Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-03-21

! The w. c. Il. U. desires those knowing of any
needy persons to notify Mrs. K. b. Campbell,
| president.
The W. G. I. U. meets every alternate Tues
day at p. IN. i'll the Presbyterian church.
President and Mrs. Cleveland's Re-
ception of White Rlbboners.
| President Cleveland received Miss Will
lard, Lady Henry Somerset, the general
officers OF the National Union and Mrs.
Griffith, president of the district Miss
Willard addressed the President as fol-
| lows:
"MR. PRESIDENT: The Polyglot petit
ton addressed to the governments Of the
world, and calling for the prohibition Of
the traffic in alcoholic liquors as drink,
| the prohibition OF the opium traffic, and
all forms Of legalized vice, has been
signed by half million citizens OF this
Republic, and by means Of signatures,
Endorsements and attestations includes
seven and half million adherents in
fifty different nationaites. This petition
has been circulated by the Worlds
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
and will be presented to all the leading
governments. Inasmuch as the petition
originated and has been most largely
signed in the United States, it is hereby
respectfully brought to your attention,
not on any legal ground, but because it is
addressed to the governments Of the
world, and you are executive chief of this
Government. l will ask Mrs. Clara G.
Hoffman, recording secretary OF the
National Womans Christian Temper
ance Union of the United States. which
has secured the largest number Of sigma
lures, to read the petition"
After placing a copy Of the petition in
the Presidents hands, Mrs. Hoffman
read the document with remarkable i'm
pressveness.
The President greeted the delegation
cordially, shaking hands with each one,
and when Miss Willard had read her
brief address, he replied that he had de-
sired very much to see the ladies whose
energy had got together such great petit
ton; he believed that every one should
hold them in high honor for the good in
tentions with which the woman's tenn
pefance society had set about and carried
forward its great crusade. In our vary
ing points OF view we could not all see
alike as to the best methods of temper
ance reform, but in the nature OF the case
we must each and every one desire to
help forward that reform according to
our best knowledge. In the spheres OF
life in which we are placed, it is for each
OF us to help forward the interests OF
humanity according to the best Of our
ability, and though our outlooks might
differ our hearts would be sympathetic
with every good word and work. He was
glad to welcome the delegation and to
hope for the movement which these
ladies represented such result as would
be for the highest interests OF the nation
and people and OF all humanity. The
speech was altogether friendly and
eminently safe.
Again shaking hands with the delega-
ton, the President left the room, and a
messenger asked Miss Willard and Lady
Henry Somerset to meet Mrs. Cleveland
in one of the parlors, where they had
with that charming and most womanly
OF women delightful interview Of half
an hour. They assured Mrs. Cleveland
Of the esteem and affection in which she
was held by all White Ribboners, and
expressed their earnest appreciation Of
her teetotal habits. Mrs. Cleveland re-
sponded that she had found no difiiulty
in carrying out her principles, but that
on the contrary she had been frequently
spoken to on the subject in the most cor
dial terms, and that it was now consd-
cred good form in any one whose sense
OF duty might lead him or her to practice
total abstinence from the use of intoxi-
cants in social life. She said that she
could claim no merit for having been
always total abstainer, as she had never
liked liquors, and could not see what
pleasure any one could find in their use.
Clearly upon it's native heath victory
had been scored for the Polyglot petition,
and we need not arrogate a prophets
function to assert that the day is not far
distant when it will be counted as one of
the wonders OF the world and one of the |
chief instruments, under God, in work
ing out the deliveranc the future surely
holds.
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