The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-19
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CAUSE
Women Devote Day to Reviewing the
Work of Their Union the Past Year.
Addresses on Topics Relating tt the Better
ment Of Society-Vice Proclaimed Against
in Resolutions and Speeches.

woman ; OArlsLan temperance Union was neld
at Roberts Park Church, yesterday and last
night. There was fair attendance, delegates
being present from all the organizations over
the county Reports were read from all sections.
showing that the union was spreading and that
the work for the past year had been . crafty
ing one. The convention addressed at some
length in the morning by Miss Lode 4. Reed,
editor Of the Organizer. Oh the subject, Our
Twelve Months March She gave . resume OF
what the w. c. T. q. had done during the past
year. the difficulties thar had been encountered,
what was yet to be done, and the hopes of the
organization for the future.
Miss Alice R. Palmer read paper on the sub
| ject, Around the World II was an account
Of she work In the temperance cause by the
women In all countries visited by representa-
tives sent out for the purpose of investigation.
In the afternoon Miss Hattie johnson read a
paper the subject. Making Sentiment"
She began by inquiring into the nature OF senti-
ment and whether womsn had any interest IN
its creation public questions. She thought
woman had large influence in this direction,
one that had not been properly recognized or
exerted They ought to study to have right
sentiments all important questions and then
express them. She advocated more thorough
study Of the temperance question. the reading
ing of the official temperance paper means
Of keeping thoroughly informed and consequent
~ having good and pronounced views on the
subject.
Miss Maud Huntington, Of Cumberland,
discussed in paper, "A Temperance Temple"
AS preface she said: 1.-THE saloon must go.
Have NOT enough mothers diedl Have not
enough girls been deceived and be-
traYed by becoming wives of who
have deserted hem, who have cruelty treated
them and th cir children, leaving them alone
without comforts support" She spoke of the
splendors of the saloon and its attractions, and
the poverty or the temperance people IN their
fol mai IG not chn gEaH ha olH
old story of Christ in the manRer and Herod on
his throne9 She described the temple of the W. G.
T. u. to be erected at Chicago, it's magnifcence
and the grandeur of the sentiment it represent
ed, believing that there ought TO 10 more such
buildings,
Mrs @. B. Buell., corresponding secretary of
the National w. G. 7. u, then addressed the
convention. She said in meetings of this kind
ways and means ought to be discus sed. Ladies
how mska the skl msetnes proaes an
interesting She thought that the
first question in every locality
how to create a public sentiment that there
was enough larent temperance sentiment TO rev.
olutionize the country. She could NOT believe
in this land of churches and schools il did not
exist. Speaking of how create this senti-
nent the first thing to do was to hold many
public meetings; the second. to have these m eet-
ings reported that the people could know
what was done. and third, the wise and judicious
circulation of temperance literature. On the
latter point she spoke with considerable full
ness. showing the best means TO be adop ted and
specs.
THE White Cross and the White Shield" was
the subject of an address by Mrs. j. r Nichols.
She said: s'There is an UNEQUAL standard of
morals required of men and of women. Women
themselves are partially responsible for this con-
dition. Where is of you that would
the pulpit TO tell of her reformation as men dot
You have not reached that point, not one of
you You have not reached the point that you
will ask the young man who comes to marry
n ar obi ar asst nol h0 ali IN
be az pure as hers. You haven't tho courage to
turn your back on men when you meet them in
public whose hearts black black
be. No, none of us have reached that point,
but we all ought to have reached 1t. That is
what this work means" Mrs. Nicaols thought
that mothers ought to teach their boys the les
son Of social purity as much their daughters;
that they ought to be reared so that they could
tell their mothers every act and every thought
OF their lives She advocated the placing of the
Whlt Cross pledges in their Bibles and the
slant instruction against all sorts of social vice
and immortality. She deplorsd the great tempta-
ton 60 which all young men were exposed, and
the lack OF interest which mothers had exhib-
tied in the matter. She appealed especially to
the mothers who were present to take up the
work for social purity as q swork not secondary
in Importance 10 any in which women were
gagged.
Mrs K. Loftin then addressed the convention
on the subject of Narcotics" She confined her
remarks wholly to tobacco, speaking, of the in
jury to the system from its use, the many dis
eases produced by 1t, and the CREST amount of
that $6O0, 1000, 900 were annually squandered
from our national wealth for tobacco or $40 per
capita; that in Chicago alone, wh@rs there were
SO many cries for bread, $24 500 were paid daily
for the narcotic. She thought that this a. we'll
az liquor. entered largely into the labor prob
lem that is now making SO much trouble Out
OF 10000 lunatics in the Nation Is. 900 were
made SO by tobacco while 80, 600 men are
nually dying from using it excessively. She
said that the w. G. T. Ct. would ask the next
Legislature to put some restriction on the sale
of tobacco 10 minors. as every desade showed
younger boys were becoming addicted TO its use.
The following resolutions were adoDted
Whereas, The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union OF Marion county, IN convention assembled,
recognize with gratitude the wondrous advance
sentiment and increase in organizations and member
Resolved, That we return our sincere gratitude to
Almighty God and with more earnest devotion to
cause, we will until the liquor traffic and other
Resolved That we will renew our efforts with our
Legislature the coming winter to secure the passage
of scientific temperance instruction bill making it
obligatory on the different boards of education that
it be taught in the public schools.
the opium and tobacco habits in our country we win
this year make determined efforts to spread the
such laws will restrict the sale OF these per-
nicious articles.
In regard to the effects of q social impurity
which is claimed to be largely the result of nm
Just legislation regarding the pro lection OF
women and girls, it resolved that the union
would make every effort to revolutIonize senti-
mens in regard TO this false standard and try tc
secure such laws ms viii protect grlhood and
womanhcod.
Resolutions favoring the ballot for women,
pledgiag support 10 the unions State paper and
prayers and sympathy to the Pfohibitionists
were adopted.
In the evening Mrs. Buell. again addressed the
convention, this time on the temperance quesy
ton in general She divided ths subsect into two
phases, the moral and the legal. Speaking OF
the moral side. she said that only enc way had
ever been discovered of doing any good, only
one name under heaven had been given whereby
men might be saved-Christ. AS it had been in
the past IL was to-day. IL man at
vene the legislature OF mis- brain,
pass prohibitory Law and then put himself
in connection with Christ and the church
that he may be able to enforce is This has
been the only moral force, and Is the only
to-day that the ages have furnished. In dis
eussing the legal side of the question, she said
that The objection Ind haen urged 2Y come that