Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-11-08
w. C T.U. JorGLN0s.

The weekly Wednesday afternoon meet
iAgs os The w. C. T. u. are now held in
the BarloS of the I. NJ. G. A. AT the last
m6sdng Miss Foster. one of the. delegates
to the recent State Convention of the ".
G. T. u, gave her report of the Conyon-
tion. A large Number of delegates weSe
present, and the sentiment of the, eonTeu-
ton was more 3nanimous than last year.
New officers were ohio sen, except the
Treasurer, Mira Woods, of Huntingdon,
who was rstained. The number of Unions
in the State,i is thirteen hundred, and a
surplus In the treasury, notwithstanding
large amount OF money had been used
in advancing the cause Of the Conslitu-
tional Prohihitery Amendment, whieh We
know was not spent in vain, although the
amendment failed 20 carry. The women
Of oHr State are being educated to the
fact that they cannot depend upon
politicians to grant prohibition,
and as the dominant parties are .eontroll-
ed by politicians aud rings, and these
are controlled by the liquor interests. the
women of our land must look elsewhere
for help in their efforts to save the COM
ing generations, hence, when the mon
partisan amendment to the State Consti-
tuition was brought up and presented in
a very long and eloquent speech by Mrs.
Lowell, and responded to by DR.. French
in few words, it was promptly laid
upon the table by large majority. Mrs.
French, in her remarks, showed that we
had always been free, as unions, to work
for our cause in whatever way opened up
TO us, and free we desire to remain. This
scheme, for scheme it was, is only po-
litical dodge to favor certain political
party, and is the rsnkest partisanlsm,
although clothed in the guise of nom
partisan. What do we women care which
party is in power if the party will cct
righteously and give us good laws, there
fore we want to be able to use our inhu
ence on all the parties that we can, TO in
duee them TO give us sound
legislation. Miss Willard gave an ad-
dress the last evening of the Convention
and received beautiful boquet with card
attached on which was inscribed "From
Your Non-partisan Friends" thus show
ing TIE good feeling that prevailed, the
reports Of papers to the contrary notwith-
standing. Another evidence of the in
creased unaniminty of sentiment was the
adoption of the resolutions as whole.
Miss Foster being on the Resolution
Committee, was not able to attend the
sessions Of the Convention all the time,
therefore she could not report for the Y's.
We will expect their report to come from
their own delegates, through their own
Press Superintendent.
Miss Foster is now on her way to the
National Convention to which she was
chosen delegate, by the three counties of
Somerset, WestmoIeland and Cambria.
We sincerely hope that our Unions will
not sink into apathy, but will work away
with their accustomed energy for the
education of the public on the question
Of temperance and purity. II we can
get the people to investigate and 10 read
the facts on all the subjects in which as
Unions we are interested we need not
fear for the results. We very much de-
plore the fact of the opening of the
saloons again since the flood, and as we
have been informed that the Judge of
Cambria county placed the responsibility
upon the different Burgesses we call
upon those officials to take some action
in this matter so that we may not be
Kissing and by-word to the rest OF the
nation--begging for assistance to keep
up our schools and supporting fifty one
saloons. We have heard of one man start
ing with almost nothing to keep saloon,
and in short time having eight thousand
dollars to put in the bank. Comment is
unnecessary. PRESS SUPERINTENDENT.