The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-10-15
MISSISSIPPI W. G. I. U.
The Officers Elected and Resolutions
Adopted at Oxford Convention.

session at Oxford Sunday night.
The meeting was one of the best
in the history of the organization,
land the spirit in favor of active
temperance work and the securing
of State Prohibition from the next
Legislature was strong and hope
full.
An address on Friday night by
Mrs. Mary Jewett Telford, of
Tennessee, on Christian Citizen
Ship" and by President B. G.
Lowrey, of Blue Mountain College,
Saturday night on The Saloon,
the Citizen and the State,'' were
notable features of the meeting.
The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year:
President, Mrs. Harriet b. Kells,
of Fayette; Vice President, Mrs.
Marion B. Longino, of Jackson;
recording secretary, Mrs. Clara
C. Cox, Of Columbus; Correspond
ing secretary, Mrs. E. w. Feather
stun, of Moss Point; treasurer,
Mrs. Ida Stanley, of Bonneville.
Mrs. Kells, Mrs. L. F. Ware
and Mrs. Fannie S. Clark were
elected delegates to the National
Convention which meets at Port
land, Oregon, this week, and Mrs.
Ware a delegate to the interna-
tional convention which meets at
Geneva, Switzerland, in June,
with Mrs. Clark as her alternate.
The nomination of the next place
of meeting was left with the ex-
ecutive committee. Blue Noun
tain, Oxford, Port Gibson and one
or two other place asked for the
convention.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
The following report of the
committee on resolutions was
unanimously adopted:
The w. G. T. U. of Mississippi
now, as from the beginning offers
praise to Him, our Heavenly
Father, who has from our birth
been our guide.
Since the State of Mississippi
has avowed by local option its en-
nifty to, the liquor traffic, we de-
clare our intention to labor I'M
ceasingly for the absolute prohi-
ton by the State of the manufac-
ture, sale, importation, exporta-
ton and transportation of alcohol
ic liquors as beverage.
We domost sincerely appreciate
all the help and cooperation we
have had from the churches, Or
carnations and individuals.
We desire by the love and pre-
cepts of Christ, that the young life
of our State may be protracted by
the practice of total abstinence and
the Punishment of wine and punch
from our home life and social
functions.
Believing that the Kingdoms of
this world are to become the king
doms of our Lord, we call upon
men and women of the church to
prove their loyalty to Him by
standing for Righteousness in
home, church and State.
That the command, keep thy
self pure, :" is binding equally man
and woman.
LEGISLATION.
The study of statistical records
having brought out the fact
of the low physical, mental and
moral condition of the children
employed in our mills and facto-
ries, and also the ruinous effect of
cigarettes on the young boys,
we urge that these evils be
brought before our legislature.
Most gratefully do we commend
the action taken by officials in our
A. & M. College against the use
cigarettes by the students. We
appeal earnestly to county su-
perintendents and teachersf for a
better acquaintance with and more
faithful enforcement of our scien-
tific temperance law.
We deem it of great Importance
that every member of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance I'm
ion be familiar with these truths
and be medium for communicate
ing them to teachers in the pub
lie schools and to the public gen
rally.
We therefore urge all unions of
our State to devote at least three
meetings of the local unions to the
study of the questions: What shall
be taught in the study of tenn
perance physiology? To what ex-
tent should it be taught? and by
what methods should it be taught?
The programs and necessary..ma-
terials for such meetings may be
obtained Of the national superin-
tendent of Scientific Temperance
Instruction.
GOVERNOR LONGING COMMENDED.
Resolved, That the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of
Mississippi will ever keep in
grateful memory the faithfulness
of Gov. A. H. Longino in the Leg
islative struggle of 1902 for State
Prohibition. We heartily COM
mend his strenuous efforts to sup
press mob violence and to bring to
justice parties engaged in it. We,
the unprotected class, beg of him,
for the sake of the sons whom we
are endeavoring to rear for good
citizenship, that he will continue
to substitute law and order for an
archy and to educate the people in