Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-26

a man is asked to remove an Objectionable
suggestion in q much more kindly spirit
than he used to co. Time was, she said,
when a storekeeper would tell member
OF the w. c. T. U. to go home and attend
to her own business II she should raise a
protest against some Objectionable picture
or photograph that he might have publicly
displayed. During the past year Mrs.
Chambers said that on every occasion that
she had been compelled to ask for the re-
ncval Of such eyesores she had invariably
met with the most courteous reception. and
her requests had always been complied
with in a most encouraging way. She had
received similar reports from such local
unions as are supplied with superintendents
of purity; and she doubted IL the people of
Washington generally realised to what an
extent they are Indebted to the w. c. I. U.
In roofing out an evil that was formerly so
pronounced If the District.
Evangelistfc Work.
Mrs. NJ. E. Hartsock submitted her re-
port as superir tendent of evaDgelistic work.
It was an interesting resume of what had
been accomplished during the past year
for the cause of temperance through the
medium of religious exercises Mrs. Hart
seek spoke especially of the need the w. c.
T. U. feels for central hall, located con-
yer iently to the business section Of the
city. With such headquarters 1t would
be possible to hold half-hour monday
meeting every week day in the year. The
chances are that such meetings would soon
become popular with business men, and 1t
would be impossible to predict how much
good might be accomplished in such way.
The corresponding secretary, Miss L. S.
Weightman. read her annual report, which
was quite a long and comprehensive pa
per, as it embodied a brief account of the
work accomplished by each of the differ
ent unions.
Work of the Unions.
In the course Of her report Miss Weight
man said: II think the local unions have
never worked SO hard in many ways as
they have done this year. Never before
have SO many new members been added
to the rolls One union has been morgan
lied and four new "Y's" have been form
ed. Official visits to the unions have never
before been so systematically made, and
the result has been a closer union than
ever before between the members Of our
white-ribboned army and deeper sense
of SiSterhood."
This practically concluded the business
OF tho morning. Mrs. D. Olin Leech sang
a solo in most delightful style, and after
a reception to the visiting pastors and the
noontide prayer the morning session adj
tourned.
Afternoons Program.
The program for the afternoon session
was as follows: Devotions, Mrs. H. H.
Hendrickson; minutes; presidents annual
address, Mrs. NJ. E. Griffith; treasurer's
report, Mrs. S. NJ. Wescott; auditors re-
port, Miss Lizzie Kessler; question box,
conducted by Mrs. M. E. Cohen. Reports
of superintendent: Messenger boys, Mrs.
Nellie H. Bradley; press and literature,
Mrs. Margaret b. Plat; unfermented wine,
Mrs. Emma E. Falconer; mothers meet
irgs. Mrs. Sophie Smith; Sabbath observ-
ance, Mrs NJ. E. Catlin; firemen, Mrs. Ma
ria Merrick; mercy, DR.. Alice Burritt: rail-
road, Mrs. j. H. Mitchell.
The most important business of the a fter-
noon. of course, Yves the reading of the
presidents annual address. In the course
of her eloquent words Mrs Griffith said
The Presidents Address.
'As the motherhood of any nation is so
will that nation be, for the mothers are
the, home makers and as the homes of the
people are pure and good SO will the gov
eminent be. But for the perfection of
the race pure, true motherhood must be
sustained in every worthy endeavor by
fatherhood equally noble and pure. Let
every home tree shelter a white life for
two. We mothers are honored by being
gelization Of the people. But we are also
yoke-fellows with the fathers of the ma
ton
Mrs. Griffith said that the cause of tenn
ers and more votes. They are trying to
educate the young men Of the land to a
sense of their duty at the ballot box, and
none can deny that the w. c. T. U. has al
ways laid stress upon the need Of prayer
for help from above.
Why She Wants the Ballot.
While she was in favor of giving women
the ballot. Mrs. Griffith pointed out that
she favored it not because she wanted a
share in political power, but only that
women might be better armed in their bat
tie against the liquor power.
1T seems to me- she said, land 1t is
with regret that 1 believe it, that the only
way now possible to cope with the rum
traffic is to give the ballot to the women,
who compose two-thirds of the member
ship of our churches, and number in the
prisons and penitentiaries only about one
per cent of the convicts. thus showing that
large majorities of them are on the right
side. in morality at least.
Until women are enfranchiSed there will
continue the awful slavery of labor to
capital in the sweat shops and the lowly
and also the great injustice of unequal
wages for equal work where men and
women are employed as teachers, book
keepers, typewriters and in various other
lines of trade and traffic.
Men claim higher wages than women
for equal work because they have wives
and children to support. but some women
have husbands and children to support
Until the mother love is felt in the poll
tics of the land by the count of mother
ing homes and running human lives, will
go on and on"
This evening there will be a temperance
meeting or rally at Foundry Church. nth
and G streets, under the auspices of the
District w. c. T. U.
THE COURTS.