Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-12-08
HARK! A BUGLE BLAST

of you will take this letter to the next executive
committee meeting of your union, and have it read
and acted ON. ol.s5a saK
1t is not often that after bright lookout over
the whole wide field, your leaders blow the bugle
for rally all along the line, and am proud to say
that no such blast has ever failed to reach your
listening and sympathetic ears vi 1 III ~
1t will be 50 this time as always; already l can
catch the music Of your martial tread! .....|I
General misunderstanding mounted his steed
when our great convention met in New York City,
and he has spurred onward ever since with clatter-
ing hoofs across the continent. 1t would be fabu
lous, were it not atuous, the twisted meanings OF
almost every sentence sent out by the secular press
since October 1928. For instance: BY request of
the minority we repealed the bylaw providing that
on political questions we should vote without dis
cussion, and lo the press says we were so Wild as
to remove from our constitution a provision that
had guarded us against discussion, and then pro-
ceeded to plunge into the labyrinth Of political de-
bate We spent less than two hours out of forty
debating on questions of partisan nature, but the
partisan press has given the public reason to be-
lieve that from early morn till dewy eve we did
little else than shout in chorus tFisk and Brooks!
We declined to consider, much less debate, reso-
luton defining ''loyalty," when, To- General Mis-
understanding, with the voice of a bassoon CD
grumbles across the nation, sThem women passed
gag law?'
We are aware that there is much OF method in
his madness The Republican and Democratic
liquor parties q refer to their undoubted national
status) see the rising cloud of ballots, not to be
stampeded even by the tariff uproar though for
six months steadily it was dinned in the ears of
the greatest money getting nation in the world.
They see that new alignment of voters is ineyi-
table, and they hate the earnest hearts that stand
true to the Prohibition Party alike in storm and
calm
Now then, beloved comrades we have one me-
dunn through which we can rectify mistakes, make
known the breadth of our plans and purposes.
prove that we are philanthropsts rather than poll
ticans, and clear away the cobwebs spun by those
who seek to do us harm.
That medium is The Union Signal. Its program
for the coming year contemplates especial depart
ment of ''Work for Local Unions" also a ''Week-
ly Question Box" conducted by the undersigned,
where errors can be corrected, and our true posi-
ton and work set forth. We expect to make it
more of family paper, charging it at New Years
to sixteen pages the size Of the New York indie
pendent with fresh heading, and dressed through
out in a charming wardrobe of new type.
Now, my special hope and prayer as l write
these hurried but heartfelt lines, is that you will at
your next executive committee meeting, vote to
set aside not less than S. to $40, to be expended
in putting the Union Signal into the homes of your
pastors, editors, doctors, teachers indeed any
whom you wish especially to influence in favor of
, our work. Some cases are hopeless, others are
not but in all it is just now as emphatically true
as when the great Evangel came, that the people
perish for lack of knowledge.
The w. T. P. A. has promised me to hold open
to local unions the 75-cent offer for years sub
scrption until December 30, so that if you set at
work at once you can for the same money send the
, paper to just twice as many homes "..
"Let be up and doing, with heart for any fate
Still achleving.still pursuing learn to labor
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