The San Francisco call., 1895-10-19
MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD. THE
PRESIDENT, REVIEWS THE
WORK OF THE ORDER.
REMEDIES FOR GREAT EVILS.
OTHER PROMINENT LEADERS SPEAK
OF THE STRUGGLE FOR
REFORM.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Oct. 1S.-Between
500 and 600 delegates from thirty-eight
States and Territories, representing nearly
3,OO0O00 members of the Women's Chris
tlan Temperance Union, congregated at
Music Hall this morning to attend the
twenty-second annual convention of that
society. The devoted women, whose
motto is "For God and Home and Native
Land, were up with the lark, and before
$3.50 O'Clock most of the delegates had
passed into the hall where for the next
five days they will discuss all kinds of re-
forms.
Preceding the regular session of the con-
vention, a prayer meeting, conducted by
Mrs. J. Fowler Willing, National evan
gelist, was held in the annex nall.
AS Miss Frances Z. Willard, National
president of the army of women, entered
the main hall she was greeted with the
Chautauqua salute by an audience that
filled the auditorium to overfowing. Over
5000 persons had assem- mbled to welcome the
white-ribbon delegates, making a total of
about 1000 in the hall when the convention
was called to order. AS Miss Willard
stepped to the front of the stage, carrying
large bunch of La France roses, the
audience tumultuously applauded her.
Following the drop of her gavel crusade
psalm was read, responsively, led by Miss
Eliza Thompson of Hillsboro, Ohio, who
is more Familiarity known in temperance
circles as Mother Thomson" Some
routine business was followed by the read
ing of the presidents annual report. 1t
was literally punctuated with applause
In her address Miss Willard held that
"the light on the picture has broadened
from the intense Rembrandt ray of the
crusade to the broad Raphaelesque light
OF noontide. Even as Christianity was
brought to white heat in the upper room
at Pentecost, but now warns the customs
and illumines the laws of Christian na
tions, so the Crusade fire is extending into
the common life of the people. There are
fewer mass meetings for pledge-signing,
but the mass of the people is signing its
own pledge on the bright tablet of its own
free will
Continuing, she said in part:
Civilization is but Christianitys effect on
the brain and hands of the race; science and
invention are its twin daughters, and both
lend the totality of their influence against the
practice OF stimulation. All the States and Ter
rit3ries except two Georgia and Arkansas)
now require the teaching of the laws of health
to ali school children, beginning with the
youngest. Mrs. Mary 81. Hunt heads this move
ment as the representative of the w. c. T. U.
Four times year the Sunday-school lesson ex-
plicitiy teaches total abstinence This is an
other point gained by White Ribboners, who
worked ten years for it.
The constantly increasing participation of
women in all the affairs OF the world is of the
utmost significance for good. When woman is
transplanted from the conservatories of seclu-
sion into the great open garden of common
life. the culture of that garden must become
more refined and in its purpose more protect
ing. Mother and child are rapidly taking their
rightful place as the central figures of the
great world-problem. Peace in the govern
ment and purity in the home must be theiI
guardian angels.
But what the world waits for is not the new
woman alone, but the new man. "One swal-
low does not make a summer" and one parent
by the hearthstone does not make a home. We
need to stop singing the old ditty, 'What Is
Home Without Mother?' and to put in its
place. "The Father Alone Can Make the House
Home" If he spends his leisure time in what is
now popularity known es 1.-The Workingman's
Club" disguised name for the dramshop, and
his wages are levied on by the proprietor, q
new woman will be necessary to keep the
home together, unless he himself becomes
new man.
The w. c. T. U. of New York deserves great
credit for the brave stand it has taken in pre-
pairing BILL presented by Senator Mullin,
which provides that any woman who makes a
public exhibition of herself the tendency of
which is to arouse impure thought, and any
person who employs her to do this, and who,
by bills, posters and literature, corrupts the
morals of the people, shall be heavily fined
and imprisoned.
Miss Willard closed her review of the
woman question with these words:
I'm primitive days we had the matri-
archate, which means the rule of the moth
ers, and now for painfully heightened
period we have had the patriarchate, or the
rule of the fathers; but we begin to see the
dawn of the amphiarchate, or the Joint
rule of joint world by the joint forces of
its mothers and its fathers. Happy are
they who put their sturdy shoulders to the
wheels of this white chariot of the sum-"
Miss Willard took strong ground in
favor of college settlements as ''a fore
gleam of that giving of ones self that is
better than all aims or charity" and urges
the White Ribbon women to establish q
settlement in each of our large cities. She
mentions that Lady Henry Somerset is
abou. to set her sisters an example by es-
tablishing a settlement in London; also
that the projected marriage of Somers
Somerset may delay the journey of his
mother and herself round the world, but
that it is sure to occur.
An important part of the address is de-
voted to the situation in Armenia, and an
urgent plea is made for the united efforts
of women in collecting funds and circulat-
ing petitions for the relief of ''our we'll
nigh martyred Christian neighbors in Asia
Minor"
The invasion of Madagascar by the
French is referred to with Indignation.
The Queen is devoted temperance woman
and gave aid and comfort to Mrs. M. c.
Leavitt, the first round -the-world mission
ary of the White Ribbon host. That
Christendom stands by and makes no pro-
test against this outrage on an unoffend-
ing people is proof that the cosmopolitan
brotherhood is yet in swaddling clothes.
The local unions are urged to observe
Mothers day. and Teachers day. in
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