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| Our Badge: A knot Of white ribbon,
| Our Aims: Home protection, prohibition Of
the liquor traffic, equal suffrage, one standard
OF morals, and the bringing about Of better
| public sentiment .,-. 't q
| Mrs. EFFIE A. BURGAN, President,
Mrs. JENNIE WooDcocK, Secretary,
| MRS. ADA FARNHAA, Treasurer.
| 'This Is the land where every man is free,
| This is the glorious land Of liberty ~
| Thousands Of voices these proud words pro-
| claim, 49, ..5. -@rl .5E
Ten thousand more take up the glad refrain.
Loud sounding phrases tell Of equal rights"
| And oratOry scars to mountain heights 4.
| 10 tell our grandeur both to grave and gay,
And swell the boastful glory of the day =
"A. V. G.. "
But | want to tell you of what
they are doing across the sea.
The Worlds Temperance con
gress met in London June 16.
The archbishop of Canterbury pre-
siding. Several Americans were
given prominent places on the
programme. Our own national
president, Mrs. M. N. Stevens,
with Miss Annie Gerden, vice
president also Mrs. Mary Hunt
who spoke on scientific temperance
instruction. Mrs. Barney and
Mrs. Frances Barnes, national
president of the Y. work. Mrs.
Katherine L. Stevenson, president
of Massachusetts w. G.. T. i.
Miss Clara Parish, round the world
missionary, and DR.. Mary Wood
Allen and her daughter.
I am sure it will cheer the hearts
of our women to know that the
women of the w. G.. T. u. are so
highly esteemed.
The archbishop Of Canterbury
gave an address. [ quote from
the Neac Eo1ce paragraph:
1T is undeniable not only that
the progress of the cause has been
conspicuous in the gradual increase
in the number of it's supporters,
but that, more than that, we have
successfully fought with every
, separate obstacle which has met
! us in the way, and in no case can
it be said that the arguments that
were once flung in our faces with
the confident belief that we should
be ridiculed out of our purposes
have succeeded. It is now clear
, that such arguments cannot be
used any longer, and that where
I they are used they admit of an I'M
mediate and crushing answer.
There is one foe which it seems to
me we are dealing with more
i. slowly than with any other, and
that is the Indifference of men tc
one another's welfare. It is terri
BILE to me to think that whilst we
have all this overpowering evi
l dence of the mischief done by the
present consumption of intoxicat-
ing liquors, there are such a very
large proportion of our fellow
: creatures who quietly put the
: question by and assume that it is
not their business to have any
thing to say or to do with it"
If it is our business to sing anc
boast of freedom it surely is also
our business to do all in our power
to make the land free from al
that can detile it in any way.
, l don't imagine the soldiers ii
the southern prisons sang very
Justify while they were starving
there. And the women people Of
America must feel somewhat the
same, while they bear children tc
go out into such a wicked worlc
! and have no legal right to protect
them. May God hasten the day
when we can all sing the new sone
of victory.
EFF1E A. BURGAN.