Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-04-22
w, c. T. u. COLUMN.
Motto: "God and Home and Native Land"
AMERICAS GUILT IN THE LIQUOR
TRAFFIC.

Honored Representatives and Rulers
of the People of the United States You
have heard the cry from the heart OF
motherhood all over the world, voic-
ed in the petition we present to you
to day. To you, perhaps, it SOUNDS
faint and distant. You may not catch
the note Of agony in it; you may not
realize that it rolls up in mighty vol
ume to the throne of God, and enters
His ear who answers as well as hears.
But l have heard these cries at my
side, on my right hand and on my
| left, from high and lowly all over the
world.
For seven years I travelled in every
quarter of the globe, and in nearly ev-
cry country, in the largest cities OF
Europe and Asia, in the jungles Of
the Congo and Madagascar; at the
foot of the great wall in China and
where the Amazon and La Plata roll
| their mighty volumes to the sea; I'M
der the midnight sun of Norway, Swe-
den and Finland, and far up the slopes
fields of Africa and the gold fields of
Australia; in the midst Of epidemics
of cholera and yellow fever alone,
gray haired when I started.
Why all this? To do what one wo-
man could do, by the blessing of God,
to put an end to the awful horrors of
drink, by organizing women every
where against it, One item of my
work was to procure the petition you
receive to be translated and put in
circulation wherever went.
shall never forget the cry of the
young queen of Madagascar to me: 81
want to save my people from drink,
but I can not. My hands are bound
by treaties forced upon me by Eng
land and France. can do nothing"
Her predecessor, born into heather
family, uttered the remarkable words
that have been attributed to nearly
every dusky sovereign: 81 can not de-
rive benefit from that which Injuries
my people," She lived up to this say
ing to the day of her death. Every
tenth barrel landed was set apart for
her, but all OF them were stove on the
beach where they were placed. Nor
can I ever cease to hear the cry of
that mother in Freetown: ooh, the
drink from the Godmen's (missiona-
ries7) country. 1t has killed my son.
I am lone woman now"
Americans began the traffic on the
west coast of Africa and sell all they
can now, though hindered greatly at
the present time by the Germans I'M
derselling them. We can not throw
off the guilt in Africa nor in the is
lands of the Pacific.
Even the honorable functions of
our representative in China and So.
America nave been prostituted and
they have become ''toutors" for Amer
lean liquor dealers. [ speak of what
[ have seen and therefore know.
Colored people are worth saving.
They are as capable of elevation as
European races. Again [ speak of
what I have seen and therefore know.
[ have conversed with persons Of ev-
cry coIored race on earth who were as
we'll fitted by native ability, by edu-
cation, by manners, by elevation of
character, and purity of life to take
the title of gentleman and lady as any
white person in the United States or
Europe.
But to turn to our own land. There
I,v1o 6rn1
thousand babies less than year old,
asleep to- night in sweet unconscious
ness of the life upon which they have
entered, who will, during some year
not far off, go to untimely graves be-
cause of the licenced sale of drink in
our own country. Are not American
children worth saving?
In the past congress made it duty
to refuse entrance to diseased hides
from South America, because two men
were poisoned to death by them in
tannery in Massachusetts,; and dis
ease infected rags from Italy, because
two women and a man lost their
lives by handling them in paper
Hill. COHSreSS uiu We'll W PiooOoo oiiO
lives of Americans. Will it not pro-
tect these one hundred thousand
American babies by prohibiting the
manufacture and sale in the United
States wherever it has Jurisdiction
and protect the children of foreign
countries by forbidden expectation?
know the moneyed complications.
There is not time to discuss them now.
We have had national crises in the
past, when we did not for moment
eternal justice and right for nations