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So prohibition, divested of its skin, is one form of church extension. 

 Scratch a Prohibitionist and there will show u]} a God-in-the-Con- 

 stitution man. While there ma}' be some "liberal" dupes to the 

 prohibition movement, who do not espouse the latter cause, I can 

 assure them that when it comes to the God-in-the-Constitution be- 

 liever, he has no hesitancy in knowing who is on his side. Mrs. 

 Ellen Foster, of Iowa, a lawyer and one of the chief officers, says, 

 "The prohibition movement is but the first step towards engrafting 

 Christianity into the Constitution ; we shall keep on till we have all 

 under the banner of Jesus." There, do 3'ou want anything more 

 explicit than that ? St. John is a vice president in the movement to 

 unite Church and State. This means that American institutions be 

 blotted out, and that we be set back into the Middle ages. The 

 Church, made \\\> of fear, the State, made up of force, and trade, 

 made up of fraud, shall constitute one happy trinity. Three in one 

 and that one, — tyranny. The Chui'ch has alwa3's been a dead head 

 when the assessor was around, now she aims to be a dead beat when 

 the constable comes around. 



The amusing part of this performance is that it is all to be 

 brought about to vindicate the right of woman to the ballot ! We 

 thought that the only excuse there was for meddling with another's 

 aSairs was when one failed to properly mind them. Now your 

 Voice in your neighboi''s business is justilied in proportion as you 

 fail to mind your own ! What more exact statement of a basis for 

 the ballot, than that persons shall be put in possession of a thing 

 as often as they show they do not know \\o\w to use it. But if men 

 liave made fools and tyrants of themselves, in its exercise, have not 

 women a i-ight to an equality ? That depends upon wiiether they 

 exercise that cqiiaJity upon tliemselves or tiieir noiglibors ! Women 

 seek to be in fasliion ; and the fasliion with the best minds of to day 

 is to find that form of social and Industrial organization which is 

 to supplant, not repeat the present political system. 



ULTIMATUM OF PROHIBITION. 



The proliibitory movement, then, is tlie dying embers of that 

 paternalism which presided at tiie Salem witchcraft ; the dying gasp 

 of an effete tiieology. Its adiierents ai'e not Germans, or French- 

 men, from England, or from tiie Continent, or from the mixed pop- 

 ulation of our great cities. It is directly traceable to the Puritanic 

 zeal and intolerance in those country parishos, settled by tiic New 

 EQo:land descendants of tlvose who banished Roger Williams and 



