The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18
WORK OF THE B. w. Il. A
LADY HENRY sOMERsET's ADDRESS
AT THE ANNUAL CONVENTION.
acknowledgements OF Women Now One
of the Associations Objects-The
wHr on Living Pictures.

| meeting OF the foFitiSu NOHdH temper
ance Association, opened in the City Tenn
pie this morning. There was large at
tendance. The principal feature of the ses-
sion was the address of President Lady
Henry Somerset. Among other things she
| said: rTt7N&i
| with us as with our sisters across the
| waters this day celebrates the completion
| OF an epoch in our annals The temper
| ance question was never so vigorously alive
| In our country as Ii is to-day. No other
! great nation ever before saw a direct veto
| Dill included in the platform OF the doni-
nant party, twice recommended from the
| throne and championed by the leader OF
| the House of Commons. The strength OF
public sentiment indicated by these facts
marks England as the leader OF national
| sentiment and proposed legislation among
the nations of the earth But there is an
! other reason why the present council OF the
Il. W. T.. A. will stand UNIQUE In the
many women congregated representing an
organization so large ana thoroughly
equipped and plans so far-reaching for the
nation.
"The enfranchisement of women has now
| our feet, Ii is interviewer with our total
abstinence and prohibition principles as
closely as single wire ever, was tele-
| graphic message of the individual. There
| Is no speech or language in which
the voice is not heard of this great con-
troversy., Its. gain have never been more
y
| en- of New Zealand have the full rights OF
4 voters; the women in the great state Of
| Colorado have the same, and IN both coun-
! tries IL has been exercised by numbers
equal in proportion to the number of men
! who have voted and with the strong ten
dency toward home protection and the de-
struction of all that dIsintegrates the home
that has always been predicted by its adj
vocates. The executive committee OF the
| Il. w T. A recommends the establishment
| of A department for the eDfranchisement
| of women with a superintendent at its
head. In earlier years we had not reached
! this vantage ground: Our progress mas
| been slow bat sure. The women of England
will no doubt be enfranchised within the
next ten years.
occupy our thoughts is one which in the
/ United States has been worked out 10 an
| assured successsAand that Is co-education
| 1t is my deliberate conviction that but for
the hysteria into which SO many men and
women novelsts have fallen and for the
keyed-up public mind that is willing to
! exploit their product. there Is no remedy
| so sane and sound as the education OF our
| young people together. from the kinder
garten until they complete their course IN IN
anybody dared TO speak the truth about
| boys public schools in England there
would be social convulsion compared with
which not even that of 1856 or the lament
| able disclosure of the last winter arc to
be mentioned When We try to segregate
| girls and women into school or harem boys
| and. men into the school or government,
we have. frustrated Gods grace and We
must pay the penaity, ~
The agitation against immoral living
| pictures never let ii be remembered
! against beautiful and pure pictures, either
i living dead) has gone hand i'm hand with
| the great movement for reform in munich
| pal politics: indeed, they are but parts of
| one tremendous whole. That this is true
was proved by the immediate application
of our London reformers to the county
council, whose action set an example of
which England may be proud Those who
| imagine that the Empire Theater cuts a
| m
| lem are mistaken. The lightning was in
| the air and struck the Empire first because
| in the worlds central city IL was the most
| influential whispering gallery OF the liaison
which blasphemes a pure life and makes a
happy home impossible We all know how
the fire Of the womens temperance cru
! SADIE spread from Ohio to the most distant
! parts of the world and as British women
we may well rejoice that the brave action
of one of our most gifted members and
/ her associates kindled the fire that burns
brightly at this hour in thousand towns
and cities of the new world, the antarctic
continent and of our own dear home coun-
| try. and will never cease to burn until
the last remnant of impurity in the
recreations of the people has been de-
| hands to furnish that good time which
| is the rehtful heritage of all in their
nour society has never done a single
| stroke of work that meant so much for
| the amelioration of the common lot. and l
| hope we shall by resolution adopt it: and
| by rising vote evince our appreciation
| of those good and true white ribbon wom-
! en-, Of whom Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant
| in the London crusade against immortality
masqueradng under the forms of art
| The Crnthie,s Mate Responsible.
| LONDON. June H--The Board Of Trade,
after examining Thoroughly the reports re-
garding the sinking Of the North German
Lloyd steamship Elbe. early on the morning
| of JAN 81 which resulted in the loss of
about $40 lives. has, decided that the mate
of the Crathie, the British steamer. which
| ran into and sunk the German steamship,
was responsible for the disaster. Conse-
quently the mates certificate was sus-
pended.
| have been avoided and the danger passed
| if the Elbe had stopped Immediately after
the officer of the watch sighted danger.
swindler. Taylor Sentenced.
LONDON, June 17.-Frank Taylor, alias
| Tarbeaux the New York crook who has
been causing so much trouble recently to
the police authorities of Great Britain and
South Africa was sentenced to-day TO
three years Imprisonment on charges of
being concerned with a person not in
custody but who passed as the Hon. Will
| lard Musgrove, and who described himself
as an American Senator, in obtaining goods
| and property at Stanhope Gardens. South
Kensington. by fraud and false pretenses.
| President Faurc Decorated.
PARIS. June IL y-rhe Russian embassa-
dor. Baron Won Mehrenheim, invested
President Faure to-day. at the Elysee
Palace with the collar of the Order of ST.
Andrew. on behalf OF the Gar The in
vestiture attended with much ceremo-
ny. The ambassador said that i'm bestowinc
the order upon the President the Car
wished IL TO be regarded as a mark of his
high friendship and as fresh pledge of
his esteem for France.
Japs Attack 10000 "Black Flags.
| LONDON. June IA special dispatch
from Shanghai to-day says that fighting /,
in progress at Tai-Wan. Island OF Formosa
where ten thousand BLACK Flags unde,
General Lui Yung. are assembled The
Japanese are now, attacxing the forts al
that place and the British warship Spartan
is removing the foreigners from the town
Cable Notes.
An application was made yesterday 70,
the release of Oscar Wilde, pending step.
TO be taken for new trial The application
was refused. 49,.
Mr.. and Mrs, Gladstone arrived at Copen
hagen yesterda yoepe baa rdsthe steamer fan
talon Castle which vessel they are In,
guests OF Sir. Donald Currie. Immense
crowds of PEOPLE cheered the steamer an.
the seaport was gaily decorated for the oc
casion. ssts
The seml-offfcial Fremdenblatt, of Vienna
announces that the Ministry for Austria
presided over by Prince Alfred Windisch-
rot n I'm 49,