Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-12-06
FOES o. |N|EkP[RAN|).
White Ribbon Hosts Gather IN An
nual Convention at the Ma
TONS Capital. B
LARGEST ATTENDANCE N TEN YEARS,
Mrs. L. u. N. Stevens, President3 OF the
w. g. Il. U, Opens CoAvention and.
Delivers Her Address-Groyvth OF
Organizations Set Forth--1Iessage
Sent to Lady Henry Somerset.

Washington, Dec. The national
convention Of the Women's Christian
Temperance union was called to order
at the Lafayette theater Monday morn
ing. President Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stew
ems delivered her annual address. Near
" 500 delegates were assembled, rep
resenting every state and territory in
the union. Delegates Of five colored
state unions were also present. The
roll call showed SO superintend ents, IL
evangelists and 8lecturers also in
their places, The delegation is
larger than in ten years preceding.
Mrs. Corneha B. Forbes, president Of
Connecticut was appointed sergeant at
arms. Committees on credentials,
courtesies and publications were APP
pointed. A cablegram was sent Lady
Henry Somerset, president of the
Worlds w. C. T. u, expressing the
love and loyalty of her American con
|stituency sj.S
The young women members, called
the ssY 81 are in large numbers at this
convention. ST. II +. /
The president, Mrs. Lillian M. N.
Stevens, in her annual address, said:
when we were here in 1881 the treas
urer reported receipts from all sources,
including dues from. % states and the Dis
trict of Columbia, to be $2557. To-day she
will report, including dues from As states,
the territories and the District Of Colum-
bia, at least ten times that amount, and
our membership as eight times as large.
OF those who were then state presidents,
but two are here to-day, and only one of
them holds the same Office.
"At that convention we had but rs de-
partments of work; now we have Sc, all
built upon our fundamental principles of
purity, total abstinence, prohibition.
t'''Then, in no state was the age of pro-
lection for girls above ten years; now,
largely through the efforts of White Rib
bOners, 1t Is raised to an average Of Is
years, and in some states as high as u,
and there is growing sentiment In favor
Of legally protecting womanhood at any
age as we'll as girlhood in her minority.
when we were here before there were
no compulsory temperance educational
laws; now they exist in every state save
Georgia and Utah, also in the territories
and in the District of Columbia. Then tenn
perance was not systematically taught in
the Sunday school; now there are quar-
terly temperance lessons as part of the
international lesson SYSTEM s2r
s"Since 1881 eight round the world mis-.
sionaries have gone out to carry the Cos.
pei Of temperance, as we understand 1t,
to all people in all lands. Miss Willard was
the founder of the World S Womans Chris
tian Temperance union, and at its organ,
izing convention, held in Boston, Novem-
Der, 1891, delegates were present from q
countries. At the fifth biennial convention
of the Worlds w. c. T.eU.; held in Edin-
burgh last June, 81 countries were repre-
sented by delegates and auxiliaryship. il
During the last 20 years total abstinence
and prohibition sentiment has greatly ad-
vanced. In 1884 the people of Maine, by q
vote of three to one, placed the heretofore
statutory prohibitory. law in the consti-
tuition of the state. Kansas and North Da-
kota have also adopted constitutional pro-
hibitton. Neal Dow never claimed more
benefcent results for the law in the state
Of Maine than do Judge Pollock, of North
Dakota, and Charles Sheldon, of Kansas,
claim for their respective states. Last win
ter, in Georgia, a prohibitory law passed
the house by large majority, and would
have passed the senate but for the con-
certed action against 1t of the Liquor Deal
ers' association. Not until good people
learn that they should be al active to-
promote good work as the evil-doers are
to carry their points, shall WI have correct
expressions of public opiniois concerning
the great evils in our midst' g9.zs s