The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-08-10

means TO support the Government In
their effort to secure the passing of
the bill. This resolution was read
lily seconded.
Sir Wilfred Lawson continued
As understand it the petition goes
against both alcohol and opium, and
| agree with it because | do not be
lieve that either Of them are good to
be consumed in a common way by
the people. We say that no citizen
Of free country should be allowed
to make his living by promoting the
misery, vice and wretchedness Of his
4 fellow men That is our principle,
and tonight | stand before You with
more pleasure than perhaps | ever
stood before any audience, because
within the last month or two we
have had this principle endorsed es-
pecially by the best of the working
classes | rejoice and | know well
that all these good women rejoice,
they have come from distant shores
to sympathize with us, as we sympa.
thize with them, for what they gain
in this fight we gain and what we
gain they gain. Here host of little
ragged slum children made their APP
pearance They stood in the shadow
their pitiful rags hidden by the dim
light. Some one calls out Turn on
more light" As in answer to this
the little waits begin to sing sadly
and drearily There is a Shadow on
the Home" The plaintive strains
had not died away when suddenly
across the hall comes a glad chorus
and band of children C. 1 all in
white, move forward singing, 1--WE
are coming TO the rescue" Along
the aisle they come the white ribbon
they lift high, and while the waits
on the platform sing their hopeless
song the white ribbon children flock
upward and around them, and the
light blazing down on the platform
shows that the children of night
have been led from darkness by the
white robed band of hope,
1t is the universal testimony that
the next speaker introduced is one
of the finest (lady) speakers that
has ever visited England.
Mrs. Clara c. Hoffman, National
w c. I. U. Secretary of the United
States. She said.
I'VE are glad we came-we could
say with the old poet I'VE would like
to stay in such place as this and
sing our souls away to everlasting
bliss I'm told that never before
was there a woman's meeting in this
stupendous building, but | want to
say there will be another woman's
meeting here the women are in the
field-You have heard them, and
seen them and when we come again.
land we are coming,) you will need
an addition to the Royal Albert Hall.
You ask why we are here2 The an
swer has been given from this plat
form. We are here because of the
dear little children that are hungry,
that are kicked and cursed, Oh men
of England, men of America, men of
the world when will you put down
the curse Of alcohol, opium and mar
cotics2 We women are coming to
the rescue and never will we cease
to appeal and protest until you have
heard us. On Sunday of the Con
yention the White Ribboners were in
vited to Westminster Abbey to at.
tend evening service. The Bishop
of Dover preached an earnest sermon
in which he advocated total abst
hence and strong legal measures
against the liquor traffic He refer
red warmly to the great convention
of temperance women in London dur
ing the week. Never before in the
history of the old Abbey has service
been witnessed wherein the organic
ed undenominational work of women
has been recognized.
On June Doth the Lord Mayor and
Lady Mayoress gave a reception to
the delegates. Lady Henry returned
thanks in appropriate words she
said: my Lord Mayor and the
Lady. Mayoress, we recognize the ia
yor that you have done us in receiv-
ing the delegates of the World s
Women's Christian Temperance I'm
ion. They have come from all the
principal colonies of the British EN-
pire, from the great land of Anglo
Saxon speaking people across the
sea, and from many of the Continen
tai nations. We have welcomed them
warmly and as British women we
greatly appreciate the courtesy shown
them by the Chief Magistrate of the
chief city of the world. The tradi-
tion of the Mansion House and of
its host and hostess are amply full
filled in the action of this day, which
will be remembered and described
by women good and true from every
zone, so that the influence extending
from your presence and those who
surround you in this hour as guests,
and from this famous historical man
sion will raidiate to the uttermost
parts of the earth. For this and
many other reasons / thank you
again on behalf of the British WON
ems Temperance Association of this
island, for your kind consideration
towards their guests, and / now have
the pleasure of introducing Miss
Frances E. Willard of the United
States, President of the World
Women's Christian Temperance I'm
ion who will add thanks. Miss Will
lard said: my Lord Mayor and
Lady Mayoress, our thanks as dele
gates from twenty one different ma
tionalities have already been express
ed A generous aud considerate &C
tion is its own reward; it blesses
him who gives and him who take 8,
and read in your faces the pleasure
that it. gives you to afford so much
enjoy ment to us to whom your vel
come makes England home, we rep
resent half million of women who
wear the white ribbon, the emblem
of purity and peace, the motto Of
our society is For God and Home
and very land. Your good words
and good will are garnered in our
hearts forever and will be spoken OF
in terms of appreciation at a long
distance from this time and place
We pray Gods blessing on you our
honored friends, and / do not say
this as a matter of form but because
in our hearts it will be true The
Lord Mayor of London has been a
central figure doubtless, in the child
ish fancy of every woman present as