Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-14

| Telephone number 5.
! BOWEN & KINGSBURY. Prop'trs
The fifth annual convention of th'
women's christian temperance union o
| Dakota will open tomorrow at Aber
deem and will continue through thre
days, closing Friday night. This Is t,
be the most notable gathering of tn
union ever held in Dakota, its rapis
growth during the past year and tn
marked interest evinced in the object
for which the union labors foreshadow-
ing session large in interest and fruit
tui in results. Since the union. assem-
bled year ago in Chamberlain anc
elected to the presidency Mrs. ii. M
Barker, tireless and always practica
worker in the cause OF prohibition, the
womens christian temperance union OF
Dakota has nearly doubled It's member.
ship and its boast now is that it is
strongly represented in every town in
the south half of Dakota, with encourag-
ing growth in the northern fraction of
our territory. Under these hatterinR
conditions the prohibition women of
Dakota assemble at Aberdeen to review
the work of the year past and mature
plans for still grander achievements
during the twelve months to come.
1t has called to it's cnun-
ellis some of the ablest and most
energetic laborers in the temperance
field of the west and under their advice
and under the experiences of the past
the Dakota union will broaden and
deepen it's influence and expand its use.
fulness, The rising career of this or
ganization in the pioneer field of q new
commonwealth is one of the surprises
of our territorial development. 1t has
grown as Dakota has grown, spon-
taneously it might almost seem, though
its record shows that many toilsome
steps were taken before the sphere of
assured success was attained. SO too
it has been in every part of Dakota's
material progress. With all it's external
boom indications and apparently easy
accomplishment there has been an
under the surface labor to perform
which REQUIRED Judgment, tact, ability.
courage and never failing industry.
This process of development applies
to the women's christian temperance
union as fully as to the other features
of our western progress. With its mean
bers, however, q motive far different
from that which has actuated the west
ern boomer has furnished the
controlling influence. There is in
their labor no selfish inspiration What
they have done has been entered upon
and accomplished for the moral, social
and financial improvement CT all the
people of this territory. No one will
contend that the women of Dakota are
themselves in need of the teachings of
their temperance Organization. Their
efforts are unselfshly given IN behalf
of common veal, and with the fixed
ness which only woman can develop
and demonssr.te and adhere to when in
pursuit OF any object, they have held
persistently to the work until
the manhood OF Dakota doffs
it's hat in acknowledgment and yields to
them the palm as an element of saving
grace,
No less remarkable than the career of
the women's christian temperance union
in Dakota has been the career of the
parent national organization. But few
years ago it had its origin and the
beginning WAS small and its ultimate
grandeur probably unprecedented and
Hnsuspected. 1t seemed to be fashioned
to fit into one of fame's long vacant
inches and the rapidity with which il
assumed its appointed place was one O
the surprises of its development. The
predicted collapse of abnormal
growth did not come apd yeal
by year the organization solldified and
strengthened itself until it now stands
boldly along side the great politics
parties of the day and demands, rathe
than asks, recognition. This has oc
Cured because women's hands ant
women's hearts are in the work. Gu
Dakota women, types OF their sieterhoot
in the states, followed noble exampl
| given to them from the land of tn
rising sun and here upon the prairies c
new Dakota planted the seed to which
ready soil gave vitality and growth an
| the first fruits thereof were gathered il
the constitutional vote of 1888, by whic
a majority of the voters of south Dakot
declared themselves In favor OF an organ
ic provision forbidding the sale of liquo
This resnit, though of no effect unds
our territorial condition, voiced sent
ment very largely the creation of thoi
tireless workers who are assembled th
week in convention at Aberdeen.
| Man in his Weaknesses, his doubts al
his fears, cannot but acknowledge TIL
the mothers, 1ives and sisters of o,
land are the true heroes of every ho
and day. This belief comes to us ns
fixed conviction out of the sonl-tryin
Notwithstanding experiences Of 1S6I-e
when wornankind shut up her affectio
within her heart and with courageo
insp iraticn sent her best loved in
deaiIy strife. She wos the suifers
not the man who We
into the excitement and activity