Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-30
TIE NATIONAL W. @. t. U.
In Session at Denyer-Frances Il. Will
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lard's Report-How West Virginia
stands.
DENVER, Col, October 2S-Trinity
Methodist Church was crowded to-day
with delegates 10 the nineteenth annual
convention of the w. Z. 7. l. After a
brief prayer offered by Lady Somerset,
Miss Willard, President of the Associa-
ton, read her annual report. She said;
1t has been stated by military experts
that forty well trained soldiers are able TO
resist III, 600 vino have no discipline. If the
temperance army, compared with the great
army of the world, Is as small as this com
parisOn. the figures 40 and eco would in
dictate. and no doubt it is. we must remem-
Der that those who have their hearts set as
a flint, those whose eyes look straight on
and who have caught step one with anoth-
er so that they march in an unbrOken host,
must in the nature of things make mighty
iuroads on the great mobocracy of thought
less ignorant, careless opponents, who. eX-
cept when they are drinkers and sellers Of
drink, need but the arrest OF thought TO
bring them 10 our ranks. II is for this rea-
son that the wOman's temperance move
meut is without a parallel and without a
PEER
After charging that the 1900 saloons Of
New York controlled the votes of 10000
power la the State, she said:
"Of these 5000 Saloons 1900 are under
mortgage to twenty Wholesale brewers
and distillers, so we have twenty men who
can swing the vote Of New York City, and
as the city goes, so goes the State, and as
the State goes, so goes the nation
Again she said:
1T is idle TO say that the Prohibition
movement is not one of continual progress.
We admit that we have passed the stage Of
enthusiasm and are now advancing with
the sturdy steps of veterans The province
of Manitoba, by q plebiscite, has
recently declared by q large majority
in favor Of Prohibition, and its legisla-
ture is practically certain to pass law to
that effect. South Carolina has shown its
colors IN a similar fashion, though by a
different method, and is likely to be the
next State falling into line for freedom
from the sway of the saloon. Kansas Re-
publiCans have come out nobly for q con-
stitutiOnal amendment that shall give
women the full ballot. That means prohi-
btiCn, universally enforced. May the
movement become general"
Miss Willard took strong ground in favor
of closing the Worlds Fair on Sunday,
and urged the building up Of local auXilia-
~ Unions.
The report or the National secretary OF
the National w. G. 7. o., Mrs. Caroline
B. Buel, shows that the Union is in a most
fiourishing condition. Total number of
auxiliaries, including Y's. 1857; total
membership of Us, 1853; num-
Der OF Y unions, 156; total
membership, 1865; number of coffee
houses restaurants, friendly houses and
feeding rooms PSI; money raised by local
unions 1886. 243. Il; money raised Oy State
unions Sl23S19.49' money paid national in
dues $l2, STOP; money paid national for
other purposes 81, 5IL32.
Tho report of the unions in West Vlr-
GINA shows: AuXiliaries and Y's SO,
membership Cos; received by State unions
S61.5O.
The first work Of the convention was to
make achange ia the constitution, making
the National Secretary or Superintendent
Of the Young Women's branch, a member
of the Executive Committee Mother
Stewart, of Ohio, the originator Of the
crusade movement. spoke of the work be-
ing done by the Union. Department re-
ports were then given.