Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-03-09


try 10 October next, as the starting
point Washington will nrai boz visitoi
and the mammoth petition viii be pre-
ssnteI there to tho powers that be.
by October "a the ladies wiz be- ready
for thoir steamship and will lc.v5 Now
York for LJndln, wnefe, after having
Joined the English contingent Of the
crusaders, they will hold q grand dem.
onslratlou In the famous Exeter Hall
on November let and POD. The next
day the reinforced army will sail for
Naples and, after having touched Mt
that point proceed 10 Rome, where II
IL proposed 10 seek an audience With
the pope aud King Humbert From
Rome tue ladies proposs 10 go TO
Athens anI call on king George and
ihon start for jana and Jerusalem,
where the petition Is to be- rolloI
out beloIe the nstonlahei eyes
of the patriarch, after which the
youthful khcdlvo In Cairo is 10 be-
visited. From Egypt the party goes
c.a, aud will return across tho Pacific.
buch 10 the prort-m.
Aud now 'he question may DO r-f.
mittcd, DO uhs ladies r,forfui 10 sut-
pose Tor one moment tina. such a trip
round the world will bunsni anybody
except Themselves, who may perhaps
need the recreation and valuable OK
pefience 10 DO derived from i2 II they
10 they will return great deal wiser
than thoy nfe ni present. The very IDEA
that tho ium5 10 opium, Tor IN.
stance, eau raosivo serious chusa, or
Indeed any restriction at OIL, asa result
Of meeting IN Exeter ball is alto.
gotucr to1 iGmutllo Do De- conception. lu
the past thoIo has been no lace 0' meet.
iugi aud spgerlcs aud Protests. but
they have a.l stranded against the fact
tina. the traffic IL 30 nnblc 10 those
who gage ln 10, aud gold sovcrclgns
weigh a go0i deal moro THAI million
names on petition.
But granting Tor a moment the sup.
posed efficacy Of petitions ~ a weapon
against national Vices, the route ui the
valiant knights SCENT 10 DO du;ocuvcly
planned In several essentials. After
having disposed Of Washington, Lon.
don AMI Rome, u sonIs tho bcaron Of
iho petition direct 10 Athens, forget
tiny, ittcsms, not only france with sll
its alleged Vices, but a.si the ulof oi
Monte Carlo, who Ouyh, % Boz entitled
T. Some consideration. 10 may be
nectasary for tue purpose q suppress.
Ing tho traffic IN alcohol 10 reach King
George of Greece a. huruodiy as posi-.
bic aud also the patriarch Of urusalcm,
who n Aaid 10 be rather fond Of old
grape juice, but u ls a pity that SOM
time could not be Hpent with the
sultan NJ Morocco aud some OF
the BcdJuin chiefs Of Arabia, few Of
whom, u reports arc true, Ere any too
vlrlu0us. While In jerusalem the
expedition might nj lcls, ray q visit TO
tho old ahoik who uicd 10 live north Of
that city In the so.callcl jeremiah =
cave, anu secure his iniiucncb la the
cause. II can DO bought Tor leis than
a dollar ami might not b. without
value la the proposed Interview with
the khodive. Any amount Of amend.
mcnts Ia this direction are called Tor 10
render the plan harmonious In all iis
details.
But without Joking, Il h probably
proposed that the nomtcu Of the w.
q. r. u. ail over the world foot tho OK.
ronses Of this remarkable campaign.
IL this surmise "a correct, their ate u.
ton should DO called 90 the fact that
the money which they contribute Tor
temperance purposes 10 thrown away ~
far ~ this expedition Is c3nuefaed. II
they choose to pay the expenses Of a
t1uris, party that proposes 10 have
good tine In voyage round the world,
they are a. liberty 10 10 so, But they
should not Bee made 20 believe that
they nre contributing towards a cam.
paigu against lutompryauoe Or any
other vice