The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-05

Delivered AT The Annual Meeting of the
Salem County Temperance Alliance.
Wednesday, Oct. 9Th, by Mrs. w.
Margeruna. of P~ennsgrOye, NJ.

MIR. PRESIDENT AND FGIENDs;-l sec by the
programme l am here 10 represent the W. c.
Il. L.. We are u large and growing organiZa-
ton. Gen. Fisk said ut Plaintield, ale heard
in the cars that The temperance people were
dead, and the women were going to
Plainfield toattend the funeral" We are just
beginning 10 live; we believe the Lord is won
derfully blessing our feeble efforts. The be
ginning of our Union was the Woman's CRU
SADIE which began in IIillsboro, Ohio, Dec. %,
1873. This crusade lasted fifty days. Six
months before ii really ceased, Mrs. 5. j.
Thompson, of Ohio, daughter of GOV. Trimble,
of Ohio, and wife of II leading lawyer, was
chosen its first leader. From this WAS organ
lied the W. C.. T. C., National, State, Ter
ritorial, District, County and Local. The pre-
liminary committee to organize the National
W. L. I'll mel at Chautauqua, Aug. Is, 1874.
So ready were women for this work that
twelve states responded to the call for The
first National Convention held in Cleveland,
NOV. Is, 1874.
So you see, we are twelve years old. The
thirteenth National Convention, has just, or
adjourns today at Minneapolis. We are now
organized in every state and territory. We
number more than six thousand local Unions
with Il membership of 100000. This is from
last years report. We know there has been "A
great increase this year. as our own State,
New Jersey, has 5000 members. Salem county
has $50. The convention at Plainfield, with 800
delegates, did not have the appearance of ii
funeral. The intelligence, yea, and, piety seen
and felt there we, us Il state, need be proud of.
We do know from the few who met 10 pray
in "A Presbyterian church in Ohio, led by IA
| PRESBYTERIAN woman who before had been
| afraid of the sound of her own voice in public,
we have grown 10 be a felt power in this
land, in the cause OF temperance.
The W. c. 4 L. has not stopped here. Mrs.
Mary Leavitt is betting the world with this
temperance organization. a petition l will
read:
Hon0red RuierS, Representatives. AMI Broth-
ers. We, Your petitioners, although physical
" weak, are strong of heart 10 love our homes,
our native land, and the worlds family OF
nations. VI know thai when the brain of man
is clear his heart is kind, his home Is happy,
| his country prosperous, ana the world grows
friendly. But we know that alcoholic siimu-
iants and opiuu, which craze and cloud
the brain, make misery for man ANA all the
world, and, most OF all, for us and our child
Ten. We know these stiinulants and opiates
| are sold under legal guarantees which make
the Government partnersin the tfsihc by ne
cepting rs revenue II portion OF liz prohts, and
that thew are forced by treaty upon popnla-
| tions either ignorant or unwilling. We have
no overt 10 prevcntth this great iniq lily beneath
which the whole world groafis ana Staggels,
bnt Won have power to cleanse the flags Of
every cline from the stain of their completely
with this unminsied curse. We therefore
come to YOU with the united voices OF repre-
sentative women from every civilized MT
tion under the sun. Deseeehing You TO strip
away The safeguards and sanctions of the law
from the drink traffic and the opium trade,
and 10 protect our homes by The total prohibit
ZION of this two-foid curse OF civilization
throughout all the territories over. which youI
Government extends. IThen follows Il space
for the names of women, their residence, ana
their nationality.1
In Great Britain, Japan, India ana Australia
this society is known In England they have
n British Woman's Temperance Association
At their convention last spring Mrs. Il. Pear
sell smith, of Philadelphia, was sent rs Il dele
gate 10 urge u cooperation in tie work OF th'
two organizations, and the formation of Z
World oman's Temperance Union. 1t waste
voabiy acted upon and delegates appointed u
attend our Convention in Minneapolis, where 8
" Worlds Moman's Christian Temperance I nioi
will he formed, Mrs. Lucas, OF England, it
chosen President Tor two years, after whicl