Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-17

| lect, with view to capturing the judgment of her hearers. Such are the leaders of the | two factions into which the temperance Ko- | men of the country have been divided by the
 fact of temperance having found it's way into politics. They are perfect opposites, yet both are bright and eloquent, as both evi- ! dently are born to command, and if it can | not be said that these fair chteftains are \ equally wise, we ought at least to be gallant | and charitable enough to give them credit ! for being actuated by equally sincere mo- tives.
 Precisely when or in what shape the cons ! test between these two leaders will be precip- | itated upon the approaching convention can-
 not be foretold; but that such fight will ! occur has been made certain by the recent action of the Woman's Christian Temperance | Union of Iowa, of which body Mrs. Foster Y is president, and which by the way is one | or the two State organizations, Pennsylva- ! mia being the other, which have held aloof up to the present from the third party | movement. And as the precise form of \ the battle cannot be determined before | hand, neither can anyone predict with cer- | tainty how the vote will stand when the ! end shall be reached. Four years ago, when the question of endorsing St. John | was up, Mrs. Foster led a minority num- | bering one hundred and forty-6ve, but at | the last convention the negative votes on | the political issue were only fourteen. 1t must be remembered though that at that ! time Mrs. Foster was absent in Europe, \ and that that, moreover, was an off year | in politics, no less so doubtless with the | women than with the men.
 | For the number of irons it has in the | fire this National Woman's Christian Tenn 1 persnce Union may challenge the universe, | the one other thing about these women which is equally remarkable being that I they take such good care of all these irons I and keep most of them moving so vigor- ously. Those who come in contact with | this organization only in connection with elections are liable to think that it is pri- marilY @ political body, and that it's ener- ! gies are exerted mainly in political cons It has in all six general departments-Pre- ! ventive, Educational, Evangelistic, Social, Legal and the Department of Organiz zation, | and these general departments are divided ! again into forty or more subordinate ones, ! each having not only national superin- I teudent, but g superintendent in every State, with ten thousand other superinten- ! dents scattered over the country, or in other words, with a superintendent for each of its forty departments in each of its | ten thousand local unions.
 In the Department of Organization is the 1 special work carried on amongst the fifteen 1 million foreigners in the country. These ! are notoriously 8 little behind on temper ance matters, and the Woman's Christian l Temperance Union proposes to bring them ! up with the rest of the procession. Mrs. l Sophia Grubb, of Kansas, heads this depart ! ment, and besides publishing regular paper ! in German, puts forth bushels of literature ! annually in many other languages. The l chief organizer of the young woman's work is Mrs. F. J. Barnes, of New York, and 1t goes without saying that the chief object of ! working with the young women is to reach s,Q- &hn n
 reading are followed by the girls in the af- ] ternoon, but this is all preparatory to what follows in the evening when the boys drop in ! at the rooms of the Union. Then music and ! social chat are the order, temperance being I rendered palatable to the young fellows by ! bright surroundings and happy faces. The Loyal Legion, with Mrs. Helen Rice, of Bos- l ton, at it's head, embraces the juveniles, and is estimated to have mustered nigh upoa l three hundred thousand youthful soldiers in 1 the cold water army.
 The Department of Preventive Temperance deals with the two great subjects of heredity and health The latter subject is in charge of Miss Mather, of Washington, while Dr.
 Mary Weeks Burnett, who is in charge of the matter of heredity, is the same lady who Is 1 also in charge of the Temperance hospital, ! an institution carried on in Chicago, which does not allow alcohol, either in it's preserip' ! tions or in the manufacture of the medicines l used, and where, it is claimed, the death { rate is lower than in any other hospital in ! the world. The Social department embraces the work l done by these good temperance women 1n l connection with State and county fairs. Am ] other feature is the flower mission for send ing bouquets with texts attached to the sick ! and unfortunate. An interesting fact in re- I gard to this work is that it is superintended I by 6 lady who is herself 8 hopeless invalid ! and who has been confined at home for hf-
 teen years, Miss Jennie Cassidy, of Louis ! vile, Kentucky. Parlor meetings form an ! other branch of this Social department, the ! object of these being to enlist women of | wealth and refinement in the cause. Regard ing this kind of work the superintendent ] says: "There seems to be a magic potency
 in that tiny thing, the little square of card- | board that is the open sesame to the social
 life of the world. We need the queens of ] society and their winsome necromaney in
 our work in every village and city in Ameri- 1 ca."
 l But the greatest activity of these zealous ! women is within the lines of their Educa-
 tional department. Here we meet first with
 what Joseph Cook calls the eighth wonder of
 the world, viz: the results following Mrs. I Hunts efforts to introduce scientific instruc-
 tion in the public schools. Within few l years thirty five States have yielded to the I voice of the chRrmer in this matter, with
 others almost persuaded. Here also are
 those who are seeking to keep temperance prominently before the schools of higher education, as we'll as those who are so well
 employed in teaching temperance to the | young idea by kindergarten methods. MS. Lucia Kimball we also find employed in
 keeping Sunday schools straight on this great 1 question, while Mrs. Housh, of Vermont,
 devotes her distinguished and persuasive at.
 tentions to the gentlemen of the press with
 8 view to getting temperance information in
 the daily papers. Tobacco is another evil
 attacked by these good sisters, the chief ef- fort now being to get laws passed to prevent I it's sale to minors. There IS also 8 depart-
 ment for the suppression of impure ltera-
 ture, which, with Mrs. Deborah Leeds, of
 Pennsylvania, at it's head, does good work
 along the Anthony Comstock lines of re-
 form. Temperance and labor is the name of
 another branch of educational work, the ob-
 ject here being to help solve the great labor
 problems by showing laborers that theil ! great foe is not the capitalist, but the saloon | keeper, and their best friend the temperance
 pledge.
 Scarcely less prominent than the Educa' | tional is the Evangelistio department. Al the head of work in prisons, jails and aims . houses is Mrs. J. K. Barney, of Rhode Is land whose special efforts lately have beer
 morals of female prisoners by securing th'
 appointment of police matrons, such success
 having thus far attended this lady's effort that in some of the great cities of Illinois
 l New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island , Missouri, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Min neseta that such officials have already beel secured. The work done for railroad mel . under the supervision of Miss Jennie Smitl \ l is known and admired everywhere. as iR als
 that done for the women of Mormondon b.
 Mrs. Angie Newman. Most appropriatel too have lumbermen been made special sub iscts of temperance evangelizstion, whil , still another class whose welfare has been al
 object of solicitude and a subject of earnes effort on the part of these women are soldier l and sailors.
 But the newest, and in some respects tn most interesting of all the efforts carried ol in the Department of Evangelization is tha done under the significant emblems of tn T | White Cross and the White Shield. The oh ? ject sought is social purity in both men an' . l women, and the work is deemed so very i'm T portant that Miss Willard herself is at tn = head of it. Some of the underlying princi @ ples of this work are shown by the followin . resolution:
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