Evening star., 1895-06-19
EIGHT HOURS AND TEMPERANCE.
Miss willard Addresses the Worlds

Miss Willard Addresses the Worlds
W. G. II. u.
LONDON, June 19.-The third annual
convention of the Worlds Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union opened in Queens
Hall, this city, at 930 am, with a prayer
meeting, led by Mrs. Chas. Archibald, pres
ident of the Maritime Provinces w. c. r.
u. of Canada. .- -.. -
At 10 am. the convention was called to
order by the president Miss Frances E.
Willard. The roll call of official members
followed. and then came the appointment
of committees on credentials, courtesies,
finances and resolutions.
Then followed the report of the executive
committee. the address of welcome by
Lady Henry Somerset. president of the
British Womans Temperance Association,
and the singing of There are bands of
ribbon mute" by the white ribbon choir Of
500 voices.
Miss Willard then addressed the meeting
Miss Wizards address was chiefly re-
n,arkable for the position taken regarding
the lessening of the hours Of labor, holding
that the grinding struggle for an oppor-
turity to work was driving thousands to
drink. She said:
Great Britain and America who would
gladly work, but the pitiless restraining
hand of invention and monopoly hold them
back, so that an opportunity to earn their
fought for as strenuously as men in other
times fought for their lives. And the con-
dition OF things grows more threatening,
and must continue to do as new races en-
ter the competition and rise to the level of
utilizing all the inventions of all the ma
tions of the earth.
Under this pressure of relentless COM
petition men are ground into dust, and that
by heavier heel than old-time tyrannies
could boast, and they seek forgetfulness in
these indulgences whose hallucinations de-
teriorate body and soul. They drink and
dehauch themselves, they gamble, they
ry; on the one hand they try to forget, and
on the other to crowd into the brief space
given then, for recreation the utmost pos
sitle amount of sensation and delirium.
in view of these facts 1t is more than
short-sighted folly. it is objectionable stub
bornnesS, not to say criminal apathy, In us
as temperance workers if We do not clasp
hands of intelligent and earnest sympathy
with the wage-worker and the unemploy-
ed.
I'VE must be able to see that the eight
he urs law is a temperance measure, a
purity measure, gospel measure, and
nothing less, for by means of the eight
hours law one-third more men and women
now unemployed can find standing room in
the bread winning battaions, where they
can fight for free and Independent life
and a well ordered home"
The reports of the different superin-
tendents were delivered, and at midday
tHeFe were prayers leu Dy MIS-. fsllZdDctn
Selmer, president of the Denmark w. c. T.
u, of Copenhagen.
The prayers were followed by me
mortal service" in honor of '.our promoted
comrades" the memorial address being de-
livered by Miss Frances Z. Willard.
Later in the day the report OF Miss Alice
Gulick of San SEBASTIAN, Spain, formerly
of Boston, Mass, was presented.
The superintendent of the Sunday de-
partment recommended that the W. c. T.
Z. throughout the world unite in the effort
to make the last quarterly temperance
Sunday of 1895, which falls on November
"a, a special temperance day, not only in
the Sunday schools, but in the churches as
well.