The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-05-17
promise of strong ally when they
should grow up.

promise of a strong ally when they
should grow up.
Mrs. Prof. Kelsey, formerly Of Ober-
lin, now OF Toledo, sent a letter of
greeting.
Miss Young, OF the Non-Partisan
Union, suggested that county cen
trail committee be appointed, who shall
cooperate with one in each local union
to see that not only superintendents
and teachers, but school boards, be re-
sponsible for the enforcement OF the
law relating to scientific Temperance
instruction, and that we work for a
hetter law in that department This
was afterward put In the form of a
motion, and included representatives
from churches and organizations to act
in connection with the committee, and
carried. Central comIuittee-carried.
Mrs. L. NJ. Davis, the county presi-
dent of year, who was not present
when elected, met for the first time
many OF her constituency att the Ober-
lin meeting. She had served in this ca
pacity in eastern Ohio and presides
with the ease of one experienced. 1t
was decided to return to the plan of
holding two conventions year. A
county banner was ordered to be in
readiness for the state meeting in
| Cleveland in October, Mrs. j. W.
IToughton to be chairman of the COM
mittee on design and construction. The
September meeting will be held in Lor-
ain. Mrs. Kinnison, of Wellington, was
appointed superintendent Of the de-
partment OF scientific temperance in
struction for the county.
The evening address, by Wilbur f.
Crafts, superintendent Of the Reform
Bureau, of Washington, was prefaced
by the happy introduction of President
Barrows. They had been friends on
ship-board on the Atlantic and else
where. No one is better equipped to
speak to the people on moral legisla-
ton of to-day than DR.. Crafts, who sits
at the helm and knows every crook
and turn of the ship of state in her
course through the tempestuous sea of
politics. The topic, Living and Dying
Nations" as treated by this close STU
dent of history, was most interesting
and instructive. The causes of national
decay, the consequences of education
without morality, culture without pi-
ETY., luxury and power without integri-
ty, were drawn with fidelity. We have
an Egypt but no Egyptipns; Rome,
but as nation no Romans; Greece,
but no Grecians, only weak and de
gclesatr rennsnt Of "A .onee cultured
and powerful race. Intellect, talent;
trained independent of conscience and
character, has never saved any people
from degeneracy and final extinction.
Spain and Italy are of the child ma
tions, have never matured. The de-
fective and delinquent other nations
were contrasted with Great Britain and
the United States of America, whose
.tnglo-Saxon heritage and Christian
training had together made a people
which was the ruling power of the
earth. When the representatives oi
eastern and Oriental religions came tc
the great parliament in Chicago in
1898, no wife or daughter or sister ac.
companied them. Woman has no place
in the religions Of the Orient. Ameri.
ca cannot afford to ignore the Chris
tian seventh day, for worship and resi-
for doing good and for unselfshess
Without special effort God-ward hu.
man nature drifts into indolence, ease
vice, disease, barbarism. Sabbath des
ecration includes special temptation
with intemperance, impurity, gambling
and crime in its train. Impurity is ever
more deadly than drunkenness in in
diTdual and national extinction.
DIR. Crafts furnishes facts showins
the need of reforms, "the principle:
which underlie them, or the motives
with which they must be prosecuted.
He is a fluent, forceful and convincing
speaker; is not hampered by note O
manuscript and needs none to help hi
concfseness or the finish of his rhetoric