Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-05-07
r0R TEN PERANcE.
Appeal of Miss Frances e. Willard TO
Local Unions of the w. c. 4. U.

Appeal of Miss Frances Il. willard to
Local Unions of the w. c. Il. U.
Belo0ed Comrades and Friends: As
you know, the Worlds w. Q. r. U.
convention is to be held in Boston,
November 18th, 1891, on the day pre-
ceding that Of the National w. @. T. U.
AS president of the society am obliged
to expend a large amount for postage,
stationery, clerk hire, &C., and have
not a penny in the treasury with which
to meet the bills. | am confident this
state Of things will not continue when
the auxiliaries in our own and other
countries know that l have been from
the first greatly straitened In my effort
TO carry out my plans as president. Ii
the dues "a cent a year from each mem
Der of local unionl had been paid, l
should not find myself in my present
dilemma, but our members have not yet
formed the habit of paying these dues.
Hoping and expecting to resign my of
| flee when the convention shall have met
in the autumn, | most earnestly desire
TO do this without entailing any bill Of
expense on the new administration.
| Indeed, rather than this should be /
will pay the bills out of my own earn
| ings. 1t is however, true, that the
| calls upon me are SO numerous that
am never able to meet current ex-
penses with my current income. This
| is the first time in my II years of tenn
| perance work that | have ever made
any appeal for help. Many times I
have asked for others, but not for my
self, nor do 1 now ask as a personal
matter, but only as president of the
Worlds w. q. II. u, and at the close
thereof take collection, frankly
stating these circumstances, and if you
choose, read this letter to the audience.
! am sure that such a meeting will DO
Of unquestioned benefit to your work
by showing your large affiliations with
the sisterhood Of white-ribboners in
every country. Whatever increases the
cosmopolitan as against the provincial
spirit is Of decided value to every per-
son thus helped to wider outlook, and
to every society thus related to great
humanitarian interests. This is the
age when the solidarity of human
thought is taking the name of a univer-
sal brotherhood, rendered possible by
the development Of the gospel of Christ
in human hearts, customs and laws.
! VIII you not, therefore, on Sunday, the
gath of May, have tho proposed meet
ing, carry out the programme given be-
low, circulate the great petition, with
which we wish to festoon fremont
Temple, Boston, at the Worlds w. CT.
U. convention, before mentioned, and
also to give out copies of the Union
Signal, which we will try to adopt espe-
cially for the occasion2 As you know,
our paper is the organ of the Worlds
w. 9. 7. u, and we will arrange to
have the number for May 14th, of espe-
cial interest and value for the public
meeting. Please notice that this meet
ing is in the interest of total abstinence
and the universal outlawing of the
liquor traffic and the opium trade, also
for the uplifting of mankind to the level
Of the White Cross Pledge, and the pro-
lection Of the home from its two allied
enemies, intemperance and impurity.
Yours, in the love Of God, of humanity
and our sacred cause,
FRANCES e. WILLARD,
President Worlds w. @. i. U.