Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-06
ANotatls Meeting Of the Union Signal Gem
Club Of Philadelphia.

Editors Union Signal: The Union Sig
nal Gem Club is a live organizati ton IN
Philadelphia. devoted to destroying the
great destroyer and to advancing the
cause of The Union Signal of Chicago.
Here some of the best and brightest
temperance women workers of Pennsyl-
vania meet once every month. Every
meeting is a notable one. This week the
convocation was unusually brlllant ana
numerous.
Mrs Russell presided with her usual
grace and dignity. Mrs. Olive Pond
Amies made the first address, classical
and strong presentation of the subject OF
physical culture.
Next came Mrs. DIR. French of Philadel-
phia. county superintendent of the w. G.
7. L. Buiwer calls humor strength.
rich supArfluousness, and Mrs. Dr.
French is nothing If not humorous. She
always commands attention and her wit
is only a foil TO the serious and able
trend of her discourse. The dangerous
side of the saloon power was well drawn
III wotdS that burn and breathe.
Mrs Hammer, the state president of
Pennsylvania w. G. T. L., followed in a
deeply interesting speech of half an hour
Mrs. Hammer Is strong and an inter-
estng speaker always. The president
then called on Col. James Matlack SEQ
vel who had just been made life mem
Der of the w. C. T. L.. to fill the place of
the lady who first organized The Union
Signal Gem Club.
Though forty years Il lawyer | am all
unused to personal oratory in such bril-
liant and pleasing presence. But, O. what
an inspiring theme-Woman' Christian
Temperance Union, 1t touches near
home near Christ the best man who Ger
wore earth about him. Temperance too,
in whose battle there is a pulse that is
yet TO thrill the word-it touches the
Union, and il was for the Union a nation
spent three billion dollars and the lives
OF million Of her best and braveSt sons.
But the next battle of Armageddon is
TO destroy the rum curse-We can [ Scotch
inns snake. 1t must be slain, 1t came IN
oy the law, il must go out by the law
But in ten minutes allotted me | must
hasten on to one other of the burning
questions of the hour, the cnfranchise-
inent of woman
LIES waters, like the pool of Beth
eesda. are beautiful only when agitated.
We have now eight United States sena-
TORS from four universal suffrage states,
TO wit, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Col,
orado. Let these statesmen cry aloud
ana spare not. In twenty-five states
woman Possesses suffrage i'm school mat
ters in four states they have limited sur
rage in local affairs, and in one state
,hey have municipal suffrage.
Ana IN the four states-ecce muitcruin.
woman is the peer of man at the ballot
poK- ana eastward the star of empire
mMis It's course. Have courage, brother
anu sister; the star of woman empire Is
ohlhs woman's way. and woman, ne
longer The lesser man, will soon have an
.quai say in the parliament OF man
us lederation of the world.
bismarck said of Salisbury, the pres
en. English Premier. He is man or
wood, wearing a tin shield And can
aseF predict that if Susan Il. Anthony
AIM AIM PREMIER OF England, poor Greece,
bTsl living Greece once more would
sbe 'T Nv, W compelled by the unconscion-
for turk to pay great war indemnity
~ YER bold hut UNEQUAL warfare for God