The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-14

St. Louis, Nov. b The twenty.thirtl
annual convention of the National
Women's Christian Temperance Union
opened in Music Hall to day with the
greatest attendance OF any one previously
held ut least 800 accredited delegates
were present. and as many more visitors
from every PORTION of the country
Among the distinguished workers in
Ehllanthropic fields in attendance are
Miss Agnes Il. Hook, of England, score
tary of the Worlds w. C. II. u: Mrs.
Maud Booth, of the American Volun-
teers; Miss Gwyneth Vaughn, of Wales;
Miss Rebecca Kirkorian, of Armenia, and
Kew +. ID. Greene, secretary of the Ar
menian relief committee, New York
Music Hall, in which the convention
met was appropriately decorated with
the colors OF the order.
Miss Fran:es E4 Willard, national
president, called the gathering to order.
The exercises began with the reading. re-
sponsiNely, of the crusade Psalm, the
1I6th
Inc repoit of the executive committee
was then made 1t was in effect IL report
OF what the committee had done ycstcr.
day. 1t WIS decided To make March 20
birthday OF Gen. Neal Dow, IL Prohibit
ton rally day. There was some more
singing and Miss Willard then made an
address. Mention was made of the pre-
vious convention held here in 1884 and
Miss Willard added:
we have marched far since then The
labor movement Eas taken on proportions
so vast that no one speaks lightly of it
any more. The people are forging their
way to the front, misguided often, max
ing pitiful paths in. the wilderness, follow.
fsliG lrfvl. Il
for n clear brain to the Spartan band of
Prohibtionists, when, if labor would
win, it must make the temperance reform
the ark of God, to he borne in the very
van OF its swift catherine army In 1892
some of us sat ur all night with the COM
mittee on resolutions OF the great labor
convention with it's thousand delegates,
pleading with them to put Prohibition
and home protection plank in their
platform and they would not
The speaker said that Prohibition in
politics has been, is now, and is to be the
embodied protest of the home against the
saloon. When the white ribbon women
plighted their faith to the movement it
had polled only 600 votes In 1854 the
number rose to $50, 900 ann had gone on
slowly increasing until POI, 600 had been
gathered, but owing to the great contro-
versy concerning the free coinage of sill
yer, the party, like every other, had split,
in twain i'll the memorable year of 1896
and the vote had fallen of to abont 200. :
600 out of l4,000,0 600 ballots
The consideration of miscellaneous bus
mess closed the morning session.
At the afternoon session Mrs. Garland.
president of the North Carolina union,
opened the meeting with prayer, after
which letter of Lady Somerset was read.
The report of the corresponding secre-
tary, Mrs. Katharine Lieut. Stephens, of
massachusetts, was then read.
Following this the report of Mrs. Helen
Morton Barker, OF Illinois the treasurer.
was presented.
After solo, reports of II number of SUI
perintendents We're made. They were
short, being limited to ten minutes each
and We're OH the following subjects:
Peace and international Arbitration, -
Mrs llanIah j. Bailey, Maine; Gran
chise,' Miss Marie c. Brehm, Illinois:
Legislation and Enforcement of Law
Mrs Margaret b. Ellis. New Jersey:
'Parlor Meetings." Mrs. Mary ID. Tom.
linson New Jersey; "Purity,' Mary
Wood Allen, NJ D., Michigan; Sabbath
Observance Mrs. Josephine Bateanl,
Kentucky.
iHc IcpoIb Vi Oilc IfStStlrefi lleien NJ
Barker, of Illinois, stated that the re-
ceipts, Notwithstanding the hard times.
had been larger than for several previous
years. The appropriations for ali lines
of work were greatly increased, yet there
was very encouraging balance after all
bills had been paid. While many States
had made u gain in membership only
seven had added over 800 and would share
in benefit nights These were Massa-
chusetts, Maryland, New ,Ieis ey, Louis
lana, Michigan, Virginia and Kentucky
The total receipts We're $21 ,10S, and the
expenditures S2l, 10, leaN ing balance
of S3, 5g2.