  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. |
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