The Press., 1894-12-27

the startling fact is that to-day, one out of every five hundred of our population is a convicted criminal. If criminalty is on the increase in this country it is not the devoted women of the w. c. T. U. who are to blame, but it is the men who hold the balance of power, it is the men who hold the ballot in their hands, who are to blame for this state of affairs. The sa- loon is the cause of the population in all these institutions.-Mr Jane M. Kim1aey.
 Homes for homeless children: At the Maine convention of the w. c. T. U., the report of Miss Harriet A. Leavitt, Port land, for the department of securing homes for homeless children was ably presented and listened to with deep inter- est. She described in an interesting man. ner the method of locating needy children and the operation of the intelligence bu- reau in placing children in homes. Lew iston has furnished ninety-six weeks of board to children, rescued a young wo- man, and placed several children in good homes.
 Miss Leavitt has received from the diff ferent county Unions reports of the vari- ous local superintendents in regard to their work in this direction. Twenty six children have been placed in permanent homes, clothing has been distributed plague spots in communities have been | broken up and the children have been re- moved from contaminating influences. Over one thousand articles have been received to be distributed among needy children. Fifty children in all have been permanently benefited.
 Miss Leavitt suggested that the Union stand for private homes rather than insti- tutional homes. She believes in cooper ating with institutions so far as is practi- cable, but that the family plan more nearly solves the problem.
 | The supreme court of Indiana has ren- dered decision that it is unlawful for a woman in that state to hold a saloon li- cense, and no debt contracted by woman in that business is valid.
 | women and girls received into the w. c. T., U. Rescue Home at Eau Claire, Wis | cOnsin, are saved to better life. This result is due largely to the wise and loving J. Shaw.
 Nuggets from Miss Wizards Address.
 If were asked what would best ad- vance every good cause in this country to-day, 1 would reply, "organize as thor. oughly and on the same method, except SC far as the communism of self is concern. ed, as Tammany has organized" I With womans vote behind it, combined with that of men, the liquor traffic vii speedily find itself wandering Jew O. every cline, cast out as evil, smitten witt the righteous malediction of those forces that mean health, healing and happiness for the homes of the people in this ant every cline.
 Il Women and the saloon represent the top and the bottom of the nation. The saloon is the gambling den, the twir
 brother of the house of shame, the manu
 factory of political chaos. Women ano
 the saloon have got to meet they mus
 have one square stand-up encounter
 everything waits for it.
 "Get together" is the constant cry o
 the leaders. Fall apart," is the equall, constant watch-word of the enemy, and
 alas, their devices are apt to out-ranl harmonious councils. Human selfishnes is at the root of all this, and only as 1t i
 eradicated, neutralized, destroyed by th
 incwelling of the spirit of God, can hu
 manity progress.
 A vandal can destroy in day tempt
 that it took Phidias a lifetime to rear . Destructive criticism is always easy. Tn
 decadent philosophy popular in certai
 ti'a de siecle circles is cheap, but the build
 CTS and not the destroyers are the tru benefactors of men, and in the nature C
 things they and their work are fit to SUI j. vive, while the name of the destroyer j. fit only to perish.
 U The holy estate of motherhood mus }. always make the moral influence of tn }. mother-sex stronger conserving powe }. than any other of which humanity is cog d niZant.