voted.  The contest was between the wet and dry mayors.  Where women have the ballot, even in municipal affairs, no state has resubmitted or brought back the saloon.  God said:  “It is not good for man to be alone.  I will make him a helpmate, a partner, a companion, a guardian.”  When man elevates a woman he elevates himself.  A degraded woman means many degraded men.  Free men must be the sons of free women.  This land cannot be the land of the free or home of the brave, until woman gets her freedom and men are brave and just to award it to her.  No man can have the true impulse of liberty and want his mother to be a slave.

The constitution of the United States starts out by saying.  “We, the people of the United States.”  Women are people as well as men.  Therefore I advise all women to go to the polls and vote in spring and fall elections.  We want the moral, intellectual electorate.  The brewer, distiller, saloon man, their agents, even the colored man was given a vote, and never asked for it.  The foreigners in a few months, or a year, after landing, are given the ballot, but the loving, true defenders of God, home and all the best interests of humanity, are compelled to see their sons, husbands, and fathers, murdered before their eyes, without the sign of a protest from the government under which they live.  The outrageous unfairness of this is quite evident when we consider that the ballot is represented and controlled by the worst element, when it should be by the best.  The women are more affected by oppression than man.  She is the mother, the rest are the children.

The mother would vote to save the boy.

The mother would do nothing to injure her boy.

The mother makes a good citizen of her son.

The saloon man votes to make drunkards.

The saloon man does all to injure.

The saloon man makes bad citizens.

The best voters are cast out for President, the vilest are put in, no wonder we have a snob and brewers choice.

A boy’s best friend is his mother.  Boys and girls go wrong when they do not obey their mothers.  God has always used women as a mighty factor in salvation.  The promise was given her in the garden, after the fall, that she should produce the Savior, who would give the deadly wound to man’s great enemy, the devil.  It was the “seed of the woman,” not the seed of the man.  Christ was born of a woman and the Holy Ghost.

No man has ever been greater in God’s estimation than Abraham.  Yet when he and Sarah had a dispute and Abraham went to God to decide the matter, God said:  “In all that Sarah thy wife hath said unto thee hearken unto her voice.”  Rebecca understood the will of God, contrary to the will of Isaac.  She carried out the plan of God.  Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to consult with them before he left Laban, and he took their advice.  “Moses, Aaron and Miriam were chosen by God to lead the people