The Press., 1896-12-31
w. C. T. U.
Miss WiIlard's Address .
ID DT IT


 protest of the home against the saloon, and am glad we said, so long ago, it was our party. But now it is in two camps, and for one am glad, and I give honor to the editors of the Union Sigbal. that kept in 'the middle ob de road" during thel last] campaign [applause]. They tried to show both sides of the question. They determined to be friendly with all prohibitionists; and l trust that ever more, adhering to our principle of pro- hibitory in law and politics, and in wo- mans ballot, we shall forever, hereafter declare for any and every party that righteousness before God [applause]. I firmly believe that our brothers, both prohibitionists and nationals, desire us to do this, and that they feel that having put our force and vigor into their move- ment, we shall never take our sisterly af- lection from their banners.
 You and have suffered. l could tell you of towns in which they barely fell short of hanging some of us in ef1gy; you and have had friends, whom we had known for lifetime, who would not bow to us on the street after the defeat of Blaine. But we have not suffered like our brothers who are voters. How you and love the w. c. T. U. Well, those men loved their former party just as we'll. could have wept, as many of them have said to me, with strong tokens of emo- tion, "You women have been brave, but you do not know what it costs us in our feelings, in our business, in our chances for preferment, to stand up and protest at the ballot box that the downfall of the plank in political platform" So 1 say, and know you say, where we stood in | 1884, there we stand now. do not know whether you would go as far as do, for Christian citizenship had its birth in the little United Presbyterian church in St. Louis. Good men said to us, II won't go twain of miles with you; will go one ! wanted woman suffrage put into the W. c. T. U. platform, and our sisters would not do it, and used to debate the subject by the day. we, who kept up this "stir- ring among the dry bones," as we thought them, said to one another, "Let us get up a strong resolution, out and out, for wo- mans's ballot, let the bravest present 1t, at least the one who Is the most cOnvinc- ed then have another resolution ready that is milder, and coach it along with that strong resolution, and the women who do not want the strong resolution will take the one that is less strong Precisely that part has the prohibition party played in politics for more thar twenty years, and the American voter the friendly man, the "good, nice man, who did not have quite iron enough in the blood, o1 quite sand enough-did l say sand ?-I should say granite, in the back bone, may take our strengthening medi cine. For one, l claim Dr. Parkhurst and Theodore Roosevelt as the outcome of that new iron in politics. Now the year that we began to mother that brave host of voters they went from 10000 tc 15O, 900 votes, then rose to O,O00, and later, the total state and national vote rose to over 3OO,OOO. But in this awful year, that no dictionary can characterize I judge, from all I hear about 1t, that they have fallen back, at least, have been told it is probably hardly 200, 900 and the nationals less. But, for that req son, want both to feel all the more, tho sisterly good will and loyalty of this con vention [applause]. So much for that and believe that your resolutions will show that you have not changed you minds. You did not make up, what yol were pleased to call your minds, ava! back in 1884. You made up your req and actual minds. and having done so,
 have not known single white-ribbol woman to falter in "the imminent deadl. breach" of this unequalled warfare.
 And now, beloved sisters, may I sa. that as we have moved forward on thu wide plains of this decade, have oftel thought of still another convention, helC in St. Louis, in February, 1899, a conven tion of one thousand labor delegates, t' which, Lady Henry Somerset and came in our devotion to the labor movement and in our desire to secure the endorse ment of prohibitory and woman suffrage You know that we sat up all night witt the committee on resolutions of that grea labor party-even to the dawn of day
 the only time in my life that ever proveC equal to such an unspeakable afliction- but they would not put in prOhibitory and they would not put in wOmans' sui frage. Once more 1t was Samson Ago nistes in his struggle; once more the la bor party was led off into the wilderness hearing false cries, seeing false light along the shore, relegating to the req those great principles, which, if they ha' kept them in the van, would be as yer, ark of God for their deliverance. An' yet, love the labor party; am devote, to the eight-hour law, and many of tn OLucA SLOdO purposes EnoS A"N0 E1h0n u
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 matter who may tell you differently, it is thing no fellow has found out CIaughte
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