The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-19
TEMPERANCE WOMEN HAVE THE
FLOOR IN THE WOMEN'S
COUNCIL.
UPPER SEEKING FOR PLUMS.
MILL CITY MAN CANDIDATE FOR
THE INSURANCE COMMITS
SIONERSHIP.
ROAST FROM THE GRAND JURY.
Practice of Courts in Accounting
Straw Bonds Critictsed-MfII
City News.

Woman in her attitude of antag-
onism to intemperance, describes the
spirit of the fifth session of the wom-
ans congress as convened in the Uni
! tartan church. The two programmes
of yesterday, on temperance and music
were as diverse as ingenuity could de-
wise, and prove as conclusively as any
thing could, the differing interests rep
resented in the constituency of the
woman's council. Temperance, occu-
plying the attention of a well filed
department., was the subject of the
afternoon programme, and the audi
ence comprised not only those whose
interests are known to lie with the
temperance workers, but others, drawn
from curiosity to hear how so Oft
mooted question could present any
show of novelty The subject was TAX
en- up in a unique way for, consist
ent with the idea of the congress to
follow woman's work in all it's di
versity and demonstrate it's progress
and development, the majority of the
papers of the afternoon considered the
woman's conventions called during the
last year to consider questions pertain
ing to the subject Indeed not all
the form of papers. Half the speakers
appeared without notes, and their ex-
temporaneous remarks were received
with due appreciation. In the absence
of Mrs. G. w. Coe, chairman of the
department of temperance, under the
auspices of which the programme was
given, Mrs. w. B. Leach shared the
platform with Mrs, T. B. Walker.
Following the musical number, which
opened the programme, Mrs. Stella
Adams Mcintyre assembled the rostrum
to present paper on Sabbath OBJ
servance." She considered the subject
in a conservative way, misunderstanding
the growing tendency to use the Sab
bath for secular enjoyments. She re-
peated a remark made by Bishop VIM
cent in her hearing some time ago, in
which he Signified Sabbath observance
as "physicalrest and spiritual growth"
This quotation served as the text of
her discourse, and around it she WoYe
a structure Of arguments and applica-
tions that would have been more con-
vincing had they presented more of
novelty and less of conVentionaHty.7
ance of the Sabbath she placed the
| saloon, the theater and Sunday games,
She cited instances Of men like Nc
Wicker. the theater manager, who
adopted a vigorous stand in opposition
to the Sunday theater, and also re-
ferred to Judge Hoar in the Chicago
convention Of 1880, when James A Gar
field was nominated for the presidency
of the United States, who would not
consent to continue the convention be-
yond midnight Saturday, adjourning it
to meet Monday. She remarked the
increasing favor with which the con-,
tinental Sabbath of Europe is being
observed in America, and named this
as a probable reason for the growing
lack of Sabbath observance.
A symposium of thoughts from diff
| ferent conventions was then given
! place. the first paper being presented
! by Mrs. T. B. Walker, who attended
the meeting of the Non-Partisan w. C.
! T. y. a year ago in Oberlin, o. She
| did not confine her paper to a report
! of the convention, rather used it for
the foundation for pithy and pointed
address on the work of women in
| temperance, of the progress of the
| movement and of its inevitable in
| fiuence.
! Miss L. HOLSTER spoke for the con-
vention Of the Worlds w. c. r. U. held
| in London in 1895.
Mrs. r. H. Draper, officer in the local
auxiliary to the Keely league, gave an
| account of the convention of August
! In Indianapolis, which she attended as
| dele gate, and appended an an outline
Of the work conducted by the Womens
! league.
Mrs Frances Neal, who was to have
spoken on the meeting of the National
! w. c. t. U. stated that misunderstand-
| ing what was expected other, she was
not prepared, and could only give a
i brief talk on the temperance question
| in its relation to general society
The Catholicity of the congress and
its desire to be thoroughly non-secta-
rian, received evidence in the paper on
1.-The Catholic Total Abstinence Soci-
ety. which Mrs. E. D. Jackson pre-
! scented.
The work of the Anti-Saloon league,
| one of the more recent temperance or
| CARNATIONS, was represented by Mrs
! w. S. Pardee. This concluded the SYM
postum. Midway on the programme
Prof. Maria L. Sanford gave am ad-
dress, speaking in forceful language
and convincing tone. She advocated
temperance rather than prohibition, in
the belief that the country was not yet
ready for prohibition.
The concert given in the evening by
/ the members Of the Ladies Thursday
musicale, a representative club in the
council, afforded great variety and
brought out a great hearing that filed
I the auditorium.