The record-union., 1897-10-24

tion of forming arbitration treaties with
foreign nations. and to submit propos-
ais to that end France is moving
in the same direction, and the recent
declarations of the Car Of Russia and
the Emperor of Germany are unmis-
takably in favor of pacific measures,
while the treaty between Turkey and
Greece recently promulgated by the
Powers is a peace triumph, even though
it registers the subserviency of Chris
tan nations to the great moslem hier-
archy.
Norway has called in the help of
women in its efforts to solve the drink
problem, all above % years of age hav-
ing been made voters on the temperance
question, and by the united efforts of
temperance men and women, the Got
tenberg system will disappear, and pro-
hibition will be the law of Norway.
Miss Wizards address covered in its
comprehensive scope reference TO the
Queens jubilee; the India famine; the
aid given the Armenians through the
efforts Of the w. c. 7. u, the national
society having forwarded $1,000; the
splendid gains in membership and
work in all the large auxiliaries; the
urgent calls that have come from Bur
nah, India, China, Ceylon, South
America, Mexico and other countries
for resident white ribbon missionaries
and lecturers: the need for inehriate
industrial homes; food reform; substi-
tutes for saloons; +he plans of the
Booth-Tuckers for relieving the con-
a;f RlnCin0
important recommendations for the
extension of the work and appreclatlVe
tributes to General Neal Dow ana oth-
er workers who have died since the
convention met in London two years
ago.
Regarding the purity question, Miss
Willard said: mo good can come
of legalizing the violations OF two laws
! of God; first, Thou shalt not commit
adultery; second, Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself.'
Whatever degrades the women OF
India puts the stamp of deterioration
upon all women. To this it will be re-
piled that they have degraded them
| selves. The means proposed are only
to mitigate the consequences, but What
makes all the difference in the world
to us. is whether their degradation
came 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 it less dangerous to the
people.
But this is not the point; our attl-
| tude to the saloon, first, last and all
| the time, is an attitude of utter hostil-
! ity, and it makes all the difference in
| the world to us whether it's presence
| among us is in spite of our protest and
work, or whether we have taken meas
ures that render it's continuance prob
able.
The foundation and the keystone in
| the arch of heathenism," continued
| Miss Willard, sis the sacrifice of wo-
mans purity on the altar of man S
sensuality, and if there is one mon
| strous thing which above another rep
resents the anti Christ, it is that fact.
| In Oriental countries women are as
| helpless in the hands of men as they
have been through too many dark cen
| turies, and the depths of degradation
to which this utter dependence has re-
duced them are beyond all power of
| Western comprehension.
''The English law in the Straits Set
| Elements is said to be for the protec-
tion of Chinese girls None are allow
| ed to register as prostitutes except Of
| their Cwn free WILL, and with the con-
! sent of their Mothers But women