Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-10-27
Published By request.
A State Union.
EFFECTIVE WORK BEING DONE BY THE WOMEN
IN THE CAUSE OF TEMPERANCE-BUsI-
NESS IN THE AFTERNOON AND
A GRAND MEETING IN
THE EVENING.


Temperance Union for the State of Della
ware met in the lecture room of Grace
Church, Wilmington. Representatives were
present from the unions of Dover and
Middletown, and number of ladies inter
ested in the work without being connected
with any union were also present from va
rious points in the State. There are only
three local unions in the State, one in Will
mington, one in Middletown, and one in
Dover, but it is believed the establishment
of a State Union will increase the number
of local organizations. TO this end State
convention was called and Mrs. Francis E.
Willard, president Of the National w. g.
T. u, came to Delaware to lend her power
full influence in the formation of State
Union.
The convention was called to order at 8
o'clock by Miss Annie Semple, President of
the Wilmington Union, who announced a
hymn and read a selection from scripture.
Mrs. Smith, of Philadelphia, then offered
prayer and stated the object of the meet
ing, adding words Of encouragement cal
culated to urge the Delaware women for.
word in the work.
Mrs. G. w. Miller delivered the address
of welcome and it was responded to by
Mrs. Willard in strain Of eloquence and
imprsssiveness that only those who have
heard her can appreciate. She then took
the chair and conducted the work of
organizing the convention, Miss Rowland,
of this city, acting as secretary.
Two committees were appointed, one on
resolutions and the other on a plan of
work. The Resolutions Committee con-
sists Of Mrs. Martindale, Smyrna, Chair
man; Mrs. A. Cox, Middletown; Mrs. j
B. Quigg, Milford; Miss Smith, Dover ;
Mrs. Collins, Christiana; Mrs. Graham,
Greenville; Mrs. Robertson, Newark; Mrs.
E. B. Stevens, Wilmington.
Committee on Plan Of Work-Mrs. G..
w. Miller, of Wilmington, Chairman; Mrs.
f. Pennington, Middletown; Mrs, Shilling,
Christiana; Mrs. Hutching, Odessa; Miss
White, Greenville; Mrs. Price, Middletown
Mrs. John ellis and Miss Anne Semple,
| Wilmington.
| A committee TO enroll the names of those
who wished to join was appointed and
while it was at work the mass convention
considered and adopted a constitution.
This provides that the officers of the State
Union shall consist of president, a vice
president for each county, a recording sec
rotary, a corresponding secretary and a
treasurer. The vice presidents act as pres
idents or conductors of the work in their
respective counties, and the other officers
perform the duties usually pertaining to
that Office. In the national conventions
each State Union is represented by its
president, secretary, treasurer and one
general delegate.
In former national conventions each
State was allowed one representative fol-
each Congressional district, but that system
has been found to be unjust, and PROPOSE
ton is now before the national convention
that representation be regulated according
to membership, giving one delegate to 500
members of the unions of the States; thi
proposition will be considered at the mex
national convention at Boston. Each mem
her of State union pays so cents year
J Is of this goes to the State union, and five
} from the State to the national union, thi
} money being used to defray current ex
penses.
The constitution having been adopted
the following Committee on Permanen
Organizations was appointed: Mrs. Alex
Chandler of this city, chairman; Mrs
: Albert Pennington, Mrs. w. D. DOVE, Mrs
c. w. Rowland, Mrs. Edward Moore, Mrs
T. i. Tom kinson, Mrs. G. w. Bush ant
, Miss Anne Semple, all of this city.
The secretary read off the members O
the convention, which was then duly form
ed into regular convention of delegate
, instead of mass convention.
The convention then adjourded until 1
. o'clock Saturday morning, when all thes
committees reported and the convention
3 was ready for regular and systematic work
and the State Union established.
THE TEMPERANCE MEETING.
At 1880 o'clock in the evening, one @
the largest and most effective temperate
l meetings that was ever held in Wilmington
e was conducted in the First Presbyterian
| Church under the auspices of the net
Q State Union. The church was handsomel
decorated for the occasion and was CROWDS
t to its full capacity. Rev. +. B. DuVa
pastor, performed the part of host and in
a troduced Mrs. Willard, after making
# brief address of welcome and commends
: ton. In introducing her he said it CAV
him profound pleasure in presenting ION
;, who needs no introduction to any audienc
r in the United State of America one VIII
t has been received with greatest honor
: our General Assembly-Mrs. Frances /
Willard.
Mrs. Willard went right into the middl
of things" saying that this year for th
J. first time the German Parliament hs
= brought forth a measure to lay a tax o
I beer, with the distinct declaration that
y has q bad effect on the health and mora
{ of the people. The English Parliamer
. has passed through its lower house
local option law. She alluded to the SUI
!; day closing in Ireland, the advancement
Canada, the tightening of the coils Of th
. law in Maine, the progress in Iowa, whic
,; is admittedly the result of women's worl
II reform clubs and the ministry. In Kansi
a on the I'd of November the people wi
~ vote on a temperance law of which Go
u ernor st. John, who is a candidate for r
70 election, is the incarnation. Mrs. Willar
o paid a high tribute to the character an
u tirmness of Governor st. John, who is IL
u earnest friend of the cause.
p She then took a new view of the subjec
~ at least to a Wilmington audience. ST.
u said there are three realms Of mighty il
! fuence into which the cause had hard
u penetrated. These are the realms of IL
10 fine arts, romance and fashion. In the
20 realms total abstinence is regarded
"a fanatcsm. Poets have sung the praises
re wine; sculptors have personifed in attra
Or tive statuary the god Bacchus; the choice
colors of the painter have transferred
canvas all that is attractive in the convivi
Va feast letting the darkness out. She the
" spoke of the inconsistency of some ter
a. perance families in having pictures of Il
Il winecup, amid attractive clusters of fru
~ and flowers. hanging up in their home
or Music has also been a help to our enen
n. and in our day the glee club of the collie
al has done vast more than we have thong
to influence the young man in his secor
and third decade in favor of the cup. II
novelist makes his hero in nearly eve
ee case deep drinker and describes in glo
he ing colors the pleasures of the debauch
ai- while his heroine is sort of Hebe-cu