The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-29
ORGANIZATIONS.

Editor IFODldnS Column, Morning eau:
1t is q question often asked, "What is the
Womans Christian Temperance Union
doing, anyhow" As official reporter of
the California W. c. T. o., it gives me great
pleasure to answer. There are about 200
unions in the State with membership Of
about 5000, and representing a still larger
constituency of stay at-hOme workers,
whose duties will not allow them the time
for public works.
There are thirty departments of work,
and each is being aggressiyely pushed.
Thus these wise women warriors are push
ing gentle but most effective warfare
along thirty different lines of attack on the
great enemy OF the home-the demon drink.
The eyangelistic department, the founda-
tion of all our work. for the Weman's
Christian Temperance Union was born in
prayer, is under the able leadership Of Mrs.
S. j. Churchill of San Jose. formerly our
honored State President Many LEGAL unions
hold gospel temperance meetings, and many
drinking men have been redeemed. Mother
hearted women have gone as eyangelists,
preaching Christ's gospel in jalls, aim
houses and hospitals, and have distributed
much literature to those shut in from the
world. Alameda County alone reports $50
French bibles. sixty Chinese teSiaments
and 10000 French, English and Chinese
tracts.
Mrs. NJ. E. Congdon, Superintendent of
legislation ana petitions. labOred actively
in having presented TO the Legislature four
petitions, which we're signed by many thou
sands, for Sunday rest. fOrbidding sale of
tobacco to minors age OF consent and NUM-
cipal suffrage for women. The age of con-
sent was raised from ten TO fourteen years,
and, though the others failed, yet the agita-
tion made much public sentiment, especially
for women suffrage.
Through scientific temperance instruction
Mrs. ID. }. Spencer reports all the children
of the State are taught the injurious effects
Of alcohol, opium and tobacco through the
public schools. Can the results for temper
ance be estimated by any arithmetic?
Mothers, meetings under the direction OF
DR.. III. =. Van Kirk, State Superintendent
of Hygiene, are being well attended, all
over the State, and the study OF health can
not but result in more healthful and conse-
Grated mothers ard children.
Heredity, under the supervision OF Mrs.
+. Ii. Bentley, Is being intently studied by
mothers, and the best results Will be seen
in the coming generation.
The press is one of the most valued agen-
cies for pushing our great reform, and Mrs.
NJ. NJ. Z. Babb, the Superintendent, reports
large number of papers which grant a
column to the w. c. L. U. Mrs. G. e. Ed
holm, Official Reporter, wrote 25Oc0lumns OF
original matter III tue past year. sustaining
column in each Of the Oakland dailies,
with reports and articles and items IN over
one hundred State papers. Editors are
most earnestly thanked for their generous
donation Of space
THE STATE ORGAN.
The Pharos, edited by that talented
woman Mrs. Mary Frank Browne, is an ex
cellenI monthly paper, stimulating all the
unions to gTander work and making tent
perance sentiment wherever read.
The State union is spending money lib
orally, having dsbursed about 5000 last
year IN temperance channels, much OF
which was raised by the energetic Treas,
urer, Mrs. NJ. c. Hart. Besides. the local
unions have more than doubled this amount
in local work. The Central coffee-house
in Oakland does an annual business under
Mrs Barnum's able management of over
probably as successful, while others
throughout the State also prove that
women are able 1inauciers.
Lectures have been given through out the
State by national lecturers, such as Colonel
Balm, Colonel Sobieski, Colonel George
Brooks, Chairman Dckie, Miss Henrietta
Moore, Mrs. Batenam, Mrs. Wells, and our
own President. Mrs. r. II. Johnston; Mrs
Emily Pitt Stevens, Mrs. Henrietta Shelton,
IrS. Emma row Sinltn, MIS- u u. Spencer
and Mrs. NJ. Z. Congdon.
The State conventions and school OF
Methods at Pacific Grove are largely al
tended, delegates ana VISITORS pouring III Dy
lie hundred. Lac southern racine anu
san francisco and North racine railWays
generously grant ieuucru lales, mus au W
large NUMBERS. An excursion uIueI w. y.
L. U. auspices, consisting OF about sixty
persons, was run 70 the Natlonal OonYeh-
uon last year at Ch!caso, ana one equaily
as large ana deIishtlui Is Planned lor tiie
National convention thls year at Atiah-
Mrs. Eva Blshop anu MIS-. NJ. II: tie nc.
are bringing temperance music 10 Wleiu us
sweet ana Inionty i0!ce'
MIS-. u W. rariou - heiPinS eIppeiance
kinQtrgaftehs 10 save tne NIUE ones from
me horrors OF o ~ career. .,,o
MIS- . M ~. Nooulhai Is puieihs t.e
communion table OF aicohoiic WINE, and IN
Vlllculture IS surviving 10 eXtenu laole anu
ralsin grape culture instead Oh VINE grapes.
MIS- ii. " bro"heii IS liaIshailns the
young women Oh te me- o'a tIs in We me eva anu
lhese lair young Gills, tne >, sttetal
THOUSAND strong, VIII reV0lutlonlze society:
Temperance literature, IKE tne leaves OF
the forest, has covered me STATE; millions
Oh pages nave ofoppeu llhe tiny seeus III
human hearts Miss cummings is state ou-
perIntendeht:
Mrs. henrietta okeIlon mas pushed tle
herman Wofh iiost eherSeticaIly Will nap
pest results. AS a speaker sne Is very pop
nlar anu her tours through the otate Always
leave
MANI ohoANlHalioNo'
Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens, the silver
tongued orator." has leetured and organized
unions most successfully and earnestly
makes sentiment among our 1oreign clti-
zeps ana their children;
Mrs. Mary Is; Eden SHOWS the sailor boys
that the w. Z. i. Y. loves them and many
nave been redeemed IRON Strong drink.
different ways the soldiers to temperance.
mans Christian Temperance Union are
sisters in ph!anthropic work.
Mrs. &. B. Russell, Superintendent of
Fair work, secures space for booths in the