Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-05-12
T~wENTY-FoUR ROSES.

At the farewell to Lady Henry Som
erset by the Massachusetts, w. G. T. u,
flowers were rendered her from many
different societies.
Mrs. Lucy Stone, ON behalf of the
Massachusetts, w. S. A, presented
twenty three yellow roses and one great
white rose. She said: ''The Massachu-
sets Woman Suffrage Association pre-
sents these roses, with its good will, to
our English fellow worker. There are
twenty three of them. They represent
the age of our organization. The.oue
white rose is for Wyoming, the one
State where men and women have
equal rights"
Lady Henry Somerset said in re-
spouse:
Revered and honored leader of a grow
ing cause: remember as l look at those
roses that there was a time when they
were planted, a little stick without a
bud or leaf, in the dark ground; that,
as they nestled in the lap of mother
earth, the buds began to sprout, and,
little by little, green leaves came; that,
watered by showers, and lit up by the
rays of the sun, they at last lifted their
golden heads and looked up to heaven.
That is the emblem of the cause that
you represent. 1t was planted In weak
ness, in obscurity; it is growing today
in golden power and at last these golden
flowers shall stand an emblem for all
the riches that shall be brought to hui
mainly by the truth of the principles
that they may represent; while this
white one, more truly than any other,
speaks of the dawn of the blessed TWEEN
tieth century. in which, in all the great
standards of life, there shall be equally
the white life for two, the blessing of
equal power, equal right, equal respon-
sibility, in all the things that pertain
to this world and the next.
An English journal puts the liquor
problem in this form: Twenty five
snakes running through the streets
that'sfre whisky. Twenty five snakes
gathered in a box in which twenty five
holes are made by authority of the
court-that is low license. Ten of the
holes are closed, and the snakes all get
out through the other ifteen-that is
high license. Drive all the snakes
over to the next village-that is local
option. Kill all the s~nakes-that lis
prohibition. Snakes in your boots,
that's delerium tremens.- The Interior.
LET the man who introduced intoxi
eating liquor into China be exiled from
beyond our frontier, and let him never
be permitted to return SO spoke the
sage Emperor who ruled the destinies
of the Celestial Empire four thousand
years ago. To his wholesome warning
and brave example is due the compare
tive soberity of the Chinese people.
Hundreds of centuries later, when
Great Britain attempted to persuade
the Chinese government to legalize the
opium traffic, the Emperor's noble re-
ply was, 1T is true | can not prevent
the introduction of this poison. Gain
seeking and corruptmen will, for profit
and sensuality, defeat my wishes, but
nothing will induce me to derive a
revenue from the vice and misery of
my people" Later, this brave emperor
was obliged to submit to the legaliza-
tion of the traffic, under the point of
the bayonet, but the war was a on
vincing token of China's standing pro-
test against the infamy. 1t is hard to
distinguish between christian and
heather nations in these greed de-
vouring times.
Five hundred children under 10 wears
of age were arrested in London last
year for drunkenness.