The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-05
IT ORGANIZED HERE.
Mrs. Stevenson, the President. Touches
Upon international Questions In Her
Address. Welcome to Delegates By
the Mayor and Pastors Mother
Clifford Makes an Address.

center. MIS-. DeCamp LOlQ OF some OF
the earlier experiences In the work,
some of them pathetic and some anus
ing, and read extracts from the records
of the first secretary. AT the request Of
Mrs. DeCamp Mrs. Churchill told Of her
experiences in the same work, with es
pecial reference TO a certain saloon on
Pearl street, opposite what was then
the post office, and where the Crusaders
net with resistance in their work.
Mrs. Anna A. Russell then spoke a
few words on the first convention and
the work, and then Mrs. j. X. Barney,
the well-known missionary Of Provi-
dence, was called upon and spoke for
five minutes on how well the w. c. T.
u. is known throughout the world and
of the respect held everywhere for the
name Of Miss Willard.
''Rock of ages" was then sung by the
congregation, and Mrs. Edwin Harris
rendered Fear not O Israel"
Mrs. Stevenson then took her place
in the chair and began her annual adj
dress, an abstract of which follows:-
Abiding to the fact that the w. C.
t. U. is q worlds organization, Mrs.
Stevenson touched first upon some of
the most important events of recent oc-
currenee in the world at large.
She spoke of the peace congress as
prophecy full of hope for the future,
despite the fact that the method of ar
bitration is not. as yet, largely en-
ployed by the nations most active in
urging the principle. She alluded to the
war of the Philippines as an event
greatly to be- deprecated and said:
THE spectacle of a great nation bat
Ting with its former allies, because,
forsooth they have rebelled against a
government to which they never ac-
knowledged allegiance, is not an inspir-
ing one"
She also spoke in terms of condemna-
ton of the war between Great Britain
and the Transvaal, affirming that it is
wholly out of harmony with the pro-
verbally British spirit of fair play for
the strongest nation upon earth to war
against the weakest,
She alluded to the Dreyfus case as the
crime Of the century, and yet felt that
there was in it much of promise as
marking mighty advance in brother
hood.
The failure of the Canadian govern
ment to put into law the expressed will
of the people in the matter of the pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic and the de-
cision of Attorney General Griggs as to
the Interpretation of the anti-canteen
law next came in for severe condemna-
ton
She felt that the failure on the part
OF the temperance forces to secure the
amendment to the scientific temperance
instruction law was not so great as at
first seemed apparent, and argued that
better understanding between the ed
ucational and temperance forces of the
state must result from the agitation
The difference between Prof. Atwater
and the w. c. T. u. is largely a differ
ence of definition. She spoke earnestly
against the seating of Brigham Rob
erts in the United States house of rep
resentatives, and argued for greater ac-
tivity in work for social purity upon
the state organization.
She dwelt at length upon the labor
problem as a part of the great econe-
mic problem which, in a profound
sense, underlies all others, saying: 'In
the Fighting of industrial wrongs, in the
overthrow of our present economic
evils, in the substituting of the divine
order of cooperation for the supreme
anarchy of competition, we shall find
that many more ills than those of in
temperance alone will be banished." She
also urged upon the state organization
renewed effort for the securing of the
no-license vote in the towns, and for
the enforcement of the law in no-li-
cense territory.
Mrs. Stevenson closed, after paying a
tribute to the life and work of Frances
Willard, and her successor, Mrs. Lillian
M. N. Stevens. with some practical and
comprehensive recommendations for the
work for the coming year
AS soon as the address was finished
Mrs Mary q. Stuckenburg of Cam
bridge read a letter from Mrs. Susan S.
tessenden, who is in North Dakota
lecturing on temperance. 1t was moved
ana carried that the telegram commit
Tee prepare telegram to be sent in re-
Spouse to this letter, and then the reg
uiar work of reports was taken up
again
Mrs. Mary S. Howes of Somerville
was introduced and reported on the
work among foreigners in substance
as follows:
We have had more encouragement
TINS last year in this depar~rcnt than
any previous year. Although no new
superlntendents have been added to
tne work, individuals seeing the need
OF the stranger within our gates have
given out new testaments and leaflets
in their own language, which have
been gladly received. Our evening
schools are well attended by these peo-
pie, and good progress has been made
by them, In our language Our Scan
dinavian w. C. T. U. is doing grand
work The Scandinavians are very de-
sirable citizens, neat. orderly and
Christian. Many who come here do nor
appreciate our institutions, and are not
interested In preserving them. The "a
loon welcomes them. They are there
manipulated by politicians, and the
ballot means power, and which should
never be given to them until they have
been here 10 years and can read. write
(Confinuad on M ua