St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-31

Jet bonnet sparkled above her beautiful
warm brown hair, framing Q face that,
eDce 10 doubt very beautiful, Is still
handsome. Lady Somerset's voice is
exquisitely clear and sweet, and her
iintonatlQn has ths pleasant softness of
the high.bred English woman. She
spoke with absolute simplicity, and with
the elOquence OF deep earnestness, be-
ginning her address by eulogy of Miss
Willard, whom she said she had come
to see.
From one end of this land to an
other" said Lady Somerset. II have re-
ceived kind, warm and loving well
come. When go back to my own cOun-
try, the cable lines under the great
ocean shall not bind the two countries
more closely than will the cable of love
bind me to this land" Briefly she spoke
and its vast Importance. She spoke Of
the rising power and magnificent posi-
bilities of this country. ''In my own
land" she said, my overpopulated
land, people are beaten down by ter
rible poverty, which is no fault of their
own, and which you in this land know
nothing Of. The temperance cause is
Gods message to the nineteenth CEN
fury. Intemperance is the deadly Upas
tree which is overshadowing this young
land. In our land, the times are speak
ing loudly. The working classes are
beginning to realize that they are held
down by letters. They want a nobler,
a grander and truer freedom, and they
look toward a revolution in our license
laws" Further on she said: 1--WE are
hoping at our next election to obtain
local option. We believe in it because
it is stepping stone to prohibition"
ApOlOgiZiDg Tor her lack of knowl-
edge of American politics, Lady Somer-
set said: Il am not of those who go
home after two months in this country
and
Write Book
about 1t, although, as have been here
four months, ought now to be we'll
into the second volume. But we con-
slider local option retrOgade movement
for America" Again the speaker en-
phasized the poverty in England, des-
pite which s600,000,000 year is spent
in the liquor traffic. She gave a heart
rending picture of the streets of White
chapel, where in one place there are
forty saloons on one side the street in
just quarter of mile, all served by
young girls and women. This evil she
earnestly and eloQuently begged the
American people to keep out of this
land. and drew terrible picture of the
drunkenness among women in England.
I'm meeting at the Salvation Army
station, where 300 or 400 women were
present, l have seen so drunk, and so
debased one could hardly believe them
human. Drunkenness among women,
as yet, you know nothing of, but the
awful nemesis of heredity will overtake
you. The daughters OF tomorrow will
be drunkards if the fathers OF today
spend their time in saloons" The good
already accomplished by English wom-
en-, because OF their right to vote at
municipal elections, was emphasized,
and Lady Somerset declared that within
a year or two English women will have
equal suffrage with men, remark
which was greeted with applause.
Gen. Booth and the Salvation Army
have caused great awakening in En-
gland. They do great work, and they
deal with class Christian men and
women have dared to call hopeless"
said the speaker. In conclusion she told
little of how she came to interest her
self in the temperance cause, and regret
ting her wasted opportunities, said
1.-The tears of this worlds sorrows are
dried here IN the presence of God, but
tears for wasted opportunities and mis-
used influence shall be dried only by
the hama of God himself"
A silent prayer and benediction
closed the meeting.