The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-31
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WHITE sLAVET!RADE ]!
W. C. T. '. WILL TAKE UP THE
 WORK.
DecIares That Girls Are Bought ana Sold ct Auction In New York City-Mrs. stevens Re-
 Elected.

Hartford Conn. Oct. 3O.-There are 10000 young women in Chicago Who are obliged to work at So week ana there are 5000 saloons there, toc. said Mrs I,,cinda R. Smith of Kansas at inc afternoon session of the National Convention of Women's Christian Tenn perance Union. in presenting to the convention the difficulties with which the refuge work of the organization hds to contend.
 Mrs. Smith made q spirited appeal for the efforts of all the delegates from all parts of the country 10 put stop to white slave trade.
 The speaker cited instances of young women held in captivity and sold at auction in New York and asked why 1t was forty years after the civil war had been fought for the liberation of the black slaves. that slavery of young wo- men should be tolerated In this coun- try She said that one of the most hopeful signs of the times was wien the seventeen nations recently banded together for the suppression of this awful vice.
 Tonight there was a demonstration Of the principles and methods of the w. C. T. U. by the Y. and I. T. L.. brancnes and thirty-eight other q da- pa, ;ncnts of the union
 At the morning session the Drlnci- pal business was the election of ofiI- cers and the presentation Of the iin!I report of the Executive Committee.
 Today's business session of the nh- tional meeting. Womens Christian Temperance Union was the most ina portant of the convention from q busl- ness standpoint for officers were elect ed and final reports of committees were submitted. Tho usual prayer meeting and department conferences were held previous to the gsneral meeting. Scv- eral interesting papers were on Inc program for today. ...
 The final report of the Committee on Credentials showed total of 5i2 was the largest number that ever at tended a convention of the organiza- tion.
 During the past year, the National Mission Department had distributed more than 971.921 boquets; 47.o72 grow ing plants; 464,7s4 text cards and 9. 177.os2 pages of mission literature.
 4 letter was read from Norfolk Va. inviting the National W. C, T. U. to meet in that city in 1907.
 In an address on anti-narcotics. Mrs, F. R. Ingalls, of Missouri said:
 Give the boy a chance will he tho watchword of the narcotic depart ments in the coming year. To do this We must first clear the homo of fa- ther'S cigar, hlS pastor clSarS, or ms teachers cigar, of his brothers big pipe, of his sisters soothing syrup anl of his mothers headache powders
 If the air was free from smoke and the medicine closet from opium and kindred drugsS our little mon and our women also would hay" cleaner in- herltance and a better hold on health and immortality"
 The election of officers resulted as s.II ,f f1s..Et ,..E, elections
 President. Mrs. Lillian NJ. x Stevens. Portland. Me-; Vice President. Miss Anna A. Gordon. Evanston, Ill.,; Cor responding Secretary. Mrs. Suzanna M D. Fry. Evanston, Ill.,: Recording Sec rctary. Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Andcr- son. Valley City. N. D.; Treasurer, Ms Harriet Wright Brand. Evanston, Ill , Assistant Recording Secretary, Mrs Howard M, Hogc Lincoln. Va.