![]() Several other states have signified their purpose to take up the new method ere long. In Illinois and Massachusetts the ballot on the single question of license is all that has been asked but Indiana, Iowa, and Minnesota ask for the ballot in general while Ohio desires it "on all temperance questions." Maine and Rhode Island have both endorsed the Illinois phase of the movement, though the women of Maine (where prohibitory law is in full force) did this rather as a token of sympathy than with a view to active work. Unions of eight states, the object of which is to secure for all women above the age of twenty-one years the ballot as one means for the protection of their homes from the devastation caused by the legalized traffic in strong drink. HOME PROTECTION" is the general name given to a movement already endorsed by the W. Unions are "waiting."Ĭhicago, September, 1879. But we invite comparison between states active in the petition battle for the temperance vote and those which have excluded this method of work, and claim that activity along this line would be an incalculable blessing to communities where, though the legalized dram-shop never closes its doors and politicians work steadily to advance its interests, our W.C.T. Some of our sisters have feared lest attention to this branch of work might interfere with our holding Gospel meetings, circulating temperance literature, and training the children to right habits. But as steam can be applied to locomotion only through an engine, and as electricity can be utilized only through a battery, so, in a Republic, we can condense the opinion of this majority of women into law only through the magical little paper which falls We want that ballot because the liquor traffic is entrenched in law, and law grows out of the will of majorities, and majorities of women are against the liquor traffic. The Right of Petition, its purpose and its power, will be treated of, in the pages that follow, with emphatic but not exclusive reference to the temperance ballot for woman. We only know what we have lived and in the last five years I have witnessed a cheering march of public opinion along a road always open to our feet, but not mapped upon our usual plans of the campaign as clearly as I am convinced it ought to be. "Well, we - are - waiting" is the very frequent answer, quickly followed by the earnest inquiry: "What can be done?" doing?" is my most natural question to the dear women who welcome me on almost each new day to some new locality. ![]() ![]()
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