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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- AnsiverTo Joseph Cook's Twelve Rea sons For Woman' s Temperance Ballot. -- ; B r Mus. Annie Wittenuyer. Published by request. It the home. Ans. Women, because of their skill in household industries, when alone, are able to live more cheaply than men. And their knowledge of the kinds of labor, which, though less remunerative, are always in demand, enables them to gain a livelihood where men often fail. Besides, the great mass of the women of the United States are provided with homes, and supported in large part by men. Womans love of home is the natural antagonist of the enemies of the home, and among these perhaps 2. the most mischievous is intem- perance. Ans. Womans love for home is n duties as wife born of her and mother. Throw her out into political and commercial circles requiring for success all her energies, and to just that extend you strike a fatal blow at the home. It would be unwise, in our haste to remedy the misfortunes of the few, to sacrifice the best interest of the many. Women is less intemperate 3. then man, and so could be trusted to give a purer vote on temperance laws. Ans. If women are less intemperate then men, it is because they are more sheltered, and have greater social restraints thrown about them. Take away these restraints and surround them with the same temptations, and there is no reason to hope that they would be more temperate or give a purer vote then men. Indeed, with all the restraints, thousands of women are in the liquor business, and still larger numGod-give- bers drink. 4. Women is less complicated with party intrigue and political ambition, with desire for office and business at large, and so would be more free than men to give a vote on the merits of the case. Ans. It is because women are busy with the kindly ministries of life and have no part in politics that they are not involved in party Put before them the intrigues. same temptation of power and office, and there will not be wanting women who will push into the deepest schemes of party intrigue. The worst class of women will be the most active in political circles. And women who sell themselves would not hesitate to sell their votes. 5. A temperance vote by wo man would be a test by which the theory of womans suffrage could be tried on a restricted ing wedge, but only an appeal to experience, and the later,. as it should reveal good or bad tendencies in the theory, would decide the result. Ans. Those most active in the movement for the, Temperance bal. g lot are suffragists, and publicly say that: All persons of intelligence whose prejudices have not become indurated beyond the power of logics sledge hammer to break them, have been convinced already. And further; Any woman who could have shared our bitter experience here without desiring to vote on every officer from Constable to President, would be a knave, or a fool. (Home Protection Manual.) 7. Rumsellers oppose the Temperance vote of women. I suppose that nothing ever stirred the rumsel-- ' lers of Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati, quite so much as this movement to give the temperance vote to women. If you will show me what rumsellers do not want, I will show you what I want. Ans. Nothing ever stirred the rumsellers of this country as the prayers of the women during the And nothing now so Crusade. much alarms the manufacturers and dealers throughout the land as the increasing demand for Prohibition , and the movement to secure it by life-lon- is more difficult for a woman to obtain a livelihood alone than for a man to do so, and so she has a deeper interest then man in 1. Y scale with- out danger. Ans. Womans suffrage has been tested in Utah and Wyoming Territories without any marked beneficial results. It has not helped in the solution of a single great moral question. Polygamy has not been overthrown, but rather strengthened by it. G. It would not be an enter STANDARD. men, in the wider privilege, 'have Miss. Emma Abbott, the popular abated not drunkenness in England, primadonna is almost universally what light have we to hope that known by the soubriquet of honest by bringing in all classes, even the drunken and disreputable, that womans vote would help the Temperance cause. 11. In questions where the decision is so easy as that between license and no license, womens vote would not often be unintelligent, and so would not add to the mass of the ignorant suffrage. Ans. The question of license or no license, be it easy or difficult, embraces the whole problem of the liquor traffic, and affords as large a field for political differences and wrangling as any other question. In questions so important to the home as those relating to Temperance laws, womens vote 12. would not often be unused, and so would not add essentially to the danger of absenteeism at the polls and of unexercised suffrage. Ans. The ballot has been given to women in several of the States on the school question. The education of the children is a vital home question that interests the most intelligent and enterprising women of each communitjx But in no State have they generally accepted the right and exercised it at the polls. Is there not, then, great reason to Constitutional amendment through fear that the better class of women, the votes of men. like the better class of men, would The Temperance vote is stay away from the polls, and the 8. asked for by women in overwhelm- dangers