The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
MISS WILLARD HONORED
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF WORLDS
w. C. II. U. FOR ANOTHER TERM.
Close of the COnvention-Protes
Against Regulation of the Social
Evil by the License System.

IORONTO, Oct. 26.-ThiS was the last day
of the worlds w. C. T. L. convention. In
Miss Wizards temporary absence Miss Ag-
mes e. Stack presided at the morning ses-
sion. After the reading of the report of
Mrs. ]. K. Barney on penal charitable and
reformatory work an hour of devotional
work was instituted. conducted by Miss
Greenwood of Brooklyn. Miss Mary f.
Green, of Honolulu, related her experiences
among the Hawaians. She was followed by
Commander Evangeline Booth, of the Sal
walton Army, who brought the devotional
hour to a close. The executive committee
then reported the following newly elected
officers: Honorary president, Mrs M. C.
Leavitt, Boston; president, Miss Frances e.
willard Evanston, H.; vice president at
large, Lady Henry Somerset, England; sec
rotary, Miss Agnes E. Black, England; as
sistant secretary, Miss Anna A. Gordon,
Evanston, ILL.,; treasurer, Mrs Mary A.
Sanderson, Danville, Quebec. The execu-
tive committee has revived the position of
honorary president, which was dropped at
the convention in London in 1895, and Mrs.
Mary Clement Leavitt of Boston, was re-
elected to the position.
At the afternoon session the minutes of
the whole convention were read by Miss
Slack. Mrs. Carse read a report on the de-
partment of the worlds archives, and a
paper on the press by Miss c. f. Reed was
read, showing that about one-third of the
newspapers published W. G. T. u. matter,
$500 giving space for w. c. T. u. column.
Miss Kirk, secretary of the Australia W. G.
Il. T., read the report of the committee on
resolutions. Among them was the following
on the subject of social purity:
Whereas the regulation of vice has be-
come an aggressive question in the w. g.
Il. u. and the discussion of it as presented
in the contagious-disease act has assumed
a character which we cannot ignore
Resolved, That while we do not forget
that even the most consecrated and true
may honestly differ in relation TO vital mat
tiers, and while we would abstain from any
thing which would SAVIOR or criticism or
Judgment of motives yet we, the World
w. G. T. u, must earnestly protest against
anything that would even seem to commit
our great organization to any EFFORT at
regulation or license, as applied TO any ana
all forms of sin, and we most unequivocally
declare our adherence of any compromise
whatever with anything which is wrong in
principle or sinful in practice We utter
this, our conviction and protest and our de-
termination never to surrender the prlncl-
pies for which we have always stood as
body and this we do in the name or God
and home and every land.
In reference to labor questions, the COM
mittee favored the eight-hour day law for
wage workers and opposition was expressed
to strikes and movements of like nature
Eyangelstic training schools were COM
mended and recognition and help requested
and confidence was expressed in the Off
cial organ of the union. Armenia was re-
ferred to and the massacres were deeply
deplored Lynching, drink on ships and rail
ways and gambling were the topics or other
resolutions.
DIR. Mary Wood-Allen, superintendent of
the social purity department, onered res
olution, that, after regretting the absence
of Mrs Josephine E. Butler, expressed APP
probation and sympathy in her unrelent-
ing crusade against social vice, and re-
queSted that she continue to be the aSSocia-
TONS leader in purity work With this addi-
ton the resolutions We're submitted TO the
meeting and unanimously adopted.
The credentials of the Icelandc delegate,
Miss Johannsdottir, were presented 70 Mrs
CarSe, keeper of the archives in Chicago.
Miss Johannsdottir. who is president OF the
w. C. r. u. Of Iceland, and niece Of the
premier of Iceland, came forward and made
< discussion of the subject. How We
May Advance the White Ribbon Cause in
All Countries" followed led by Mrs. Louise
Rounds president of the Illinois w. c. T.
u. Miss Todd, ex-president of the Dominion
w. G.. Il. u, preached a plan of sending
Miss Frances E. Willard, with her right
hand worker Miss Gordon, around the
world to propagate and strengthen the
work in other countries.
The Rev. Wilbur r. Crafts, Phi. D., of
the reform bureau, Washington, d. c.,
whose theme was IAN Extension Movement
Among Christian and Reform Organiza-
tions,' said: II bring you the greeting of
the reform bureau, the little brother or
the child of the Women's Christian Temper
ance Union but / do not wish the bureau
to be considered too near OF kin to propose
marriage to the Union after you have dis
charged your woman function by securing
woman suffrage. The church of the TWEEN
tieth century will become a combination oi
Y. M. G. A. and w. c. t. u. with CEN
trail institution building for both men and
women in every town, and forty depaEt-
the w. C. 7. u. as the worlds best or
ganiZed reform, an extension movement
namely, the devotion of one of the regular
weekly meetings of every month to a Chris
tan reform federation, to which all other
Christian reform organizations in the city
or village shall be invited, not as a visitor,
but as equal participants, the presidents of
the cooperating societies presiding in turn
the two objects being study Of reforms
union of forces, which should become the
reform watchwords of the hour I hope to
see erected in Washington, near the nation
al Capitol, union reform building, in
which the offices of the resident officers of
the W. G. 7. u, the reform bureau, the
Anti-saloon League, the National Temper
ance Society, the Endeavorers. and other
Christian committees and all other Chris
tian reform societies, shall be ranged
around a central conference hall, all CO.
operating in comprehensive plan to Sc
cure righteous legislation and at the same
time promote reform education throughout
the whole continent Canada and the United
States uniting to uplift the lower Spanish
civilization and make the new world the
new earth wherein dwelleth righteous
ness"
The great auditorium and galleries Of
Massey Hall We're crowded tonight at the
closing session of the convention Miss
Frances e. Willard presided, and one hum
by as many prominent delegates. The
meeting was named a white Ribbon Love