The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-07-18
TO DESTROY LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Petition Addressed to Governments o.
World Asks Prohibition Of Curses
Of All Nations.

from an address by Mrs. Frances r.
Parks, Corresponding Secretary Ma
tional W. C. T. u -.
The story Of the Polyglot petition 10
In part the story OF the Worlds Wo
Christian Temperance Union, Q
Of Christian women OF all
races and colors banded together TO
destroy the legalized liquor trafnc'
This petition. addressed to the gov
ernments Of the world, vas started
on its long journey In 1885. The con-
Guiding paragraph reads:
We, tyour 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.
10 GnumeThto IAo Aah8AoSS1
whose characters the beliefs Of women
have been nodded to action BY this
far reaching document would be TO
make o list of almost every tongue
that has survived the confusion Oh
Babel. There are columns Of Chinese
women's signatures that look Ike
houses that Jack built. There Is q
list Of Burmese signatures hat looks
like punches of tangled worms" Tbe
thousands upon thousands from the
spacy isle OF Ceylon are enough &c
make a shorthand writer shudder
The incomprehensible but liquid vow
els OF the Hawaiian Kanaka jostle tn
proud names of English ladies' OF mig
degree: the name Of the naughty Sc
nora Of Madrid makes the same plei
as her mark" OF the converted VIC
= man OF the Congo. There are spar
ish names from Mexico and the Sout
1 American republics. French from Mai
tinque, Dutch from Natal, and EN-
r fish from New Zealand. besides IN
great home petition from the create
nations. The total. counting men
y and women's signatures and attest
Y tons. aggregate seven and one-na
millions. The petition is mounted
y cloth and II the names were Write
. one under the other 1t would be mo-
Re than FIVE miles ling"
~ BY legislative enactment secure
3 through the Woman's Christian Tel
e. perance Union scientific temperan
n instruction is compulsory In all pu
e. lie schools of the United States, a.
N Is optional or compulsory In t
In schools Of Great Britain, Canat
~, France, Holland. Denmark, Belgiu
Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, u
X. many, Sweden, Finland, Austral
| New Zealand South Africa. Mexico a
to Japan.
,rt It is not strange that the sanity
In temperance should be seen when t
generations of our people have be
trained from the kindergarten TO U
~ versity in the belief that alcohol i
poison.
no II Is not strange that women. ou
emit ing for all time, have put great
hin phasis upon the spread OF the scie
the fc temperance instruction oelleV
lrt that there can be no permanent
hibition Of the sale Of alcoholic liq
which does not rest upon the FOUL
eve ton OF knowledge OF the true nat
his and effect OF alcohol.
OF Fifty countries are federated '
the Worlds Woman's Christian 1
be- perance Union and will send deleg'
are TO its ninth t%ricnnial convention t(
70 held In Brooklyn. y. Y, IN Octo
!" The Countess of Carlisle is presto