The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-20

ployed. We must lengthen our cords and
far over into the camp of our bread
earning brethren that ours shall be for
evermore two camps allied in thought
and purpose 10 bring in the better day.
We must be able to see that the eight
hours law is a temperance measure.
purity measure. gospel measure, and
nothing else, for by means of the eight
hours law one-third more men and women
now unemployed can find standing room in
the bread-winning battalions. where they
and a well-orderei home. The living wage
means not only that the wage Garner shall
live: but he shall live well. Ruskin has
life: and II is the duty of the nation TO
clear away the impediments that hold hon.
their own. developing their best CAPACITIES.
enjoying that life more abundant to which
every human heart is drawn by an In
stinct as irresistible the force that
draws the tides toward the sun.
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
THE law of the survival OF the fittest
has. in the popular mind, two methods of
application; tested by them both, ought the
liquor traffic to survive? In the first place,
is it fit? In The days of our ancestors in
toxicating liquors were made by men who
stood well in the community as the aver
age tradesman. They were soli in the
same places where flour and other things
essential to the physical we'll being OF the
people were to be had; and no reproach
rested upon those who dealt them out or
drank them down. But il is no longer
equally reputable to sell wheat and whisky.
bread and beer, apples and ale. In exact
proportion TO the New Testament character
of his daily life. man Is held back by his
principles and record from being publican
or saloon keeper. Birds OF a feather flock
wholly separated from unwholesome drinks
in public thought. AS a general rule they
are not .scl1 in the same place, and those
who sell them do not stand on the same
plane in public confidence. There must be
reason for this, and ii is found in the out
come of their respective use. The fittest
necessity; Intoxicating drinks are losing
theirs; and from great numbers Of the most
highly developed communities they have
been banished altogether New England
furnishes the most salient illustration. Our
fore athers brought with them in the May
flower the Bible and the cask OF beer; they
founded churches. schools, homes; they dis
titled and brewed intoxicants and sold them
in shops with other good creatures of God.
The churches still abide. and in them are
ton: the schools ABIDE and Il are e the glory
OF our Nation; the homes abide and are
the harbingers of heaven: but the saloon
It has been banished from three of the five
New England States. and cannot long sur
Another meaning of the famous phrase
is that whatever is best fitted to its en-
vironment survives. or that which adapts
ouSy o 5ae
develops along the lines of self-govern-
ment. drinks that intoxicate or which have
come more dangerous to him. Under a
feudal system. when he was but the para
site of the lord of the castle. his personal
habits counted for but, little only so that
he was brave a Turk in war. But his
environment has changed his value to him.
self: to his home and the state that de-
physical. mental and moral. Intoxicants de-
generate his personality in all of these
particulars, and they do this either actu-
ally or through his descendants. The places
In which intoxicants sold have become
the rendezvous of those classes which are
either the foam of society or its dregs the
of the great social wave One of our Chi
cago mayors gave as a reason why he did
not close the saloons on Sundays that they
catch criminals If bakers shops were the
lurking places of the burglar and the
tramp, If the basest political plots orig
mated there, we should combine against
the baker rather than the publican.
we are here, then. Englsh-speaking
women, gathered out of the leading nations
from Oriental and continental Countries.
TO put our heads and hearts together for
the building up of the woman's home pro-
tect.on movement because it is the fittest
to survive, the best adapted to it's environ
ment. and We are here for the pulling down
OF the liquor system. because. judged by
its effects. 1t is the most unfit and the least
adapted to that slowly improving environ
ment which is the outcome of Christianity
working on the minds and bodies of the hu-
man race
VARIOUS REPORTS.
At the conclusion of Miss Wizards ad-
dress the reports of different superintend-
ents were read. and at midday there was
prayer led by Mrs. Elizabeth Selmer pres
ident CT the Denmark W. c. T. L.. of CO.
penhagen. The prayers were followed by a
memorial service in honor of "Our Promoted
Comrades the memorial address being de-
livered by Miss Frances E. Willard.
Later i'm the day the report of Miss Alice
Gulick. of San Sebastin. Spain formerly of
Boston, Mass. was presented. She said that
in Spain the work is largely personal as
there is no opportunity for public work I'M
small thing for q Spaniard district to sign
the pledge. America had no idea what this
means, for wine is more common than good
water in Spain.
The superintendent of the Sunday school
department recommended that the w. G. T
to- make the last quarterly tempera a e S,1p
day Of 1895, which falls on Nov "a, special
temperance day not only in the Sunday
schools but in the churches a well.
Mrs. Eva McLaren. wife of the Hon. Wal
ter McLaren, member of Parliament and
ef fhe ord S nhe
ance Union, presented the franchise report
She said:
''Our sisters in the United States have the
great example Of Wyoming to point to, fol-
lowed quite recently by Colorado. and In
an ldsf Sa dsgres by SeM Zsa
because she has enfranchised every adult
woman we'll as every adult man and the
result of her first general election under the
new system justified the charge. Our coun-
tries in greater or less degree are adj
vaneing and the progress of many. relative
TO their condition only few years ago. is
most satisfactory.
by all the leading British organizations
of women which are free by their constitu-
ton to express an opinion the demand is
Woman's Liberal Federation. at the head OF
which is Lady Carlisle, comprising four hum
dred associations of liberal women. has
spoken out with no uncertain sound.
The Scottish Womens Liberal Fedora
tion has taken an equally strong attitude
the cause of won1ans suffrage and its de-
termination TO press the question forward
in Parliament when the registration bill
of the government is discussed. These two
great organizations OF liberal women have
about 100000 members and are rapidly grow
ing;
citation, numbering 10000 women, has also
declared for the acknowledgements of women
Another organization or a remarkabl Oh ar
acter, though for a temporary purpose, has
recently been formed. Ii is committee of
prominent positions in all the political par
ty and other ssociations-Liberal Co1serv-
alive. Liberal Cnionist. temperance and suf-
frage-united, with Mrs Fawcett as pres
committee. for the purpose OF obtaining the
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