The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-11-14

Gwyneth Vaughan. OF Wales: Miss Re-
becca krikorian. Of Armenia; Rey. +. ID.
Green. secretary Of the Armenian relief
committee. Of New York. Three sessions
. day for ave days win be held.
Miss Frances K. willard national pres
ident. called the gathering 10 order. She
was received with a salute OF waving
handkerchiefs. The exercises began with
the reading. Respectively. OF the Crusade
Psalm cxivi. Mrs. Henrietta l.. Monroe.
president of the W. c. r. L. of Ohio. Of
fered prayer. the delegates standing. Aft
er singing the Crusade Hymn. Give the
Winds Thy Fears the roll OF officers
was called. The report of the executive
committee was made. saying ii had been
decided TO make March 20. the birthday
Of Gen. Neal Dow. Prohibition Rally day.
Miss Willard said her annual address
was partly prepared when the call came
20 work for the Armenian refugees at
Marseiiles- II had been impossible for
her TO complete the message. She there
fore gave a familiar talk. Mention was
made of the previous convention held
here in 1854. and Miss Willard added:
we have marched far since then. The
aiignments OF parties have changed The
labor movement has taken On proportions
so vast that no one speaks lightly OF IL
way 10 the front. misguided often. MAX
ing pisiful paths In the wilderness fol-
fight for clear brain 10 the Spartan
band of Prohabitionssts. II labor would
win. y must make temperance reform
the ark OF CT, Gar to be borne In the very ss,
some OF US Sat up all night with the
committee on resolutions Of great labor
convention. with its thousand delegates.
pleading with them TO put prohibition
and a home protection plank In their
platform. and they would not
The speaker said prohibition IN politics
has been and Is TO be an embodied pro-
test OF the home against the saloon. but
owing TO the great controversy concern
ing the free coinage OF silver. this party.
like every other, had split In twain. Miss
Willard touched on the work done for
temperance In the several states. and
then spoke OF the Armenizns and the ex-
celIent work done there ty Mrs Stevens.
of Maine. and Mrs. Feesenden and Miss
Blackwell. Of the Massachusetts Arme-
nsan relief committees OF the Salvation
Army She stated that the Worlds W.
C. 7. L. intended TO take up the work
for Armenians as important part of
lis endeavor. They would probably found
a colony in Cyprus for women and chill
dren
The address was followed by an Evan
gelistic Hour" presided over by Rev.
Alice Palmer. of Minnesota
At the afternoon session the following
letter from Lady Henry Somerset WAS
read:
II profoundly regret considerations here
In enterprises 30 which I am pledged ard
duties growing out Of my sons recent
health. render IL impossible for me 10
cfSss the ocean this autumn. bar I shall
E,tii receive the impetus and inspiration
that may he impaired by association
with my American sisters Of the white
ribbon. IL - as certain anything In
this changins life that l shall attent the
w. G. r. Y. convention In Canada next
autumn. and ] am earnestly hoping that
your annual meeting may be held in
some city not 50 far away. thzs I may he
able 10 he present AZ THAI great gather
frx as well the biennial
.sJhe case OF Armenia ss deepty en-
shrined in all our hearts. ard I feel sure
you viii plan broadly and wisely 10 con-
vers those whose unzp@a ka bic caiamissrs
should open TO them the door Of every
Christian heart anal home -
The report Of Treasurer Helen NJ Bak-
er OF Illinois. stated that the receipts.
notwifh standing the hard tirnes had been
larger than for several previous years
White many states had made gain IN
membership only Ave had added over So
ard these would share bn the t'beneHt
night The states were Massachusetts,.
Maryland. New Jersey. Michigan and
Kentucky. The total receipts were 81 7e7
ard expenditures 81. rs. leaving q bal
ance of s. aa.
The report Of the corresponding secye-
tary. Mrs Catherine Lent Stevenson. of
Massachusetts. showed that during the
year l. 10 new unions hsd been organized.
with gain in membership Of is-sss. In
the main however. the Increase had been
Offset by iosxes.
Mary r. I1Dyelt. Of Pennsylyania. s;i-
persntendeas OF the department. Of mercy.
reported that 10 54s children had been re-
ceised into the Bard OF Mercy TIE
crsnes with which the world is cursed :
she said. are the crimes Of cruelty.
Enrsinats that haa@ous element and the
wors, crimes wezsd cease 10 exist We
cannot Yegererate many. hsxt re can do
a great deal OF preventive work We can