The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-10-16
WE ARE MORE SOBER,
MISS FRANCIS WILLARD SAYS THE
WORLD IS MORE TEMPERATE,

The bicycle as Foe of AIcohol-Hovz
Her Proposed "Trip TO india Was Post.
poned-Her Poem On the Flag-ChaI.
Ienged to Joint Debate on Landing.
Miss Frances Elizabeth Willard. tbe
temperance evangelist, landed from the
American line steamship New York the
other day overlooking with the milk Of
human kindness and more than ever
convinced that the world is getting
soberer. She presided over the great in
ternatiOnal temperance convention in
London, at which a petition for the
suppression Of the whisky traffic was
shown signed by $500, 600 persons.
The fact that she was called to the chair
she regards as great compliment to
America. She thinks that it will tend
to promote the harmonious relations be-
tween the two countries if Lady Henry
Somerset presides over the next temper
ance congress in this country.
IT am here to attend the twenty-sec-
ond annual convention of the W. G. T.
U. at Baltimore Oct. IS, " she said. 'I
am proceeding direct to CASTLE, n. Y,
where friend of mine has SAM
tarium, and shall go into retirement at
once with my stenOgraphers and think
up what | am going to say. For 20
years I used to write all day on trains,
and then make speeches at night, and it
wore me out. The stenographer is a
grand invention, though I fear it tends
to make me lazy.
There never was so much teetotal
sentiment in England as there is today.
The custom of emitting wine from the
dinner table is growing. One of the
things that helps temperance is the BIZ
cycle. I am bicycle enthusiast, and
after three years hard work have at
last induced Lady Henry Somerset to
ride wheel. The bicycle is spelling
the business Of the saloons and of the
low variety theaters.
1.-The effect of this is that English
women are gaining in health and
strength. Ifelt like a Lilliputian among
those magnificent, we'll built creatures.
There is a finer caste in outdoor sports
than ever before. The fashionable game
in England now is croquet. 1t super
seeded tennis and golf this summer We
had very hot weather, and it was too
warm for those games.
Lady Henry Somerset, the great
English temperance leader, had arranged
to go to India this winter, and l was to
accompany her, but her daughter is 60
ing to marry the Duke of st. Adams
soon, and events like that upset peoples
plans. We shall not visit India separate
~. IN reform as we'll as in machine
politics you have to have strong combi-
nations.
India. you would think needs little
agitation, as the Hindoos
are supposed to abhOr alcoholic drinks.
But the Englishmen in India simply
swim in liquor, and the Anglo-Indian
colony has gone to seed to a certain ex-
ent. This condition Of Generalization
S affecting the natives more or less. We |
want to get groups of women together
Who will disseminate temperance ideas,
md we want the physiological effects OF
alcohol taught in the Indian schools.
stMost people have an idea that France
IS not a good field for temperance work.
INIT we are already reaping fruit there.
The French have begun to classify
drinks, and those of an alcoholic nature
like absinth, they call poison drinks. A
of education is gong TO %
vaoed among them. 1t is no use to tell |
tba neonle of one country what the great
men Of another country say, They want
70 hear from their great men, ana
Fronch nhysiologists are to be induced
to write and teach the deleterlous enectS
Of alcohol. y
Miss Willard is very anxious to see
more amicable relations between Eng
lord and America She said that she re-
1,rottcd exceedingly the bad blood thaV
had been engendered in the two co I5
+,ios over the Yacht race, and she ASKED
after the latest news as "
challenges. She had the Engllsh theory
that perhaps the Defender won DEC" uo9
sbo ie made largely Of aluminium, anu
s Si,o smoke :. of outside weights and 9th
OF deep technicalities. .,
While thinking over the reIatlonSn1P
between the countries Sept u, "HIIo
in London. Miss Willard attention was
by the little English nag car eho
lied bv some of the ommbuses' 0I0
sat down and wrote poem
Here is the poem;
THE FLAG ON THE OMNIBUS:
+I,a+ followthae, old flag, are fond
A western heart leaps up thy rd d99 aon I'd
Saxon eyes confess Tie S sacred dow down the
As Englaad's standard uut'eiS w"