St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-25
Mrs. Ellen Foster Explains
Her Position Concerning
Politics.
Temperance People Should
Ally Themselves With
No Party.
Mrs. Mary 7. Lathrop Makes a
Strong Plea for Ballot
less Women.

Gil was devoted TO the consideration OF
the general subject of temperance. The
meeting was opened by one of the ladies
present singing 1.-The Old Oaken
Bucket as solo, the large audience,
led by Miss Willard, the presi-
dent. Joining in the chorus. Prayer
president of the Washington branch of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. In introducing the first speak
er. Miss Willard said that the song
which had just been sung brought back
to her many recollections of by-gone
days and the sad thought came to her
that if all her friends in years past,
those she had loved the best, had been
content to drink from 1.-The old oaken
bucket that hung in the welf' her life
would have been much happier. and
what was true of her was equally true of
millions of other women. Mrs. }. Ellen
Foster the president of the Non
Partisan National Woman'S Christian
Temperance union. was then intro
duoed She said the organization of
which she was the honored president
was formed in Cleveland, o., III Janu-
AIRY, 1889. and this vas
The First Opportunity
she had had of speaking of its work
and aims before so distinguished an
audience. Its great central doctrine
was total abstinence for the individual
and prohibition for the state. The
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
had decided to devote its ener-
gies and its influence to the
support and encouragement of that
party which would best protect their
homes, to the one which would lead i'll
the great work of temperance reform.
They were true and noble Christian
temperance women who led and who
followed this, as the best and the most
practicable plan for attaining the endt to
which all Christian women are striving:
but, guided by the teachings of
the past and the necessities Of the hour,
q small minority had been impressed
with the belief that every woman should
be free to choose her party alliances,
and this gave rise to the non-parlisan
union. They believed that alb
solute political liberty was as
much the right of woman
as that Of man. They
believed it wrong to ally themselves 10
any one political party. There were
noble Christian temperance workers i'll
all political parties. Their representa-
tves had been to congress, and had re-
ceived aid and encouragement and
honor from noble men in both of the
great political organizations, and 1t
looked to the women of her society like
bad faith to ask these men for help, and
tlien combine at the next election to de-
feat them. In conclusion, Mrs Foster
paid high tribute to the memory of
the late Secretary Window. and especi-
ally commended his courage and his
manhood in his work of disinfection at
Castle Garden, New York. The sale of
liquor had been summarily stopped. and
the influences that surround immigrant
women there had been purified.
women Defeat Ingalls,.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease. of Kansas, was
the next speaker. She smoke of the
condition of affairs i'll Kansas. and re-
ferred to Mr.. lnga;l; as 1.-The man that
we women of Kansas had the great
pleasure OF defeating" The subject
in the Farmers Alliance" She
SAID, however. that the subject
could not be intelligently discussed nor
fully understood 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
something radically wrong in the affairs
OF tins nation. Constituencies capital
is robbing manhood of its prime,
mothers of their motherhood and sor
rowful children of sunshine and of joy.
For 100 years the spectators, the land
robbers, the pirates and gamblers OF
this nation have knocked increasingly
at the door Of congress, and con
greSS has in every instance ac-
ceded to their demands. The Farm
ers' Alliance numbers half million
who are loyal white rIbboners, and [
say it with thanks to Almighty God
that our Alliance representatives are
the only men in the councils of the ma
ton who have not been elected on
liquor platform"
Mrs. Mary L. Lathrop, representing,
as delegate. the National Women's
Christian Temperance union was the
next speaker. She said:
Ballotless Women.
mo association represented has
touched SO many springs of praise and
blame, of love and hate. and become
equally distinguished for the friends it
has won and the enemies 1t has made.
Proof of the effectiveness of the mission
undertaken lies easy to find on the
very surface of things. Cursed at
the bar of the legaiized saloon,
Kissed on the floor of the beer brewers
congress-. scorned by conventions of
political parties. misrepresented by the
all-powerful press; denied Its ultimate
prayer in the halls of legislation;
sneered at III places of fashion. where
the wine glass temptS to de-
stfoy: criticised by conservative
puIpits, and uuWelcOme often
even III the Christian church, it has
been left to this organization of ballot
lotlesS women TO arouse all classes of
opDosers and find for themselves the
hate of hate Then Oh the other hand
blessed by the fevered lips of the
drunkaId ready to perish; sought by
who went astray; hallowed by
loving thought at thousands of firesides;
baptised with holy tears by the others
whose battles it wages; perfumed by
the stainless prayers of the little chill
dren; Endorsed by the expressed prin-
ciples of organized Christianity;
sustained by the highest and fresh
est authorities in the scien-
tific world; praised by lips
grown careful through StateSmanllke
speech: believed in by the best, trusted
by the most needy. it has been granted
them also to find the love of love-
A Vicious Traffic.
Drunkenness, she said. is not the ma
tional evil OF the day. The real evil is
the licensing of vicious traffic. No
drunkard shall inherit eternal life, and
yet we license 100000 men to
sell away the chances of others
for eternity. This is made possible by
the ballots OF the land. Mrs. Matilda B.
Carse. of Chicago. who has beeu the
leader in the movement for woman's
temple in that city,. made a brief
address Oh the subject Of the work.
The plan for the temple is beautiful
one, and the building is to cost $780,
600. The land has been leased for a
period of POO years. The plan is con-
ciA RI tho r10cflr-