New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-25
WOMEN AND TEMPERANCE.
MANY INTERESTING TALKS BEFORE THE
TRIENNIAL COUNCIL.
MRS. FOSTERS TRIBUTE 70 SECRETARY WINDOW
A CoLoRED woMAN's STRONG SPEECH

MRS. FOSTERS TRIBUTE TO SECRETARY WINDOW
A CoLoRED woMAN's STRONG SPEECH
A ALLIANCE WOMAN.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TEIBUSE.i
Washington. Fob. 24.-The second days session oil
the Women's Tricnnial Council opened this mo Mug
before an audience showing no failing off in yesterdays
Numbers. Miss Anthony. Miss Willard, the Rev
ANNA shaw. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Mrs. Julia ward
Howe. Mrs. Florence Belgarnie, Mrs. +. J.. W. Harper
Mrs. Robcy, MR.. sara ID. La fetii. MIS- ha'Ida
Carsc, Mrs. Mary Alecn West, Mrs. NJ. Louise ihom'7'
Mrs. Mary Lease, Mrs. Mary II. b. Hit, Miss Anna
Gordon and Mrs. Belle Bacon Bond. were among the
ladhs on the platform. 80 many had punches Oh
violcts pinned on the waists OF their gowns that II
was something Of a " violet day
Representative Deliver. Of Iowa. with a party OF
ladies. occupled one Of the upper boxes. In the
lover right hand box were Mrs. Russell Harrison the
Presidents far daushtcr-in-law: Mrs. Potter Palmer
whose gray hair and fine dark eyes make her beauty
more striking; cx- Representative Wilkins's wife. also
a handsome darkeyed woman. and Mrs. Mary D
Lockwood. the author OF " Ilia.Ori" Homes In wash
ington,T who has been appointed uy the President a
commi~siouer-at-large from the District Of Columbia
to the Wold's Fair.
The session was opened with prayer by MIS-. eara
d. La Fetra, president Of the ". G. T. 1. Of the
District. The general subject was temperance anu
temperance work. treated by women IN papers anu
speeches. The foremost speech was delivered by Mr''
! Ellen Foster. president Of the Non Partisan Natl'hai
Woman's Christian Temperance Union. MIS-. fo,''
is a woman Of largo and stately figure, ami her race
is wonderfully expressive. As a speaker >" =
earnest and often imprisoned IN manner. ana eI'quVIl'
in language. The Non Partisan Union was orsalIZeo
+, 1.-o because the W. C. r. L. had In
1874 decided to take up a partisan line ana
caSt its efforts on the side Of the party that """"
promise prohibition Us one Of lis essentials m
Foster stated " the principles Of the Union 'n'' 'O
license system Is simply Il system OF leeali""H wv
liquor evil. that local option IS sCoh' thohEh l"'',D
in IFS field Of usefulness, while the true ana Only
remedy for tho liquor evil IL Constitutional prohlni''"'
Dut absolute political liberty belong to women d.
mucb a. 10 men. and IN the Non PARTS n mon d
woman Is free 10 form her own political "'iah'c''
and they believe that Il Is wrong 10 cast thclr iIc'
with any parry. Mr.. Foster spoke with mnch iee"'E
Of Secretary Window, who had stopped the SAFE o'
liquor to immigrants at Castle Garden py WIS III"
action doing % much for The temperance cause INV
also referred to Mrs. Window. who in her high place ''
social life in Washington had the courage not u "c''
winc'.
An able paper wa read by Mrs. Mary 7 LathfoP'
tho wife Of Dr. Latirop, u Jackson, Mici'' ana INV
president Of the women's Christian Temperance '"o'
in that state. she spoke OF the liquor trahlc - th'
tyr,rt Of our modern civilization and showed "hi'
,he work Of the Temperance Union was as II S'''A'
moral and political factor Of the day.
