Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-16

love in their hearts. are coming to the relief Of
tho women In their war for God and home and
| native land.
| MRS. sALLfx .. cRAPfNs REMARKS.
Mrs. sallie p. Chaplin, the president Of South
Carolina W. @. T. e., followed Miss Willard.
"Al over the country began Mrs. Chaplin,
I'VE hare our. eyss on Washington. for Il is
here that the laws 81 the land are made and all
public movements are seen In their fruition.
Early In the war the cry in the south was On to
| Washington, and there are still some people
there who say that II they had got to Washing
| ton things would be very different now. But
do not know. God never makes a mistake.
A. any rate it is right to keep our eyes on
Washington now and We of the south are with
yon in this movement.
| when was in Charleston recently saw the
city was draped with bunting and there were
| signs of festivity on all sides. asked why IL
was and was told that it was in honor of the
visit of some New Jersey militia. Even then
wondered until l was told that their New
Jersey mayor had sent down all their tents to
Charleston when her people had all been made
homeless by the earthquake. The mayor was
told that his action was Unconstitutional, but
he answered that when the constitution was
framed no one knew that Charleston would ever
be visited BY an earthquake and, constitution
or no constitution, those people down there in
to live in. And in turn the people Of Charles
| ton intended to do honor to the New Jersey
soldiery. So have come here to tell the peo-
pie that we women Of the south are loyal to the
W.C.T.U., and that never q word Of secession
has been spoken there"
| MAGNITUDE OF THE W. C. T. o. H.
Mrs. Mary T. Burt. the president of the New
York W. C. It. u, with following of Il 900 de-
voted women, was the third to speak in re-
Spouse to the addresses of welcome. She snid
| that she Ind come to listen to Mrs. Wallace and
not to trespass upon their time. But one
cannot help thinking" said Mrs. Burt, what
great thing the W. Q. T. .. Is as we see this inl-
the instrumental Gods hand for SO much good.
1t is a nebie missionary society with its band Of
missionaries encircling the earth. I hope for
better success here at the national capital than
we are having in New York at Albany. As
| came by the White House. with the wealth Of
memories that cluster around it, I. thought
with Joy of that greater day that is surely COM
| ing, when the President there will sign bill
closing every saloon in the country and freeing
| the land from thraldom."
MRS. WALLACE on CHRISTIAN MOTHERHOOD.
Mrs. Zerelda @. Wallace spoke on the subject
of Christian Motherhood" Mrs. Wallace;
who is affectionately known in the union as
Mother Wallace and whose character has been
depicted by her son the mother in '.Ben
Hur," was given perfect ovation she CAME
forward to speak Her eyes were filed with
| tears and her voice shook with emotion us she
began. MY heart is full, said she. ..And
first let me tell you OF my own experiences
during the past month. Three weeks ago
looked upon the face OF dead grandson slain
in his young manhood by the completely OF a
nation with sin, and I say shame upon the ma
ton. cursed be the nation that makes such q
scene possible. The day is surely coming when
this will all be remedied, but ere that time
| there may be a repetition of the scene. The
tight is going on and it is the duty Of every one
to tind out what his place is in the ranks Of
| battle.
IF there is q politician in this audience bid
him take warming. for nothing can stand
against the good women of the land. We are
100000 strong and think that 90 per cent of
! all the women in the country are in sympathy
with us. They may not belong to what you
are pleased to call the third party, but they are
all in favor of closing the licensed liquor sa-
looms.
ST. PAUL DEFENDED.
II have been told that the greatest enemies
of woman's freedom were st. Paul and the
liquor traffic. / want to defend st. Paul on
this ground, for there never was more fervent
defender of human liberty than he. He did not
say SO much about man suffrage nor woman
| suffrage, but in our Interpretation of what he
does say We are often wrong. In Atlanta
read the printed question. will the Bible
standY have no doubt that 1t will stand
| through all time, but some of its interpreta-
tions will not. have boundless respect for
| the inspiration of the Bible. but not 30 much
for the inspiration of the translator And
| think that some Of the interpretations Of the
attitude of st. Paul on the woman question are
| very wrong. I have been written, mn ms a
hereto because l have not accepted all
the interpretations of certain passages of
the Book. The fall Of man is
delusion. Humanity is a grade and we
must keep working upward in our efforts to
attain to a likeness 70 God. Man vas not
cursed. The earth was cursed Labor was.
not q curse. 1t was blessing. No wonder we
have symposiums on marriage a failure and
are divorces necessary when civilization has
gone 80 far astray from the oriyina, ideas OF the
ously as to the very first. principles. know