The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-15
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
HUNGARIAN woMEN's APPEAL,


The remarkable appeal from the
Hungarian women, women who repre-
sent the finest and best of the exclu-
sive Hungarian aristocracy, adds an
other document to the world protest
against alcohol The appeal reads as
follows:
"To the Women of Hungary"
1--WE wish to put heart and life in
to the words with which we here adj
dress you. We wish that those who
read them may have souls to under
stand the greatness of the end which
we pursue. We would chat we might
press to our hearts the mothers, the
betrothed, the children, in order to
convince them that our cry comes
with love from the depths of our
being Magyar women! Realize the
responsibility which the fight against
alcohol imposes on you, on your fami-
lies and on society,"
Remember the tears which secret
ly redden your eyes and burden your
hearts when you think of father,
husband, a son, fiance fallen to
drink. This man holds you to him
self; his fate is bound to yours.
''It is not the men chiefly who suf-
fer from drink. 1t is the souls and
strength of the women which are
worn down with this sorrow. Do you
not realize that alcohol engulfs not
only the country and the nation, but
all your happy, woman1y hopes?
Come to our help, Hungarian
women! Come from all parts of the
land-poor and rich, happy and I'M
happy, women of station and of hum
bic position, you whom alcohol has
made to weep, you who know and feel
your obligations to religion, to God,
to country and to humanity yet un-
born.
1--WE wish to uplift the coming
generations which, not knowing
alcohol, will belong to a morally pur-
er and more warm-hearted world.
eve seek the aid of all for this
task. We trust that there may not
be single Hungarian woman who
will not hearken to us. None shall be
so humble in our eyes that we will
not be grateful to see them join us:
none too high to have a right to
look down on the work to which we
invite you.
1--WE affectionately beg you, suggest
everywhere the idea of fighting alco-
hol. Make sentiment for it in high
and low circles, for the odor of alco-
hol is found in both-in drawing
room and in cottage. Our social or
ganism is sick. Our physical moral
and economic forces are on the way
to destruction
Above all, give no alcohol to your
children and unseIfshly aid the hus-
bands of other women the children
of other mothers, the betrothed of
other girls.
I'VE demand of you, with deepest
affection, women and pure-souled
maidens, stand guard at the family
door. Do not let quibbling alcohol
philosophy, so ready to excuse and
tolerate the most evil things, enter.
Join yourselves in the Anti-alcohoT
Union. This will give you the right
never to offer alcohol at your own
board.
1--WE love to think, noble women,
beloved daughters of Hungary, who
have so well understood the words of
our hearts dictate, that we can, with
your aid, give more poetry to life and
permit society to develop in a truly
harmonious way.
1--WE implore you; we appeal to you;
we wait on you, tender mothers,
troubled wives, betrothed maidens!
Stephanie, Countess Elemer Lonvay,
Princess Royal Of Belgium, the Mar
qufse Pallavicini, nee Countess Maj
1ath, the Countess Csaky, the Coun-
tess Albert Apponyi, Princess Clovis
de Hohenlohe, nee Countess de Mai
Iath, the Countess Bissengen, the
Baroness Balintftt, the Countess Dom
Unique Teleki, the Countess Alexan-
DIRE Teleki, Etelka Kamenytzky, presf-
dent of the Women's Antf-alcohol
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