The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-08

INDIA.
HANEY WILL HAVE NO OFFICE.
Declares He Is Not Candidate
Elder Stewart Stirred Up-Min-
aeapOlis Matters.

DR.. Kate Bushnell and Mrs Eliza
beth Wheeler Andrews, of Chicago,
who under the auspices of the w. C.
t. U. travelled throughout the Orient
and made study of social conditions
as presented in India, China and other
countries, spoke twice in this city yes
terday before attentive audiences; in
the afternoon at o'clock Mt Hennepin
Avenue NJ. E. church, and in The even
ing at First Methodist church. These
ladies Travelled a distance Of 100000
miles and are able to detail with great
interest what they have witnessed.
Their attention was devoted especially
to the condition Of women, and to the
effects Of the opium habit.
In India the laws are very severe
against a woman Of supposed impure
character she being at once Obliged to
go and live in certain houses. The law
was intended to separate the bad from
the good, but it's result has been to
make a great many women outcasts
from society. The system is fostered
by the English officials and officers.
Inc system is perverted by having
girl or pure character arrested on a
charge of immortality upon the sugges
tlon OF these officers when she is fore
ed into the houses. These ladies. unon
returning to Europe, made their re-
port before a committee of the Eng
Hsh parliament, and it is expected that
action will be taken in the matter by
the English government. Mrs. An
dreWs, who spoke on this particular
topic, gave numerous illustrations Of
evils Vrh
women were subject, and she believed
the civilized countries of the world
should take action to abolish these
evils. She said the system of forcing
girls into these houses was in vogue in
some cities of this country, and she
had heard of an effort being made in
Minneapolis TO license these places, and
requiring all girls of bad character TO
live in them.
DIR. Bushnell spoke along a similar
me, giving her views on whether it
was worse for girls than for men to he
guilty of immortality. She then spoke
of the opium traffic in its effects upon
China, stating that the opium habit
is worse than the drink habit in its
tendency toward RIGHTEOUSNESS. The
English nation, upon getting control of
India, found the cultivation of the
dustry increased, they were obliged to
find a market for the opium. China a.
first refused to allow it to be sold but
after two wars with England she was
obliged to admit opium. as an article Of
commerce. 1t has rapidly spread until
it is the curse Of every large city Of
China. Many a father has sold his
daughters and wife into a life of in,
fanny on account of his inOrdinate de-
sire for opium. In Hong Kong a large
part of the population live in boats,
and many Of these boats are kept for
girls who have been sold by their faith
ers. Along the Pacific coast OF Amer
lea, the opium habit is as bad as In
China, and today the habit is being
carried into nearly every large city of
America. All this inures to the profit
of England.
From the talk of these women it was
easy to gather that the condition of
women in the countries of the Orient
is little better than that of a chattel,
and that under the slow processes Of
advancement, little can be expected for
the near future.