Arizona republican., 1894-05-03

The S2,224 subscription was not paid at once, but covered period of over two years. The lot cash. The union was compelled to borrow funds and pay high rate of interest. A con- sultation with many of the contributors of the funds led the union to believe the lot was too small for carrying out fully the pledges made to the donors of the funds. That is, the mainten- ance of free reading room on the ground floor with one or more stores, the rent Of which would bring in an income sufficient to keep up the reading room in good shape and enable the union in & second story to have large hall and rooms for temperance and other purposes. It is the present purpose of the union to buy "a lot and begin the erection of a free reading room and public library building without un- necessary delay. The funds now on hand are held as sacred trust and will be appropriated for the purposes originally intended and at once, unless further handicapped by untoward circumstances, such as have hindered it for nearly year past. The necessary funds can be obtained, which, with those on hand, will be sufficient to enable the union to buy cen. trally located lot, and to put up a GOOD BUILD ING.
 This was followed with a paper by Mrs. M. Quinn on the general work of the national state and local unions:
 "On every hand we hear the question asked, What is the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and what work is 1t doing in the world?' We answer :: More than any other society ever formed. The Woman's Christian Fem. perance Union is the exponent of what is best in this latter day civilization. Its scope is the broadest, it's aims are the kindest, it's history is the most he- roic. I yield to none in admiration of woman's splendid achievements in church work and the woman's foreign missionary society; but in both in- stances the denominational character of the work interferes with it's unity and breadth. The same is true of wo- mans educational undertakings, glori- ous as they are. Her many sided char ities in homes for the orphaned and in- digent, hospitals for the sick, and asylums for the old, are the admiration of all generous hearts, but these are local in their interests, and result from the loving labors of isolated groups. The same i, true of the woman's prison and industrial schools that are multiplying with such great rapidity, nor do 1 forget the sanitary work of women which gleamed like g
 heavenly rainbow on the horrid iron, of war. Neither am unmindful of the Woman's Christian Association SC
 strongly entrenched in most of our large
 cities and doing valiant service for the
 Prince of Peace or the woman's con gress with its annual meeting and wide
 outlook, but lack of local auxlliaries, ol
 the exchanges where women too pool
 or too proud to bring their ware
 before the public are helped tt put money in their purses, or tht
 state and associated charities where
 the women do all the work and tn,
 men do all the superintendence Blu
 after all is said the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, local, state and na
 tional, in it's rapid growth, being nov only twenty years old, in it's steady
 march, its multiplied auxiliaries, itl
 blessed outreaching, north, south, east
 west, and to all lands, and to all classes
 an1 to all conditions of people, it
 broad sympathies and its cordial invita-
 tion to all women who are willing t
 clasp hands in one common effort u protect their homes and loved one from the ravages of strong drink, is al organization without pattern. In tn, fullness of time this work was given t, the women of America. Preced