no instinctive scruples against miscellaneous crowds
at the polls, might be expected to visit saloons and piously
serenade their owners, until patience ceases to be a virtue. But
for women who are so pressed with domestic cares that they have
no time to vote; for women who shun notoriety so much that they
are unwilling to ask permission to vote; for women who believe
that men are quite capable of managing State and municipal
affairs without their interference; for them to have set on foot
the present crusade, how queer! Their singing, though charged
with a moral purpose, and their prayers, though directed to a
specific end, do not make their warfare a whit more feminine, nor
their situation more attractive. A woman knocking out the head of
a whisky barrel with an ax, to the tune of Old Hundred, is not
the ideal woman sitting on a sofa, dining on strawberries and
cream, and sweetly warbling, "The Rose that All are Praising."
She is as far from it as Susan B. Anthony was when pushing her
ballot into the box. And all the difference between the musical
saint spilling the precious liquid and the unmusical saint
offering her vote is, that the latter tried to kill several birds
with one stone, and the former aims at only one.

Intemperance, great a curse as it is, is not the only evil whose
effects bear most heavily on women. Wrong is hydra-headed, and to
work so hard to cut off one head, when there is a way by which
all may be dissevered, is not a far-sighted movement; and when
you add to this the fact that the head is not really cut off, but
only dazed by unexpected melodies and supplications, there is
little satisfaction in the effort. We learn that, outside of town
corporations that have been lately "rectified," the liquor
traffic still goes on, and the war is to be carried into the
suburbs. What then? Where next? Which party can play this game
the longer? Tears, prayers and songs will soon lose their
novelty--this spasmodic effort will be likely soon to spend
itself; is there any permanent good being wrought? Liquor traffic
opposes woman suffrage, and with good reasons. It knows that
votes change laws, and it also knows that the votes of women
would change the present temperance laws and make them worth the
paper on which they are printed. While