Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-13
IN The ICY WATERS
A Crew From a Stranded YES
sci on Lake Erie Were
Thrown To-day.
THE CASTLES SOON TO SAIL
An English Spy Was Watching
Alleged Dynamiters in the
United States.
CYCLE FIRM BoYcoTTED

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, November 13.--Fol
the twenty-third time in the history o.
the organization, the Woman's Chris
tian temperance union met IN annua
convention here, this morning. Nearly
1000 delegates and visitors we're pres
ent when Miss Frances E. Willard
called the convention to order. The
executive committee recommended thai
the w. G. T. U. begin an active cru.
sade against the evils Of gambling, and
the committee on legislation was au
thorized to take measures towards the
abolition of this vice.
After the usual committees were ap-
pointed, Miss Willard addressed the
convention. She spoke of the heroines
OF the rank and file who had borne and
labored and had patience when the w.
G. I. u. passed under the rod of a
nations criticism.
ST LOUIS, Missouri, November 49,
Noble, self-sacrificing women who, all
over this country and in msny parts of
distant lands, are laborers in the cause
OF temperance and humanity, filled the
music hall, with its capacity for 5000
people, to overfowing this morning.
1t was the opening of the twenty-third
annual convention of the National w :.
G. T. u, or the "White Ribboners, :"
as they are known throughout the CIV
ilizsd world. Prior to the formal in
auguration of exercises there was a
prayer meeting in the Schuyler memo
rial hall, the spiritual feast being con-
Quoted by the national evangelIsts,
headed by Mrs. Elizabeth w. Green
wood, of Brooklyn. After these SER
vices the music hall filled up rapidly.
1t was elaborately decorated with ma
tional colors and appropriate notices,
while the locations of the state delega
tions were designated by standards.
Miss Francis Willard received an
ovation upon making her appearance
on the platform. With her were Maud
Ballington Booth of the American vol
untcers; Emma Booth Tucker and Su-
sifo L. Swift of the salvation army
Gwyneth Vaughan of Wales; Rebek-
kah Krlkoran of Aintid, Turkey; He
rant Kiretcbjan of Armenia; Mrs.
Louise s. Rounds of Illinois; Mrs. Su-
san S. Fessenden OF Massachusetts,
Miss Belle Kearney of Mississippi the
noted southern orator, and 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:
ssThe roofs which echoed the cries of
Sound money echo back our voices as
we affirm that neither money, nor the
nation standing back of the money,
can be sound ii unrighteousness is
placed before rig ghteousness, greed of
gain before the welfare of citizens.
We meet, not as political party, yet
MS those to whom politics seems a
sacred duty; not as financers, and yet
rs those profoundly interested in
finance; not as statesmen, but, we
trust, as stateswomen-the women of
great nation, baptised with mighty
earnestness, ,endued with the clear vision
which enables us to see that whatever
else the nation and individuals con-
shutting that nation may need, the
primal need is applied righteousness.
Truth, not alone sin the inner parts of
individual conscience and life, but
truth In Its outward expression as seen
through righteous laws righteously
executed; social customs 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 issues.
"SureIy we should lift our white
banner high when we realize the holy
things of which it Is an emblem. When
.protection,' as as issue, shall have
been for ages forgotten, and the fact
that 'finance' was ever problem shall
seem like dream in the good day to-
ward 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 significance Of our
white ribbon movement will be seen "
'We have marched far since then,
and the alignments OF parties have
changed. The labor movement has
taken on proportions SO vast that no
one speaks lightly OF it any MORE"
The convention took recess until
p. m. The afternoon session opened
with prayer by Mrs. Mary Garland
The report OF the treasurer, Helen M.
Barker and the corresponding secre-
tary, Mrs. Katherine L. Stevenson,
were presented and adopted Then
followed the report from each depart
ment Of the superintendent in which
ten minutes were allowed to each
superintendent. These reports oc-
cupied nearly the entire afternoon ses-
sion.
ST.. LOUIS, Missouri, November Is -
Right royal will be the official geetlngs
to be extended to the white ribboners
tonight, special session having been
set aside for this event. Mayor G. P.
Walbridge will turn over the keys OF
the city to the temperance women;
President II d. Boyd, Of the ST Louis
exposition, will welcome them In be-
half OF the business community, and
Rev Dr. q. s. Sargent, president OF
the Evangelical Alliance. for the
churches. Then Mrs. Leonora Barry
Lake, famous ss an orator, will speak
for the Catholic woman's temperance
uaion Mrs. Clara g. Hoffman for the