hibition," the latter probably inspired by a Knights of Labor version of Bliss's song. In the first of these the third verse and chorus urged:
By the God who freedom gave us,
With immortal souls!
Crush the foe who dare enslave us—
Forward to the polls!
"Hold the fort for prohibition!"
Freedom signals still;
Answer back to her petition,
"By our vote we will!"[111]
In the other version the last verse and chorus exhorted:
Face the grog-shops' bold defiance,
Never fear or quail.
Coward foes will soon surrender;
Voters! do not fail.
Storm the fort for Prohibition
Captives signal still,
Answer back to their petition,
"By our votes we will."[112]
Also seeking to influence affairs as the nineteenth century advanced were the militant ladies of the woman's-rights movement, who particularly urged woman suffrage but who also pressed temperance and other radical ideas upon reluctant male politicians, some of whom professed to fear that the vote would unsex womanhood. Or so it was said during the 1890 debates over the admission of Wyoming, which had had woman suffrage since 1869.[113] Under the circumstances, the ladies turned to song to keep their spirits up and to plead their case. One song, sung to the tune of "Hold the Fort" and variously called "Columbia's Daughters" and "Hark! The Sound of Myriad Voices," appears in at least three different collections of suffrage songs and under the title "Columbia's Daughters" in a record album of several years ago.[114] The first verse and the chorus of this song, which was written for the first annual meeting of the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts, are enough to give its flavor:
Rising in their might;
'Tis the daughters of Columbia
Pleading for the right.
