The Press., 1896-10-01

have already been held. The roofs which echoed to cries of ''sound money" are to echo back our voices as we affirm that neither the money, nor the nation stand ing back of the money, can be sound if unrighteousnessi is placed before righteous ness greed of gain before the welfare of citizens. We shall meet not as political party, yet as those to whom politics seems a sacred duty; not as tinanciers, and yet as those profoundly interested in finance; not as statesmen, but, we, trust, as states women-the women of a great nation, baptized with mighty earnestness, en- dued with the clear vision which enables us to see that whatever else the nation and individuals constituting that nation may need, the primal need is applied righteousness. Surely we should lift our white banner high when we realize the holy things of which it is the emblem! In the good day toward which we are hastening, when each man shall live for all other men, the world over, and altruism shall win it's final glorious victory over egoism in that day the full significance of our white ribbon movement will be seen, and it will be recognized by all that, more fully, perhaps, than any other gathering of 1896 the one which will meet in St. Louis Music Hall, November 1918, will have represented the larger hope for hu- manity-God's coming morning.
 IJ the principal feature of the first morning. The evening will be given to addresses of welcome and responses. Saturday even- ing will be Young Women's Christian day will be divided between the depart ments of Loyal Temperance Legion and Scientific Temperance Instruction. Tues day will be Benefit Night, the program being arranged by the presidents of the several states which have made an in crease of five hundred to their member ship during the year, and Wednesday will be the Grand Demonstration Night Several novel features are to be intro duced into the demonstration this year, prominent among them being the depart ment parade, in which it is hoped that d most impressive object-lesson of our va rious lines of work will be presented, while state songs and notices will be, even more than last year, the order for the closing evening.
 Among the distinguished guests from abroad whom we are hoping to meet are Lady Henry Somerset, president of the Worlds w. c. T. U.; Miss Agnes E. Slack, secretary of the worlds w. c. T. U. Countess Schimmelmann, of Norway ; Mrs. A. o. Ruthford, president of the Dominion w. c. T. U., and Mrs. Hughes, a gifted Welsh women whose literary name is Gwyneth Vaughn. Mrs. Emma Booth Tucker, a Commander of the Salvation Army in America, and Mrs. M. B. Booth, who occupies the same position in the newer organization of American Volunteers, Mrs. Herant Kiretchiian, Miss Clara Barton, General Secretary of the Armenian Relief Association, Mrs. Lenora M. Lake, of the Catholic Total Abstinence | Society, Miss Mary Blood, of the Colum- bian School of Oratory, Miss Emily M. | Bishop, and many others from our own land are already under promise to be with us. Invitations will be sent to lead ing clergymen, reformers, presidents of | societies, and as far as possible, to others engaged in reform work. It is aimed to kn If fhn +o% gatherings we have had for years.
 We are to be this year the guests of the St. Louis district, and that alone speaks of bravery and heroism on the part of the women who are to be our hostesses. Very few cities having been the scene of such a disaster as visited St. Louis only a few months ago, would have rallied to such an extent as to undertake so great work Let us in our coming district and state contentious remember with special prayer the brave band of devoted sisters who are 4ahoFing for our entertainment, and let us ask especially that the convention may be great uplift to St. Louis as we'll as the entire state of Missouri
 'When thou goest to battle against thine enemies and seest horses and chartots and people more than thou, be not Afraid, for the Lord thy God is with thee which brought thee out of thy land of Egypt" This command of Moses may well be ours to-day. The enemy are certtinly more than we, the horses and chali iots are not a few, the hosts of evil seen mightier than ever before; and yet
 we, although little army, are not afraid sinc4 the Lord God who called us into being is with us to-day l'ading on to gres4e and still greater victories. In
 His name and in His strength may we come up to our twenty-thir,l annual con- vendor, and may that glory, which con- sist4 alone in the highest good of His creatures, ascrib' d to our God forever, bocdus weshall have met Gin His rame. ,. | [Sgned
 | <. FRANCES E. WILLARD, President,
 KATHARINE LENTE STEVENSON, Cor. Sec.