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woMAN,s TEMPERANCE UNION.
Thirty First Annual Convention Open
ed at Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, November 29.-The
thirty-first annual convention of the Ma
tional woman's Christian Temperance
Union began here today in the Baptist Tenn
ple Sessions will be held day and night
during the remainder of the week.
The union numbers more than 100000 men,
bers and includes in its ranks members OF
every Christian denomination.
Five hundred delegates from every state
and territory in the Union are in attend
ance at the convention.
Presidents Of representative women's
clubs will be invited to make addresses dur
ing the convention, and many well-known
clergymen and educators will join the
speakers. Representatives from the numer-
Gus charitable and social Improvement So
cieties will also address the meeting. The
chief feature of today's program was the
annual address of Mrs. Lillian M. NJ Stew
ems of Portland, Me-, president OF the Or
eanization. Mrs. Stevens has failed to at
tend but one convention in thirty years,
and at that time she was kept at home by
illness
Mrs. Stevens, in her address, made the
following recommendations:
II recommend that We continue to make
vigorous effort for the enactment by Con-
gress of the Hepburn Dolliver Dill TO controi
the interstate traffic in intoxicating liquors.
forbidding liquor selling In government
buildings; this bill seeks to suppress liquor
selling at the national soldiers homes.
The bill to prohibit the traffic in opium,
except for medicinal purposes, in the entire
jurisdiction Of the United States, and for
the provision of government treatment for
the habitual victims of this drug. On No
vember we sent from national headquar
tiers a petition to Secretary Hay to use his
diplomatic influence to induce Great Britain
to release China from the enforced opium
traffic, which we believe to be contrary to
the sentiment of the British people and to
the real interests of British commerce.
For the exclusion of Senator Smoot from
the United States Senate and an anti-polyg
amy amendment to the Constitution of the
United States.
II recommend to send from this conven-
ton an appeal to President Roosevelt, beg
ging that the sale of liquor for beverage be
prohibited In the Panama district now
under control of the United States
For the states not having a prohibitory
law to endeavOr to secure the enactment Of
a law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquor within a radius of three miles from
all army posts or government reservations.
THAT the various states shall work for
law prohibiting the manufacture and sale
of cigarettes; also for a law prohibiting the
sale to minors of tobacco in any form.
I'VE must continue our protest against
the union of Indian territory and Okla homa
territory as one state unless the sale Of in
toxicants is prohibited. This protest is in
accordance with the memorial of the Ma
tional w. c. T. U. presented to the Senate
on March o. which appears as Senate docu-
ment No. 1884,"
The president also urged the members of
the organization to be watchful of the cam
dy eaten by children, some of which con-
tains alcoholic drops She suggested an ap-
peal to the United States Post Office De-
partment for the continuation of the move
ment to exclude from the mail advertise
ments of patent medicines and nostrums
where chemical analysis shows premeditat-
ed fraud on the part Of the manufacturer
and distributor, and that such ASTON shall
be taken as shall REQUIRE labelling these
medicines in a way that will indicate the
amount of alcohol, opium or other poisonous
drugs they contain.