The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-11-14
National VIC. It. T.

CHICAGO, Nov. S.-Battery ID armory
was gaily decked with banners, flags.
shields and notices this morning when
sixteenth annual session. Between
400 and 500 delegates were present from
all parts of the union. The forenoon
session was devoted to short prayers,
reading Scripture and other religious
exercises.
Miss Willard began her address by
saying that patriotism had always been
part of her religion and continued:
You are in Chicago; the Cronin muir
der trial is in full blast, the national
flag was Missed and the red flag of the
commune applauded not far from here
but few weeks ago. The experiment
OF free government in our large towns
is a failure loudly confessed by men
themselves Nor are the reasons for
this monumental catastrophe mystic
rious. America has become the dump
ing ground of European cities, The
emigration has steadily deteriorated in
proportion as its quantity has grown.
To-day we have hundred
thousand anarchists among us
in this country who CLAIM to
have %, 900 drilled soldiers tlIei. call,
as many as the entire regular army of
the United states. The multiplication
of inventions, the enormous accumula-
tions of capital, the corporate combina-
tions and octopus grip of the trusts"
render our wage workers uneasy. Bread
or blood is the inscription of many
concealed red flag and the motive of
many a hidden bomb. Note the
sullen look on grimy faces
in mine and in manufactory
and on the street; read the labor or
gans of the day and see if well-to-do
Americans are not asleep on the edge
of a volcano. We spend fifteen hun
dred millions a year for liquor and to-
bacco-ten times as n uch as for educa-
tion and religion. We have $50, 900
saloons. enough to form a line from
Chicago to New York. and in making
alcOhalic beverages we waste enough
grain annually to pave street a thous-
and miles long with loaves of bread.
Turning to politics Miss Willard
said: Let it never be forgotten that
We are here in convention assembled
to represent national movement.
that it is our special prerOgative to
note the political signs of promise
along the national horizon and yonder
we see two great old war ships batter
ing each other on the high seas; of the
presidential campaign we see that high
tariff and free trade, the spoils of Office
anu tuO SIllA1HlCIltiS PLIES u DtISOudl
ambition engage them altogether.
But of brave hearts Neal Dow, faith
er of prohibition and you, st. John, its
martyr, still alive, and you. Clinton b.
Fisk, its standard bearer, valiant as
you are gracious. The white ribbon
women were never more in earnest for
the cause you love than they are now.
She commended that congress be asked
to pass an amendment law, prohibiting
the bringing of alcoholic liquors into
prohibition states, work for the Blair
educational bill and for the Blair
amendment to the national constitu-
ton, a law forbidding the manufacture
of cigarettes and one against smoking
in waiting rooms and pOstofflces.
Miss Willard said that the thanks |
of the convention were due President |
Harrison for directing that no liquors
shall be sold on the government reser-
walton at Fort Washington; Postmas-
ter General Wanamaker for his pro-
nounced declarations in favor of pro-
hibition and Sabbath observance and |
then continued: sour protest should |
be sent to Vice President Morton for |
permitting a saloon under his new |
hotel.''
In conclusion Miss Willard paid an |
eloquent tribute to the memory of /
Mrs. Hayes, the wife of the ex-presi- |
dent.