The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-30
U. S. DRY WORKER TOURS
S. AFRICA FOR TEMPERANCE
Mrs. Knox Livingston, w. c. T.
u. Leader, Speaks to Great
Crowds in Capetown 49,
MANY ADDRESSES GIVEN
Meetings Profoundly Impress
Auditors With Importance
of Prohibition

Mrs. Knox Livingston who is tho
worlds superintendent OF the depart
ment OF suffrage OF the w. c. T. U.
and now lives in Providence. r. l. is,
now in the midst of triumphant
speaking tour of South Africa. .Ae-
cording to newspaper accounts and
tletters from Capetown, Mrs. Living
ston is having large audiences who
listen to her with tremendous interest
as she tells about Prohibition III the
United States.
Born in Glasgow of Scotch parents
she came to America at the age OF ten.
She is a direct descendant from thats
old Scotch African explorer, John,
Knox, and her husband is relative
OF David Livingston. AS girl she
was a great friend of Frances f. Will
lard, the founder of the w. c. T. U.
Mrs. Livingston has been telling
her audiences the truth about the COM
ing about of Prohibition in the United
States. She also has been giving a
history of the fight for Womens Suf-
frage in this country. She has denied
many of the erroneous reports which
get abroad telling the people what the
real situation is. She has had some
of the leading citizens of Capetown
and other places in South Africa at
her meetings and entertaining her.
Introducing her at one of her meet
ings was Brigadier Byron
who stated that he came to hear her
with open mind on the question of
Prohibition. After hearing Mrs.
Livingston, General Byron evidently
was won over to the side of Prohibi-
ton from a neutral position.
At her meeting in the City. Hall in
Capetown, the hall was packed, the at
tendance being 1880 by actual count.
She went out to Stellenbosch, the
hotbed of opposition and the student
center OF South Africa. She was the
guest of Lord and Lady de Villiers
and was variously occupied among the
students and attending great meet.
ing at night. Contrary to our fears,
of the drys, there was no opposition;
she captivated everybody including
number OF professors and other lead
ers and received an ovation from the
students.
Mrs. Livngston's tour is divided into
two classes. She began April II and
the schedule calls for her to leave
Capetown July IL for England and the
United States. She will have given,
more than half :, hundred addresses. g.,
One of her best services was in the
] Metropolitan Wesleyan Church in
South Africa which was packed to the
doors. A number of Parliamentary
and other distinguished persons were
present and Mrs. Livingston kept
them thrilled for three-quarters Of an
hour.
1t is the testimony of many who
have heard her that she speaks with
great effect for temperance reform in
SOutn africa ana LOT interest III Inc
program of the World League Against
Alcoholism in its campaign for world
Prohibition. The newspapers have
been giving each of her meetings from
column to two columns ard all that
is said is in praise of her.
The Cape Argus says of her Mrs.
Livingston forms, as it were. con-
Meeting link between the old and the
new generations OF womenwofkers.
She was associated with many of the
women pioneers of the past, among
them being Frances E. Willard and
Susan B. Anthony, while one of her
closest friends is Mrs. Chapman Gait,
whom very many will remember as
one of the most eloquent women
speakers we have ever had among u.s."