The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-17
TEMPERANCE HYS7BRICS
Lady Henry Somerset Censures
Everything at the Big
Women's Meeting
in London.
Ru Coble to the United Press.


Viaduct. E. c.. today The morning
session began at ten o'clock and adj
journment at 1:30. The proceedings were
opeped with devotional exercises. after
which the roll of officers and delegates
was called. Following this was the re-
port of nominations made by the Ex-
ecutive Committee of returning ofiIcers
and tellers for the ballot voting. Then
came the reading of the report of thef
National Executive Committee. at the:
conclusion of which the Presidential ad-
dress was delivered by Lady Henry Som
erset, President of the association. who
said in part
with US, as with our sisters across
the waters. this day celebrates the COM
pletion of an epoch in our annals. Tho
annual council of 1895 is the most sig
niflcant and hopeful of ali that we have
held.
1--WE have many more delegates from;
a largely increased membership, includ-
ing eight hundred local societies. which
is two hundred smore than has been
reported at any previous council.
"The temperance question was never
so vigorously alive in our country as 1T
is today No other great nation even
before saw a direct veto bin included
in the platform of the dominant party.
twice recommended from the throne and
championed by the leader of the House,
of Commons.
To-day we welcome shipload oil
American women who are among the
most thoroughly equipped and best
known women reform workers of the
world, and the British mind is SO en-
larged that more than two hundred
pulpits and mission halls were open
to them yesterday in conservative old
London. And they will speak to throng-i
ing audiences in the largest auditori-i
ums that the worlds capital can furnish,
"They came from Chicago, a city De-
servedly famous among intelligent peo-3
pie for it's Christian philanthropy and
reform, if one seeks to see its virtues,
as it for it's riots, strikes and slums if
one seeks only it's defects.
"They come from New York, where
women have been foremost factors in
helping to overthrow the political brig
ands, better know as the Tammany ring.
''They come from Boston, where but
three years ago, as their guest on the oc-
casion of my first visit, l saw the streets
blocked at ten o'clock in the morning
so that the cars could not proceed, as
women from every one of the fifty States
and Territories that make up the Ameri-
can Union gathered to witness the OPEN
ing ceremonies. and listen to the annual
address of the President of the NATIONAL
w. c. T. IL"
THE AMERICAN CONTINGENT.
Lady Somerset went on to character
ize other American and Canadian cities
and the far-off lands from which dele-
gates come.
But Of rbdhs them Soil she m bean SAID Ssas
by the march of armies, whose trade in
beer and wine has inundated it with
.tion but in which the northern light
shines for us from the W c. T. U. She
went on o,o
leadership Is, 900 Of boys and girls IN
the public schools of the United States
are being taught the effects of alcoholics
and all narcotics on the human sys-
".They have. brought with them the
RSrogW Of PSe egaaed gRade in
liquors and in opium and insisting on
an equal, standard of personal purity for Or
fifty languages and in all the important
countries Of the world:
1.-THE enfranchisement of women has
now become a part of the solid rock
under our feet; it is interviewer with our
total abstinence and prohibition princi-
pies. There is no speech nor language
.'The women Of England will no doubt
be enfrancfiised within the next ten
Closely related to the movements
which occupy our thought is the one
which in the United States has been
that is co-education. 1t is my deliberate
conviction that but for the hysteria
into which SO many men and women now
elists 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
kindergarten until they complete their
course in the technical or professional
'0'--B BOYS SCHOOL ABUSES.
'If anybody dared to speak the truth
about boys, public schools in England,
there would be a social CONFUSION. com
pared with which not even that of 1886
~ or the lanlentable disclosures of the
past winter are to be mentioned.
When inyo try to aegrSegat girls and
men into the school or government, we
have frustrated Gods grace, and we
must pay the penalty.
"The more subtle revelations of natur-
al law which science is continually maxi
ing, will prove to US on the natural
plane that what God joins man may not
put asunder.
THE agitation against. immoral living
piegras bsa let aaa it 6,,rs be bsfS s
er living or dead) has gone hand in hand
with the great movement for reform in
municipal politics, indeed they are but
parts of one tremendous whole.
THAT this is. true was proved by the
immediate application of our London re-
formers to the County Council whose
action set an example of which England
may be proud. Those who imagine that
the Empire Theatre cuts a large figure
mistaken. The lightning was in the, air
and struck the Empire first because in
the worlds central city it was the most
influential whispering gallery of the
liaison which blasphemes a pure life
and makes happy home impossible"
A GREAT CROWD.
The edifice was crowded with delegates
and auditors. chiefly women, who mani
tested the greatest interest in Lady
Somerset's remarks, especially her allu-
sions to the growth of the women's
temperance movement. Brief speeches
were also made by Miss Frances E. Will
lard Miss Eva McLaren and Mesdames
Auckland, Pearsall, Smith, Ward, Poole
and Grant.
Miss Willard, in the course of her re-
marks. said that a large number of
adherents TO the wonan's movement
had been made in Belgium, a country
which had hitherto shown the least
| After the noon recess the reports of
| the Corresponding Secretary and Treas
urer were read and the morning session
| closed with the introduction of fraternal
| delegates and visitors.
| In an interview with a representative
| Hogg of Greenfield College, Illinois, said
! that names were stsM being added
| rapidly to the monster petition ninety
/ thousand having been secured by Brit
| ish women within the last six weeks.