The Press., 1897-01-21
w. C. T. U.
Miss Wil1ard's Address.

If had written my speech as I 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 coadjutors. 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 I like best; 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. c. 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 fulfills 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 a 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. I was away and she bod %< fv, <A,o <c I 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 I must say this: We are getting weary, all of us older ones; oh, let us expand those two departments that shall fill up the 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 I must say word about dear Mrs. Lucy Tharman who went among her own people and wrought so grandly in the South this year. I hope we shall make large geappropriations for the colored work. I want to speak about Kate Lun. den, who gave us our "Woman's Stal Spangled Banner" song. She urges more definite plans for our Scandinavian socie ties. My hearts desire is that we should add 8 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 odious wagers9 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 saloor 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.)
 ,I I wish to suggest that those who have
 been helped by Hannah Whiteall Smith.
 books send a small donation to Lad,
 Henry Somerset, Reigate, England, tt help build the Hannah Whitall Smitl
 cottage at the Duxhurst Industrial Earn
 Home for inebriate women.
 Beloved, two other dear ones have lef
 us in 1886, .Letitia Loumans, the pionee
 in the Southland. hope some permanen , method of preserving their names in ou
 work will be sthought of. The women fl , Canada have already started memoria , fund for organization. Iwish a memo rial in the South might bear the name o the intrepid worker, Sallie F. Chapin, o that similar fund might be raised i
 her honor and to develop the work sh, loved. We will speak more of these dea ones at the memorial service. And nov l in conclusion.
 F Did you read about the Czar, the grea Czar of Russia, and his coronation a 3 Moscow, and how every single step ths he took was guarded by unnumbere soldiery and secret police and did 70 read about the soft-hearted foolish peas ! antry, who, to the number of thirt 8 thousand, crowded on the plain near by t l. get a gilded pewter cup with the Czar' - initials on it, and nobody was watching
 There was no police force set to guar q them, and the government quite forgc
 about having soldiers to keep them froI
 crowding too much and hurting then ~ selves or from any body molesting another . and those who were there told us ths - the moaning of the six thousand unde
 the feet of those who were moving on va " like the sound of the waves in the storn - CTo be continued.)
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