The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-19

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perance work was personal effort TO
put down the saloons. He said, ny
should you not go to the saloons and
work in an endeavor to persuade them
to stop selling?"
Mrs Thompson's son was at the
meeting and he told his mother of what
occurred. Despite her husbands re
monstrance that it was tomfoolery,
Mrs Thompson went to the church the
next morning, where a meeting was to
be held She was chosen vice-presi-
dent and after reading the 146th
Psalm. which became the Crusade
Psalm" appeals were addressed to
druggists and hotel keepers TO stop the
sale of Intoxicating liquors. The 2S6th
hymn was sung and the women went
out into the wintry day singing. They
visited drug stores and hotels and the
result was the reduction of the places
where liquor was sold from thirteen TO
four. They held prayer meetings in the
mornings and mass meetings at night.
When a German saloonkeeper would
not close his place they built a taber-
nacle in the street, and held their
meetings there until he was compelled
to close up. The movement spread to
Hillsboro, then throughout Ohio and
eventually spread until all the Middle
States were affected. Mrs. Whitney
lived in Columbus at the time, but did
not attend the meetings there.
What was the result? 1t was not
what they hoped for at the time. All
the inspiration was unavailing, but it
opened the eyes of women to what they
had been singularly dormant, but the
movement showed what they could ac
complish. A change came over women
after that. We have never gone back
to the place we occupied before, and
we never SHALL" said Mrs. Whitney.
The greatest result of the crusade was
the formation of the w. c. IT. u. Some
of the crusaders met in Chicago and
began planning for such an organiza-
ton. 1t was soon realized. Miss Will
lard was then the corresponding secre-
tary. She finally became known as the
leader of the Union work, and in 1884
she became president of the Worlds
Unions.
We in Hawaii said Mrs. Whitney.
have the honor of being the first or
ganization of the worlds series, out
side the Unions in the United States"
After a prayer by Rev. w. NJ. Kin
caid, Mrs McCully Higgins read the
following paper:
OF MISS WILLARD.
The first and only time / ever met her,
who was the most beloved woman of her
day, was at a National w. c. T. u.
Convention held in Cleveland, in the
month of November, 1894. / attended as
delegate from Maine. Some of you
perhaps the majority of you-have at
tended such a convention, but you Will
not the less like to hear of my attend
ance at this convention, and my impress
sions of Miss Willard. We, my daugh-
ter. then a girl of II years, and /, ar
rived in Cleveland on the morning of
bleak, cold autumn day. 1t is not
strange that We, so lately from the gen
al tropics, felt cold and little depressed
~ pinching and unaccustomed tempera-
ture. and at being among many
'haoles,' all of whom We're strangers to
Is. We went to a nearby hotel for the
breakfast and then the little white bow
II the w G. T. L. worn on my dress at
racted the wearers of the white who
spoke cheerfully to the depressed stran-
gers and made US feel We were among
people of heart and warm human sym
,athy- So our visit to Cleveland began,
'ut l must say in passing the most con-
slant remembrance of the whole visit
: of the fearful cold experienced on the
ong ride to and from the house to which
We were assigned-the fireless bedroom,
he frosty temperature of which
nitigated only by such heat as came
through the open door from a little wood
ire in fireplace in the parlor below
'eople who can think of anything in
uch temperature but their own dis
omfort-women who can talk and laugh
md plan and work under leaden skies,
nd In the hostile and entrapping cold,
re simply marvels of endurance to me,
nd the utter impossibility of my being
BILE To do anything while half frozen
uts me a little outside the compIetest
of those who can 1t was
n this chilled and unfavorable condition
hat | entered the large dark, gloomy
all where the convention was held, and
nder which L received my impressions.
ONE one was leading a devotional serv
e. When this was promptly closed Miss
Willard took the convention under her
wn direction. l her then for the
rst time. Her pictures are so familiar
need not tell You how she looked. BY
leans of those pictures you have all be-
ONE acquainted with her sweet face, the
'ok of the soft wavy hair. the little tilt
{ the head usual with people who wear
laSses- But perhaps you do not quite
ae in her pictures the steady. straight.
andid look OF the white soul through
ar eyes and on her face. the patient but
ndiSmayed expression of one who makes
q compromise with a great evil, but
18th no spirit of hate. She was not
.rge woman but medium sized and
,irer than 1 had imagined her to be.
er hair was a light brown which may
ave been blond in her childhood. Her
yes were blue. She wore new black
atm gown and seemed well dressed.
he laid aside her bonnet during the
eetings. She presided wei, and as one