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Show I jjJIlt iiomi: ami 1111: iivn.or. n Ij lb' A lilu.VT deal U fnU by the oppo- N Jbi nenta of iqual luftrogo about "the pro- g ffi J tvctlou of the home," It lamadoto f- fift appear ai though tho home would be I j .J UncrlcU If women took part In publlo ) lb ' afTilra autllclontly to rait a ballot at the 1 W j I Jolli. How thla dm'crutlou la to be ( J i J tho Inevitable rnult of audi a change gt i It Inlhehwa that covrrn eltctlonevla not J? , ' ; niado very clear. The Her. Anna fa v Bhaw, a lady preachor of note audif h' l j great fonmlo and Intelhctual blllly, ' I , ,! takea up thla pbanu of the wouiaii -,i ' aullrnge iiueatlon In tho American Ij iv younml if 1'uhtict tot tho priaont J V I month. After elo'iuontly expreatlng fl Litt I her opinion of the hollueaa of home, )' I B tho primal dutlis of wlfohood and ; p ft motherhood, and tho absolute neceaal 1 tl a I I 1r l0 woman ' npt H'1'"1 a house IS f ft I buta home, vha ahowa that aa therw la ! J K 1 I nothing that ahould come between a P j'U womau and her huaband and children, ! ) VI I ao thtru la nothing that abouhl come i , 1 1 betnien a father and Ida dutlea tu his f ' chlllrin and hla home. Also that a I , ! 1 tweman aa well aa a man muy ho able ii I I !o do a great ileal outsldo of tho house 111' ki WII aa InslJo for thu home. And ' I h JJ j shoKOraouto say, with good rtaaon, I , wo think: ' 1 r "I lolIco In tho ballot for women If 1 1 or nothing but tho protection of tlio 'if , boriiollselr. IfanyonooiiElittohatetho , ,t rlulii to vote It aurely la tlio mothora of I , .1 ourouuntry, I bellow that iwtr aud j rekpoiialblllty gt luKctber. oioun ha 1 j Ihu roiponalbll ly ofintrlug herchlldren. 1 ,, j Why take from her ln power by which , ' i' 1' sho may roar her children t In ordor 1 . )!(; 1 to br,lug up hor children as they ought !j,l to be, sbo must lme somo ay of " ') 'J ejlilrtflllni; them aflcr they get out I If "tl ' on the aireol, and tho only way for ' I ' her to do thla Is to havo aoiuo ion- 1 1 ( ' trol over tho street, and tho ct.lv y ' Ij III1 she cur. do this lalUrouch tho ballot 1 ho Ij j ' men hate not doue It. Ul togdure her prayersr Do you tell ma of the powcrof a mother's prayerf 1 bellae In a mother's prayer. Ilellevo In tha allsnl Influence of the mother. I believe In the hand that rocks tbo cradle. Hut I would havo a groat deal more faith Intho full cure of the lin moral condlilnniof thla country, irwhlle tho mother prayed that herly bo raved, the legallred liquor trafllomljiht tin overthrown and natnM Injr dens and dena ol vlco might bo do-stroye.1i do-stroye.1i If while aho prayed aba held In her hand the ballot, which Henry Ward Ileceher saya Is tha symbol of nit civil right, and, thorclore, of all human Halite." |