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TO DESTROY LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Petition Addressed TO Governments Of
World Asks Prohibition Of cufses
Of All Nations.

From an address by Mrs. Frances p.
Parks. Corresponding Secretary Ma
tional w. C. T. VI
The story OF the Polyglot petition 10
In part the story OF the Worlds Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union, a
multitude Of Christian women of all
races and colors banded together 10
destroy the legalized liquor traffic.
This petition, addressed to the gov
ernments OF the world was started
on Its long journey In 1885. The con-
GLIDING paragraph reads:
We, (your petitioners) come to
you with the united voices OF rep
resentative women Of every land,
beseeching you to raise the stand
ard OF the law to that of Chris
tian morals, to strip away the
safeguards and sanctions of the
state from the liquor traffic and
the opium trade, and to protect
our homes by the total prohibition
Of these curses OF civilization
throughout all the territory over
which your government extends.
ITO enumerate the languages In
whose characters the beliefs Of women
have been nodded to action by this
far reaching document would be to
make a list of almost every tongue
that has survived the confusion of
Babel There are columns OF Chinese
womens signatures that look like
houses that Jack built Theresis a
list of Burmese signatures that looks
like punches Of tangled worms" The
thousands upon thousands from the
spacy isle of Ceylon are enough to
make a shorthand writer shudder.
The incomprehensible but liquid VOW
els of the Hawaiian Kanaka jostle the
proud names Of English ladies Of high
degree; the name of the naughty Sc
nora Of Madrid makes the same plea
as her mark" of the converted wo,
man of the Congo. There are Span.
ish names from Mexico and the South
American republics. French from Mar
tinque, Dutch from Natal, and Eng
lish from New Zealand, besides the
great home petition from the greater
nations. The total, counting mems
and women's signatures and attesta
lions, aggregate seven and one-hali
millions. The petition Is mounted OF
cloth and II the names were writer
one under the other 1t would be more
than five miles ling"
BY legislative enactment secured
through the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union scientific temperance
instruction is compulsory in all pub
lie schools of the United States, anC
is optional or compulsory In the
schools of Great Britain, Canada
France, Holland, Denmark, Belgium
Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Ger
many, Sweden, Finland, Australia
New Zealand South Africa, Mexico ant
Japan.
1t is not strange that the sanity o
temperance should be seen when tw'
generations of our people have beef
trained from the kindergarten to uni
versity in the belief that alcohol is
poison.
1t p not strange that women, build
ing for all time, have put great en-
phasis upon the spread of the scient
fc temperance instruction, believing
that there can be no permanent pre-
hibition of the sale of alcoholic liquo
which does not rest upon the founds
ton of knowledge of the true natur
and effect of alcohol
Fifty countries are federated wit
the Worlds Woman's Christian Ten
perance Union and will send delegate
to its ninth triennial convention to b
held in Brooklyn, n. Y, in Octobe
The Countess Of Carlisle Is presiden