The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-02
''MOTHER HEART"
Mated to MasterfUl Brain is Nee
esSaFy
To Guide the World, Says Lady
Somerset
IN AN ADDRESS TODAY
Before the British Women's
Temperance Union.
Looking Toward the Abolition
of the Saloon.

London. June 2-In her address ait
the annual council of the British No-
mans Temperance association today
Lady Henry Somerset said:
The platform we have laid down is,
surely, broad enough for any and an
1t seeks only to harmonic the home
relations and the world environments
of men and women. 1t clearly demon
straits that dominance OF the mother
heart mated to the maSterful brain by
which the COrnelias of Christianity ana
the Jeanne d'ArcS of the twentieth cen-
tury shall hold their own i'm equal
step with sons and brothers; less they
viii not accept, more they viii not de-
'.The first question asked viii natur-
ally be What good is expected TO
accomplish? First, it wiz give that
added sense OF power that comes or
numbers.
"A woman's International w. G. q.
U. such we are trying to develop VIII
in ten years have acquired by its help
full work q position that VIII make u
the strongest organized force in the
world against war
The British Medical association,
most of the poor law guardians
and many of the ecclesiastical bodies are
unanimous in considering that compul-
sorry legislation for the detection Of il-
ebriates is the only means of dealing
we hold as strongly as ever to the
belief that the grace OF God in the
heart is the most searching and radical
of all remedies.
"The public house as such must exist
for awhile, let us do all we can TO draw
the poisoned fangs wherever 1T is p1'Ae-
teal in order to pave the way for that
time when the people in general VIII
see that alcohol is destructive, and
not a constructive, agent in our social
life.
@Thre seems to be a likelihood Of our
obtaining one practical piece of legis-
lation in the Immediate future. and that
is Sunday closing must confess, how
ever. that while [ believe that sunday
closing in England would be of great
value, ] should prefer our friends to
limit their efforts in the Cltless AT amy
rate to close the public houses. save for
one or two hours on Sunday ] would
like this exception made because I be-
lieve otherwise we should have waat
would be distinctly class leslsliti4-i-
and so long as it is not practicable 10
close the club of the rich men, which SIS
| in effect his public house, do not think
that we have any right absolutely to
close the public house of the working
classes. except by their own vote
You and L, my comrades are work
ers in this cause, because we feel THAT
a new standard has been raised be-
cause we feel that the new woman VIII
demand from man the purity that he
asks of her. We are here because we
| believe that in this dawning century
the economic Independence of woman
viii be fact and not ncuOns lnat
woman will hold in her hand the bread
I
able to maintain herself until the day
/ comes when not from necessity but
| from choice she links her life with that
one whom she loves best when We
shall no more talk of whether man
| can make a good provision, but rather
whether two souls meet in that divine
/ sympathy and that mutual understand
| ing that alone makes marriage sacred
| 1t is because of these considerations
\ that we believe that there yet shall
\ pass away the figure that lis the most
U AL n-41 o.
| of shame which she now treads-the
woman who by reason of her own des-
/ titution and the depraVlty Of man is
/ ever weighed upon the weary limo
! of any slave.
I've have a good report from the de-
/ partrnent of organization. los branches
! have been organized in England and
! Wales. by means of which member
! shin of over 3 600 has this year been
added to the association. Scotland nas s,l
/ organized thrifty branches ana tne
/ Wales union thirty-siX; total additions,
| 134'