The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-09-20
FOR TEMPERANCE.
Mrs. Chapin's Excellent Address
Monday Night.

Al4eu ou AOuudy ulSDt, SGlII we res
4 gret that every man and woman in
Asheville did not hear Mrs. Cha
| pins address. We rejoice for two
reasons that our superintendent OF
Southern work has been among US;
in the first place, as w. G. T. u,
workers, we felt proud to exhibit
our noble representative Of the
Southland to our Asheville people;
, secondly, we were gratified to have
! an opportunity of manifesting our
sympathy in the work, and our ap.
probation of our workers to one
who labors so necessarily for the
, cause of temperance. A thrill of
sympathetic response was felt
throughout each discourse. There
are now disputants on every hand
IS to which was the best address,
delivered by Mrs. Chaplin. The
meeting when the young women of
our town, were appealed to, so pa
thetically and potently, the child
ren's meeting Sabbath afternoon,
and that wondrous mothers meet
ing on Monday morning, each has
a host of champions claiming ad-
miration over the public address in
the opera hall. An outline of any
of these talks" Gas Mrs. Chaplin
styles them, would do injustice to
the speaker with her earnestness,
and pathos of expression, hence we
will not mar by attempting repeti-
ton. One point, however we will
mention with extreme satisfaction,
i e, Mrs. Chapin's pronounced views
and clear~cut sentences regarding
The third party and woman suffrage
planks. Although every enlighten-
ed woman in the w. c. T. u, work
and all intelligent men, who have
informed themselves upon the SUBJ
iect of the woman's crusade against
the saloons-though such persons
are thoroughly posted as to the po-
sition of the W. G.. T. u, of the
South, yet those who trouble them-
!; 9lves with investigating the subject
;.re in shameful minority, while
ire vast majority go forward daily
making such statements as the fols
lowing: "the w. c. T. U. Is wo-
mans suffrrge and third party polit-
ical organizations" Mrs. Chaplin is
a suffrag gist;;" all w. C. T. u, work
ers are dangerous" etc.
tits truly pitiable to hear the
women even of our community,
broadly and ignordntly making
such assertions. In each of Mrs.
Chapin's talks, she gave no uncer-
tain sound as the W. G. T. u, of the
South in connection with their ma
tional platform; a platform of no
less than AZ planks, none of which
are obligatory (being States rights
people,, none save the one requiring
total abstinence pledge, and the
other necessitating an annual fee of
50 cents per member. All else is
lett to the discretion of the local
branches.
We would that telephone COM
munication were possible during the
time of the W. c. L. u, national
convention to convene in New York
Metropolitan opera hall beginning
Oct. 21st,-telephonic lines reaching
the sanctum of every editorial staff
throughout the United States, thus
enabling the educators and infor-
mants of our country to open the
eyes ofthe millions of prejudicial
blindness, who know nothing of the
broad liberality, and diversity of
opinion, evinced during the assem-
bly, Of those notable women Holy
Ghost women" as Bishop Fallow
styles them. ANY mention of Mrs.
Chaplin Or of her work, would be in
complete, without speaking of her
intensely southern proclivities. She
is Southern to the bone! all the
time and every where uncompro-
missing, with principles and senti-
ments acquired in her Southern
home. Though having grown fond
of the North and its people, through
acquaintance with the best and
noblest among them-an acquain-
tance which has ripened into friend-
ship and love, yet Mrs. Chaplin ever
stands staunch and firm as cham
pion Of her dear Southland, and we
venture to say; not a man Or woman
living, has done more to present the
South in a proper light to northern
audiences than our own Mrs. Sallie
F. Chaplin, of South Carolina.
Manv times has she caused the an
plause of thousands to resound to
the echo, when replying to an un-
just speech of policy, or a sentence
of bitterness that was uttered in her
hearing speech that but for her,
would have found happy lodgment
in congenial boson1s. She is no
politician, however, as she constant
" asserts, and is working primarily
and constantly for God and home
and native land.