Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-24

| IL mas Uecn Work
| of the greatest di!ii-
MRS. MATILDA B. cARsE. Guilty 70 secure ma
! tional headquarters for women in Chicago
The plan for the temple Is q beautiful one
and the building is to cost 81 $50 900. The land
has been leased for period of zoo years. The
| plan is considered to have been the master
piece OF the late John W. Root, the consulting
architect of the Columbian exposition. Mrs.
Carse described in some minutencss the
design and style Of this thirteen-storied build
ing. beautiful feature is to DO a memorial
hall, whence the incense OF prayer will rise
every day to heaven for the suppression OF tho
| liquor curse in this country. 1t is to be the
Westminster Abbey OF the temperance cause.
| Work commenced on tho building last sum
mer and it Is to be completed by 1892 Muns
OF the offices have been already leased and it is
computed that the annual rental will amount to
| a quarter CT q million dollars. When COM
pleted the value OF tho building will be not less
| than 81. 800. 900.
Mrs. Matilda b. Carse Of Chicago embodies
| in remarkable degree the enthusiastic. far
seeing and liberal minded ideas OF a western
woman. In religious belief she ia Congrega-
tionalist. She is the president Of the W.C.T.U.
Of Illinois, and the daring financial scheme
which she is engineering in the erection Of a
mammoth temperance temple in Chicago has
brought her to the front i'll temperance move
ments all over the country The corner stone
| OF the building has been laid. 1t IL TO cost
81 500 900, and is owned by stock company
backed by some of the best known finaneiers of
the city by the lake. The W.C.T.U. owns 4
modest share Of the stock, and some day it
hopes to own it all. All previous efforts Of
Mrs. Carse have been so successful in financial
way that her friends are sure that her courage,
dash and practical ability Ill managing money
matters viii carry her gigantic plan to happy
completion. In her personal affairs Mrs
Carse has been eminently successful in getting
ahead She was left widow with two sons
both Of whom, however, inherit her ability
Mrs. Carse Is looked upon in temperance circles
with wonder and amaZcment because Of her
immense energy and business qualifications
She has founded the largest Publishing house
In the world, which is also the Official publish
ing house of the Worlds Wet U. and the Ma
| tional W.C.T.U.
MRS LEASE.
Mrs. Lease, the farmer woman and lawyer
woman Of Kansas, who, Miss Willard said,
| would have succeeded Senator Ingalls, IL she
| had only been a man. was introduced by the
president OF the union to speak on the subject
OF woman in the Farmers Alliance. Mrs
Lease is a unique feature of the woman's
movement. Tall, and with straight black
hair brushed back from her high forehead
she speaks with n strong. eloquent voice more
like n man. than any womans Masculine in
style OF address she speaks like a true orator.
and it was easy enough for the audience Mt Al
baugh's to believe that Mrs. Lease is able to
hold the attention Of Farmers Alliance meetings
for hour after hour.
she HELPED TO DEFEAT INGALLS,.
She began by saying that it was right to speak
of the needs for the organization of the farmers
and the workingmen against robber capital
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 pleasure Of
defeating
'Capital today" said Mrs. Lease, 'sbuys and
sells the very heartbeats of humanity. Capital
lists name our statesmen and government Off
cials and they fix the price Of a days labor and
load Of coal. But when the farmers knocked
at the doors Of Congress for relief in their sub
| treasury plan the subsidized press Of the land
cried out and the plan has been pushed back az
unconstitutional. The women Of the alliance
number half o million, almost all Of whom
are loyal members OF the white ribboners.
The Farmers Alliance members in Congress
are the only ones who were not elected on
liquor PLATFORM
Mrs. Leases oratorical outburst Just suited
the audience and when the bell called for time
there were cries on all sides for more, but this
was not given and as she sat down Miss Willard
said that they would all b, glad to hear that
Mrs. Lease would speak again this evening,
"fOr she is q very acceptable woman"
The heroes Of campaign are always inter-
esting; therefore the prominence that Mrs.
Mary Z. Lease has attained In the minds and
hearts Of the suffragists is just now a leading
topic with them. Mrs. Lease as the champion
talker and worker in the interests OF
the peoples party during the last campaign
in Kansas has made for her great fame. She
the state for the union labor party. Her bust
ness as a lawyer has engaged her when not
actively working in politics. but il Is probable
now, owing to the great demand upon her to
enter the lecture field, that she will not go back
| to the practice of her profession. Her husband
ia living and shu the f,ppu1ar o,,tb OLA
over his wife at their home in Wichita, Kan.
Mrs. Lease is Irish born and possesses native
trait to perfection, quickness Of repartee,
which, In connection with nat
ural eloquence, enables her to both
| entertain and convince her audiences
Her leading co-worker and associate all
| through this lively campaign was Mrs. Annie
L. Diggs, one Of the editorial writer's on the
staff of the Advocate, Topeka, Kansas. This
little woman, who Is very small physically. is
one OF the busiest and hardest workers in the
| political field Of women today. She only ar
| rived yesterday, being detained at Topeka be-
cause Of the setback given the bill there before
| the legislature to remove the political dis
| abilities OF women. 1t went through the house
with only seven dissenting votes, but knocking
up against some hard snags in the senate, re-
ceived blow pretty hard. but not hard enough
to dismay its supporters, who can have
victory two years hence right in their
hands. when the Farmers Alliance will be in
control OF everything. Mrs. Diggs says that
! she has the best husband in the world and
| three Of the finest children and all this only
| fits her for being q good suffragist She has
come here as writer on the staff of the Ecuno-
mist and will also keep up her work for the re-
! form press in Kansas. In conversation she ia
| very entertaining. She says at recent supper
Z! party she attended at the house Of leadfng
woman suffragist the not biscuit was 40 good
| that every one had something 70 say in praise
| Of it. Finally the hostess admitted that She
| made them herself and the conversation turned
| on the domestic qualities Of suffrs9ists
Odd enough to the average mind, but
that company OF progressive women all SUI
| fragists and many political takers and writer's
could not remember single suffragist who
could not make or who regularly did not make
good bread and biscuit.
MRS. MARY ALLEN WEST.
Mrs. Mary Allen West, editor of the Union
| Signal, made an interesting address on The
woman's Temperance Publishing Association.
but yielded most Of her time to Mrs. +. E. W.
| Harper, q colored woman who was to have
spoken yesterday on the subject Of our duty 70
| dependent races.
Mrs. Harper, who 10 an easy and pleasine
speaker, made an eloquent plea for more Christ
and less creed, saying that when consummsti ton
was reached the Indian question would be
an.wsred and the negro problem solved.
| Mrs. Nary Allen West, the editor of the Union
| Signal. tho Official organ OF tho W.CTU.. In
one OF tho brainy women whose personality has
much that n interesting 70 her aistcrs Ii, the
rank and filc. She is o graduate Of Knox Col.
iege and was for eight years county superin-