The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-06-22
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.

Lady Henry Somerset, president Of
the British Woman's Temperance asso-
c~iat,on, delivered an,address at the nine
teenth annual council OF that body in
London June II. The following is q
paragraph from her address:
I'm 1910, when Wendell Phillips and
William Lloyd Garrison, those flaming
heralds Of emancipation, came from
Boston, Mass, as delegates to a great
meeting IN London, Mrs. Lucretia Mott
Of Philadelphia, that famous Quaker
lady than whom a nobler type has never
been produced on either side Of the
water, came with them. She, too, had
been elected q delegate to the English
meeting, but our sturdy Britons refused
her credentials, and, because she was q
woman, she was relegated to the gallery
as a mere looker-on and the two brilliant
American men, whose names are now
immortal and whose work rendered the
continuance Of African slavery impossi-
BILE in the great republic, declined to sit
as delegates with men who, had shown
such injustice, and went themselves to
the gallery with their sister, whose
name-disavowed in that circle of re.
formers-has become a star Of the first
magnitude in the galaxy Of the great re-
formers.
"That was tifty-fve years ago., and to.
day we welcome a shipload Of American
women who are among the most thor
ougaly equipped and b~est-known N
reform workers OF the world; and the
British mind is 30 enlarged that more
than two hundred pulpits and mission
halls we're open to them yesterday in
conservative old London. And they
will speak to thronging audiences in the
largest auditoriums that the worlds
capital can furnish"
The two hundred women to whom
Lady Henry Somerset referred had
gathered with hosts of others in London
to attend the worlds w. G. T. U. conven-
ton now in session in that city. Among
them is Helen M. Barker, formerly of
South Dakota, who spoke last Sunday
in Spurgeon's church.
The delegates to this convention have
gathered from all the leading nations of
the world, and have met together to
consult with n another and to lay
plans how more effectually to build up
the home protection movement, and to
pull down the liquor system, which has
always been such a dangerous foe to the
best interests Of the home.
No American citizen has aver lived
who had a clearer vision, or who held up
a nobler standard of civic duty than the
late Philips Brooks, bishop Of Massa.
chusetts. He was a true New Highlander
in his ideas Of love and loyalty to the
nation which claimed his allegiance.
Not long before his death, in a public
speech, Bishop Brooks made use Of the
following language, which deserves to be
written in letters of living hight:
II plead with you for all that makes
strong citizens. First, clear convictions,
deep, careful, patient study OF the gov.
erEment under which we live, until you
not merely believe it is the best in all
the world, but know why you believe
And then a clear conscience, as clear In
private interests, as much ashamed of
public as of private sin, as ready to hate
and rebuke and vote down corruption in
the state, ID your own party, as you
would be in your own store or church;
as ready to bring the one as the other to
the judgment of the living God. And
then un~sclfshness; an earnest and OK
allied sense that you are for the land,
and not alone the land for you; some
thing Of the self-sacrifice which they
showed who died for US from 81 to '65.
And then activity; the readiness to
wake and watch and do a citizens work
untiringly, counting it as base not to
vote at al election, not to work against
a bad official or to work for a good enc,
as it would have been to shirk q battle
in the war. Such strong citizenship let
there be among us; such knightly doing
OF our duties on the field Of peace"