The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-15
MISS WILLARD'S FIELD.
She Will Address Two Meetings Gov
ering a Range of rs Topics.

New York, Oct. 15.-AIiss Frances E
Willard will address the delegates of
the Worlds WOmen's Christian Tenn
perance union on October % in Toronto,
and the delegates of the National WO-
mems Christian Temperance union in
Buffalo on October %. These addresses
Will appear in separate pamphlets. They
include rs topics. Following are some
OF the salient points to DE dealt with
by Miss Willard:
Total prohibition by law by politics
and by wOman's ballot; total prohibi-
uOn of any form of regulation of social
vice; total abstinence from gambling
whether public or private, on the race
track or in the parlOr. She 4cOngratu-
lates Miss Slack who has developed the
work in Ireland; Miss Parrish who is
organizing in Japan; Mrs. Barney, who
is introducing the system of police mat
rons in the cities of Australia and New
Zealand; Mrs. Phillips, who has start
ed a White Ribbon paper in India;
Miss Ackerman who has organized the
w c. T. .. of Iceland; Mrs. NOrtham
Fields, who has introduced the meth
DDS of loyal temperance legion work in
to Great Britain; Mrs Selmar, who has
recently visited Finland, Sweden and
Norway in the interests of the work,
and refers with appreciation to the Ia
bors in the United States of the so
presidents of states and territories, 40
superintendent, % organizers and lee
turerS.
The press department. she states, has
never made such progress as in the
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metropolitan dailies as manifesting an
interest in the work, the department
of purity in literature and art having
received its chief DEVELOPMENT through
friendly editors. The work of Mrs. Mary
H. Hunt, backed up by the w. c. T.
u, and which has placed 16 millions of
school children under scientific tenn
peraRce instruction, is especially noted,
as is the fact that Mrs. Hunt was a
delegate to the anti-alcOhOI conference
recently assembled in Brussels, where
n c4 r Inc
drinking was taken by learned scien-
lists.
The department of physical culture
whereby common sense methods in
dress, food and exercises are sought to
be introduced through the public school
system into the daily life of the on
coming generation, is praised. The
fact that the Canadians are soon to
have a prohibition plebiscite to be fol-
lowed up, if successful, by a prOhibitOry
law, is mentioned as the most encOur-
aging token of progress in the past
year. The enfranchiSement of women
in Arizona and the submission of
amendments to give them the ballot in
the states of New York and Washing
ton, and in South Dakota, are referred
to as evidence of the progress of wo-
men during the year.
The labor question comes in for gen
erous recognition and it is declared:
I'VE believe in a living wage; in an
eight hour day; in courts of Cancellation
and arbitration; in justice as opposed
to greed of grain; in the development
of evolution, not by revolution of uni
versal brotherhood. We believe in the
gospel of the golden rule and that each
mans habits of life should be an ex-
ample safe and beneficent for other
men to follow"
Miss Willard talks of our patent
politics and contrasts the success of
no license in Cambridge, Mass, a city
of $4,000 inhabitants, with the Prince
ton alumni hotel and the banquets
where wine is furnished in that gOodly
stronghold"