The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-11-02
GENERAL NEWS
WOsEAN's CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE
UNION.
one of the Most Important Events
of the Day.

Of the Day.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 25.-At the after
noon session OF the Woman's Temper.
ance association reports of the week
were made by Mrs. Coleman, of New
YLrk, on literature; Mrs. Hunt, of Mas
sachnsetts, ON scientific instruction
Mrs. Foster, of Iowa, on the legislature.
at night there was rousing meeting in
the Masonic temple.
Col. Ii. Young, Col. Balm and others
spoke. Paul H. Hayne sent an original
poem for the occasion, which was read
by Mrs. Sallie T. Chaplin, of South Car
DINA. Miss Willard responded very
happily To the address of welcome and
said:
The WOman's Christian Temperance
union is, to my thought, but a vast and
growing net work of telegraph lines,
along which fly swift and blessed mes
sages transmitted by that divine spirit
whose central battery is the heart of
Christ. Slow, difficult and adventurous,
as is the work of building these lines,
establishing stations, enlisting and
teaching operators, one forgeis the hard
ships in remembering what are the
messages and from whence they came
tbrobbing over the wires with their
sweet, ''peace on earth, good will to
men," Having spent year in de-
lightful tour of combined construction
and inspection, l am happy to report
all main lines in excellent working Or
der, with new (state) branch lines in
Texas, another In Missouri and third in
Tennessee, while several hundred local
stations have been established since We
last met. Our most Southerly station
on the continent welded this year is
San Antonio; our most northern is
Spokane, Washington territory, on the
frontier.
We have a new one in Ogden, Wy,
and several in Utah and Oregon. Tie
white women of Honolulu have written
tor instructions, and Sydney, Australia,
just reports, simultaneously with
Richmond, Va, a woman's temperance
union of over 100 names.
The messages received by our chief
operator at our central Office in the BIZ
BILE house, New York, indicate that at
the present rate of construction we shall
be able to report at our next meeting d
branch line in every state and territory
of the republic, offset by one in every
Canadian province, and a station in
each capital and commercial center of
North America. Nothing less is worthy
of our plans and purposes and powers
Let us remember, dear sisters, that
we must first build and equip our
telegraph before a message can be
sent, nor wait to see that radius and
circumference are not less important,
that the center force is centrifugal no
less than that the centripetal is con-
spring to round circle of perfect
work. Electric indeed has been the
rapidity of growth of the temperance
sentiment throughout the nation-a
wondrous year as we call the list of
states. Iowa, which was last year a
tremulOus hope, stands forth glori.
Gus victory. Kansas holds the fort for
prohibition, and, like the white plume
of Navarro. CLEANS the ensign Of that
beloved leader, John p. st. John. Indi-
ana occupies the extreme skirmish line
of a Christian civilization in its battle
for the twin amendments, prohibition
and wOman's ballot" Mrs. willard
concluded her address by giving num-
Der of important suggestions for the de-
velOpment of the work in 1888. She
recommends the appointing of a finan-
cial secretary. and said members needed
development of more collective bust.
should be paid regularly, and member
ship should be renewed early in the year,
and 10 send on national dues with con-
scientious promptitude, and thus much
annoyance will be avoided. The change
in our basis Of operations has worked
we'll financially. The receipts of this
year exceed those of last by about s 500
but the paramount need of our national
union is fund upon which We can
count in carrying forward our southern
work and planting those great prohibi-
tioD battles that lie before US. No secre-
tary has ever yet accomplished in eight
years what ours has done-a total in
come for the entire time of but $4,000.
When Miss Wizards address, which
was delivered in clear, strong voice and
forcible style had been concluded, devo-
tiOnal exercises of an hours duration
were held. Miss Margaret Bottom, of
New York, leading.