The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-12-05
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w. c. I. u. MEET
More Information For Tenn
perance Workers Concern
ing Big Convention

ious activities of the w. G. L. U. at
the National convention. Among
the most prominent of the groups
was the Medal Contest department.
A number of young ladies. each a
medal winner, carried banners bear
ing their campaign slogan. One
bore quotation from the Liquor
Dealers Journal. reading: The w.
G. T. u. contests are Systematically
training voters and shaping public
opinion against US. They are max
ing great Roadway and we should
organize to fight against them
Typified the Foreign Work
A group of fifteen children, mem
bers Of the Loyal Temperance Lee
gion, each dressed in the native cos
tune of foreign country, showed
the work among the young people
of every nationality.
The department of juvenile courts
and child labor, staged familiar
scene Of the juvenile court.
Young ladies in caps and gowns,
bearing ropes of campaign litera
ture printed in twenty different
languages. and number of little
girls bound with paper chains manu-
featured from 10000 pledges of the
public school teachers of the United
States represented the literature de-
partment.
| Lumberiacks Were Present
! A group of lumberjacks each
wearing the white ribbon were in
/ PRODUCED to show the work among
lumbermen.
A banner proclaiming that 80 per
cent Of the worlds crime is caused
by the liquor traffic was borne by
the penal and police station depart
ment.
Officers and Executive Board Re-
elected
The national officers were all re
elected, President Stevens to serve
her fourteenth year, and vice presi-
dent Anna Gordon the same period,
Mrs Stevens and Miss Gordon re-
! fused gift of money from the
Maine delegates. requesting that it
be placed in the national treasury.
Everything that | possess shall be
given to the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union," said Mrs.
Stevens. Il regret only that my
individual efforts cannot count for
more. =
i Speaks For Woman's Suffrage
Mrs. l.. Shepherd of Utah said: Il
think that have right not as a
woman but as thinking, human
being to enjoy the privileges of the
ballot" Mrs. Ensign of Ohio, said,
J Had the women Of Maine been
armed with the ballot. prohibition
, would have been maintained not by
a small but by a great majority
The home needs two votes for its
protection. We need the ballot te
reform child labor conditions, tc
prohibit sweat shops, and the i'm.
moral traffic in women.
: A Box of Cigarettes
81 Mrs. Ingalls,, of st. Louis, nationa
superintendent of narcotics took 3
: box of cigarettes that had been pur.
chased in Milwaukee that morning
to the Socialist mayor. He referred
her to the chief Of police, who as.
sured her that until then no report
OF violation of the anti-cigarette
law had reached him. He promised
that plain clothes officers would be
detailed to visit the principal cigar
stores before night. Mrs. ingalls,
said that her chief purpose was t
see whether the welfare Of the
young people Of this country woulc
Sbe more adequately protected under
q Socialist administration than under
Republican or Democratic rule.
1 Missionary Thanks Convention
Miss Ellen M Stone, the Macedon
ian missionary held captive by bri
gands several years ago. thanked
the convention for its resolution
urging the national government t
refund the money advanced by pri'
J vate individuals for her ransom.
Mrs. H. B. Pritchard Of New York
!. superintendent Of purity reported
{ her work Nude pictures classed 4,
: divine art, advertisements Of liquoI