Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-29
THE woMAN's TEMPLE.
CnICAGo. Sept. 18th. 1892

DEAR hEAbtkS- nave never
made an appeal through your columns
for the greatest of our enterprises,
the Woman's Temperance Temple at
Chicago, now about completed and
declared to be the most attractive bus
mess building in the world. Besides
being the headquarters of the Ma
tional w. G.. Il. L. and the Woman's
Temperance Publishing House, it is
also used as Banking and Office
building, four of Chicago's largest
banks having their quarters in it. The
rent roll from the building already
amounts to $4,000 although it has
only been occupied since the first of
May. When it is entirely filled, which
we expect will be within year, its
rental will he something over 200. 200
annually. The Temple has front
age on La Sale street of 1876 feet and
is Is stories high. 1t contains IL beau
tiful memorial hall on the ground floor.
lIclc every day in the year will ascend
prayer and supplication for the saliva
ton of the drumkard, and the speedy
overthrow of that traffic which is the
worlds greatest curse. Withini its sal
cred precincts the wandercr far from
home, amid temptation, will find its
doors ever open, with mOtherly and
sisterly hearts and hands ready to help
and lead the crring to Him who can
save to the uttermost.
The capital stock of the Temple is
$500, 900: we are using every effort to
gain possession of the entire stock, for
of course, those who hold the stock
receive the income from the rentals
and are the true owners of the build
Ing. We are glad to say that through
gifts from our white ribbonrrS and the
sale of Temple trust bonds, Mrs. Ma
tlda b. Carsc and her Board of Trus-
tees now hold for the National w. c.
L. t. 1913, 200 worth of stock, almost
half of the entire capital.
The object of this letter is to ask
your influence and help for the
Womam's Christian Temperance Tn
ion, which has done So many helpful
things for every temperance paper in
the land, always showing IL sisterly
journalistic and otherwise, that prom
ised help to the temperance reform
We believe that the editor will be will
ling and glad to print this letter. We
wish to ask if there are not scores and
hundreds among the readers of thi,
paper, who will be glad to send one
dollar to Miss Esther Pugh, Treasurer
of the National w. L. G. t., til,
Woman's Temple, Chicago, as Il tokel
rf IN
ment whereby the Worlds and Ma
tional w. I. c. L. have beautiful
home for their work and prospec
of such sure income from rents as shall
enable them greatly to enlarge ant
strengthen the movement which i:
now extending, not only Throughout
our own land but to every corner Ot
the civilized world. \ dollar is bu
little for any one of us to give, Will,
the aggregate of these small gifts, j
promptly sent, would make the Tenn.
pie our own before the National Con
vcntion meets in Denver, Colorado
October 2Sth, 1892.
1t is II moderate request that make
here and now. but represents pur
pose and power for the great society
which must have. not only name
but local habitation; not only al
inward spiritual life, but outward
form and substance. The world ha
never had an object lesson in phlan
thropy that appealed so strongly t.
the eye as this noble pile standing OF
one of ChicagO'S most notable streets
not Il stones throw from the Cham
Der of Commerce, and capable o
bringing i'll such Il noble revenue
Th 5 however, cannot he done unit
we own all the stock. VIII you not
good friend and brother earnest heart
ed white ribbon sister, who ever YOU
may be, purchase post office orde1
for one dollar, the next time you have
an opportunity, and let it go in tt
swell the constantly deepening cur
rent of that money power which mus
he an element in every good cause
as we'll as every evil undertaking on
the face of the earth The touch o
that tabled king, Midas. turned every
thing to gold; give us this littl,
wedge of gold, and we will turn it in
to everything good for the great re
form that means purity and patriot
ism, progress and prohibition, healtl
and happiness.
Yours for God and Home and Every
Land, FRANCIS +. WILLARD.