The Portland daily press., 1897-10-25

vision came to me of one, lonely, untlrlng
and intrepid, who for nine years carried
that petition and presented 1t to forty
different nations. Her record is imperlsh-
able. and nothing can blot out its iustre
in the annals of the organized CRUSADE
You all know that 1 refer to our nrst
round-the-w world missionary, Mrs. mary
Clement Leavitt of Boston, Mass. VINO
went out, not knowing whittier she went'
and who changed the Worlds W. U. L.
U. from purpose and hope into a
| living reality.
Canada leads the world today in the
great prohibition struggle, and it leads
with cheering prospects of success. Inc
country is homogeneous; it has not that
great foreign population to contend with
by which we are almost fatally handl-
capped; its people are serious minded and
practical; its average standard OF moral
and religion is higher than ours and 1t
has put itself on record by popular
plebiscite. in which prohibition
triumphed
Miss Willard, after long review show
ing the great progress Of the WORK IN
$500 ~ pun 70 VI ullO WOI1QJ penSS -T
questions on which Lady Henry Somer-
sets position has recently been SO general
| ly discussed. Miss Willard says:
NO good can come of legallzlng tne
violation of two laws OF God-frst, thou
shalt not commit adultery; second, thou
shalt love thy neighbor as myself. What
ever degrades the women of India puts
| the stamp of deterioration upon all
women. To this it will be replied that
| they have degraded themselves, and the
means proposed are only to mitigate the
consequences, but it makes all the dlffer-
ence in the world to US whether their
degradation came about through any
forces that we have set in motion. BY
parity OF reasoning we may say the
saloon is here, and here it will remain;
let US do all We can to make 1t less
dangerous to the people But this Is not
the point; our attitude toward the saloon,
nrst, last, and all the time, is an attitude
OF utter hostility, and 1t makes all the
diHerenoe in the world to us whether its
presence among us is in spite of our pro-
test ana work, or whether we have
ance probable. Besides this, we must re-
member that although military Officers
may not think so. the moral contami'
| tlon OF the future husbands and faith
OF England Is q calamity immeasurabiy
greater than their physical deterioration.
The foundation and the keystone in the
! arch OF heathenism is the sacrifice of
woman.s purity on the. altar Of mans
sensuality, and if there is one Monstrous
| thing which above another re presents the
anti Christ, it is that fact. In Oriental
countries woman are helpless in the hands
! OF men Ms they have been through the
dark centuries, and the depths of degrad
! alton to which this utter dependence has
reduced them are beyond all power of
/ western comprehension.
| The English law in the Straits Set
tlelnents Is said to be for the protection
OF Chinese girls; none is allowed to reg
ulster as prostitutes except of their own
free will and with the consent of their
linethers. But women physicians among
| the missionaries testify that they have
| treated little Chinese girls, four and five
years OF age, who have been bought in
North China, and were taken south to
be raised for vile purposes, and who,
when they were made to register, would
never dare to say the woman with which
each W As living was not her mother
AS for her own free WILL none of these
| creatures ever had free will, or ever will
have. That is the protection that Eng
| land affords to Chinese girls. Tt is we'll
known that the moral tone of army life
is very low in Oriental countries, and to
suppose that men who would frame such
law as have just described would ever
subject their soldiers to an examination
because they had visited these women
seems to expert physicians whom 1 have
consu ted to be out of the question.
"Wo hold that there is but one standard
for men and women, and that they are
equally capable of living up to it. We
steadfastly believe that all law should set
forth the ideal, that it should beckon
men to the summit rather than provide
for them, under no matter what restric-
| tions. those indulgences in alcoholic
liquors, opium and social vice, whereby
they live upon q sensual plane. Our be-
loved conrade has hoped to reach the
same result by regulation that we pro-
pose to attain by prohibition, or not at
all. But while we differ as to methods.
we repudiate any personal attack or sever
ity of language toward our beloved com
rade, whose zeal has been that of a fam
ing herald, whose devotion is a household
word among us, and whose untiring work
in these long years, carried forward under
conditions more difficult than have sur
rounded any refor1ner that we have
known, bind her to our hearts with cords
that never can be broken. We admire and
trust and love her Lady Henry Somer-
set). We believe that when she sees that
her plan Is not adopted in the India
army, she will frankly admit that al
though she put it forward because she
too much Of the 'impracticability' attri-
buted to our own methods, and she will
stand with US, shoulder.to shoulder, heart
to heart, as she has done already SO long
and SO bravely."
THE YOUNG WOMAN'S BRANCH.
The report of the young woman S
branch was presented by Mrs. Frances j.
Barnes, of New York, as follows:
The Young Womans Branch of the
United States has, during the past two
years, made gain in membership. A
petition was sent to President Mckinley,
also to Mr.. Hanna as Chairman Of the
Commit tee of the Inaugural Bail, re-
questing that no intoxicating beverages
should be furnished on that occasion, A
petition was sent by the "Y'' Branch in
conference at Washington, d. c., to q
brewer at Maiden. Bridge, Mass, asking
to have the picture of young woman
Offering beer taken from his advertise
ments. This with similar petition to q
cigarette maker was published in tho
leading daily papers. No response was
received from the brewer, but some at
tention has been given to the Punishment
OF the female figure in advertisements