The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-16

England; Agnes Slack, honorable sec
rotary, England; Anna A. Gordon, hon
orable secretary, America; Mary San
derson, treasurer, Canada.
Miss Willard describes the Chinese
WOmen's signatures as columns that
look like houses that Jack built
the Burmese signatures resembling
punches Of tangled worms" Thou
sands upon thousands from the spicy
Islands Of CeylOn are enough to make
shorthand man shudder The in
comprehensive but liquid novels Of
the Hawaiian Kanaka jostle the proud
names Of English ladies Of high degree.
The Spanish Of naughty senoras of
Madrid make the same plea as the
her mark of the converted women Of
the Congo. There are Spanish names
from Mexico and the South American
republics, French from Martinique,
Dutch from Natal and English from
New Zealand. The total. counting
mems and Women's signatures. in
0orsements and attestations, aggregate
100000 from forty-nine different cOun-
tries. The greatest number has been
Great Britain follows with $50, 600.
Canada has $1,000. the others follow
according to position, thus. Burma.
Ceylon, Australia, Denmark, China. In
ola and Mexico. AS fast as the sig
natures were received they were
mounted on webs of muslin, one-haIf
yard wide, bound on one edge with
red, and the other with blue ribbon
thus combining the patriotic colors Of
all nations
PRESENTED TO MIR. CLEVELAND
On the afternoon of Feb. 49, 1895 III.
general officers of the worlds and no.
Clo1al w. Z. L. U. presented the great
petltlon to Grover Cleveland, president
OF the United States of America. Miss
,W4Hard addressed the president brief
~ TIaNIhs the presentations: Mrs Clara
- norman, recording secretary. RAD
uhe text, and the president made a
courteous and noncommittaI reply in
pehaIf of the government.
In the fall OF 1925 the petition WAS
received by Queen Victoria at BaImoraJ
IL mad been prepared by Lady Somerset
at great expense in two large volumes.
contalnlns the signatures of all her
InaJesty's subjects, PHOTOGRAPHED in
miniature. These volumes were hound
IN olue morocco, embossed with the
monogram Of the British WOnan'a
temperance association and clasDad
With heavy gold clasps. They hor,
across the face an inlaid strip of wbitr
leather, which denotes the sign of th-
wh4le rlbpon movement. On this rib
Don is worked in gold the motto. For
COO and Home and Every Land" Ar
Illuminated address sets forth the pur-
port of the petition. There was Soma
doubt as to whether the queen womb
receive such a petition, but the royal
assent was given and her majesty com,
nanded that her assent and reception
or the petition should be published IA,
and wide. The dowager Countess or
Erroll, total abstainer and member Of
the b. w. 7. A, by her personal adj
Vocacy, opened the way for the royal
reception Of the petition. 1t was the.
purpose Of Miss Willard and Lady
Henry Somerset to present the petition
to the rulers of other nations durins
the years Of 1900 and 1901, This has
been postponed unavOidably from year
to year.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union claim that in making this peti,
ton they are entirely constitutional
inasmuch as the right to sign has moi
been denied or abridged on account of
race, color or previous condition of
servitUde." This may be the reason
why signatures have been secured OF
men reformed, of Catholic, Protestant
and Pagan
In May, 1898, Mrs. L. w. Stevens.
acting president, introduced the petit.
ton to the Canadian government
through Sir Wilfred Laurier
II is more than twelve years sinca
the petition was written. Miss Willard
once said If she had it to rewrite sha
should surely include the enfranchise-
ment of women among the requests II
specifies.