Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-20
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w. C. r. u. COLUMN.
An Appeal to the Churches.

IHc ioiiUWiEg ieItcF mas DSp0 addressed
by Frances Il. Willard to Christian minis
tiers of all denominations:
Private letters which / have myself
seen, from number Of American resi-;
dents in Turkey. of unimpe achable charac-
ter, have fnlly confirmed the worst reports
of the recent massacre of Armenian Chris
tiaus by the Turks and Kurds. This is
only the climax OF a systematic course
OF Notwithstanding oppression and perse-
cution extending over many years. I'M 5ssssSsS
1t is only under the pressure of aroused
public opinion that governments take
action. After the Bulgarian massacres
four hundred public meetings of protest
were held in England would therefore
earnestly urge that every Christian minis
ter devote one Sunday evening meeting
TO consideration of the situation ofthe
armenian Christians in Turkey, and that
the meeting pass resolutions similar in
their general tenor to those lately adopted
by the Evangelical Alliance, urging our
government to use it's utmost influence
with the European powers to make a rep
clifton OF such horrors impossible, and
urging it also to take firm stand in be-
half OF the endangered lives, liberty and
property of American citizens in Turkey.
Any minister willing to preach on the
subject can be supplied with documents
and data, free of charge, by addressing
Mrs. Isabel G. BarroWs, al Franklin
street, Boston, Mass.
Frances +. Willard. (,
State and local W. C. Z. u. papers
please copy.
Clippings.
Just do thing and don t talk about it.
This is the great secret of success in all
enterprises Talk means discussion: dis
cussion means irritation; irritation means
opposition; and opposition means hind
rance always, whether you are right or
wrong Sarah Grand.
Tho seventy third birthday of Gen.
Ulysses $. Grant was observed very gen
orally in the United States, April ~. TN
doubleday, the largest celebration was in
Chicago Mrs. Grant, her daughter, Mrs
| Sartoris, and her granddaughter We're
present at the auditorium exercises Satur-
day evening, and received an ovation as
they stepped into their flag draped box
| The leading orator of the occasion, Gen.
| O. . Howard made special point of
denying tho current stories as to Grants
use of liquors He denounced them as Ii
| belously untrue, and said: lie was free
from every appearance of drinking during
the war. His clear eye and natural com
plexion afforded unmiStakable evidence
against the prevailing falsehoods to which
| have referred" Coming so unreservedly
from such pronounced total abstainer
Us General Howard, this denial should
have great weight with temperance peo-
plc.-Union Signal
Miss Susan b Anthony was in Chicago
last week and naturally did not escape
reporters interview. When asked as to
when the "new woman" was coming. she
quickly replied, cit all depends on what
you mean by the term new woman The
term has become q cant phrase, carrying
almost as much opprobrium as the term
woman's rights woman used to imply.
The new woman, as the phrase goes,
may mean loud, mannish woman affect
ing tho boisterous conduct of men, with
none of the saving graces Of her own sex.
If that be tho new woman do not wei
come her coming. If by the new woman
is meant woman earnest, thoughtful,
lofty of purpose, self-roliart and equally
well educated with man, why, then, she
mas cOillc w u ItNO SOt utI III cuE IoliltSi
where she stands side by side with her
husband, welcoming his friends on the
common ground of intellectual equality.
joining in their discussions-a college
bred woman who can do something more
than pour tea when her husband enter
tains his friends. We have got the new
woman in everything except the counting
of her vote ut the ballot box. And that
is coming. It's coming sooner than most
people think. Union Signal.