The Press., 1893-11-09
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Alien w est was neld, Mrs. Cnalka Saku raj, our little Japanese sister, giving tn address. Her words were few, but full o sympathy. She closed with an appeal fo help in the temperance restaurant build ing which the women of Japan are tryin to rear as memorial to Miss West.
 There was no more interesting featur of the meeting than the reports of tn und-the-world missionaries. Miss Jes sic Alderman, second in the list of thes intrepid women, has tied the white ribbol on to seven thousand women. She spok
 with great feeling of the way in which tn crimes of so-called christian nations hand icapped hel in her work. An intelligen Chinaman sent her to the fearful opium dens, where his countrymen and womel
 were ruined, saying these were the worl of a christian nation; she need neve press her christianity upon an intelligen Chinaman. One high caste Hindue aske, her why in England opium was sold onl,
 with physicians prescription and mark ed poision, while in India the sane gov ernment dealt it out as food for the peo pie. Another said: "You call us heath ems, but heathens as we are, we have nev CT legalized vice as 8 christian nation has Our women may be immoral, but the. were never so by the sanction of law"
 Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew anC Dr. Kate Bushnell told of their faith jour ney, when they went out without purse ol script and yet lacked nothing. Most thrill ing of all was their account of the delicate and difficult mission committed to then by the British government to learn if, as was suspected, the military authorities ir India utterly disregarded the command o parliament that the atrocious contagious diseases act should be abrogated in India as it had been in England. Several com. missions had been sent out before, but had utterly failed to secure the necessary evidence, though there were many reasons to believe that the system was in active operation. These two women, without resorting to the usual detective methods of falsehood and crime, secured the evi- dence wanted, evidence so overwhelming that when it was presented, Lord Rob- erts, commander-in-chief of the British army iE India, publicly acknowledged the truth of their statements and apologized for having at first denied them.
 As Lady Henry Somerset said:. ''No women have ever done a nobler work for women than these two consecrated round the-world missionaries.
 The worlds convention closed Tuesday evening, and the national opened Wednes- day morning. For the first time since her election fourteen years ago our chieftaln was absent Mrs. Caroline B. Buell., by virtue of her office as corresponding sec- retary, presided. It would be difficult to find presiding officer superior to Mrs. Buell.. The convention did an act of sim pie justice when Friday afternoon it car ried enthusiastically vote of thanks for the admirable way in which she had pre- sided. The vote was put by Lady Henry Somerset, who said that she could appre- ciate the difficulties of presiding over such a body, and she wanted to say that she never saw the task better done than it had been by Mrs. Buell..
 The chief business of the morning ses- sion was the reading of Miss Willard's annual address. It was read in most effective way by Lady Henry. The ad- dress was listened to with the closest at tention and interrupted occasionally with enthusiastic applause.
 Wednesday afternoon was devoted chiefly to reports of superintendents. Mrs. Catherine McClees, superintendent of legislation and petitions, gave some ex- cellent practical advice as to ways of pre- pairing bills and getting them before leg islatures. Interesting reports were made from other departments which it is not possible to summarize.
 Wednesday evening was occupied with addresses of welcome. Mrs. Rounds, pres dent of Illinois W. c. T, U., welcomed the convention in the name of the sixteen thousand white-ribboners of Illinois.
 Mrs. Carse expressed her sorrow that it was not possible for the women of Chica- go to welcome the convention to their homes, as they had done twice before. But the housewives of Chicago were in about the position of the ancient dame who lived in her shoe, Since Chicago had become the worlds fair city and the railroads had put down the fair to cent 8 mile, it was impossible for any one to imagine how many relations the women of Chicago had found. There was noth- ing ever like it since the locusts swarmed down upon the unfortunate Egyptians.
 Thursday mornings session and a con- siderable part of the afternoon session were given to the discussion of the tenn perance temple. The board of temple trustees and Mrs. Carse's lawyer, MT. Moses, Pam Kennedy, answered all of the questions put to them by members of the convention. If any one who was pres ent does not now fully understand the status of the temple, it would be difficult to make her understand it, after this dis cussion, which was carried on in a most admirable manner. We strongly recom- mend that some of our brother conven- tions take pattern. We have never hap pened to know of any body of men dis cussing a subject concerning which there was radical difference of opinion and SC much feeling, with such equanamity and good humor. Mrs. Buell's merits as pre- siding officer never appeared to better ad. vantage. Her rulings were so strictly i'm partial and marked by such an evident desire to be- just to both sides as made them beyond criticism.
 The report of the committee on creden tials made the splendid showing of foul hundred and fifty voting delegates pres ent. Of these, forty were state presidents
 Election of officers was the great event of Friday. As usual, Miss Willards ma