Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-14
ON THE SIDE ISSUE
The Railroaders' and Miners
Branches ofthe w. c. T. U.
Discussed To-Day
STHoRSES BURNED ALIVE
Jewish Women are in National
Convention in New York
City To-day.
A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, November IA =
To-day's session Of the W. G. I. U
convention was preceded by a prayer
meeting at Schuyler memorial house
The special order of the convention wa
the reports of superintendent. Fol
the department of work among railroad
employees, Mrs. G. M. Woodward, o.
Nebraska, made the following state
meut:
"Sunday traffic in freight and pas
seDger business is regarded by this de-
partment serious infringement upon
the rights OF employees. The past yeal
has been one OF especial awakening al
to the running of freight extras By
our request, state superintendents have
reported as to usage and law in theil
several states, upon this point, with
the result that local freight and passen.
ger trains are generally discontinued,
but advantage is taken OF this to run
extra stock trains. Effort is being
made to reach conscientious Christian
men in the great stock growing regions
and lead them to refrain from loading
stock or having it in transit upon Sun
day"
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, November IA The
report of the department of work
among miners, presented by Mrs. Win
nie F. English, of Illinois, was listened
TO with profound attention. In part
she said:
sThe eagerness with which the
miners in the silver states-Coloraco,
Washington and others-grasp the
literature sent them, shows an open
door and the method by which to
enter. The work is bearing good fruit
in the coal states-Pennsylvania. In
diana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and
others.
"This nation has had its ordeals of
trial, ana they have been the occasions
of its glory. In 1776 there was the
cry of patriotism which aroused the
people, and they arose as unit and
conquered. There has come within
our memory crisis which appealed to
our best thought and brought re-
sponse sublime in its conception and
magnificent in its power. The ques-
tion winch thrust itself upon US was
greater in its import than that of self
prosperity and rose above every con-
sideratlon it meant lite or death to our
republic. We know the great cost of
that civil war, when our fathers, broth
ers and husbands went down in the
conflict, but our country remains For
some months our statesmen have been
telling us that another great crisis was
upon us, that the voice of honor and
conscience calls US to the conflict.
"These noble sentiments found re-
sponse In the heart of the nation at the
ballot box. II we believe in the fu-
ture society and the triumph of the
truth, may we not expect that the
same spirit that has carried US safely
through the strife of war and tempest
of financial mmotion, will bear us
out OF this worst OF all curses, this
tempest of all tempests, this greatest
of all stains on our American flag, into
purity and freedom from the liquor
trafficp
s'If we expect to reach the desired
results of our organization-which isl
total abstinence for the individual and
prohibition for the nation--we will
push the battle into every part OF the
earth, we will reach every class and
people with our principles of temper
ance education. This department does
its work among the 100000 miners in
the United States. Believing the en-
lightened mind often brings the con-
verted soul, we are sending them the
written truth and carrying them the
spoken word. Hundreds of thousands
of pages have thus reached them and
hundreds of visits have been made In
their families this year."
ST LOUIS, Missouri, November IA
This afternoon was banner occasion
for the white Ribboners," having
been specially set aside for the intro
duction of fraternal delegates and dis
tinguished guests. Tomorrow, Miss
Willard will preside over the services
in the Union Methodist church. In the
afternoon there will be q great Arme-
nian mass meeting and memorial SER
vice at Music hall. Miss Willard will
again preside, and the speakers will
include Miss Clara Barton, of the Red
Cross society, who will relate her re-
cent experience in the distribution OF
funds to Armenians.