The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-25
WHY TEMPLE Is GIVEN UP.
Thirty State Presidents Are Opposed
to Keeping the Building.

to Keeping the Building.
Chicago, Aug. 25.-The following Of
fetal statement has been sent out from
the press department of the National
w. Q. T. U:
The National Woman's Christian
temperance union is in no way legally
bound to the Temple or any of its en-
Engagements 1t is now supposed that
most of the Temple bonds are held by
capitalists, are the other Temple
bonds. No doubt some of them are held
by poor people, and it is the desire of
the national officers to relieve them as
far as the funds which have been sent
to Miss Dow will admit.
Miss Gordon, who offered the resolu-
hons at the executive committee favor
ing giving up the Temple, was for
tWenty-one years Miss Wizards private
secretary and constant companion and
devoted friend. She more than any
other knew Miss Wizards Utmost
thought regarding the Temple and all
other w. c. Z. Z. interests. Mrs. L. M.
N Stevens, Miss Wizards successor,
was for tWenty-fOur years Miss Will
came between their friendship. Mrs.
Stevens chief delight in the national
work seemed always to be to do that
which would most help Miss Willard.
When the national constitution was
changed so to provide for q vice presi-
dent at large, to act in place of the
president when the latter should be
prevented from acting, Miss Willard
nominated Mrs. Stevens, and she re-
peated this nomination each year When
Miss Willard was i'll in New York Mrs.
Stevens was summoned to her side. No
one conversanu with facts can deny
that Miss Gordon ana Mrs. Stevens
have acted cOnscientiOuSly in the Tenn
pie matter, and no one can ever doubt
their love and loyalty to Miss Willard.
The Temple is only an affiliated in
terest of the National WOman's' Chris
tan Temperance union. 1t is not an in
tegTal part of it's work as are its forty
departments under the heads of organic
alton, preventive, educational, eVange-
nstic, social and legal. The building
has never brought any revenue to the
society on the contrary more than $780,
600, mostly from white rfbboners, has
been spent in floating the enterprise,
while the national has paid and is pay
ing today rent for it's offices in the
Temple, and the central w. G. t. q.
of Chicago has paid and is paying today
rent for Willard hall, in which are held,
under the auspices of the union, the
to give up the Temple, the w G. T. u
has nothing to lose, but much to gain
by en1ightening the white ribbOners, so
that they would understand the exact
situation, in order that their money,
representing so much self-sacrifice,
should be in the future rightly applied
toward the building up of our work.
The action taken by the national ex-
ecutive committee July Is, when they
voted to give up all hope and effort to
own the Temple, is meeting with the
approval of the leading officers and
workers. Lady Henry Somerset, presi-
dent; Miss Agnes Slack and Miss Cor
don, secretaries, and Mrs. Sanderson,
the general officer of the worlds w. G.
T. u, all heartily indorse the action of
the executive committee. At the execu-
tive meeting in Chicago, as has been
stated, eighteen were in favor of giving
up the Temple and four opposed Since
that time all of the absent members of
the national executive committee have
been heard from save five, and all those
heard from agreed that the committee
did right in it's meeting July Is The
national superintendent so far as heard
from, with the one exception, approve
the action of the executive committee,
as do also Mrs. J. K. Barney, round
the-world missionary; Mrs. Hannah J.
Bailey, Mrs. Mary Livermore, supertn-
tendent of peace and arbitration.
The president of Wisconsin w. G. T.
u, Mrs. Mary c. Upham, wife of ex-
Governor Upham, has resigned her
position on the board of Temple trus-
tees. This resignation will lessen the
strength of the board in a great meas
ure. The death of Mrs. Demorest of
New York left another vacancy on the
board of Temple trustees that it will
be hard to adequately replace