Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-09
MISS FRANCES WILLARD.
She Delivers an Eloquent Address Before
the Temperance UniOn


CHICAGO, November 8th.-The sixteenth
annual Convention of the National Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union met
here this morning, with four or five hun
dred delegates present from all parts Of the
country. The morning session YVES de-
voted to the reading of the Scriptures and
prayer.
The afternoon session was devoted to
business of the Union, the usual commit
tees being appointed and reports from the
Executive Committee, Treasurer and other
officers were read.
Miss Frances E. Willard, President of the
Society, delivered her annual address to-
night. In beginning, she said patriotism
had always been part of her religion, and
continued: "You are in Chicago The
Cronin murder trial is in full blast The
national flag was hissed and the red flag of
the Commune applauded not far from here
but few days ago. The experiment of
free government in our large towns and
cities is failure loudly confessed By the
men themselves, ana the reasons for this
monumental catastrophe are not mysteri
Gus. America has become the dumping
glound for European cities. Immigration
has steadily deteriorated in proportion as
its quantity has grown, and to- day we have
hundred thousand Anarchists among US.
The multiplication of the conventions are
enormous, the accumulation of capital,
corporate combinations, and the octopus
grip of trusts render our wage workers IN
easy. Note the sullen look of the grimy
faces in the mine and the mandatory and
on the streets. Read the labor organs of
the day and see if well-to-do Americans
are not asleep on the edge of volcano"
Turning to politics, Miss Willard said:
" Let it never be forgotten that we who are
here represent national movement, and
that it is our special prerogative 10 note the
political signs of promise along the ma
tional horizon. Yonder we see two great
old warships battering each other on the
high seas of Presidential campaign. We
see that high tariff and free trade and
the 'spoils of Office glittering prizes of
personal ambition, engage them altogether,
while into view comes the cleaning sail
that tells US she is launched on wave, the
good ship prohibition the wave of hu-
manity, boundless and free Are we afraid
to send our blessings out after that ship
across the stormy water, or to ask heavens
blessings on brave men who died? lis
destiny may sink or swim, live or die.
survive or PERISH we have sounded forth
the trumpet that shall never cali retreat"
Miss Willard recommended that they
ask Congress to pass an amendment to the
interstate law prohibiting the bringing of
alcoholic liquors into prohibition States,
and one forbidding the manufacture of
cigarettes, and one against smoking in
waiting-rooms and postofices.
She said the thanks of the Convention
were due to President Harrison for direct
ing that no liquor be sold on the Govern
ment reservation in Washington to Secre-
faru War oh fOrb
rations IN favor of prohibition and Sabbath
observance, and added: Our protest
should be sent to Vice-P President Morton
for permitting a saloon under bis new
hotel. 1t was well known that the Vice
President was an enemy of prohibition, but
that be would thus outrage public senti-
ment by personal alliance with the liquor
traffic no one would believe but for the in
dubitable proof"
In conclusion Miss Willard paid an elo-
quent tribute to the memory Of the late
Mrs. Hayes, and referring to the promi-
nence of that lady and the ex-President
in the temperance movement, said ::
" Total abstainers never had such standard
bearers as this noble pair
Brief addresses were made by General
Neal Dow, Mother Stewart of Ohio, Mrs.
Judge Foster, President Of the w. c. T. U.
III N6udud auu MISS A1l1ul6 1uelp5 Vi IO-
r0pto.
Mrs. Caroline B. Buell., the Correspond
ing Secretary of the society, read an extern
sive review of its work in the past twelve
months. This has been year made
memorable by defeats added Mrs Buell..
First New Hampshire refused TO make
permanent prohibitory law. Massachn-
sets then followed, and by g majority of
46,626 stepped down from the lofty pima
Gle of reform and gave herself over in
passive obedience to the liquor traffic, and
our hopes, if we had any, centered on
Pennsylvania, only to be met by defeat,
and Rhode Island-Brave little Rhody-
where the w. G. T. q had left no stone un-
turned, and had found no task too hard,
was stabbed in the home of her friends,
and Connecticut, with all her ancient tra-
ditions, her religious history, was given
over to the powers OF darkness by tre
mendous majority of q 595. But if the
lessons these defeats should teach are
learned, then will they no longer be de-
feats, but glorious victories. Of course,
there are conditions to be obtained Con-
gress must be metamorphosed and State
Legislatures changed, and this seems well
nigh impossible, but victory is half gained
when after following a wrong method for
years, We cut entirely loose from them and
make straight for the point desired