The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-04-15
The W. c. T. U. CONVENTION
TEMPERANCE WORKERS AT
ELK GROVE.
What the Good Women Are Doing
For the Cause So Near
Their Hearts.

On the 5:15 p. m. train which left
Sacramento on Wednesday were ten
W. {. T. L. ladies. At Brighton and
Florin they We're joined by others until
twenty We're in the party when the
train reached Elk Grove, where the
county convention was to meet. The
delegates We're met and escorted to the
w. c. T. L. hail, where a delicious sup
per was served.
Rev. Mr. Russell of Oak Park &C
companied the ladies and was cordially
received. After supper the delegates
We're all assigned to their respective
quarters.
In the Methodist Church the people
gathered to witness the Silver-Gray
medal contest.
The convention of the Sacramento
w. c. T. L. was opened at ) p. m by
County President Mrs. Maggie Willis
followed by the audience singing Won
derful Story of Love"
An address of welcome was delivered
by Rev. Mr. Kuykendall for the min
istry.
Rev Mr. Haberly told of the pleasure
it gave the Elk Grove people to well
come the convention of w. G. T. u
workers, and spoke touchingly of the
fallen leader, Frances E. Willard.
A welcoming address was also made
by Mrs. Belle Rowe for the Elk Grove
w. c. T. U. and response was made
by Mrs McMullin of Brighton.
Mrs Sturtevant Peet, President of thu
Womans Christian Temperance Union
he
come from the Santa Clara convention,
which was largely attended. Much IN
terest was aroused in discussion OF the
question What can be done to arouse
a greater interest in temperance IN the
churches?" which Mrs. Peet SAID was
to her a pathetic thought that there
should be any occasion for the dls-
cussion of such a question, out she
had once met a clergyman VINO was
loud in the praise of the w. I. l. u
and that he always helped it in every
way possible On being asked II ne
had ever advised the women of his
church to join the organization he SAID
''No. but he would in future!"
Another clergyman had said the only
hone he had for the temperance cause
was in the women. Women have no
fears. would stand for the right. Miss
Willard had only to know the right to
do it,
1t was not pleasant for her to go be-
fore a critical and conservative audi
ence in New Jersey and advocate the
ballot for her sex, but she thought II
right, and did so at the close OF the
address. The President said to her,
"You might have been President, fran
ces. but now you will only be scout.
But she came to be the greatest woman
of the age, and by always doing the
right If every man and woman would
work for temperance because it IS right
the saloons would be abolished before
another decade.
MRS. ROWE'S ADDRESS.
Madam President and Sisters of the
convention: In the name of Elk Grove
Union we extend to you greeting. We
meet not as strangers but as members
of one spiritual sisterhood with the
Lord of hosts for our leader and the
God of love for our refuge.
AS daughters of the Great King We
belong to one royal family. We dc
not welcome you to the hospitality o.
our union at this time from sense OF
duty. but of love. We know that your
presence among us will be a benefac
ton: and we believe that we shall Of
wiser and better fitted to take up the
work of God and our homes when yot
leave than before you came.
We welcome you as co-workers in the
same great field of action, that OF ex
tending the helping hand to the raj
len and sympathiZing with the trlet
and tempted Yet our eyes are no
closed to the most prolific source of al
eyil-the rum curse-the organized ant
deadly foe of the home, the State, th'
church and the school. Hence th'
deep feeling in our ranks that th'
world needs q more thoroughly organ
lied and vitalized Christianity to hell
stem this terrible tide of evil ant
hasten the time when alcohol shall M
longer reign as king. We welcome
YOU as mothers whose hearts arr
touched with the great need of saving
the youth of our land, seeking to reaci
them through the home and to teaci
there the full import of that heaVenl!
command. Keep myself pure" by ed
vocational methods, through the juvenile
organization contests, Sunday-school:
and public schools. as we'll as by lega
protection, that they may be saved
from the fell destroyer. for surely, =
blighted childhood means a nation
decay"
We welcome you as a company O
v,ide-awake women of the nineteenth
century. who, realizing the unjust OPP
preston of our sex are gently yet per
sistently calling for deliverance; ant
we certainly have great reason 10 re
1oice because of the wonderful progress:
made during the past years in favor
woman's suffrage.
We believe that the day is not far dis
+ant when there will be a great chang
in our land-that of home destruction
To home protection-whichw will come a
gently as the dews from heaven
through the ballot in the hand of WON
an. The unjust oppression which ha'
ond is now resting upon the women o