The Monitor-register., 1897-11-26
THE MONITORREGsTER WOoDsTowN MORNING. NOyENB

De great force in the community whera
she lives, but what little power she has
is used to abolish, not to regulate the
saloon, the tobacco shop, the gambling
house, the haunt of infamy. This has
oeen the temperance woman's wav of
doing, from the day the first Crusader
took her first step from the church altar
to the saloon bar. It is her method now.
and 1t will be her method until The fire
goes out in the last distillerv and
brewery, in the last tobacco factory, and
dust aud ashes are all that remain of the
gamblers habitation of cruelty and the
procurer's den of vice.
THE PRESS.
Each year the press becomes a greater
power; more people read and public
topics are more generally discussed. The
reading force of the country is practically
twice as large as it was when the Crus ade
began; indeed, it is quite possible that
the eagerness of many an an xious woman
to know what that self same Crusade
twas doing, may have been her first lesson
n newspaper reading. What we now
need to do. first sugges ted at our
very first Convention, is to put a pre-
EN- ption claim upon the press to spread
the temperance propaganda.
LADY HENRY SOMERSET,
Now want to make an explanation.
Lady Henry Somerset was elected in
Toronto by no secret committee. The
Worlds W. G. T. U. is constructed lust
as the National Council and the Inter-
national Council, by the coming together
of an executive committee in which the
different countries have their due proper
tion of representatives. Every genera |
officer and every one ele cted at Toronto
was elected in the same way, and it has
been the custom since we adopted our
constitution, which we did in Boston in
1891. No innovation was made for the
sake of Lady Henry Somerset; there is
not one iota of truth in that statement.
1t may be that some of the ladies felt
that they would like hand in it, either
for or against. l think she would have
been handsomely reelected in open con-
vention, not that we are of her miod, tor
we are just tie opposite. (Applause }
But old Lord Salisbury, the man who
would not listen to all England when it
wanted him to help the Armenians; who
would not listen to all England, when it
wanted him to help the Greek; he and his
government, with a majority of 150 in the
House of Commons, had it settlad to
reintroduce modification of the G. D.
Acts. That was perfectly we'll known,
and was as certain to happen as the
certainty that two and two make four.
Lady Henry knowing that, endeavored to
put into that system two things that she
thought would bring about some amelior.
alton and some improvement. am
sorry she did it, You touch pitch and
you are defiled. (Applause,) She
thought by having the women examined
by woman physicians, it would be less
barbarous. We would not lift an eyelasb
about their being examined at all; we
are dead against it. She thought that by
having every single man that approached
the quarter where these women were,
examined and registered, that would keep
the decent ones away. Suppose every
man in this city that is known to resort
to houses that are not namable even here,
knew that he was to be registered, do you
not think there would be q thinning out
in their going? That was the position
taken by Lady Henry Somerset. She is
as devoted to the cause Of purity as any
woman here; she will prove it to youyet,
as she has in the past. DR.. Bushnell and
Mrs. Andrew had not woman to stand
by them and help them and go with them
and preside at their meetings like Lady
Henry Somerset. When Sir Charles
Dixie foisted himself on the voters iu s
certain bailiwick in England, Lady
Henry, the only person that dared to do
it, went over and stood before the voters.
and they would not let her speak, and
she stood there for quarter of an hour
while they were hurling opithets at her
and making perfect Babel around her,
and then she gently and sadly bowed and
retired, and when she took her carriage
they threw beer mugs and other missiles
at her and cursed her and insulted her,
and she was in absolute danger, as l have
been told by those who were present at
the scene.
Lady Henry Somerset has reformed
more women than any other person that
know, taking them out of the police
courts and workhouses and everywhere,
and she will be where we are, as she
was, | firmly believe, some day. We will
accomplish no good by forcing her out
of the society, but by showing something
of that gentleness, as dear Clara Hoffman
said, which we exert toward high.license
pastors whom we do not put down from
their pulpits. God bless the dear heart,
now that she is i'll and sorrowful. (Amen
by some of the members.) I know this
Convention will send her the kindest
sisterly messages, but she will also know,
aud knows it now, that we are still, as
ever. uncompromisingly against every
form of regulation of SOCIAL vice.
(Applause)
We arefor prohibition always: l think
that bitter -denunciation of any Co o-worker
implies condition of heart that is not
sweet toward God. l think it is better
10 err with too much kindness to the
individual than too little, and put in
your efforts to bring that one to where
you want him or her to be. And this
Convention does not speak harsh words
to any human being, for it has always
been the policy of the W.. @. T. o.. not
to speak with severe epithets Of the
brewer or distiller or saloon-keeper,
because it would not do particle of
good, An epithet is the cheapest kind of
a thing that can be flung from human
lips.
On motion of Mrs. Stevenson the
address was adopted by rising vote 'of
THANKS and the recommendations referred
to the executive committee, the Conven
tion giving expression to its apprecia
tion and admiration of the deliverance
and the deliverer by prolonged applause.
The W. G. T. U. of America were
evidently of the same Esind as Mrs.
Hughes, of England, who rose TO say
that there was ''no other woman in the
world like Frances Willard"
Think on these things. RUTH.
11-23.'97.
Mrs. Helen L. Bullock, National Leo
turer, begins her work in Salem county
Dec. 9th. No one should fail to hear this
gifted speaker in the interest of temper
ance. She has been speaking in Burling-
ton county for two weeks with good re.
suits, and goes from there to umberland
county for week. She speaks in the M.
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