The Press., 1894-06-28
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
Extracts From Annual Address of Lady
 Horny Somerset.

Horny Somerset.
 The brewers have measured a power with which they had not reckoned hither- to-the power of an awakened church. Up to the present time myriads of Chris tians have been able to stand aloof and say that "they have worked wholly with in the lines of moral suasion, /" or that ''they really had no sympathy with the temperance reform; but the testing time is close upon them, and we believe that when the question narrows itself down to clear issue between retaining or banish- ing the public house from their own com munities, the christian church will rise at Fair as the moon, bright as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners"
 A member of parliament recently said in speech opposing the temperance bill. Free education will save us from drink, no law is needed" His declaration illus trates once more the power of the human mind to resist knowledge. When the tenn perance movement was a child it thought as child, understood as child, and spoke as child; but now that it has at tained mature age it has put away child ish things, save in so far as they have merged into the fibre of true manhood. The great meetings where total abstinence is set forth with pledge and badge were the early standards in the school of re- form, and we still advocate this educa- tion in first principles but such teaching, if it is effectual, must, with riper years and n.aturer knowledge, lead by an inev- itable sequence of thought to that true understanding of the temperance reform that embraces study of tactics against the legislation of the liquor traffic. Every great body enrolled for temperance work makes it's power felt exactly in proportion as it has grown with the worlds growth, and is prepared to fight and yield no van- tange ground to the trade we oppose. To rest satisfied with the rescue of the vic- tims of intemperance, while our voters systematically and nationally build up the liquor system, is as fhtiler as it is ira. tiOnai, and noble as may be the intentions of those who only follow the army in or der to do ambulance work, we cannot reckon them among the number who fight effectively for victory.
 No matter what conservative minds may hold (and would speak with the ut most respect of those from whom differ on this as well as on any other subject, it remains true that those who study the temperance reform must sooner or later realize the necessity of crystallizing it's influence in law.
 We know that the spelling book edu- cates great people less rapidly than does the statute-book, for law is 8 schoolmas- ter to bring us to the Christ that is incar- mated in every genuine work of philan- throphy and reform; and until the evolu- tion of a movement is carried out into this wider circle it must be perpetually thrown back upon itself and minimised in it's momentum. For that which is physi- cally wrong can never be morally right, and that which is morally wrong can nev- CT be legally right.
 The commission of white ribboners ap- pointed to carry the polyglot petition against the sale of intoxicants and opium and against the legalizing of social vice is now expected to start on it's mission in November next. The petition has been signed in fifty languages, and has three millions of names including attestations. At the head of the commission which will present it to the various governments is Miss Willard, president, and Lady Henry Somerset, vice-president at large of the Worlds Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The petition will be first of all presented to the government at Washing. ton, then in London, Rome, Athens, Jeru. salem, Cairo, then in India, Ceylon, Aus tralia, China and Japan, the commission