The Witch resumed work Monday morning. There was more stir in the
streets than usual. On every corner were groups of excited men. Nothing
but whisky and election would cause so much commotion.
The carriages of the different candidates were out scouring the town
for voters.
Some of these aspirants for office had almost impoverished themselves
by daily treating the crowd of loafers who are always ready to trade
their votes for whisky.
They go about electioneering for themselves. Bosh! if a man has the
elements of greatness he will find his place without all this
self-praise.
For men to search their own glory is not glory. Proverbs xxv, 27.
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he
deceiveth himself. Galatians vi, 3.
Election day and no mistaking it; the saloons are supposed to be
closed, but there is a back door to some of them.
It is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any
of the afflicted. Proverbs xxxi, 4, 5.
Is it any wonder that the women of our land clamor for a voice in the
affairs of state and nation?
But a woman's place is not at the polls. She can do more good at home
in training the minds of her sons, the future voters, and in making her
husband's home-coming pleasant, that he may prefer it to haunts of
vice. And it is to be hoped that man through debauchery will not become
altogether inefficient and make it necessary for woman to take the lead.
But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the
man, but to be in silence. I Timothy ii, 12.