St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-19
w. G. T. u. LAST DAY.
Reports of Work by Preventive
Departments.

BoSTON, Mass, Nov. 13.-The morn
ing session of the last day of the dual
convention of the worlds and the ma
tional w. c. T. .. was rapidly taken
up. First came the reports of the social
department, under the charge of Mrs.
Anna NJ. Hammer,o of pennsylvania, who
said: ''This is the time of the fulfillment
of prophecy, when the spirit is poured
out upon the daughters, and the women
have gone into the yard TO grapDle with
the subject neglected by man. This
is our work, and for it we
waited women of the land in
settling the question of temperance y
Mrs. Nichols said that if you want to
reach people for the temperance cause
20 to the fairs; and if you want to make
money go also to the fairs, for there the
people cOngregate. Mrs. Theresa A.
Jenkins made an earnest plea for the
unrestricted Acknowledgement of women.
She said the free ballot for women is
only question of time. Mrs. Hannah
j. Bailey spoke for peace and interna-
tiOnal arbitration. standing armies
will exist so long as the world runs, if
people continue to use alcoholic
drinks" she said. 1t was voted that a
telegram be sent to the president and
government of the United States against
any belilgerent action on the part of
United States against Chill.
The work OF the afternoon was de-
voted TO the committee on plans of work
and the report of the committee on resO-
lutiOns. The resolutions pledge mem
berS of the union to renewed efforts in
the cause Of total abstinence and
prohibitions; note the founding of
a Father Matthew prOfesSOrShip in
the Catholic university at WASH
lngtOn. approve. most heartily
of the suggestion that a John B. Cough
prOfeSSOrshlp be founded in the Amer
lean university at the capital. and rec
Omnend the endowment of similar
chairs in other institutions of higher adj
ucatlon; urge women to use every
means practicable to secure equal gov
church; declare unalterable OppO-
iti0n to all political parties that in any
way protect the liquor system: iGdOrSe
that party which embodies in its plat
form the acknowledgements of woman.
the prohibition of the liquor traffic and
the preservation Of the Sabbath: con-
denim the use by tObaccOniStS of adver-
tlSementS in the shape of women forms
ana faces, and the use of obscene cards
in cigar boxes and cigarette package
protest against immoral theatrical liter
ature and medical advertisements in
many of the leading newspapers; adj
VOcate dress reform: protests against the
publication in the newspapers of the
details of crime and sensational stories;
ana touch OH many other subjects.
There was a brief memorial service for
the dead of the w. G. II. t., and the
convention closed with the benedictiOn.
''Siver is now discarded. The gold
ring has repudiated it and they have
reduced the issue of commercial paper
to the narrow limits of gold. As con-
sequence farmers were growing poorer
and the history of bank failures showed
their circulation was not enough to
keep the banks in reserve funds. Why
should there be hard times with twenty
years of peace? Why should times be
worse than at any other time in the cen
tuTy? Want of money was the cause.
If gold had been treated as silver was
it would not be worth twenty-five cents
OH the dollar. If it should not be used for
money it would have no commercial
value. But silver was universally cir
culated. 1t could not be destroyed, but
it could be deprecated. There was no
surplus bullion in the world previous to
commercial purposes.
'CiviliZatiOn has kept pace with the
growth of mines, and no nation in the
world has been able to keep going after
the exhaustion of the mines. This
nation has been especially favored, but
the greed OF the miners has stopped the
wheels OF progress. They increased the
purchasing power of a dollar. He
protested against the long dollar
The country was being robbed.
The railroads were bonded to
to the extent Of $4,000, 000. 000,
the producer was taxed to the utmost
and the consumer was asked to nay 80
per cent more than he should. The
middleman was growing rich and the
producer was growing poor. Because
they made long dollar, enough dollars
could not be found to pay debts. Hence
stagnatiOn and hard times were COM
mon. Want of money would make