Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-06-13

OF Mrs. Iayinia =. Mount, Gfeslutht "l
Mississippi W. c. r. T., Delivered
Before the state Convention at
GreenvIIIe May ), 1898.
Concluded from last reek.
The state corresponding secretary
elected last May, our dear Mrs. Har
per, was unable through manifold Attic
lions to perform the duties of her OF
flee, and in December | induced Mrs
Mary Inge Hoskins, of Lexington, tc
undertake the work, though her hands
seemed already full. Her report will
show how faithfully she has worked
Mrs. Harper prepared program for
a social meeting for every month IL
the year. believing that these meetings
would do great good. Mrs. HOskins
added program for monthly bust
ness meeting. They have been neatly
printed and mailed to each union, and
we trust, have been useful.
The little book of laws from the Re
vised Code that | promised you has
not yet materialiZed, but we trust II
will soon.
Our state evangelist, Mrs. Smell. has
given three weeks to work i'll Mlssis
sippi, and wherever she went has done
good for the cause. Miss Kearney has
also been at work for several weeks
and we expect a good report from her
Mrs. Smell was taken ill, and being I'M
able to fill all her appointments, Mrs.
Hoskins bravely took up the work in
this to her untried field. She sue
ceeded finely and organized four I'M
ions in less than week
The debt to our good brother Henry
Ware is still unpaid, but as union we
have pledged ourselves not to let him
lose by his generosity, and the lot in
Jackson is worth more than we owe. |
would advise giving up the struggle to
pay for it, but property is down i'll Jack
son, now, and it would not bring its
value. 1t is in most desirable locali-
ty and should not be sacrificed. If all
the unions will adopt the plan of month
ly social meetings with small fee for
simple refreshments and divide the
proceeds between the state and local
union we can easily in one year pay all
we owe and have a surplus in the treas
ury. was authorized at last conven-
ton to sell the property of the White
Ribbon which succeeded in doing i'll
J January for $3.50 s 100 cash and the
balance in two equal payments at four
and eight months with interest. This
was not the value of the outfit, but as
time was passing and offers for it few,
l was glad to take it. ] paid the $ 100
to Mr.. Ware and will turn over the
rest to him as it is received. Our
thanks are due Hon. Charlton AleXan-
der for help in the transaction.
There is yet no prospects of reSum-
ing our state paper, although the work
suffers from it's loss. | have never
thought that one Southern State could
successfully carry on paper. but l am
sure that by the combined efforts of
several it could be done. | have been
told that there is a lady in Alabama
who has plans for such an organ. and |
invited her to meet with us, but had no
response. Meantime our kind friend,
Mr.. b. L. Hobbs, has resumed the pub
LEGATION of The LEADER, and has offer
ed us space in it. Louisiana's W. c. L.
U. will also be privileged to represent
its work through the columns of THE
LEADER.
A member of union in one of the
largest towns in the State where IA Kee-
ley institute is located, having seen
with pain the names of its graduates
signed to petitions for license, has sug-
gested that memorial be prepared, ad-
dressed to them, and requesting that
hereafter they do not sign these petit
tons. 1t seems to me this is practical
and proper, and hope this convention
will take steps to put this at once into
effect. Surely, never was the old adage
more fully proven that IAN ounce of
prevention is worth pound of cure"
than in this case. While the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union is in SYM
pathy with the Kelley cure and re-
joices that so many who were once
slaves to the dread habit are now free,
we cannot think they are, or ever will
be what they might have been if they
had never known the curse. But, grant
ing that man may be fully restored
physically, mentally and morally, is
there any golden elixir with which to
make reparation to those who love him
for their sufferings during the period
of his debasement ? Can the memory
of that time be blotted from the heart
of his wife? Perhaps in those years
the gray heads of father and mother
went down to the grave. He would be
willing to give his life to lift those
shamed heads and restore pride to
the broken heart. But it cannot be.
Darker yet and more hopeless is the
fact that in the years of his slavery
children were brought into the world.
Children with right to be well-born,
have come with diseased bodies and
depraved appetites, whose lives will be
a constant struggle against the evil in
them. What can bichloride of gold do
for them All honor to DIR. Kelley
and his co, laborers. God give them
abundant success in their work of gath
ering up the fragments of ruined lives.
They cannot restore the dead to life
or bring again the vanished years with
all their possibilities for noble, useful
an happy manhood.
Our beloved president, Frances
Willard. went from us for time and
the earth has seemed lonely with her
50 far away. but we are glad to know
that in the sisterly care of gentle Lady
Henry Somerset she is growing sooth-
ed and rested after the great bereave-
ment of last year. We hope that when
she returns the lines of suffering will
have passed from the dear face of our
leader. Our hearts have glowed with
pride as we have read of the demon
STATIONS in her honor rendered by the
noblest of earths good men and wo-
men. Among the receptions given her
none has pleased me more that that at
Csty Road Chapel by representative of