Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-05-26
Annual Address of the Presi-
dent, Mrs. L. S. Mount.
An Able Paper, Replete with
Wise Thoughts and Timely
Suggestions.
Prohibition is the Goal, and
Not High License.
Read Before the Ninth State
Convention at COrinth.


we should thank God and
take courage, for the work and
influence of the Woman's Christ
ian Temperance Union is stead
lily growing even in the face of
much opposition, sometimes from the
friends of prohibition as we'll as its
foes. If we can always bear with
patient sweetness this opposition and
Misrepresentation we win friends. l
believe that every attack from re-
ligious paper helps us forward, be-
cause it gets the principles for which
we stand before the minds of the
Christian church and in this there is
great gain. Some of our most earnest
and most sincere women, who walked
not with us for few years, have re-
Gently returned to the ranks. We
were never separated in heart, but we
saw things differently for awhile, and
perhaps still do, but are now content
to allow each other freedom of opinion
on minor points, knowing that on the
great subjects of temperance and
Christianity We are one.
During last year many new Unions
were organized and some torpid ones
revived through the efforts of Mrs.
Goodale, Mrs. Wells and Miss Belle
Kearney. Our roll of Unions and
Young Women's Unions now numbers
one hundred. 1t is impossible for
your president and corresponding sec
retary to write regularly to all these,
and yet have time to devote to plans
for the general good and further de-
velopment of the work. 1t is there
fore necessary that the organization OF
these Unions into districts with pres
ident for each be at once perfected
We made beginning in this direc-
ton last year, but our Unions were
then so scattered that it amounted to
little. / have made study of the
map of Mississippi in connection with
our directory and find we have in
each congressional district, which was
the division of the State adopted. a
sufficient number of Unions to form an
interesting convention. There is also
in each of these districts unoccupied
territory. and if active presidents can
he secured it will be easy to again
double the number of Unions in the
next year.
During the past few years the Mis-
sissippi w. c. T. U. has undertaken
two great projects; one, to publish a
paper devoted entirely to the interests
of temperance and reform and kind
red topics, the cause womanhood and
childhood, and the other, to purchase
lot and build a State Home as the
center from which should radiate help
and cheer to all our workers. 1t may
seem that these undertakings have
failed, but lido not think so. Our ed
itor, Mrs. Kells, was sought by the
National Union and transplanted to a
wider field, but the White Ribbon had
always been run at loss, which
brought us in debt, and it would have
been better if we had suspended soon
er, although its less has been serious
Inconvenience to US. We hope, how
ever, to resume its publication shortly.
We were only able to pay part oi
the second note on our Headquarters
lot in jackson and had it not been for
the generosity of our kind friend,
Henry Ware, who again came to oui
help with a timely loan, We would
have lost it. These things are not to
be taken as discouraging. They only
show that as yet there are not enough
of us, not that zeal, energy and self
sacrifice are wanting. Our womer
have done nobly for their numbers
and the amount of this worlds goods
they represent. At the National Con
vention in Boston when some of tn.
presidents of the great Northern
States were telling of their fine organ
izations, the large sums expended an,
the amount Of work done, Mrs. Hoff
man, Missenri's president (who was a