Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-20
THELEADERSABSENT.
Mesdames Swift, Campbell, WeekSand
Bryce Not With the W, C. 7. Q.
DULL DETECTION SAT ENTHRONED.
There We're no Rows, but Plenty Of Lively
Discussions.
OBJECTIONS TO ADVERTISEMENTS

The regular monthly meeting of the
County W. c. T. o., was held in the Third
q. P. Church yesterday afternoon, with
Mrs. S. E. Gemmell, in the chair. AS was
expected the attendance was small. Those
present blamed the bad weather for this
state of affairs, but there was a noticeable
absence of the faction who have Withdrawn
from the union on profeSsed non-partisan
grounds.
Mrs. Campbell, the late County President
of the county. Mrs. Swift, who recently re-
signed the Office of State President; Mrs.
Weeks, who gave up the Office OF State Sec
retary; Mrs. Watson, Mrs. Bryce, Mrs.
Matchett and many other of the former
prominent workers were absent.
There was not the slightest ripple of dis
cord in yesterdays meeting, and yet the re-
ports from the various unions, together with
the report of the County Treasurer, showed
that there is considerable encouragement
throughout the county, due probably to the
withdrawal of so many of the women who
were formerly at the helm, and were always
relied upon to push matters along. There
was tone of detection in the proceedings
throughout. The Treasurer's report showed
that the receipts OF the quarter were S17 26,
while the expenses were S51 SO, leaving the
treasury SS4 80 in debt, with the expenses of
the delegates to the recent national conven-
tIon still unpaid. One union was reported
to be on the verge of disbandonment, be-
cause the members could not be interested
in the work.
The reports from the delegates of the ten
unions represented showed that consider
able work is yet to be done this winter. The
various lines to be pursued include evan
gelistic, juvenile. Sabbath observance, tenn
perance, national reform and scientific in
struction. After the reports had been
heard, Mrs. Gemmell took occasion to
GIVE SOME ADVICE
to the women. She said the W. c. 7. U.
was not a partisan organization. II the Re-
publican party had made prohibition a
dominant issue it would have been Endorsed.
If the Democratic party had made 1t an
issue that party would have been Endorsed.
The principle of prohibition was Endorsed
and not the party. The women of the W.
c. T. q. must stand for the right, and not
find fault with those who differ with them.
Mrs. R. h. Jones, Superintendent of the
social purity department, here arose and
said she was very much disappointed on
hearing a report from only one union on
this line. 81 am bristling all over with in
dignation at the state affairs are getting to
this as a delicate matter, but if you could 90
over to that Jail from which L have Just
come, you would see some of the effects of
the community's impurity. There are many
lines in which we can work with propriety,
and one way is to abolish obscene pictures
and literature" Mrs. Jones then offered
the following resolution, which was unani-
mously adopted:
Resolved, That we protest against the exhibit
ton of forms in the windows of business houses
and unseemly pictures in newspapers as a
method of advertising. and declare it an insult
to all good women and detrimental to the
morals of the community.
SOME FURTHER REMARKS.
There was very little discussion on the
motion to adopt the resolution. Miss Nc
Conneil, however, thought a committee
ought to be appointed to visit the various
places and first ask the proprietors to dis
continue the display of cards, but someone
else said the pictures were not displayed
through ignorance. The business men think
they are pleasing the people, but they ought
20 be shown that there is a class of people
they are not pleasing. The resolution was
then adopted.
Mrs. h. II. Forest who succeeds Mrs.
Weeks, as State Secretary, and who is on
her way from the Chicago Convention to her
home in Philadelphia, was present, and
made few remarks, giving an account of
the work done in Philadelphia. She re-
ierred to the Chicago Convention, and said
the reports about the disorder in the con-
vention had been very much exaggerated.
In this connection, Miss Mcconnell, ma
tional delegate from this county, said that
it was politicians and not members of the
W. C. 7. q, who had made the noise.
PUT ASIDE sELFISHNESs.
Following the meeting was a consecra-
tion service conducted by Mrs Spencer.
She read chapter from the Bible about the
Israelites who met with misfortune because
they did not do the will of the Lord. She
said the present was trying
and unless all selfish motives were laid
aside and the women get down to doing the
work before them evil will come upon
them just as it did upon the Israelites.
''We don't want bitter feelings" she said
Don't let us speak unkindly of those who
differ from us. Let them alone"
Rev. j. T. McCrorv, vino was in the room.
was asked to say few words, which he did,
He said that it was altogether beyond what
a reasonable man ought to expect, to think
that the w. c. 7. O., would get along with
out dissensions 1t was what he expected
from the first. 'God will sift this orpaniza-
bAOAAs eaS liz NOCc GhGIl Otu6T OF
His own creation, andwhen He gets it lust
right He has a great work for it to do, /" he
concluded.
THE NoN-PARTISAN DISCRETION.
The meeting then adjourned. Several
members of the union were spoken to after
the meeting closed, and asked for their
opinions as to the probable effect the with
drawal of the non-partisan faction will have
on the future of the organization. They
seemed 20 be of one accord, that it would
not hurt the union in the least. Mrs. Forest
said that the people who had withdrawn in
Chester county are going back into the
union, and are sorry they ever left it. Mr..
McCrory said: Mrs. Watson, who is among
the seeeders, was one of the most ardent
supporters OF the movement in 1888
to present a petition to the various
National conventions asking for the in
dorsement of prohibitory planks in the
party platforms, and promising cooperation
with the party that would make prohibition
an issue. Mrs. Willard, Mrs. Foster. and
Mrs. Watson thought the Republican party
would do that, and when they found tbey
were mistaken, they were displeased. Now
that the W. G. 7. q. has taken a stand for
prohibition, it has a right to hold it. and
the women who urged them to take the posi-
ton, ought not to iorsake them now."
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