The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-16
curse OF civilization throughout all the ter
ritory over which your government ex-

tends.
Helen NJ. Barker the national treasurer of
the W. C. T. u, We're held at the opening
ance was again large Three addresses were
delivered. The first by Mrs. Margaret r.
Platt, of Washington. on The w Z. 4 y
of CitIzenship?' Next Mrs. Emily L. Nc
Laughlin, of Massachusetts, spoke on moral
sna s,pe Roca rsor Il arse GAVE rero
spect of the W. c. I. T., ana MADE strong
appeal for bonds to assist in building the
proposed new temperance temple in chicago.
Convention Hall was crowded by three
thousand persons at the evening session
over which Mrs. Il. Al n. stevens pres,oeu.
Mrs. Katherine Lente Stevenson. Miss Anna
Gordon read Miss Frances WIZARDS al
dress, the latter not being present. -
Miss Willard's address gave a review Oh
the work of preparing the monster petitlon
She gave the names OF some or the most
prominent of the women who went TO far
parts of the globe to gather signatures
having been occupied in the work TOR wears,
and then said, in part: The signatures
came to hand In fifty languages, .4iry are
of all sorts and sizes. and were to be
trimmed and prepared for mounting as COM
pactly as possible on interminabie webs OF
muslin, one-half yard in width, one edge of
which was bound with red, the other with
blue ribbon-red, white and blue being the
prevalent colors OF the nags OF All nations,
and the symbolic badges or the great tenn
perance movement of modern times. Mrs.
Shuman, who has had charge of this branch
n,
over one mile of canvass, making five miles
Of names solidly written, one under the
other. T1.200 in all. This is exclusive of
about $4,000 names that came from Great
of 1,121,2 actual names on the document
that will be submitted to President Cleye-
land. Besides these there are hundreds of
the long roll. Nor will we rest until we
have 100000 names besides the present
100000 additional signers by attestations.
1T must be remembered that the sigma
lures to this petition are of three kinds.
First, the names of women: second, the
written indorsements of men; third. the
attestation of officers of societies which
have indorsed the petition by resolution
otherwise. The document has been circu-
lated in fifty nations, and in the three ways
The total number of actual signatures from
outside the United States is $4,000. Great
head. leads the procession with its 35o0oO.
Canada comes next with $1,000. Burnah
follows with $1,000, and Ceylon. Australia,
Denmark, China, India and Mexico fol-
low. with all the others coming after.
ton was written. If had to rewrite it
ment of woman among the requests it
specifies, for | believe that our Heavenly
Father will not suffer men. alone to work
out the great redemption of the race from
the bewilderment of drink, the hallucina-
ton Of opium and the brutal delirium of
At the close of the reading of the adj
dress Miss Dele Kearney delivered an ad-
dress to men. She was followed by DR..
Lunn; of London, and Mrs. Baker; the ma
held that man had no right to mark out
womans sphere in the world. adam was
asleep when Eve was made" said she, land
up to take his advice in the matter" Tele-
grams of regret were read from many per-
sons who We're unable to be present, and
the proceedings closed with address by
Clara norman.