Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
TOUR OF THE WORLD
REPORT MADE TO INTERNA-
TIoNAL REFORM BUREAU.

A meeting OF the International Reform
Bureau was held yesterday afternoon at
o'clock In the office of the president, ex-
Senator Henry w. Blair. Following
prayer DR.. Wilbur G. Crafts. superntend-
ent. gave report on his tour OF the con-
tinents. which he has just completed. He
started in October. 1906, in Great Britain
and then attended the congress OF nations
in Brussels and Paris. The Brussels con-
gress, he said. was called to restrict the
liquor traffic in Africa. and the Paris con-
gress to suppress the international white
slave traffic. At the Brussels congress the
bureaus plea in favor of universal
treaty to suppress the sale of intoxicants
and opium to uncivilized races was re-
ceived, accompanied by cablegram in its
support from President Roosevelt. Dr.
Crafts presented a petition. he said, OF
10. 600 OG0 Americans in support of the
proposed treaty. The superintendent also
had interviews with ambassadors of Eng
land. Germany, France, Italy, Spain and
Sweden.
DR. Crafts stated that President Roose-
welt sent a cabegram to the British gov
eminent in support of the bureaus cru
SADIE. He said the tour was continued
through Canada and from there to the
United States and to Hawaii, where he
il egal local option and the curfew. The
tour was continued through Japan, where,
in Toxic. the leading missionaries and ma
tive Christians organized a bureau coun-
ell for eastern Asia, and Rev. c. s.. Eby
was appointed the bureaus missionary
secretary In Japan. Korea, China and
the Philippines.
The superintendent then went to China
he said, where he was presented to H. F..
Tany Shao VI and also Viceroy Yuan
Shihkai China's foremost statesman.
Addresses Before Missionaries.
After a second and third tour Of Japan
he proceeded to HongkoneS and to Canton
Missionaries OF all denominations were
addressed in every place visited, and a
public meeting was held. In which the ma
tive people were reached through an in
terpreter. Mrs. Crafts made many ad-
dresses In the afternoons to audiences Of
women and girls on the topic God Made
the World for Women, Too"
Continuing the tour to Manila, the
opium situation was investigated. and the
superintendent reported to the President
that it was the intention of the officials
to get extension of the three years
allowed by Congress for the beakng off
of the opium traffic. which end March i.
1868. In consequence of this letter the
President ordered the War Department to
cable that the administration would op-
pose any such extension, and that steps
should be taken to close up the business
absolutely, as Congress had decreed.
About this time a trip was made to
Portuguese Macao, formerly the rendez-
vous of pirates and which is now sup
ported by licensed gambling, where it was
found the chief industry of the place
was a large opium factory, importations
from which this bureau will attempt to
cut off by law to be introduced in
Congress.
Australia was the next point In the tour,
in whose chief cities important meetings
were held An Australian branch of the
bureau was organized. with councils at
Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne. On the
way back to the United States, he said,
a meeting was held in Suva, the capital
of the Fiji Islands, where he made an
address at large missionary meeting to
the native Christians. Meetings were held
in British Columbia and in the states OF
Washington and Oregon.
The superintendent stated that the bu-
reaus efforts the coming winter will be
chiefly directed to securing legislation in
Washington and in state legislatures that
may be in session.