from absenteeism be greatly ing numbers, most of whom arc not increased. female suffragists, Ans. Largo numbers of women For and About Women. have given it a measure of their support because they were led to hope What should a woman do when that it would help the Temperance cause. Larger numbers are opposed her feelings are riled up? Why, restrain them, of course. to the movement 1st Because they are opposed Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has to womans suffrage, and believe it a badly sprained ankle. Her Gaits is pushed in that interest. New Haven Register . Ajar 2d. Because it is impracticable. Madame Clara Schumann has at Women cannot vote till men enfranchise them. This in most States last consented to publish the literary would require a vote in remains of her talented and distinboth Houses of the Legislature, and guished husband. a majority vote of the people. Mrs. Ilepworth Dixon is to rePushed as a Temperance measure, ceive from Queen Victoria a grant of only Temperance men who are in $500 a year from the Civil List in favor of womans suffragewould sup- consideration of her late husbands port it. We could more easily se- services to literature. cure a Constitutional amendment for French papers say that jewelry is Prohibition. 9. Such a change as Womens very little worn, but that will not the women who bought Temperance ballot asks for, is not discourage connected with high theories as to lockets a few years since at ilieDol-la- r store. and are determined to wear natural rights to sufl Vane, nor as to them out. property qualifications. Mrs. Mala prop being told that Ans. The Temperance ballot, or any other ballot that expresses an some tables in the Russian departopinion at the polls, without the ment at the great fair were made of power to legislate or enforce laws, 'malachite, exclaimed, My GoodAs for high theories, ness, I thought Malachite was one is worthless. goverment is pledged to protect all of the prophets citizens without regard t.othe ballot Miss Alice Blaine, the eldest or taxation. of the Senator, is described The millionaire has been out voted daughter by the Washington correspondent of by his coachman, and the lady in the Albany Journal as not pretty, d in her her mansion may be but tall in figure, and having a face kitchen. intense and fascinating. Under English law, women 10. At dinner she had a doctor on paying taxes can vote in municipal and town elections, and this wider either side, one of whom remarked privilege, which has worked well, that they were well served, since includes the narrower one of Wo- they had a duck between them. mens Temperance vote. Yes, she broke in her wit is of Ans. England is the drunken the sort that comes in Hashes nation of the world. If the votes and I am between two quacks. of the better class of tax paying wo Then silence foil. t two-thir- ds - ! out-vote- v 27 little Emma, because she never dis- appoints the public, if any way possible for her to appear. Among the late arrivals at the Bridgeport, Conn, cutlery shops are three Swedish women, who work in the Blacksmith shop. They wear short dresses, stout boots, and do regular blacksmith work, having been trained to that occupation in their native country. A writer in the Boston Transcript thus relates a talc of woe ; A young lady came to me and tried to sell me a manuscript story. My teacher lil ces it, she said, "when I repeated our usual formula of no space, no money, no time, no anything to her. Teacher an editor? I inquired No, indeed, was the anmildly. swer, shes a person of refinement and education. Butter ? You remember the story of the guest who was eating more butter then bisciut, while the landlady looked on and fidgeted and hinted until she fairly went into a nervous fit. Finally she said, Do you know butter is up to G5 cents a pound? The hungry guest reached out and took what was left. Well, he drawled, approvingly, and iswuth it. Home Injlucfices, Children imitate their elders almost unconsciously. It is hard for a young mother, who lias not yet overcome the wayward tenderness of her own youthful nature, to realize the influence she exerts over her little ones. She is constantly surrounded by critical imitators, who-copher morals and her manners. As the mother is, so are her sons and daughters. If a family of children arc blessed with an intelligent mother, who is dainty and refined in her manners, and who does not consider it necessary to be one woman in the drawing-rooand an entirely different person in every day life, but who is a true mother, and who is always a tender charming woman, you will invariably see her habits of speech and her perfect manners repeated in her children. G resit, rough men and noisy, busy boys will always tone down their voices and step quietly, and try to be more mannerly, when she stops to give them a kind word and a pleasant smile. Think of this seriously, mothers. N. 0. Independent. m The work of the Ladies y Society of Utah was the fir&t systematic and organizxd effort for the suppression of polygy Standamy. The ard is the only journal in the United jStates devoted to this cause,, and it should command the support of every woman in the country Subscribe for the Standard, yourself and recommend it' to your friends. Place it where it will meet the eyes of public men and Chris-tai- n women. Anti-Polygam- Anti-Polygam- Biscuit Ice Cream. Dry and pound two ounces sponge cake, mix with a pint, of very sweet custard, flavor with lemon and freeze. |