The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-11-21
GATHERING OF THE W. C. I. u
Music Hall at st. Louis FILLED To
Overlooking by Delegates.

St. Louis, Nov. 14.--Sobie, self sacri-
fcing women who all over this country
and in many parts of distant lands are
laborers in the cause Of temperance and
humanity. filled Music hall. with its ca
pacity for 6foOO people, to o%verfiowing
this morning. 1t was the opening of the
twenty-third annual convention of the
National Women's Christian Temper
ance unior, or the White Ribboners,"
IS they are known throughout the ci":!-
lied world, Prior to the formal inaug-
uration of exercises there was a prayer
meeting in the Schuyler Memorial hail,
the spiritual feast being conducted by
h e national evangelists. headed by Mrs.
Elizabeth w. Greenwood of Brooklyn.
After these services Music hall filed up
rapidly. 1t was deliberately decorated
with national colors and appropriate
notices, while the locations of the state
delegations We're designated by stand
ards. Miss Frances Willard received an
ovation upon making her appearance ON
the platform. With her We're Maud Bal
lington Booth of the American Volun-
teers; emma Booth Tucker and Susie
+. Swift, OF the Salvation army; Gwyn>
eth Vaughan Of Wales; Rebekkah Kri-
korian of Afntid, Turkey: Herant XII
r%etch1ian of Armenia; Mrs. Louise s.
Rounds of Illinois; Mrs. Susan S. Fes-
sender of Massachusetts,; Miss Belle
kearney of Mississippi, the noted south
ern orator. II the general officers OF
each state and territory and other chiefs
of the work. After the usual salute and
exercises. the call for the convention
was read. This said in part:
THE roofs which echoed the cries OF
sound money echo back our voices as
W. affirm that neither money, nor the
nation standing back OF the money.
can be sound if unrighteousness is
placed before righteousness, greed OF
gain before the welfare of citizens. We
meet, not as a political party, yet az
those to whom politics seem a sacred
duty; not as tinanciers, and yet as those
profoundly interested in finance; not as
statesmen. but, as we trust, as states
women-the women Of a great nation
baptized with a mighty earnestness,
endowed with a clear vision, which en-
ables US to see hat whatever else the
nation and individuals constituting that
nation may need, the primal need is ap.
piled righteousness. Truth. not alone
in the inner parts of Individual con-
science and life. but truth In Its outward
expression as seen through righteous
laws righteously executed; social Gus
toms upon which has been set the seal
of the Christ spirit; the establishment
OF a nation whose recognized province
shall be to seek. not alone the greatest
good to the greatest number, but the
greatest good to all; these are our is
sues"
surely we should lift u white ban
ner high when we realize the holy
things Of which 1t is an emblem. When
protection as IN issue shall have been
for ages forgotten, and the fact thar
finance "a aver a problem shall seem
like a dream: in the good day toward
which we are Fastening, when each
man shall live for all other men, the
world over and altruism shall win its
final glorious victory over egoism-in
that day the full signigtlance of our
white ribbon movement will be seen"