Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-07-17
A BRIEF REVIEW OF OUR WORLDS
WORK.

WORK.
Below is found information that all
loyal temperance women ought to have
! If we are to know what is being done
in the wonderful w. CT. U. movement
throughout the world we can only
learn through the columns of our pa
pers and chief among them is the I'm
ion Signal from which this article is
taken
have had, within day or two, the
pleasure of ''interviewing" your chief
tian, Miss Willard, and | believe you
will appreciate brief summary of the
points made during the conversation,
The special object of the talk was to
elicit Miss Wizards views as to the
progress of the white-ribbon work
throughout the word; and naturally
she sought first for evidences which
had been brought to notice by, and
during, the great meetings of the Ma
tional British Woman's Temperance
Association. Miss Willard found, in
the presence at those meetings of some
fifteen ladies representing the W. {.
II U. interests in other countries,
strong evidence of the activity of the
society the world over These ladies
were "fraternal delegates from the w.
c. 4. U. in the United States, Tasman-
ia, New Zealand, South Africa, India,
Spain, France and Denmark, and one
and all told the same story-one of
such great progress that the two last
years have seen more growth of inter
est in the work than all the previous
years of its existence. One marked
feature is the increased interest taken
by women in securing ''the ballot" so
that through it they may help to close
the drinking places. A marked exam
pie of this is found in New Zealand, of
which colony Miss Willard speaks in
the highest terms. Mrs Sheppard, the
superintendent of franchise work, is
the leader in that reform which has
lately resulted in the enfranchisement
of women, and under her guidance the
w. G. T. U. thoroughly organized car
ried the work through, of course with
the cooperation of other societies. A
letter read the other day in a London
meeting from minister, formerly of
London, and resident in New Zealand,
put the result in a nutshell. After
speaking of the great program of tenn
perance principles, especially in wo
mems societies, he said: 'The male
politicians no longer despise them, but
stand aghast."
OF South America Miss Willard gave
me some interesting information. Miss
Alice Palmer is steadily organizing,
having for her chief coadjutors Miss
Ferguson, principal of the Huguenot
Seminary near Cape Town; Miss Pride,
in charge of similar institutions; Miss
Cummings, who has organized the Y
work; Miss Solomons, who conducts
the press department, and Mrs. An
drew Murray, at the head of the purity
work. The latter is the wife of
clergyman, a we'll known writer. Sew
eral of these ladies were among the
guests of the B. w. T. A. at their re-
cent meetings.
The special effort now being made
in South Africa has relation to the
continuance of the inquitous G. ID.
Acts, and thorough organization of
public sentiment is being sought so as
to do away with them. In London last
week an influential deputation, headed
by Lady Henry Somerset and Miss
saw Sir Henry Lock, the gov
ernor of the Colony, and urged upon
him the Importance of taking action
in the direction desired. He is believ-
ed to be opposed to- the Acts. From
the two seminaries named there go out
year by year numbers of young women
will help to spread them by carrying
them into their homes in the Trans
vaal and Orange Free State, as we'll as
Cape Colony The method and spirit
of the w. c. T. U. is also reaching the
Dutch Beers through their own daugh-
tiers. The separate w. c. T. M. of
South Africa will at their next meet
ings be federated as "National."
They have added another to the forty
or more newspapers published in diff
ferent countries in the w. c. T. U. in
terest.
Miss Willard also speaks of the sew
en- years. work of Miss Alderman,
which has resulted in thorough in
PRODUCTION of the white ribbon move
ment in Australia. Editors, ministers,
and publicists admit that the w. c. I.
U. is the strongest force for Christian