The Press., 1895-02-07
w. IT. U. DEPARTMENT.

perintendent at the convention in Cleave- land, Ohio:
 -Four hostile newspapers are more to be dreaded than hundred thousand bay onets," Napoleon thought. But, con- versely, four friendly newspapers are as potent in the advancement of any moral cause, and believing this, at the initial convention of the w. c. T. U. twenty Lone years ago in this city, the plan of work and resolutions adopted looked toward capturing this ruling educational force of the age. So for twenty years this Queen Esther of our department has gone in un- to the king, and with gentle tact and courage, born of faith, besought favor for g work and organization chosen of God to save a persisting people. Is it too much to say that the royal sceptre has been extended and the question asked
 "What is thy request?, It shall be glant- ed thee even to the half of my kingdom p Never has the press been so friendly as in the past year. Never have the great metropolitan dailies given of their influ- ence so literally. Religious papers have given unprecedented attention to the sub- iect, and so also have many agricultural and labor papers. Noticeable is the ad- vance of leading literary magazines, in which it is not an uncommon thing to find a symposium or article on the subject, and not less important is their rejection of contributions having an opposite tenden- cy. In fOrty-six states and territories the department is reported as doing organized Work. Thirty-seven states report 2,546 sHperintendents, being about one-third of the unions reported. About one-third of the newspapers are furnished with w. c. T. U. and temperance items by local su- perintendents, the amount in the past year aggregating 37, 100 columns. Be- sides this local work, state superintend- ents are in many cases contributors to several papers. The Associated Press has been generous in sending our news around the world, my associate, Miss Fockler, having supplied 512 type-written sheets to the four great agencies center ing in Chicago. The National w. c. T. U. Bulletin, issued weekly since the first of May, has been sent regularly to over $50 papers and press workers, and to the ) newspaper unions, through which its items have been used in the ready prints" of several thousand papers, reach ing millions of readers. We have this : year secured the insertion of temperance items very small, but vital seed thoughts in Ayers Family Almanac for '96. It has worldwide circulation of 17, ,OOO, ,OOO, and is published in ten languages. To aid in advancing our work more rapidly ]. and systematically your superintendent 6 has this year issued a manual entitled ! H'Points for Press Workers" !" and has also : provided through the kindness of Miss ! Willard, and other writers, the manu- q script for several leaflets. No evolution 2 of our twenty years growth is more note- e worthy than the W. 0. T. U. press, rep resented by our national organ the Union Signal, with its bright coterie, Young Women, the Young Crusader, and the Advance Guard, issued by our. white rib bon publishing house, the w. T. P. A., and twenty-seven state w. c. T. U. pa- pers, strong confederation of persuasive and pervasive teachers of white ribbon principles and methods
 Three significant utterances at the great Christian Endeavor convention deserve special notice. The first was by Rev. Smith Baker, of Boston, who said "What justice is there in forbidding an intelligent, cultured woman, possessed of - property, who is conversant with the his g tory of her land, paying taxes to support d the schools of her land; what justice is there in allowing poor, penniless, Hitter ate foreigner to vote when such A woman is not permitted to do SO? I do not pro- pose to discuss this question, but when the woman who is capable of being pres ident of college, when the woman who is capable of presiding over business af- fairs, when the woman who is capable oi teaching boys and girls the principles ot our constitution, when the woman who is capable of taking care of a home and children, and, oftentimes, her husband also, shall have justice done her, she will have the right to vote. These ale truths which any christian democracy and which christian citizenship must claim for every
 body" Our great-hearted brother, Johr t. c. Woolley, said in his marvellous ad
 dress: ''I will hold no politicians coat while he stones prophet or denies full
 citizenship to woman. By the grace ot God I will be a christian christian and 6 manly man. will confess Christ before people and on election day, which in this land of equal rights is mans day. l vii
 show myself 8 christian votel, fit to rep
 resent unfranchised womanhood at tht polls. I will go to Him, hear His words
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