Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-10
septe1nber 10, 1884.
TEMPERIANoE CONVENTION

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 Mass Meeting In Hartford To-Day
 Prominent Orators in the Work to
 Attend.
 A mass meeting.of the Women's Christian Temperance union of Connecticut takes place at the Hartford Opera House to-day eommepc- ing at 9 a. m. There will be present four of the finest orators on the temperance platform, among whom is Miss Frances E. Willard, who was for years teacher and dean of the wonian's college at Evanston, Illinois At the call of the crusade she resigned her posi- ton and came to the front As temper ance worker and speaker, her natural gifts and culture soon made her the leader of the temperance hosts. For ten years she has been constantly at work. In this time she has visited every important town in every State and territory of the Union and most of those in the Queens American dominion. Mss Willard is a remarkable conversational ist.. She has added to her extensive travel in this country, knowledge of the old world gained by some years residence in England and on the continent. She is great reader and has that pc culiar quality of mind which instantly grasps subject and holds it till it becomes part of herself. As platform speaker she is the peer of any. Having an almost unlimited vocabulary, each word she utters carries with it just the shade of meaning which she de- so kindly and gracious, so modest and unas- stunning, that those who at first were unwil- ling soon find themselves walking in her train.
 Miss Willard is one of the most industrious of workers. At home, on the cars, ill omni- bus or horse cars, her active mind is ever busy and her pencil ever moving. Popularity she does not seek, but always treads in the path of her convictions, whether the great public accepts or not, and if popularity fol lows she accepts with becoming modesty and redoubles her efforts for the good of her fellow men and the cause she has espoused. "Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit serving the Lord, " is the every dsy motto of this wonderful woman.
 Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop is another of the speakers Mrs. Lathropi is minister as well as temperance lecturer, and as such ranks with the very best. She is of medium height and of fine presence and good voice; as a lecturer forceful and effective. Logical to the core, she speaks her convictions with an earnestness born of the deepest consecra- tion. Mrs. Lathrop is native of Michigan and president of the W. c. T. U. of that State.
 George w. Bain is southerner by birth For some years he was editor of Kentucky paper, but later on gave up the editors sane tum for the platform. He is of the Tom Marshall style of orator, easy and graceful on the platform, kind and gentle at home and among his fellows.
 Mrs. B. Pearson is an English lady visiting in this country. She is vice president of the British Women's Temperance associa- tion, of which the sister of John Bright, Mrs. Margaret Lucas, is president. About thirty five years of age, she is the picture of health, and when speaking her face lights up, her eyes sparkle, giving evidence of the earn estness which she feels. The New York Saratogian says of her recent efforts: ''The addresses by Mrs. Pearson were fine speci- mems of female oratory, clear, pungent, for cible and efficient, full of pathos and power. The picture of health, her vitality seems to bubble up to her very eyes in all her expres- sive features" Mrs. Pearson is an able of the English women