Mr.. Matilda C,rse. shrough whose efforts the great
TEMPERANCE Temple is being built In Chicago 10 DC
completed for the Worries Fair, read a paper de''noi"s
the project. The land had been rented OF "'i'"''
Fled for 200 years az 10000 a year. the rent never u
be increased. however much more valuable the ia"'
shouId become. The plan ie considered to nave been
the masterpiece Of the late John W. Root. the CON
shifting Architect Of the Columbian Exposition. MIS-
Car.e described IN some minutcness the design anu
STYLE OF this thirtcen stored building. Many of the
| Offices have been already leased, and n is cohIputcn tH'
the annual rental Will amount 10 o quarter Oh q MN"
dollars. When completed. tho vniue Of the bhIIdIhS
viii be not less than a = 100000. Tile cornerstone oi
the bu,ldlne haa been laid. II Ia 10 cost Sl,'Uo.ooO
and IS owned by a stock company backed by some oil INC
hc-t-kuOwn nuanccrs of Chicago. The women 3 'Wl'
tian Temperance Union owns a modest share "i the
stock, and sons DAY It hope, 10 own 1t all. Mi''
Car~c i. one OF the Younger women on the platform. ana
a handsome woman Of brunette type. HAc Is a ueIe
sate, representing the Womuu's Temperance Publish
ing Union Of Chicago. Her colleague. Mrs. Mary Allen
West. spoke on ' WOmcu's Work as Publishers MIS-
West is the editor Of The Union Signal
The most concise speaker this morning Wa Mrs
r. T.. W. Harper. a colorcd woman. and representa-
tive Of the C.. /. w., of Maryland. Mrs.. Harper "d' 10
have spoken Yesterday On " oar Duty TO Dependant
Race" put through u Misunderstanding She did NOT
get % the council until tn, morning. when the pro
gamme allowed her but five minutes. out ol l,
a.. mich and said IL a., well - thu pleasant faced. IT,
uucd hammered cOlOrcd wOmau. Hhc 'pVAc - tt,
point with earnest, simple tOlucIl''' u" !" 49,
10 ,pcak, not for her dependant race. bu' h'htl lI n''
I 'cirr i' ali men men in this country. More christ and
less creed was wanted. she sad Tor I' S!iu''"n Al, ,m
negro problem. When she st Gown, t"', "5''I,,
continued to applaud. hoping to cali her bd,h, "Wu
ouIy hecamo quiet when II Wa understood uHil '"'
would have a place on this evening prp-r'hH'' q,
Mgs. Mary +. Lease, representing the Farmer NJ
Nance. "A lawyer and a practical farmer m Nm
spoke on Women in the latmcro' n,nan yrr Int a
did not say much aboui thg W.n'i' NM AND ,'
good deal about the political outi''n ior men AM W.
speech 90 far made IN the council ana CAV" 10 =, a..
,Ico a small place in her speech. she - uuuVlp' az
1HitGS nnininE black hair. black eyes. pale. clear CON.
nlcyion. dclicatcly cut fcdtuNs. she W0uId give 1rh
IuuI,p ion Of being a shrinking i'in.niuc woman. In
mmp .he advances to Che front Of the platform ana
sucak5 the Hr,t word. a m%aryeIlou' cG'ng' come, owe.
nmc and her style i that Of u man. but a man posses
me- The gHt Of oratory t. no small degree.
Ine o"f EsIearrnlic' a %fritrrnal DELEGATE representing
ri,rop TTtish Wonan's Temperance Union, the lriu~l
w.nh,ati,n Of Great britain, OF which Mrs. Glnd>ton,
Is president. These OItlhha,on' rpr,rmt 70, and
ooF Tler. %aS a splendid audience at the evening scs
@ssslon. Education was The subject Mrs. lnc,1o'
Il. stone, an elderly, whit haired woman, rias d
70 ciucntonal Colleges and Universities. an
'fIc most scholarly paper Of the eyc9ins and; b im
gNf ycr. Of q Vow YORK .cSit,. a trn',.ec Of barnard col ,%
l@se. Mrs. Myers theme was - New rlnsc Of III
HlHn'f 1flW llfph VI N'H".' -, 49, ~, 80. cto
ieec.n Til. scholarly production was handled so rec
erlv by TIE yOJns pcater A. 10 hold the an'Ic"'
In almost Tapt attention. ill.,. re,d
Professor Helen l.. Webster. 81 NaSsaf 'olicpe, w
a paper on "Woman's Progress III Higher fdlrat.1'hI. H.,
Other uapcr, were a Woman's College IN Slilh, ~
Mrs AIf, Gordon Gulick, who, with her hnsbahI' IN
fTr seventeen wears. 4 paper on "W0men IN the neu
ical College Of Johns Hopkins University. W9S inn" 4,
Miss Elizabeth King, and one on - Married "o"'" "
tho Public schools. by Mrs. Mary Ripley