The Press., 1897-01-21
w. C. T. U.
Mics willard's Address.
PART V.


 If had written my speech as disired to do, should have talked about the dear House Beautiful and this ragged edge of year when it has not been able to do what we had hoped, but it must have another year to try under the Mo- Kinley conditions of prosperity. (applause) l should like to speak about the publish- ing house and do not believe a more heroic record was ever made in business than Caroline Grow has made and Mrs. Carse and her trusty coadiutors. I should like to speak about the hospital, one of the most prosperous enterprises in which we have ever engaged. I do not know which 1 like best; I think 1t is always with me, would like the other better, "were this dear charmer away" love dear Mrs. Platt and her beautiful idea of w. 0. T. U. headquarters at the national capital. We shall not turn the cold shoulder on that enterprise but some day we will give her lift if Mckinley fulfllls republican hopes.
 I want to say word about the general officers, how loving how local, how un- nited we have been; about Kate q like to call her Kate), Mrs. Stevenson, who has been all about in the new west amongst you and who has done grand work when she would gladly have re- mained in the office aud carried forward the work there. But she could not be everywhere at once. was away and she had to represent us in the outlying parts. am sure you will appreciate the circum- stances. (Applause). want to applaud and glorify, as we all do, the cleared up map that Marc Hunt puts before us (only four black patches lefty and the great victory in New York. can not speak of Frances Barnes and the Y's and Helen Rice and the children as I wish, but must say this: We are getting weary, all of us older ones; oh, let us expand those two departments that shall i'll up the ranks with fresh soldiers for God, In a single state we have lost seven hundred members this year by death. Let us make great broad paths for the women that are leading on the new recruits in their fresh enthusiasm-let us build up the work among our young people and children must say word about dear Mrs. Lucy Thurman who went among her own people and wrought so grandly in the South this year. I hope we shall make large appropriation for the colored work. want to speak about Kate Lun- den, who gave us our "Woman's Star Spangled Banner" song. She urges more definite plans for our Scandinavian socie- ties. My hearts desire is that we should add a department of work against the gambling vice. We read of the grotesque election wagers what do you think our brothers would say If we women engaged in such: follies, in such vexations stirring up of.things that ought now to quiet down, in the payment of millions of dollars to meet these odlous wagersP one man expatriating himself from his country evermore, because he promised he would do so If Bryan was not elected; another man saying he will not cut his beard and going about looking like Methuselah be- cause his candidate has not won. It is no more on Bryan's side than on McKin- ley's and the ingenuity of the wagers is as that men who sit up nights to concoct folly. believe we ought, as every saloon Is the home of gambling, to have an anti gambling department and work earnestly for that cause. (Applause.)
 Let us make General Neal Dow's birth day, March 20, Prohibition Rally Day, the world around, and our own chief red letter day. (Applause.)
 wish to suggest that those who have been helped by Hannah Whiteall Smiths books send 8 small donation to Lady Henry Somerset, Reigate, England, to help build the Hannah Whitall Smith cottage at the Duxhurst Industrial Farm Home for inebriate women.
 Beloved, two other dear ones have left us In 1886, Letitia Loumans, the pioneer in the Southland. hope some permanent method of preserving their names in our work will be 8thought of. The women in Canada have already started memorial fund for organization. Iwish memo rial in the South might bear the name oi the intrepid worker, Sallie F. Chapin, or that similar fund might be raised in her honor and to develop the work she loved, We will speak more of these dear ones at the memorial service. And now in conclusion.
 Did you read about the Czar, the great Czar of Russia, and hIs coronation al Moscow, and how every single step that he took was guarded by unnumbered soldiery and secret police and did you read about the soft-hearted foolish peas antry, who, to the number of thirty thousand, crowded on the plain near by tC get gilded pewter cup with the CzaI'f initials on 1t, and nobody was watching There was no police force set to guard them, and the government quite forgot about having soldiers to keep them from crowding too much and hurting them selves or from anybody molesting another and those who were there told us tha' the moaning of the six thousand under the feet of those who were moving on wal like the sound of the waves in the storm (To be continued.)
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