


right at this time Matilda feel tha,
sleep is more essential than love, and
as sleep is necessary to ones happi.
ness, and A. love always desires the


happiness of its object, if you love


me Matilda you will kindly let me


sleep. You also spoke about your


sense of right, Matilda; right is good


too, and right is right the world


over; and as sleep is essential to


health and IS it is right to be healthy


then sleep must be right and it will


be the right thing to do to let me
sleep. But Matilda would not let me
sleep and she coaxed at me so i'm


ploringly that l finally made . clean


breast Of it aud told her all about
"local option" in Springdale. Then


Matilda gave me strong minded
sermon, not one Of her hectoring,
rasping lectures, but .. good square
sermon. She said, "Husband, your
reasons are as void of logic as the


brains that conceived them are void
of sound judgment and morality. The
present prohibitory law is not dead
letter in the minds of thinking men,
but on the contrary it is considered
the wisest and most judicious Law
that can be devised. As proof Of
this refer you to the sentiments Of
the members of our present Legisla-
ture and you will find that quite a
majority of them are in favor of a
strict prohibitory law. You also find
that large majority of the newsps-
pers of our State are Of this opinion !;
as evidence of which | refer you to
the exceedingly careful way they
handle this horrid nightmare local
option 1t is live coal and says on
the face of it handle me carefully or
! may do you q great damage .
Here Matilda stopped to take breath,
when said: "Ma,ilda, you are
somewhat on the speak and no mis-
take; your style is so searching, Ma
tilda, that like Jayne's Sanative Pills,
properly advertised, you would make
powerful agent for good in our
land She paid no attention to the
compliment but hammered away at
her sermon again. .You claim that
the masses are not prepared for a
prohibitory law. Who are the mass
es? They are the persons who go to
make up the different political parties
are they not? Is il not q majority OF
these same masses who have elected
the members Of our Legislature? !?
And is no, q vote Of the Legislature
taken as the voice Of q majority Of
the masses? II this be true it fol-
lows that the masses are prepared for
\ prohibitory law and the members
Of our Legislature dare not close their
ears to the voices of their cons,itu-
ents. You say that mans house is
his castle and he can drink whiskey
in it if he SO desires and it is nobody's
business if he does. That style Of
reasoning would make murder and
rapine lawful and soon be looked up
on as merely ly family amusement.
You also say that the foreign elemen,
il accustomed to alcohol, drinks and
that we should not debar them from
indulging in their national beverages.
Arguing from this standpoint if GER
tain cannibal tribes we're to emgrate
to America you would lift up holy
hands and exclAim, 1T would be both
selfish and unfair for us to debar
these good people from roasting and
eating the bodies of their victims.
for with them the eating Of human
flesh is AS much national custom as
the eating of the flesh of certain birds
and animals is with Americans /
must confess that began to think
that Matilda's sermon WAS logical and
chock tull of good sence: so let her
fire away. "Your fourthly, as you
are pleased to call it, about fluids is
as shallow as the pate Of fool and
indicates the wisdom of the brain
that conceived it. We are told tha,
a little philosophy is dangerous
thing and truly this bit of philos,p
is SO dangerous that the entire world


would soon be depopulated if indis-
criminate drinking Of fluids we're in
dulged in.' Matilda halted to take
breath again SO | improved the oppor-
tunity to send in few compliments
to the old girl. Says |, matilda,
you are q feminine argamentative
piece Of temperance and morality,
and you ought to be an Indian agent,
if we could only bring you down to
peace basis; or you might be captain
of the University militia, Matilda, only
you are too lat, you couldn't stand
march, and I'm sorry "Husband,
from your own experience you know
that wife exerts powerful inhu-
ence over her husband, either for
good or evil. and rs ninety nine hun
dredths of the women Of Iowa are in
favor of prohibition this powerful in
fuence must and will be felt and
obeyed in our land. But we must
have patience, and in the meantime
labor necessarily for the accomplish
ment Of this greatest of all public re.
forms and time, the great solver of
all problems, will vindicate all work
ers in this cause. There is another
point that want to make and then |
am done. Husband, you are farm.
er and only from your fairest stock
do you desire an increase. So strong
is your belief in the law of transmits.
sion that every little blot or blemish
is noticed and the poor beast is dis
posed of as soon as practicable.
Like gets like, you say. Have you
reflected that this same law is as po-
teat aud unavoidable in the human
family as in the beasts of your field ?
Then fancy if you can those two little
innocent daughters of ours who we
love SO dearly being mated t. cou


Pile of loa,hsome, alcoholic, scrofu-
lous, worm ea'en scoundrels whose
only recommend the enticing jingle
of the money in their weighty pocket
books. But we cannot object for
society declares them respectable and
we mus, meekly say amen to it.
Then comes the scrofulous grand


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