River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-24
MISS FRANCES e. WILLARD.

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MISS FRANCES e. WILLARD.
ago, and from which rose the present !
w. C. Il. U. Mrs. Thompson is in her |
sOth year, but her powers seemed un- |
impaired as she led the reading Friday |
morning.
Mrs. Henrietta l.. Monroe, president |
of the Ohio w. c. Il. o., offered a fer |
vent invocation. Some routine bust |
ness was followed by the reading of |
the presidents annual address, which
was, in part, as follows:
Miss Wizards Address.
Civilization is but Christianity's effect |
on the brain and hands OF the race; SCI |
ence ana invention its twin daugh- !
tiers, and both lend the totality OF their |
influence against the practice OF stmu- |
latiOn. All OF the states and territories ex- |
cept two Georgia and Arkansas) now require |
the teaching of the laws of health |
to all school children, beginning with |
the youngest Mrs. Mary H. Hunt heads |
this movement the representative OF the |
womans Christian Temperance union Four
times a year the Sunday hool lesson ex- |
plicitly teaches total abstinence This Is an |
other point gained by white-ribboners, who |
worked ten years for It
The general assembly OF the Presbyterian |
church has this year declared In favor OF nom |
"In the widening field OF athletics all stimu- |
lation is discounted The bicycle is the most
influential temperance reformer OF the
time. and milk is the favorite beverage
of those who ride to win Legtsla-
ton follows on after individual progress |
The Canadian parliament this year de-
clared by an overwhelming majority in |
favor OF prohibition; in South Australia |
and Utah women have been admitted TO
the full rights of citizens Five legislatures |
laa ,xin n
ton to the people In New York city |
reform has forsaken the line of least and
sought that OF greatest resistance. Munich |
pal politics in that metropolis and many |
others turn on the temperance question. The
enforcement of law by Commissioner Rooss-
welt and the renewed war upon Tammany, led
by the redoubtable DR. Parkhurst, are the sa-
lient features of the time.
"Tne action OF che Methodist conferences
in voting TO admit women TO the general con-
ference is the largest straw on the currens of
the times The woman's department. of the
Atlanta exposition and the great con-
gress IS of women held in the farther south
are other tokens hardly less significant A
union os reform forces is contemplated, and
the leaders have agreed to a basis which is
commended to the goodwill of all white rib
bon women
tine labor mo, ement is the natural ally of
the white r4bboners. The working class
are the only true sristocrats. Roman
Catholic young women OF Danbury,
Conn, have formed society OF
members pledged not to marry any man who
is not strict abstainer. The unfading hope
OF the social purity movement was set forth
in the resolution unanimously adopted by our
London convention in June last"
Miss Willard closed her review of the
woman question with these words:
"In primitive days we had the matrt-
Archaic which means the rule OF the
mothers, and now for a painfully length
ened period We have had the patriarchate'
or the rule OF the fathers; but we begin TO
see the dawn of the amphiarchate. or the joint
rule of joint world by the joint forces OF its
mothers and its fathers Happy are they who
put their sturdy shoulders to the wheels OF
this white chariot Of the sun "
An important part of the address was
devoted to the situation in Armenia,
and an urgent plea was made for the
united efforts of women in collecting
funds and circulating petitions for the
relief of ''our well-nigh martyred Chris
tian neighbors in Asia Minor"
In the midst of her address, while
recommending a continuance of total
abstinence on the part of every dele
gate, Miss Willard requested every
woman present to arise and thereby in
dictate their willingness to renew the
pledge. Every woman in the house,
delegates and visitors as well, arose,
while great enthusiasm prevailed in
every direction.
New star SpangIed Banner.
A handsome white silk banner, bear
ing fifty gilt staI7, representing the
states and territories wherein the w.
c. L. u. have representation, was pre-
scented to Miss Willard by Mrs. w. Jen
nings Demorest, chairman of the
executive committee, of Sorosis,
n. Y. This beautiful emblem was
waved TO and fro by Miss Willard and
Mrs. Eliza Thompson, while Mrs. Kath
arine Baldwin, of New York, niece of
the national president, sang the re-
Gently composed song, 1.-The White
Ribbon Star Spangled Banner" the
first verse of which is:
| Filing it out TO the breeze Let It tell to the
world
That the faith which has raised it will never
surrender;
| Let it tell that the love which our banner TN
furled
Is the guard of the home and the nations
defender.
Let it CLEAN as a star for the shipwrecked
afar.
Like beacon that warns of the treacherous
Tar;
Let that banner of freedom and purity
AS a signal of hope midst the perils we
brave"
The enthusiasm was beyond descrip-
! ton as the throng arose and sang the
! closing stanza of the hymn. A cable
gram of greeting from Lady Henry
Somerset, of England, was read.
At the afternoon session two impor-
tant resolutions were presented and
adopted. Mrs. A. 5. Benjamin, of
| Michigan, offered a resolution de-
nouncing lynching and other lawless
practices in our own or any other
country, and declaring the belief that
when women have share in making
the laws such atrocities will disappear
| from the face of the earth.
Methods Of promoting our prin-
| ciples" brought forth a number of
papers. and each speaker was allowed
en- minutes to present her views.
CoIored People Aroused.
Work among colored people was
talked about by Mrs. Lucy Thur
man (colored), of Jackson, Mich.
During the year, she said, more head
way had been made in the work
than in any other like period. Forty
unions of colored wome had been or
ganized in the south, but more active
work yet was needed. Among the ten
millions of her race in this country,
/ Mrs. Thurman said, there was not one
/ distiller or brewer; something that
could be said OF no other race.
After the Smokers.
The superintendent of the narcotics
department, Mrs. Z. b. Ingalls,, of st.
Louis. said that more persons were
interested in the movement than ever
before, and that reformers are be-
ginning TO realize that soothing
sir,lps. headache medicine and the Gig
arctic lead to the use of opium, choral
and other drugs. Many men, she said,
J were giving up the use of tobacco. Leo