The Delta independent., 1888-11-20
The w. CT. U. After Election.
A PAPER READ AT THE HOME PROTECTION
CLUB, NOV. 18TH.

House, New York, RECENTLY where more
than four hundred delegates. thousand
members aud many thousands of visitors and
listeners to these gifted. eloquent women.
Also opr own meeting last Saturday was
very interesting. All the members present
seemed 10 enter into the work with new zeal
and earnestness. 1t inspired ME with hope
for the future, and thought the members OF
this club would be interested in even an i'm.
perfect estimate Of our progress, especially
as We were formed at the same time and tor
the same purpose, that of removing
intemperance from our own community.
1t is admitted by authority that no one
force has done SO much for building up pure
public sentiment, which every one agrees is
essential in temperance work ms the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. Some of our
solemn old friends are profoundly distressed
for fear these women will get "out of their
sphere and do something desperate. Unul
they actually do something desperate adj
wise them not to stay awake nights.
So far, do not think any one has been
shocked by what they have done. The time
was when some were shocked to hear woman
speak or pray in meating: but we are more
often shocked by hearing men swear.
Every one posted on the work of the W. C.
T. U. know that it is a progressive evolution
of society. The Union, rs a whole, is awake
to all the live questions of the day, and on
the temperance issue they hav. emerged from
the wild emotional, the just rebellion of the
crusader, to the calm, concentrated, judicial
organization of the present. In proof, will
read one of the twelve very able resolutions
passed at the convention referred to:
"Resolued, That we re-aifirm our al
legiance to that party which makes its dom.
nant issue the suppression of the liquor
traffic; declares its belief in Almighty God us
the source Of all power in government; de.
fends the sanctity Of the Christian Sabbath;
recognizes equal suffrage and equal wages
for women; demands the abolition of poiyga.
my and uniform marriage and divorce laws,
and aims to remove sectional differences und
promote national unity and insure the best
welfare Of our land"
Considering that this w. G. T. U. numbers
10000, and as many young women and girls
that our growing into our Union, 1t seems to
investigate what sort of human being u
woman is.
In the trst place, a woman never knows
when she is whipped. Her husband may
come intoxicated and abuse her; but she goes
OH with her work, mending his clothes and
darning his stockings, precisely US before.
So an election may come, and any one else
may think it is final and everlasting defeat
to everything the Woman's Christian Tenn.
perauce Union has sought for. But without
waiting to get rested you will find them hold.
ing the next week, looking after these same
voters. mendins the holes and darning the
weru places, politically just as before.
Moreover, woman never knows when she
is tired. Aer husband will come home and
go to bed and 90 soundly to sleep, but she
will sit up and care for the sick baby, keep.
ing away the flies aud the mosquitoes, and be
up the next morning with the breakfast all
smoking hot when he comes down stairs.
So these political parties after an election
will quietly take rest and sound sleep,
and leave intriguing, mercenary politicians
to browbeat officers aud hoodwink judges,
by 6ne criticisms on the phra seology OF laws,
and evil runs unchecked.
But the W. c. T. U. is at work through
that night of other peoples Indifference,
| driving away the flies and mosquitoes from
all that is good; and before the next elecon
comes around they VI i'll have the whole dish
Of Prohibition resolutions, smoking hot and
ready for the political conventions.
Men want some variety in their EN- mploy-
nent. but a women will go over the same
| duties every day Of her life.
1t is exactly so in politics; she will keep
| on doing precisely the same things, speaking
the came speeches, singing the same songs,
pleading the same pleas before Judges.
| legislators, governors, religious assemblies,
political conventions, candidates in Office and
out OF Office, with absolutely unfagging en-.
thusiasm and zeal.
After the w. c. T. U. was organized, not
having enough temperance work to keep
busy, there has been some allied departments
added, as Heredity, Hygiene, Day Nurseries,
Scientific Instruction, Temperance instruction
in schools of higher education, kindergarten
work, Industrial trimming, Sunday School
work, work in prisons, among railroad EN-
ployes, among soldiers and sailors, among
lumberman, among miners, among Mormon
women.
With departments on social purity, Sabbath
observance, unfermented wines at the Lords
table, parlor meetings, the flower mission,
State and county fairs, legislative and petit
tion, the franchise. associated charities, mar.
coties and on-alcoholics in medicine, on
labor and capital, on impure literature, on
press work, on parliamentary usage, on edu.
cation Of high caste Hindoo women.
Aud this after dividing up their own work
into sections such as Southern States, foreign.
ers, colored people. special work in cities,
Juvenile work, young womon's work, and
finally, evangelist;c work, which includes
everything not otherwise provided for.
If an organization Of men had undertaken
any such variety and extent Of work you
would think that certainly not all of it would
be we'll done. The spectacle on which
thoughtful people are now looking with un-
limited amazement 10 that the w. C.. T. U.
has undertaken all this, and, If measured by
results, are doing it wonderfully we'll.
Surely, for them then, may ask this
much (snd nobody could ask le.s): II there
are any net willing TO help, do not put q
atumhlin1 block in the way