Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-11
~1NTEMPERATB REFORMERs.

ho IlONttulNB5 u u hUNaSh' SVA /
vention OF tho Women's Christian
Temperance union, in session in Chi
cago, has been chiefly distinguished by
the assault made on Vice President
Morton, upon the charge that he had
permitted a saloon TO be opened in the
new hotel erected by him in Washing
ton. The charge was made by the
president Of the union, Miss Willard,
and this was done after the wide publ
cation Of n statement by the private
secretary OF Mr.. Morton that there
was no truth in the published report
that a bar was connected with the
hotel, and that Mr.. Morton had never
entertained the idea of permitting any
part OF it to be used rs a bar. Suisse
quentlv the convention was informed,
upon the responsible authority Of Cen
eral Ncttleton, that there was not n
shadow OF foundation for Miss Wizards
accusation, but even this was not suifi-
cient to induce the incorporate zeal
OTIS in control OF the convention
to do justice to Mr.. Morton by
repudiating the accusation, at least TO
the extent of allowing the contradict
ton to be placed on record. Finally,
| after the futile effort of Mrs. Foster to
induce the convention to undo the IN
justice done the vice president OF the
United States, Mr.. st. john was allowed
to make an explanation which acquitted
Mr.. Morton OF the principal charge, but
arraigned him as having consented to
the sale of liquors in the new hotel by
the lessee.
This narrow and petty attack upon
the vice president of the nation, based
upon a newspaper report without any
attempt having been made TO learn the
real facts, merits the ~reprobntion of
all fair-minded people. 1t would have
been an easy matter for the president
of the Women's Christian Temperance
union to have ascertained, and it was
her duty to have done so. Had she
taken the slight trouble necessary she
would have learned that the hotel in
Washington owned by Mr.. Morton is
conducted as u family apartment house,
that no saloon connection was ever con-
templated, and that the lessee simply
desired to conform to necessity Of all
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having a wine list, for which it APP
pears a license is required in the
national capital. 1t may be that Mr..
Morton gave his consent to this, and no
fair-minded man or woman will hold
him blameworthy for so doing.
1t must be presumed that the
lessee of the hotel applied for a
license to keep a wine list
because his guests demanded it, and
only the most fanatical will pretend
that he should have been denied a
privilege enjoyed by every other hotel
in Washington, and a necessity to his
business.
This attack on Vice President Nor
ton will do the Women's Christian TEN
perance union no good. 1t betrays a
spiteful and malicious spirit not in
harmony with the professions oil
, that organization, and gives warrant
for the question whether it is not de.
s~cending to the level Of the third party
agitators and their following. 1t is
neither a christian nor II temperate
spirit that has characterized the treat
ment of this matter in the national con
v~ention of the union, and tho fact will
not fail to increase the distrust of the
organization which a largely reduced
: membership during the past year shows
' to have already become widespread.
L
THE women who unsex themselves
: and tramp through the country lectur,
t ing people how to protect the home
: would be of Il great deal more service t.
humanity if they would look after theil
9 own homes and make them comfortabl,
Q and habitable. The trouble with mos
of these women in pants is that home i
: the last place on earth that could hel
n them. Their temper and peculiar way!
would break up any home and drive tn
8 most submissive Of husbands int
haunts of dissipation, insane asylums
p orinto premature graves. The mother
Q of George Washington, Abraham Lin
@ coin and Ulysses Grant wore neve
e known to abandon their own homes an,
h hearths in search of notoriety, CHATTER
y ing about woman suffrage and the pres
~ervation Of the home. The best womer
It that ever lived-the women we mos
i. respect and revere-have happy fam
v lilies and homes OF their own.
n
h DEMOCRATIC candidates for city Of
k fees are lying low, as usual. Tho posi-
tion Is natural and becoming.
I, Explanation OF the Monocle.
NeW Orleans Picuyuae.
r. When the dude is near-sighted and half
a witted he gets on very well with half a
d eye-glass.
" A Horrible suspicion.
70 Chicago Tribune.
10 The fearful thought intrudes ITSELF
IT Miss Gwendoline Caldwell doing the pre-
limInary advertising for a career on tn
n stagei
70 Kansas Bieeds Again,
M Louisville Courfsr-JOurndl
To her county seat wars Kansas has adde
religious riots. Passengers travelling throug
Kansas should keep their heads a littl
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