The evening times., 1895-10-18

NcSNcuJ OI tue OT&dulzhtlOn ETt
sents Her Annual Report.
Baltimore, Nd, Oct. 1S.-Between SOC
and 600 delegates from thirty eight
States and Territories, representing nearly
three hundred thousand members OF the
Woman's CHRISTIAN Temperance Union
congregated at Music Hall this morning
to attend the twenty second annual con
ventiop of that society
The devoted women whose motto .1a
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 kinGs ol
reforms
Music Hall was handsomely decorated
the auditorium, in which the main body
OF the conversion Ill holds its issssieas
being especially attractive. The stage
was beautifully decorated with palms and
American flags In the center of a par
ticulrly large flag suspended over the
stage was The color OF the UnioD-a pure
white bow of enormous size.
On the front platform were the letters "W.
G. T. o." In autumn leaves, pierced with a
mammoth palm of victory. In the gallery
at the rear of the hali there were countless
nodding plants, which filled the air with
their fragrance.
Preceding the regular session of'the con-
vention aprayer meeting, conducted by
Mrs. j. Fowler Willing, national evangel-
isl was held in the annex hall.
MISS w1LLARD's RECEPTION.
As Miss Frances E. Willard, national
president of the army Of women. entered
the main hall. she was greeted with the
chautauqua salute by an audience that
filled the auditorium to overflowing. Over
5000 persons had assembled TO welcome
the white ribbon delegates, making total
OF almost 1000 in the hall when the con-
vention was called to order.
As Miss willard stepped to the front
of the stage. carrying huge bunch OF
La France roses. the audience tumultu-
ousiy applauded her.
Following the drop OF her gavel a cru
sade psalm was read responsively, led by
Mrs. Eliza Thompson. OF Hilisboro, Ohio.
who is more Familiarity known in temper
ance circles as Mother Thompson
She began the crusade inaugurated In
her home tweHty-one years ago. and from
which arose the present W. c. T. q. Mrs
Thompson Ia in her eightieth year, but
her powers seemed nnimpaired as she led
the reading this morning.
IlTs L. hOhlpts VI
the Ohio W. C. T. u, offered fervent
Invocation. Some routine business was
followed by the reading of the presidents
annual report. 1t was iiberaiiy punctuated
with applause.
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
As TO the progress of the reform. Miss
Willard held that 1.-THE light On the picture
has broadened from the intense Rembrandt
ray OF the Crusade TO the broad Raphaeles-
que Hight of Do.ntfde. Even as Cnristia nifty
was brought to a white heat IN the upper
room at Pentecust, but now warns the
customs and iIiunincs ire laws OF Christian
nations, SO the Crusade fire is extending
into the common life OF the people. There
are fewer mass-mcetings for pledge-sign-
Ing, hut the muss OF the people is signing
its own pledge on the bright tablet of its
own free viii.
I'm the widening field of athletics all
stimulation is discounted. The bicycle is
the most influential temperance reforner
OF the time, and milk Is the favorite
beverage OF those who ride to win. Men
who drink take less, and more men de- not
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 and electricity
have put level heads a a premium, and the
trend OF invention lies parallel with the
white path of personal purity in all the
habits of life.
The constantly increasing participation
or women in all the affairs of the world is
oil the utmost significance for good. When
WOMAN is transplanted from the conserva
tories of seelusion into the great open gar
den of common life, the culture of that gar
den must become more refined and ts1'ur-
pose more protecting. Mother and Child
are rapidly taking their rigbtful place as
the central figures of the great world prob
lem. Peace in the government and purity
in the home must be their guardian n angels.
.The labor movement IL the natural ally
of the wv hite Ribboners." The working
class are the only true aristocrats. The
time IS not distant when those who do not
work will be drunimed out of the camp and
stung out of the hive. and VIII learn by
what they suffer that il is a law of God
written in our members that He who will
not work. neither shall he eat We are
confronted by a vegetating aristocracy on
one hand and an agitating democracy ON
the other, and if the Federation Of Labor
and the trades unions will, throughout
their entire membership decree that strong
drink be left teetotally alone, it will
within ten years become the arbiter of des
tiny.
1.-The records as given to the world by
the labor leaders of England show that
the license system was devised in the in
terest of the aristocracy. who wished To
keep the people down. and knew that they
could do so II they were only sodden with
drink"
PROMOTED COMRADES.
Miss willard closed her review of the
woman question with these words:
TN primitive days we had hematriarch-
ate, which means the rule of the mothers,
and now for painfully heightened period
we have had the patriarchatc, or the rule
of the fathers; but we begin to see the
dawn of the amphiarchate. or the joint
rule of a Joint world by the joint forces
of its mothers and its fathers. Happy are
they who put their sturdy shoulders to this
white chariot of the sum-"
Fraternal messages are sent to the Catho-
lie Total Abstinence Society, the Society
,of Jewish Women, the Christian Endeavor,
the Wpmen,s Council. the Woman's Clubs
and various other kindred organizations.
Hinder the head of ''Our Promoted Com
rades'' the names of the following distin-
guisbef leaders who have died in the last
wear are specially recalled:
Frederick Douglas; Mrs. Ella F. NJ. Will
ans ,sof Montreal, treasurer of the Worlds
W. C.. T. o.; Mrs. Mary T. Lathrup, presi-
dent Of the Michigan W. c. T. u: Rev. DR..
A. ]. Gordon, of Boston; William Jennings
Den,orest, of New York: Mrs Stanler,
daughter of Cherokee chief and president
of the W. C. T. q. in the Indian Territory;
Rev. DR.. Phillips ,-of Ipdia Rev. Mr.. Lente.
of New York; DR.. Sudduth. of California;
William Hammer, of Philadelphia; Mrs.
Rboda A. Esmund Zone OF the founders OF
the society, was also included, although her
death occurred the previous year.: Mrs.
Rev. DIR. George Steele, of Massachusetts;
Mrs. Allen Butler. of Syracuse, n. Y.
1t WIS stated that the membership shows
q gain, Notwithstanding the hard times,
Pennsyivaita being the banner State in this
regard.