The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-11-16

president S1lQ-
'The call for compulsory arbitration
resulting from the Pullman strike Will,
if il is but needed. be worth TO this
country ali that the strike cost financial
ly and every other way. Peace and ar
bitratiOn are the watchwOrd of the white
ribbon movement"
he position taken by the labor unions
in deplOring the dispositions Of those in
authority TO increase and centralize the
number of state and federal troops, to
multiply costly and medieval armories,
thereby making more heavy the burden
Of taxation which at the last must be
borne by the producing classes, was
heartily endorsed
'sAs John Burns says: We must rev0-
lutiOnize by reform. not seek 70 reform
by revolution We make a great ado
about the anarchists. but the public
house is the headquarters OF the an
archists and alcohol is the worlds dyna-
mite.
1T is probable that we have not in this
country a more skillful specialist on the
labor question than Mrs. Josephine Shaw
Lowell of New York, chairman of DR..
Parkhurst's committee of women. She
believes there IL no remedy to be found
for the workers except organized unity
Of action, and that labor and capital must
combine in adjusting their difficulties.
EOards of Cancellation and arbitration
will, she thinks, supply the missing link
for which we have looked so long.
I'VE have had the Christianity Of sen
timent of theology. of ecclesiasticisIn,
but the present age has the happiness to
witness the Christianity Of conduct. We
are learning that real religion IS not the
accep ptance Of any dogma, but the recog
milton Of Christ's life in the heart aud
home, in society and the state.
"a law is pending in Great Britain
which ought TO be duplicated here, by
which industrial homes for 'salcoholites7
III fe.. r. q er.
We are rapidly approaching the time
when drunkenness viii no longer be toll
Grated, for it is becoming understood
that the danger involved IN harbOrIng
the drunkard in the home is as great as
if he were lunatic The
state must relieve the home of
this unroleraOle bondage, must
relieve the drunizard from the Overtower-
ing TEN ptation and must set him AT work
to earn his own living Every State
W. Q. T. L. is urged to petition the
legislature for an appropriation to this
end
halfway measures blur the straight
line Of ethical perception and set back
movements that can only be carried to
success by out and out methods The
w. c. T. Z. is the old guard that never
surrenders. 1t is not beguiled by high
license nor by tax; by the Iowa mulct
law nor the south Carolina dispensary;
by non partisanism nor the Scandinavian
system
"Tne w. c. r. r. is forging forward
with the years along lines Of preven-
ton. and except the department of her
edity there is none that goes nearer the
root of the matter than the department
of scientific cookery. Mrs. Ole all and
her cOadiutOrs have laid broad fOunda-
tions for this department Until the
.happenstance' Of cookery is changed to
the circumstance of scientific diet
FOR halrrfnl in
this regard. and am free to say that I
look forward to the time when cooking
shall be conducted as carefully the
most important chemical processes Of the
laboratory and shall be wholly in the
hands of scientific experts.
.'The work Of women is the most
unique feature Of the recent great cleo
tions. 1t is freely admitted that they had
much to do with the downfall Of the
Tammany ring-it was largely a case of
'the lady and the tiger" with no doubt
as to which came out of the contest
ahead. La Illinois the women voted by
tens Of thousands; in Colorado the Pro-
hibttion party was raised from I, 200 at
tile last election from seven to ten thous-
and; and it is the universal testimony
that the presence of women at the polls
led to a much larger vote by men and
secured the best order ever known.
The Republican party did itself dam
age by assisting the Democrats to vote
down the acknowledgements of women IN
Kansas, but illustrated its progressive
tendencies by putting plank in its plat
form in favor of woman suffrage in the
states of California, Idaho and Utah
In conclusion the president said:
Il remember that no one subject puz-
zled or vexed me more in my youthful
days than why il was that men could
range the whole world at their will,
and then have the home beside, while
women did not have the world but the
home only. l did not think this fair.
and never have and never shall. and
I think those early bro0dings over the
subject helped to determine my voca-
ton. for / resolved to build IN my life
to help make the world 50 hOmelike
that women could freely GO out into it
everywhere. side by side with men,
and also help TO bring it about that men
should share in larger measure than they
have ever yet done in the hallowed min
istratiOns of the fireside and the cradle
to reach their highest and hOliest develop
ment
TO save the holy land Of home,
make our high crusaie.
Our leader .Judah's lion heart
On whom our trust is stayed
In the course of her address Hiss VIII
lard referred to the non partisan W. G.
T. L. and sent it greeting with the wish
that the two great bodies may come to-
gether This expression was endorsed
by the convention
Again when Miss Willard spoke of the
announcement Of Breckinridre and the
dethronement Of Tammany tiger, the
applause was tremendous The mere
mention Of Lady Henry Somerset evoked
a storm Of applause
After a vote Of thanks to Miss Willard,
Mrs. Alice Harris, national superinten