The Portland daily press., 1900-09-27

III every S6CbAOn OF bn0 country Wu0E6
l have been l have found great dissatis-
faction, even among the SO called tad
m1n1stration people, in regard to the
attitude OF our government toward the
canteen and the dreadful conditions
which exist in the Philippines. We
have organized w. Q. Il. U. In Manila.
Mrs. Moots, a capable white ribboner and
a woman with the true missionary spirit,
/ Is the president.
A proposition has been made for ths
establishment of temperance home and
hospital here under the supervision OF
Mrs. Moots. We nope and believe this
plan viii be carried out.
Under supervision and sanction of
American authorities the brothel and
saloon f1Ourishes In Manila. We are told
on reliable authority that there are in
the philippines about two hundred army
canteens where liquor is sold, and
| about four hundred American saloons,
the principal support of which comes
from the American soldier now In the
Philippines. OF the sixty thousand
American soldiers who have been in
the hospitals one of the chief surgeons
declared that fifteen thousand of these
cases were caused directly by drink. This
estimate Is corroborated by other testi-
mony. We are reliably informed, that
nine out OF the eleven suicides among
the soldiers in the Philippines of which
we read with such pathetic interest, were
caused directly by drink. We also learn
that liquor sold In the. canteens has the
same effect as liquor sold from the regu
lar saloon, and that instead OF reducing
the number of saloons they multiply in
the canteen districts, Is all of this of no
interest to the mothers of boys, and how
can they refrain from uniting AMI help
ing the national W. o. II. u. and every
! other agency which Is. eude avoring to
right this awful wrong? The national
W. q. Il. u, has underway q plan Of
work bearing upon this great national
! disgrace. and we hope IL Will meet with
the corporation Of all good women every
where, and that the result Will be as
satisfactory TO us as the efforts put forth
to keep a polygamist from being a mem
4 Der OF the United States Congress. Let
/ us work Loyalty with the good men OF our
nation who are exposing the atrocious
/ situation IN the Philippines and who
have at heart the best interests of this
Government 1 depend upon the women
Of Maine to act we'll their part in fact,
they never fall
1 recognize with deep appreciation the
work done by the civic league, by Chris
tian EndeavOrers in some localities, and
by other organizations for the advance
ment OF temperance sentiment and for
the enforcement of the prohibitUry law.
L recommend that we cordially cooperate
with all these movements.
l wish to express my deep gratitude to
you all for hOnoring our state as you
Z have in responding to the call from the
national to help the memorial OrganiZ-
ing fund by a gift from each union of s.
The last time that 1 heard the national
treasurer mention the subject, she said
that Maine had outranked all of the other
states in the amount given, and as she
told me this 1 thought or what our pro-
NOTED leader often said of the women of
Maine, that there were none more loyal
more devoted, more generous. There
are many memorials in many places
erected to her memory, but l am sure
the greatest and the best, and the one
which from her heavenly home she viii
smile upon most approvingly, is the sue
cessful effort to build up by Increased
membership and large plans the Woman S
Christian Temperance Union. IL each
OF the 10, OOO unions in our country would
respond to the call for 81 the National
W. q. Il. u. would be enabled to reach
many fields where real temperance mis-
sionary work is needed. l am sure that
eacn union which gives the 81 to the
memorial fund VIII be greatly blessed in
the giving, / have often said that there
is no society IN the world that does SO
much work with so itGle money as the
w. q. Il. u.
I am confident that the local unions
can have more money to work with II
they make the right effort. First, secure
more members this is the best financial
basis; secure more honorary mem bers.
Many local unions have a long list OF
men who arc glad TO sign the pledge and
pay the annual membership fee to help
a the local work, and some unions have in
addition to this list of annual con
tributors among the men who decline to
Sign tbs pledge, but are glad to help the
local work. L recommend that all unions
! try TO raise money In this way.
While IN the Northwest we heard won
derful reports OF II 1ancal prosperity in
the local unions broughU about by the
, medal contests / wish more in this line
might be done IN Maine The reason we
DO not have more money to work with
is because we do no ask Tor more. There
are wealthy and well-tO do people who
would respond to the right sort of an in
vitatiOn TO give. Let us in the right
spirit ask ana we shall receive.
j recommend we use our influence
toward the repeal of the fee system and
In favor OF paying all officers fair
salary without tempting them to create
unjust fees under sanction OF law
1 recommend that we continue to use
our utmost influence to prevent the
nomination or election of immoral men
to ill or hold positions OF trust and honor
We certainly should be encouraged by
the good results OF our efforts IN the past.
L recommend that we continue our
efforts TO bring into practices that great
principle established by Elizabeth Frye
over eighty years ago, that none but
women should be employd as superinten-
dent and IN the care Of women prisoners,
1 recommend that we be more active
III trying to Danish impure literature,
Indecent pictures, exhibitions and adver-
tisements AS rule the municipal ofIic-
ers when properly appealed to Will help
IN the suppression OF all these.
The law OF our state fOrbids the manu-
facture, sale or giving away OF cigarettes
to any person under twenty -One. We
helped TO secure this law; are we help
ing TO enforce it2 here Is not local
union that cannot, backed by this law,
Anrn 4-Nr
When we see a boy with a cigarette we
should feel the same as II we saw him
taking less subtle poison and hasten to
rescue him and stop the source OF sup
! ply. Educators and other good people
are wonderfully sympathetic in efforts
/ to OVQrcOma fba cfuarofto ourca