A POWERFUL PETITION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2350, 19 July 1886, Page 2

A POWERFUL PETITION.

The American -leaders of' the Worm's [Christian Temperance Union, theN.E, Methodist states, : are- setting up a petition to be addressed simultaneously to all the Governments of the world, oollee. tively and severally. Tho text of ttyj world-embracing appeal is as Mowi ; Honoured Rulers, Representa&jea, and Brqthors,- JB We, your petitioner*, although physically weak, are.6tr.ong of heart to lave onr homes, our native land, and the world's family of nations. ;We know that whin the brain of man: is clear, his heart is kind, his home is';happy, his ceuntrr prosperous, and the world grows friendly. But we know that' alcoholic stimulanli and opium, wliich craze and cloud tho brain, make misery.for man and all the world, and most o| all for us ancVonf children. Weknor|he!ostimulani«|jsii opiates are sold under legal guarantees, which make the' Governments partner* in the traffic, by accepting as revenue a portion ef its profits, and that they are fotcwl by treaty upon populations eithw ignorant or unwilling". We luv» bo power to prevent-'this great iniquity beneath whieh the whole world groans and staggers, but you ..have power to oleanßQ the flags of every clime from the stain of their complicity with this rumingled curse. /We: therefore come to you with the united ; voices' of .representative women frpnvavery civilized nation under the sun, beseeching you to strip away the safeguards *nd sanctions of th» law from the drink traffic &noaU opium trade, and to protect our ho™ by thi totdprohibitiond this twofold caret of civilization throughout all the territory over whioh your Government extends. Signatures to this .petition will be solicited in every civilized country nndor the sun, and the entire Hit attaohad to each petition will be 'presented to tuk Government.