The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-10-19
INTO ECONOMICS
Goes Frances Willard In Her Address
To "WhiteribbOneFs."
SHE TOUCHES UPON POLITICS AND
THE COINAGE.

THE COINAGE.
Rather an Innovation in w. G. I. U. Meth
ods-Intense Enthusiasm is Manifested
| Numerous Addresses and Reports-The
Doings in Detail.
| Baltimore, October 1S.-Between five
hundred and six hundred delegates from
thirty eight states and territories, repre-
senting nearly three hundred thousand
members of the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union, congregated at Music hall
this morning to attend the 2and annual
| convention of that society. The devoted
women whose motto is ''For God and
Home and Every Land" were up with
the lark, and before half past eight
| O'Clock most of the delegates had passed
into the hall, where for the next five days
they will discuss all kinds of reforms.
Music hall was handsomely decorated,
the auditorium in which the main body
Of the convention will hold its sessions be.
ing especially attractive.
Preceding the regular session OF the
convention prayer meeting, conducted
by Mrs. j. Fowler Willing, national
evang gelist, was held in the Annex hall
| As Miss Frances E. Willard, National
| President of the army of women, entered
the main hail. she was greeted with the
| Chautuqua salute by an audience that
| filed the audi torium to overfiowing.
| Over three thousand persons had
| assembled to welcome the white robbon
delegates, making total of almost four
thousand in the hall when the convention
was called to ordor
| AS Miss Willard stepped to the front OF
the stage carrying huge bunch of La
| France roses, the audience unanimously
applauded her. Following the drop OF
| her gavel crusade psalm was read re-
sponsively, led by Mrs. Eliza Thompson
Of Hillsboro, O., who is more Familiarity
known in temperance circles as Mother
| Thompson. She began the crusade in
augurated in her home twenty one years
ago and from which arose the present W.
| G, Il, U. Mrs. Thompson is in FER S0th
year, but her powers seemed unimpaired
as she led the reading this morning.
| Mrs Henrietta /. Monroe, president OF
| the Ohio W. C. T. o., offered fervent
l
| followed by the reading OF the presidents S
annual report. 1t was literally
punctuated with applause.
MISS. WILLARD'S ADDRESS.
Miss Frances E. Willard, President Of
the Worlds and National Women's Chris
tian. Temperance Union, delivered her
sixteenth annual address. She said that
the Crusade fire is extending into the
common life of the people. There are to
be sure fewer mass meetings for pledge
signing, but the mass of the people is
signing its own pie 'ge on the bright
tablet of It's own FREE will. All of the
states and territories except two Georgia
and Arkansas) now require the teaching
OF the laws of health to all school child
times year the Sunday School. lesson
explicitly teaches total abstinence This
is another point gained by White Rib
| boners. who worked ten years for it.
| The General Assembly of the Presby
terian Church has this year declared in
| favor of non-alcoholic wine for sacra-
mental purposes.
| In the widening field of athletics all
!
| bicycle is the most influential temper
ance reformer of the times and milk is
the fayorite beverage of those who ride
to win. Men who drink take less and
more nen.do.. mot. drink at all than in any
previous year. This is the testimony OF
railway managers, life insurance agents
police captains and the general public
Steam ard electricity have put level heads
| at premium and the trend OF invention
lies parallel with the white path OF per-
sonal purity in all the habits of life. Leg
islation follows on. The Canadian Gov
ernment this year declared by an over
whelming majority in favor OF prohlbi-
tion; in South Australia and Utah
women have been admitted to 1.-The full
rights of citizens. Five legislatures last
winter voted to submit this question to
the people. In New York city reform
has forsaken the line Of least and sought
that of greatest resistance Municipal
politics in that metropolis and many
others turn on the temperance question.
The enforcement of law by Commissioner
Roosevelt and the renewed war upon
Tammany led by the redoubtable DR..
Parkh urst are the salientfeatures OF the
time.
The Prohibition party as a standard
bearer and educator forges forward on
its difficult way and colapels such denlara-
tions as that Of the Republican party IN
New York in favor of Prohloltlon one
day in seven.
The constantly increasing participation
of women in ali the affairs of the world
is Of the utmost significance for good.
But what the world waits for is not the
new woman alone but the new man.
The father alone cannot make the house
home. II he spends his leisure time in
what is now popularly known as the
Working Mans Club" disguised name
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