Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-02-25
WOMEN In COUNCIL.
THE GENERAL SUBJECT OF DISCUS
SION TEMPERANCE.
Woman In the Farmers Alliance THE
AIiiance-men Generally white-Ribbon-
ers--The New Madame President"
rBy telegraph to the Dispatch.

WASHINGTON, February 2i.-The general
subject of temperance occupied the atten-
ton of the Woman's National Council to-
day. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster. president of the
Non-Partisan National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union. and Mrs. Mary I. La
throp, representing as delegate the Ma
tional womans Christian Temperance
Union, were the principal speakers.
Mrs. Mary f. Lease, of Kansas, also
spoke. In beginning she addressed herself
to Madame President, friends, and fell
low-citizens.n She said she used the term
with pardonable pride when she remem-
bered that the Alliance League has given
TO the women of her sunfiower, humanity
loving, temperance-loying State OF Kansas
the right of political suffrage. She spoke
of the condition of affairs in Kansas. and
referred TO Mr.. Ingalls, as 1.-THE man that
we women of Kansas had the great plea
sure Of defeating"
WOMAN AND THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.
The subject assigned to Mrs. Lease WAS
women in the Farmers Alliance" She
said. however. that the subject could not
be inteligently discussed nor fully under
stood until the necessity for the formation
of the Farmers Alliance is first shown.
Continuing, she said:
1T must be evident to every intelligent
man and woman to-day that there IS some
thing radically wrong in the affairs
Of this nation. II must DO EVIL
| dent TO every thinking man and woman
that we have reached crisis in the affairs
of the nation which is of more importance,
| more fraught with mighty consequences
| for the veal or woe Of the American peo-
pie than was even that crisis that engaged
the attention of the people In the Dark
| and bleeding days of civil strife. MY
friends. the lash of the slave-drivers' whip
is no longer heard in this country, but the
| lash of necessity is driving thousands to
unrequited toll.
CONsCIENcELBss CAPITAL
is robbing manhood of its prime. mothers
of their motherhood, and sorrowful chill
| dren of sunshine and of Joy. We have a
| land where the bounteous hand of nature
has given wonderful heritage TO each and
every one, and yet in this land of plenty
| and unlimited resources the cry of hu.
manity is gong up from every corner OF
| the nation, the plant of motherhood, the
means of starving children! Capital buys
and sells to-day the very heart-beats
of humanity For 100 years the specu-
lators, land-robbers, pirates, and gam
| blers of this nation have Knocked
increasingly at the door of Congress, and
| Congress has in every instance acceded to
| their demands. They have gotten money
out Of the public Treasury amounting TO
| tens of millions of dollars. They were
| permitted to tap the veins Of trade and
| commerce and withdraw from the body
| polite the circulating medium, which IS
| the life-blood of the nation; and our law
makers term these acts constitutional.
ALL1AECE-MES wHITR-RIBBoNERs.
In conclusion the speaker said The
Farmers Alliance numbers half a million
who are loyal white-ribboners, the MAORI
| tv of them, and | say 1t with thanks to
| Almighty God that our Alliance represen-
tatives are the only men in the councils OF
| the nation to-day who have not been elect
ed on the liquor platform"
Education formed the topic OF discus
sion at the night session.
OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL.
Following are the newly elected officers
| of the National Council Of Women Of the
| United States: President, May Wright
| Sewall, of Indiana; Nice-President, Ella
| DietZ Clymer, of New York; Correspond
| ing-Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, OF
| PENNSYLVANIA MISUNDERSTANDING, Isa-
| bella Charles Davis, of New York; Urea
surer, Lillian NJ. n. Stevens, assistant secre-
tary Of the National NOman's Christian
| Temperance Union.
Forty-seven associations sent traternal
| delegates to the council, and OF these
eleven were from the evangelical mission
| airy societies.