The Portland daily press., 1895-11-09

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ail winter to complete. The first point
10y W entucky, and we may get as far
Mos' as California. I will speak, al
'-'oush not as much as I used to, and
1r0oo women in conferences, and Miss
0oruoh will work with the children and
oi'ueaVor to found fountains in the vari-
gus cieles as she did in Chicago. do
noe thlnk will be able to attend the Al
iahoa exposition on W. q. I. U. day,
"nioh Is, believe, Nov. IL.
Next year expect to make the worlds
1r'p hoped to accomplish this year. Ii
the W. G. 7. U. convention is held in
California shall go from there to Aus
tralla, otherwise my first stop will proba-
ply ne Japan. The idea of this trip is to
secure signatures to the polyglot petit
tlon, which has already been signed in
nfty languages. This petition asks the
abolition of the opium traffic. On the
"Trip the different white ribbon auxiliar-
les will also be seen and meetings will be
held. The journey would have been made
fhls year but for the announcement OF the
marriage of Lady Henry's son.. =
welded ONLY TO THE UNION.
This reminded Miss Willard of the
rumor of her engagement to an English
nobleman which caused talk in America
some time ago. Miss Willard said she
always denied such stories by saying she
had been welded to the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union for years. The
report was started, she thought, by the
announcement of the marriage OF her
niece Miss Katherine Willard, who is
now Mrs. Baldwin Of New York City.
Mrs Baldwin is also an active worker in
the union, being musical director.
"The Baltimore convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union"
continued Miss Willard, "was the most
successful one ever held. Fortyfve
States were represented by delegates and
each delegate represented 1000 women.
Just here would like to say Illinois
made remarkable showing. was very
proud of my own State. While most of
the States are abundantly able to take
care of themselves the convention gave us
an opportunity of looking the field over
and determining which States needed
more money and workers to strengthen
them.
CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
Gone of the things accomplished was
the creation of Christian citizenship de-
partment, which is in reality political
department destined to promote the study
of politics and to teach people to vote the
Prohibition ticket. This reminds me
that at the convention we recommended
the name of the Prohibition parity to be
changed to Home Protection party. ;
Mrs Dr. Struokenberg, wife of the fam
ous sociologist, WAS placed at the head OF
the department. for the purpose of direct
ing its policy in the labor movement.
We were fortunate in having with US Mrs.
Ormiston Chant of London, who waged
such a war against living pictures. Eng
land could not have sent more represen-
tatiye woman to cooperate with us in the
work. A literary bureau was also estab-
lished at the convention. Mrs. Beiler
was placed at the head of it.
"We were very grateful to the Republi-
can party for giving the women the right
to vote. If wasn't Prohibitionist
think should he Republican.
81 walked ON the boulevard this morn
ing and was surprised to see the large
number!of wheels in the streets, Of course
I am a wheelwoman myself, but | was
surprised at the large number of riders in
Chicago ~ yqsQaa
Miss Willard was III uoh concerned over
q report which she found had gained ex-
tensive circulation, to he effect that she
would leave America and join the tenn
perance forces in England. When ques-
toned on this subject she answered :
"By no manner of meaala."